Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) is a comprehensive business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of capabilities–including interactive dashboards, ad hoc queries, notifications and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, scorecard and strategy management, business process invocation ,search and collaboration, mobile, integrated systems management and more. OBIEE 11g is based on a proven Web service-oriented architecture that integrates with an organization‘s existing information technology (IT) infrastructure for the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and highest return on investment (ROI). OBIEE 11g provides complete, relevant insight to everyone in an organization and that, in turn, results in better decisions, informed actions, and more-efficient business processes..
The integrated Oracle BI Suite EE components at a glance
• Interactive Dashboards : This 100 percent thin client solution provides fully interactive collections of analytic content with a rich variety of visualizations. Running on a Web-based architecture, the dashboards provide users with information filtered and personalized for their identity, function, or role based on predefined security rules. The rich, interactive user interface makes the presentation of data intuitive, relevant, and easy to understand. In addition, guided navigation and alerts drive the business user to greater insight and action. As a result, users are guided to make informed and effective decisions that enhance the performance of the entire organization.
Figure 1: Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards presents up-to-date data in easy-to-understand visual formats.
Business users do not need to understand physical data storage to combine data from multiple enterprise information sources intuitively, quickly, and easily. Oracle Business Intelligence offers a unified user experience for data source agnostic query, reporting & analysis
• Enterprise Reporting : Delivered via Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (formerly known as Oracle XML Publisher), this functionality allows the creation of highly formatted templates, reports, and documents such as checks, government forms, and more. It is the most efficient, most scalable reporting solution available for complex and distributed environments. It provides a central architecture for generating and delivering information to employees, customers, and business partners securely and in the right format. Best of all, users can work with familiar tools such as an online web based layout editor, Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat for report layouts. Tightly integrated with the OBIEE 11g platform; BI Publisher is also available for purchase as a separate product.
Figure 2: Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher creates templates, reports, documents, and forms
• Proactive Detection and Alerts : Proactive detection and alerts. OBIEE 11g's powerful, near-real-time, multi-step alert engine can trigger workflows based on business events and notify stakeholders via their preferred medium and channel. This means field sales representatives can receive a short message service alert on their cell phone, warehouse managers get a PDF attachment via e-mail, and financial analysts obtain the report as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet saved to their shared corporate file system.
• Actionable Intelligence : Actionable Intelligence. The OBIEE 11g action framework turns insights into actions by providing the ability to invoke business processes from within the business intelligence dashboards & reports. This is made possible by the integration of business process management technologies within the business intelligence platform. Invoked actions may include initiating a business process, a web service, a java method or simply calling another BI content.
• Microsoft Office Integration : Delivered via a Plug-in for Microsoft Office, this functionality enables integration of business intelligence information from Oracle Business Intelligence Server, Oracle Essbase and Oracle Hyperion Performance Management applications with the Office environment, embedding up-to-the-minute corporate data in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel documents. Business users can then share these documents with others for collaborative decision-making. Users authenticate themselves to access Oracle Business Intelligence content and, having done so, can access the Oracle Business Intelligence metadata to build analyses from objects that can span multiple data sources in the enterprise. This ensures everyone in the organization is working from the single source of truth and not a local copy of the data in PowerPoint, Word or Excel.
• Scorecard and Strategy Management : Scorecard and Strategy Management extends the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g with capabilities that let you communicate strategic goals across the organization and monitor their progress over time. Scorecard and Strategy Management provides capabilities to establish specific goals, define how to measure their success, and communicate that information down the entire organization. Armed with this insight, employees can understand their impact on achieving success and align their actions accordingly. As they use Scorecard to measure the outcome of their actions, they can quickly make adjustments as needed to successfully achieve the goals.
• Oracle Business Intelligence Server based query, reporting and analysis :
As the foundation of OBIEE 11g, the Oracle Business Intelligence Server generates queries optimized for each data source, appropriately aggregates them, and presents the results to users within a familiar Web browser via easy-to-use dashboards and reports.
• Ad hoc Analysis and Interactive Reporting : Providing business users with true ad hoc query and analysis capability, Oracle Business Intelligence can create new analyses from scratch or modify existing analyses in dashboard pages. To free business users from data structure complexity, the metadata layer of Oracle Business Intelligence offers a logical view of metrics, hierarchies, and calculations expressed in understandable concepts. Business users do not need to understand physical data storage to combine data from multiple enterprise information sources intuitively, quickly, and easily. Oracle Business Intelligence offers a unified user experience for data source agnostic query, reporting & analysis.
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