Oracle unveils Business Intelligence 11g

LONDON, UK: Database major Oracle recently updated its BI platform, with the addition of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g.

The new platform is the most complete, integrated and scalable suite of Business Intelligence products for customers to achieve better business visibility and alignment, said a press release.

Apart from providing a unified environment for accessing and analyzing data that resides in relational, OLAP, and XML data sources, it also enriches the end user experience with a new integrated scorecard application and innovations in enterprise reporting, visualization, search and collaboration, said Oracle.

It also enhances performance, scalability, and security through deeper integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g and other components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, the release added.

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Business Intelligence 11g is claimed to be the first solution that unifies Relational OLAP (R-OLAP), Multidimensional OLAP (M-OLAP) and enterprise reporting on a common technology foundation.

“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 product of Product Management, Oracle Business Intelligence.

He said 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.

“We've had a lot of success with Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, and Oracle Business Intelligence 11g will build upon that success,” said Mike Blackmore, Enterprise Architect: Oracle First, BT Innovate & Design.

Unveils Agile Customer Needs Management

Oracle also recently introduced Oracle’s Agile Customer Needs Management, part of Oracle’s Product Value Chain suite. Oracle said the Agile Customer Needs Management enables customers to easily capture and prioritize product ideas, customer feedback and product requirements from internal sources including product managers, engineers, sales and executives and external sources such as customers, design partners and suppliers.

“We believe that it’s critical for companies to treat the product dimension of supply chain as a holistic value chain challenge,” said Jon Chorley, VP of SCM Product Strategy. “This is why Oracle has developed a differentiated suite of integrated capabilities targeted at the overall Product Value Chain.”

This new module helps ensure product teams can capitalize on key product and innovation opportunities by managing and optimizing the ideation processes via a collaborative environment designed to facilitate the capture, collaboration, conceptualization, design validation and prioritization of customer needs, product ideas, customer feedback and product requirements, said Oracle.