OBIEE

Oracle Business Intelligence  Enterprise Edition is a very important part for most organizations to generate business intelligence from their data. I have had hands on experience with SQL server and Oracle and I have noticed that most small to mid size companies use SQL Server whereas larger companies push for Oracle or Teradata. Oracle is a very scalabe and robust database management system that can be the back end for many large applications, such as SAP.

Some of the benefits of OBIEE include:

1. Comprehensive BI functionality built on a unified infrastructure- This reduces cost and increases productivity
2. Powerful User experience - OBIEE has a task oriented navigation framework
3. Unified business model
4. Hot-pluggable - integrate with all popular ETL tools, databases, and applications
5. Best-in class scalability, reliability, and performance

 Source: http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/enterprise-edition-066546.html

Oracle's analytics are one of the most important parts of OBIEE. It allows users to quickly analyze data if the correct data warehouse is created. Dashboards and reports are viewed on a web browser rather than an application. This is a unique advantage that OBIEE has over some of its competitors. I have used Oracle 11g and this version has the ability to pivot on the browser. Pivoting on the browser is an awesome feature that should not be overlooked. Many users have asked for this feature for many years but it has not been a plausible solution due to the overhead, but Oracle has been able to create a strong infrastructure to make it possible.

Source: http://obieeblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/011209-1851-obieeonwind81.png

 

Source: http://www.oramoss.com/images/blogposts/ORCL_to_TEST_AllWorking.jpg 

These are some sample images of the websites for Oracle OBIEE. University of Arizona recently upgraded from Oracle 10g to 11g.