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New Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition+ review

Oracle has made a number of forays into the BI market, not always successfully. This review examines Oracle's current flagship BI 'suite', OBIEE+. The suite is essentially a bundle of products acquired by Oracle in recent years, principally from Siebel.

This review also includes a factbase featuring our conclusions and scores on OBIEE+ based on a number of key criteria.

As always with The OLAP Report, this is an unbiased, vendor-independent review. As such, it is highly recommended material for anyone considering investing in the Oracle BIEE+ Suite.

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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition+ review: Table of contents

For BI professionals, it was a year in which several long-simmering trends seemed to coalesce and boil over.

BI analyst Michael Schiff looks at the accuracy of the predictions he made last year, examines the major BI events of 2008, and suggests new trends to watch in 2009.

Financial disruption may hold promise for BI, but it will also transform BI itself: big tools to small tools, fewer analysts and more business users, and finally appreciation for human intelligence.

It’s been a year of great change, and there’s more ahead. JasperSoft’s CEO takes a look at four key trends for 2009 that will have an impact on BI.

QlikTech believes its QlikView product will benefit disproportionately from a projected surge in BI spending

Existing DI and DQ tools can't easily be adapted to address product data integration. What's needed, proponents say, is a better, dedicated tool.

Integrating BI, content management, and portals has long been a challenge for IT. Open source has a price advantage, but is it right for you?

A look at the trends that left their mark in 2008, plus what's ahead in 2009.

A new study from IDC shows that which companies continue to dominate the data warehousing market and which are enjoying surging growth

Following the latest announcement by Salesforce.com on its native support of the Google’s Visualization API, Panorama has extended its analytics solution enabling any programmer to integrate, in a few simple steps, dashboards and interactive reports with their salesforce.com application. By simply using the tools made available by Salesforce.com, including code snippets and APIs, and combining [...]

SAP and Business Objects tout an all-in-one migration service that's purpose-built for SAP environments.

Project Unity is an ambitious -- and especially fraught -- enterprise for SAS and its DataFlux subsidiary.

Keeping up on trends, warnings, threats, and insights within unstructured text is a daunting task. Scientific researchers have the toughest job of all, and some have turned to flexible text analytics.

As the complexity of e-commerce grows and security demands escalate, more companies are turning to ready-made “shopping cart” applications instead of building their own. Such products can use business intelligence and security, among other things, to process e-commerce transactions online.

OLAP is hip again!

Are we seeing an OLAP revival?

Well, the 'big five' BI vendors are currently investing heavily in numerous initiatives to increase support for fast multidimensional analysis.

Carsten Bange investigates in this new commentary for The OLAP Report.

I just read this post talking about how nice it will be to be able to collaborate on spreadsheets when Office 14 is available: http://performancepointinsider.com/blogs/bsm/archive/2008/11/03/office-14-online-preview.aspx I am writing this post to ensure that those who need to collaborate on spreadsheets and even better - do some very powerful collaborative analysis don’t wait 2 years for Office [...]

If you don't understand your business processes and don't have talented staff, even best-in-class analytics can't save you.

Thanks to demand for cutting-edge features such as sentiment extraction, text analytic technology is primed for growth.

In the final part of our three-part series, we investigate how organizations are managing the total cost of BI implementations.