OBIEE

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.