TOP 10 New Features

of Oracle Business
Intelligence 11g
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Feature 1 New Chart Choices
Funnel Chart 2
Trellis Chart 3
Waterfall 4
Tile Diagram 5

Feature 2 Recommended Visualization 6

Feature 3 Bread Crumbs 7

Feature 4 Dashboard Export to Excel 8

Feature 5 Freeze Column and Multiple Column Selector 9

Feature 6 Hierarchical Column Display 10

Feature 7 BI Publisher Integration 11

Feature 8 Mobile Development 12

Feature 9 User Interface Changes 13

Feature 10 Nomenclature Changes 14

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 1 NEW CHART CHOICES
FUNNEL CHART
FOCUS ON A SPECIFIC PROBLEM, ANALYZE ISSUES AND ACT FASTER
The funnel chart can be used to show multiple variables in a
single diagram. For instance it can be used to show actual sales
performance as a percentage of target. Several geographic
regions can be shown at one time and color coding helps users to
quickly see the range of performance. Here is an example:

The user can click on each section, such as communications to

see a drill down for all products and services sold by that divi-
sion. The user can further drill down to see the sales performance by individual sales oce by product line.

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 TRELLIS CHART
The trellis chart can show several graphs with data grouped, for
example, by region or by order stage. Each of the smaller charts
can display multiple variables like revenue and unit price over
time.

It enables users to rapidly understand trends so problems can be

quickly identied and addressed.

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 WATERFALL
A waterfall chart helps users to quickly understand performance against a plan or target. For example, how do
individual oces compare for billed revenue and performance against plan? Which products are performing well
and which are doing badly? The green bars show oces or products that are over achieving against plan with the
height of the bar showing how well they are doing. Similarly the red bars show under performance against plan.
Here are a couple of examples.

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 TILE DIAGRAM
The tile Diagram can be used to focus the readers attention on
a single high level aggregate measure in a manner that is both
visually simple and prominent. The gure below shows the
performance tiles for the measures Discount Ratio, Average
Order size and Unit Price. It also shows what is desired for
each of those measures. This design highlights the key
numbers that will be of interest to the audience.

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 2 RECOMMENDED VISUALIZATION

A new feature in OBIEE 11g called Best Visualization will

recommend the most suitable chart to display your data. You
can now spend your time analyzing the information in your
data rather than wasting time trying to choose the most
appropriate graph.

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 3 BREAD CRUMBS

The Bread Crumbs feature enables users to know

their current location within Oracle BI and the path
that they have used to get there. Bread Crumbs are
active links that users can click on to return to the place
from which they started. They are displayed at the
bottom of the page (as shown in the highlighted box),
and users can click a breadcrumb to navigate to a spe-
cic location on their breadcrumb trail.

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 4 DASHBOARD EXPORT TO EXCEL

This feature provides the ability to export an entire dashboard or a single dashboard page to Microsoft Excel 2007+.
When you export the entire dashboard, each page is included on its own sheet in an Excel workbook, and each sheet
is given the name of its corresponding dashboard page.

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 5 FREEZE COLUMN AND
MULTIPLE COLUMN SELECTOR

These features make it easier to scroll around large data tables

keeping column headers and row titles visible at all times. The
multiple column selector feature allows users to freely add or
remove columns of data to reports very easily and quickly.

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 6 HIERARCHICAL COLUMN DISPLAY

Hierarchical Column Display: Hierarchical columns are displayed inline in OBI 11g whereas in 10g they were
displayed in separate columns. This enables the user to see more data at the same time which allows for instant
comparisons and speeds up analysis

Hierarchical 10g

Hierarchical 11g

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 7 BI PUBLISHER INTEGRATION

Oracle BI Publisher is an easy to use tool that is now fully integrated into OBIEE 11g. The tool has an inbuilt report
designer and layout editor giving users a much faster and simpler interactive reporting experience. BI Publisher is
the enterprise reporting platform for Oracle E-Business Suite and it is fully integrated with Microsoft Excel 2007.
Here is an example report from BI Publisher.

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 8 MOBILE DEVELOPMENT

With OBI 11g, Oracle has introduced a Mobile Application Designer that
enables you to design reports that will work with your mobile devices such as
tablets and smart phones. The tool makes it easy to create charts and tables
that are rendered appropriately for mobile devices so employees can make
informed decisions based on accurate data wherever
they are, in the oce, at home or on the road.

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 9 USER INTERFACE CHANGES
a. Home Page: In version 11g, Oracle has added new features to the home page to enable users to access BI objects
more easily. As the following screen shot shows, the user
can easily access recently accessed analysis or most popular
reports with one click. Alternatively the user can setup all
their favorite analysis right on the home page. Additional
features simplify the download of theclients tools like
OBIEE client, BI Publisher Desktop, Analyzer for Excel etc.

b. Full Text Search Capability: A full text search capability has been introduced to enable users to search all the
objects across the entire catalog.

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 10 NOMENCLATURE CHANGES

Answers are now called Analysis in 11g

Reports are now referred to as BI Publisher Reports

Dimensions are now called Attribute Columns

Facts are now called Measure Columns

iBots are described in 11g as Agents

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