02.05.08
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI) at 12:04 pm by irusgroup
Irus Group President and Thought Leader Vijay Suri will speak on Public Sector Business Intelligence Strategies at Oracle’s 2008 Collaborate User Conference. He’ll address the urgent need Government Agencies face in using their voluminous amounts of data to make better business decisions for citizens.
He’ll headline a breakout session on April 17 at 11am. COLLABORATE 08 is presented by the OAUG (Oracle Applications Users Group) and IOUG (Independent Oracle Users Group). The event is designed to help users of the full family of Oracle business applications and database technologies gain greater value from their Oracle investments. The title of Suri’s presentation is “Business Intelligence Strategies for Public Sector Markets.”
Suri is a frequent speaker and commentator on business intelligence, corporate performance management, and data warehousing topics. His presentation will help public sector leaders address planning and budgeting, BI, and EPM challenges by focusing on technical and business requirements for developing and implementing systems that help them make sense of the business of government. The benefits for those attending his presentation include:
- Will help public sector agencies implement more sound business intelligence processes.
- Demonstrate specific ways the Oracle BI tool set can help Federal agencies realize their missions.
- List the key questions to ask now to get a smart business intelligence process underway.
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Posted in Business Intelligence (BI) at 11:45 am by irusgroup
Oracle just posted a look awaited white paper on OBIEE Plus from a Technology perspective. The paper goes into great detail about the makeup of the components of OBIEE. What’s compelling about the white paper is how it ties all of Oracle’s new acquisitions together under the OBIEE umbrella, including all of the Hyperion products. We’ve done a lot of work with Hyperion and have a clear picture on Oracle’s vision for the solution.
OBIEE consists of several interdependent components, with the Oracle BI Server at its core. For the purpose of this whitepaper, Oracle refers to these components as OBIEE:
· Oracle BI Server — a highly scalable, highly efficient query and analysis server that integrates data via sophisticated query federation capabilities from multiple relational, unstructured, OLAP, and pre-packaged application sources, whether Oracle or non-Oracle.
· Oracle BI Answers — a powerful ad-hoc query and analysis tool that works against a logical view of information from multiple data sources in a pure Web environment.
· Oracle BI Interactive Dashboard — rich, interactive pure Web dashboards that display personalized information to help guide users in effective decision making.
· Oracle BI Publisher — a highly scalable reporting engine capable of generating reports from multiple data sources in multiple formats via multiple delivery channels.
· Oracle BI Briefing Books — reports that capture a series of snapshots of an Oracle BI Dashboard or report allowing the information to be viewed offline presentation style.
· Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics — a packaged solution to offer Answers and Dashboards to mobile professionals on computers disconnected from the network.
· Oracle BI Office Plug-In — automatically synchronizes information from Answers to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
· Oracle BI Delivers — an alerting engine to capture and distribute notifications via multiple channels in response to predefined business events to speed decision making.
The specialty BI reporting components acquired from Hyperion include a widely deployed set of Business Intelligence tools which offer significant complementary functionality to OBIEE. These areas include strong integration with multidimensional data sources such as Essbase, a report centric approach to query and reporting, as well as robust native access to SAP data. For the purposes of this white paper, we will refer to these as the “Plus” components:
· Hyperion Financial Reporting — a reporting solution for multidimensional data (OLAP) that generates highly formatted, GAAP compliant, book quality financial and management reports and supports the emerging XBRL standard.
· Hyperion Web Analysis — a context driven, thin client reporting and analysis tool that enables the graphical interaction, presentation and reporting of multi-dimensional (OLAP) data.
· Hyperion Interactive Reporting — a “report centric” query and reporting tool that transforms data from heterogeneous sources into meaningful queries, dashboards and reports via connection through the Oracle BI Server or direct connection to underlying databases as needed.
· Hyperion SQR — a high performance engine and development language for high volume, pixel perfect report creation, spanning multiple enterprise data sources including SAP R/3 and SAP Business Information Warehouse.
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