Leveraging the Oracle Platform

The most straightforward approach to Oracle BI is to deploy Oracle Discoverer, a general purpose business intelligence product that comes in full desktop, web reporter, and web viewer flavors.

For special-purpose solutions, we can easily deploy custom analytic applications using Oracle BI Beans components to create an OLAP-based analytic environment. To develop custom applications based on Oracle's embedded data mining technology, we can use the Oracle Data Mining (ODM) Components and the ODM Browser.

• Comprehensive BI functionality built on a unified infrastructure - Includes interactive dashboards, full ad hoc queries and analysis, proactive intelligence delivery and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis and presentation, high-volume production reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, disconnected analytics, as well as integration with Microsoft Office.
• Pervasive insight to everyone, everywhere - Provides relevant insight to everyone, not just analysts. All levels of the organization can see information optimized for their role.
• Unified business model - Built on an enterprise information model that unifies metadata across the Oracle BI tools and analytical applications for the lowest TCO.
• Hot-Pluggable BI infrastructure - Integrates with any data source, extraction, transformation and load (ETL) tool, major business application, application server, security infrastructure, portal technology, other front-end and analytical tools, and databases including IBM DB/2, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server; SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Analysis Services; flat files; XML data; and unstructured data.