When Oracle
acquired Siebel Systems in September 2005, many analysts were pessimistic; the
thinking then was that the EPM provider was just killing off competition. Well,
many were proven wrong when Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise
Edition (OBIEE) hit the market in 2007.
Even the
naysayers had to marvel at the product that was before them. Oracle OBIEE provides the most robust set of
reporting ad-hoc querying and analysis, proactive intelligence and alerts,
enterprise and financial reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP),
scorecard functionality and much more.
Through its
unique just-in-time ETL, you are able to get real-time predictive intelligence.
These are just some of the aspects that OBIEE offers.
Invaluable Features in Oracle BI Suite Enterprise
Edition
To appreciate
the reason OBIEE has received numerous awards consider these amazing features:
1.
Oracle BI Interactive
Dashboards: This has to be one of the most conspicuous features that set OBIEE
apart from the competition. You will enjoy fully interactive dashboards that
make your managerial duties a delight. With myriad rich visualizations, this
feature transforms your hitherto arduous task into an exciting affair as you
distribute answer reports.
2.
Oracle BI Publisher: Previously
called XML publisher, this is a tool offering a web-based platform for
authoring, managing and delivering your business reports, dashboards and other
documents on the same platform. This capability for enterprise reporting
enables you to create highly formatted documents including templates reports
and much more.
3.
Oracle BI Briefing Books: When
you want to work offline, you can create snapshots of dashboards pages to read
later using this feature.
4.
Microsoft Office Integration:
If you are using Windows or other Microsoft products such as Access, you need
an enterprise system that can integrate your documents. Oracle BI Suite
Enterprise Edition enables you to embed such up-to-date data in Microsoft
PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
5.
Proactive detection and alerts:
With so much going on in your business, you need a system that will warn you
about upcoming events within or outside the organization. The Oracle BI system
offers a powerful real-time, multi-step alert system in case there are events
to attend. It can even trigger workflow depending on commands given.
6.
Oracle BI Answers, ad hoc query
and reporting: This is from a central
repository and while it might seem like an ordinary feature in Oracle BI
systems, it is integral in enhancing efficiency within your organization’s
enterprise management system.
7.
Online analytical processing
(OLAP): This is one of the most important features in Oracle EPM solutions. It
helps you move beyond data pileup and instead sieves through this tome of
information in your database to forecast likely business performance. OLAP
helps read trends and provides numerous what-if scenarios to build and report
from highly dimensional models.
8.
Oracle scorecard and strategy
management: It presents another invaluable tool that enables you to set objectives
and align every organization to the same. This tool helps in strategic planning
while also building consensus within your business and ensuring everyone knows
about it.
Oracle BI Suite
Enterprise Edition helps unlock latent potential in your database. It is a sure
way of leveraging the most valuable asset in your business, which is the data
you possess.
Bio
Jing Kim is a DBA consultant and an expert in
emerging technologies in this sector. Having worked in the industry for over
three decades, Kim is an authority in Oracle OBIEE and other EPM solutions from the
company. 
