Oracle's Business Intelligence (BI) Foundation is a common set of BI tools and shared services that enable the Enterprise Performance Management System. It supports both, performance management applications, and BI applications.

The BI Foundation includes a Common Enterprise Information Model, which is a unified metadata model accessed by end user tools, allowing you to "model once and deploy everywhere." Oracle's Hyperion Essbase - System 9 is also part of the BI Foundation. It is an OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Server with the most advanced calculation engine that provides an environment for rapidly developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications.

The BI Foundation also leverages Oracle Real-Time Decisions, a platform that combines both rules and predictive analytics to power solutions for real-time enterprise decision management. It enables real-time intelligence to be instilled into any type of business process or customer interaction.