Comprehensive capabilities of Oracle Business Intelligence

Oracle Business Intelligence is Oracle Corporation's set of business intelligence tools

consisting of former Siebel Systems business intelligence and Hyperion Solutions business
intelligence offerings.
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 unified
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).
Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite provides comprehensive capabilities for business
intelligence, including enterprise reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, multi-dimensional
OLAP, scorecards, and predictive analytics on an integrated platform. It is also a core component
of Oracle Exalytics, the industry's first engineered in-memory analytics machine designed to
deliver extreme performance.
The industry counterpart and main competitors of OBIEE are Microsoft BI, IBM Cognos, SAP AG
Business Objects and SAS Institute Inc. The products currently leverage a common BI Server
providing integration among the tools.
Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (OBIEE+ and Essbase) is a complete, open, and
architecturally unified business intelligence system for the enterprise that delivers abilities for
reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, online analytical processing (OLAP), dashboards, and
scorecards. All enterprise data sources, as well as metrics, calculations, definitions and
hierarchies are managed in a Common Enterprise Information Model, providing users with
accurate and consistent insight, regardless of where the information is consumed.
Users can access and interact with information in multiple ways, including web-based interactive
dashboards, collaboration workspaces, search bars, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and
customer relationship management (CRM) applications, mobile devices, and Microsoft Office
applications.
Sometimes OBIEE is used interchangeably with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
(OBIA), which is a pre-built BI and data warehousing system built on the OBIEE technology
stack; however, OBIEE is the platform whereas OBIA is an application that uses the platform.
The OBI EE Plus integrates the components of the toolset to include a service-oriented
architecture, data access services, an analytic and calculation infrastructure, metadata
management services, a semantic business model, a security model and user preferences, and
administration tools.

The latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite is a comprehensive solution
delivering enterprise reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, scorecards, what-if scenario
analysis and predictive analytics on an integrated and trusted platform. Users can even utilize the
power of analytics on their mobile devices, from anywhere in the world, without compromising
data quality or security.