 "Oracle Announces Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3")
Oracle recently announced the general availability of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3 (Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE), a major release of Oracle’s standards-based suite of business intelligence (BI) infrastructure and tools products.
Oracle claims that this release of Oracle Business Intelligence EE delivers significant new product enhancements to further enable enterprise-wide BI including a number of usability features; tighter integration with Oracle Applications, other components of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database products; and broad “hot-pluggable” support for non-Oracle data sources.
According to the company, its Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE, together with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, delivers pervasive intelligence that provides relevant information to all users in time to affect business results; enable access to information through virtually any reporting medium including alerts, dashboards, reports; integrate with existing business processes and workflows; and, allow the cost-effective scalability of the BI platform over time to manage data growth and user needs.
“Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE enables the delivery of reporting and analysis in Oracle, non-Oracle or heterogeneous environments,” said Henry Morris, group VP and GM, Integration, Development and Application Strategies, IDC. “With roots in the Siebel analytics technology acquired a year ago, the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE incorporates Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher to offer customers a comprehensive reporting and BI toolset at a competitive price.”
Some of the new features of this suite include, data mart automation allowing data modeling and creation starting from a Business View; enhanced Microsoft Office Integration with enhancements to support output formats.
The new release also boasts of enhanced performance and scalability with clustering, native 64-bit support, a new hypercube infrastructure, multi-pass calculation optimizations; improved data visualization, and secure search; lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g.
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE is now generally available for Linux and Windows platforms. The product is priced at $1,500 per named user or $225,000 per CPU