Oracle has announced Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, the most complete, integrated and scalable suite of Business Intelligence products for customers to achieve better business visibility and alignment.The new release provides the industry’s only unified environment for accessing and analyzing data that resides in relational, OLAP, and XML data sources.  This is in the hopes of enriching the end user experience with a new integrated scorecard application and innovations in enterprise reporting, visualization, search and collaboration; as well as enhance performance, scalability, and security through deeper integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g and other components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

By extending capabilities in the Common Enterprise Information Model, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the first solution that unifies Relational OLAP (R-OLAP), Multidimensional OLAP (M-OLAP) and enterprise reporting on a common technology foundation.

Enhanced OLAP analysis capabilities enable users to access and navigate hierarchical data stored in Oracle Essbase and popular relational data sources from a common interface.

A new, integrated thin-client report design editor enables business users to publish both interactive, Web-based reports as well as high fidelity, pixel perfect production reports.

A new application, Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management, is an integrated component of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g that helps individuals track metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with organizational strategy and goals.

The enhanced, task-oriented user interface features a comprehensive range of new interactive charting and prompting capabilities, including map visualization options directly linked to spatial data, to provide a richer, more intuitive end user experience.

The addition of Oracle Hyperion Financial Management as a supported data source, in addition to enhanced support for Oracle Essbase, extends Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System integration.

Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the technical foundation for Oracle’s EPM System as well as Oracle BI Applications – the complete, prebuilt analytical solutions for Oracle and non-Oracle applications, including SAP.  Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the only BI foundation that allows system administrators to manage and monitor BI performance from the same environment used to manage their entire IT stack.

“Oracle Business Intelligence 11g delivers the complete spectrum of business intelligence capabilities, spanning enterprise reporting, scorecards, dashboards, ad hoc queries, OLAP analysis, search, and actionable collaboration on an integrated technology foundation,” said Paul Rodwick, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle Business Intelligence.  “The new release is easy to implement for departmental needs, and scales to provide unrivaled performance and scalability for the largest and most demanding enterprise deployments.”

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