The Next Stage in
Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g sets a
new standard for enterprise BI.
Oracle has ushered in a new era in business analytics with the release of Oracle
Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
11 g, a full-featured, tightly integrated, and
high-performance business intelligence (BI)
platform. With the new release, companies
gain instant, actionable insight, helping them
boost efficiencies and plan for growth.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition 11 g makes quick work of analyzing
large data sets in data warehouses, enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management systems, and other
datasources. It gives geographically dispersed
users with diverse skill sets a unified way to
assemble data from a wide variety of sources,
collaborate on analysis, and then share
reports and action items.
“We’ve taken the idea of an integrated
suite and applied that to business intel-
ligence because there are a lot of ways to
extract information out of systems, but you
need that information to be consistent,” said
Oracle President Charles Phillips at the Oracle
Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11 g
launch event in London, England, on July 7.
“It’s not BI if you get five different answers to
a single question.”
The key to providing consistency in busi-
ness intelligence is a semantic layer that
defines every single datasource the same
way. “We architected this system so you have
common metadata across all datasources,
all calculation engines, all rules, all work-
flow,” Phillips said. “Our products are built
around the concept of common data access
and common security administration. That
common information model is the key to a
powerful end-user experience.”
VOLTAIRE YAP
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition 11 g sets a new standard for enterprise
BI, thanks in large part to its unified approach
Oracle President Charles Phillips unveils Oracle
Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g.
for accessing and analyzing data, he said. It
can work with hundreds of datasources in
relational, online analytical processing (OLAP),
and XML formats. In fact, it is the first solution
to unify relational online analytical processing
(ROLAP), multidimensional online analytical
processing (MOLAP), and enterprise reporting
on a common technology foundation.
COLLABORATION AND PERFORMANCE
The new release makes it easy to visualize,
share, and collaborate. Business users can
take advantage of an integrated ROLAP and
MOLAP browser interface to build queries,
reports, and dashboards. Other features
include Microsoft Office integration, interactive dashboards, mobile device support, and a
new module to track metrics and key performance indicators.
“Because the product provides all the
tools to support all the styles of analysis, it
can be used by all the different types of users
you have in your organization,” said Oracle
Executive Vice President Thomas Kurian at
the launch event.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition 11 g also includes best-in-class
reporting and collaboration tools. The pow-
erful, scalable report server, for instance,
can produce more than 1 million reports per
hour on a two-CPU system. The collaboration
tools are lightweight, easy to use, and—most
importantly—accelerate the benefits cus-
tomers accrue.
Chip Brookshaw has been covering
enterprise technology for 15 years.
NEXT STEPS
LEARN more about Oracle Business
Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g
oracle.com/oms/businessintelligence11g
WATCH the launch event Webcast
bit.ly/c0HDLg
