Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation
The Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite provides the industry’s best in class platform for business intelligence, including ad-hoc query and analysis, dashboards, enterprise reporting, mobile analytics, scorecards, multidimensional OLAP, predictive analytics, on an architecturally integrated business intelligence foundation. This enabling technology for custom and packaged business intelligence applications helps organizations drive innovation, optimize operations, simplify IT, and deliver extreme performance at lower total cost of ownership.
The BI Foundation is also a key enabling software for Oracle Exalytics, the industry's first engineered system for in-memory analytics that delivers the fastest performance for business intelligence and planning 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.
Product and Related Areas
- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus
- Oracle Essbase
- Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
- Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
- Oracle Endeca Information Discovery
- Enterprise Performance Management
- Predictive Analytics (Oracle Real-Time Decisions)
- Sample Application for Oracle BI
- Oracle's Hyperion Smart View for Office
- Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One (for mid-sized businesses or workgroups)
Related Areas - Servers and Storage Systems
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System (EPM System) / Business Intelligence White Papers
Increase your knowledge and technical understanding of Oracle's EPM / BI products through our white paper library.
EPM System Infrastructure Tips & Tricks
EPM System on Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
OBI/EPM System Integration
Planning Reference
EPM System 11.1.2.x
- Cumulative Feature Overview Tool 400 (URL)
- Defects Fixed Finder (URL)
- Advanced Team Training for EPM System 11.1.2.3 Infrastructure (ZIP)
- Monitoring EPM System Release 11.1.2.3 Deployments from Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c (PDF)
- Financial Close Management: Rapid Deployment for Release 11.1.2.3 (PDF)
- Financial Close Management: Merging Schemas (Oracle Database) Release 11.1.2.3 (PDF)
- Financial Close Management: Merging Schemas (SQL) Release 11.1.2.3 (PDF)
- Oracle Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.x on the Oracle Database Appliance using Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (PDF)
- Advanced Team Training for EPM System 11.1.2.2 Infrastructure (ZIP)
- Essbase Rehosting for Release 11.1.2.2 (PDF)
- IBM WebSphere Manual Deployment Guide for EPM System Release 11.1.2.2 (PDF)
- EPM System Standard Deployment Guide for Release 11.1.2.1 (PDF)
- Rapid Deployment - Planning Domain for Release 11.1.2.1 (PDF)
- Rapid Deployment - Essbase Domain for Release 11.1.2.1 (PDF)
- Rapid Deployment - Financial Management Domain for Release 11.1.2.1 (PDF)
- EPM System Compact Deployment for Release 11.1.2.1 (PDF)
- Migrating Oracle Hyperion Planning Applications for Release 11.1.2.1 (PDF)
- Migrating Oracle Hyperion Planning Applications for Release 11.1.2.1 - Data (7z)
- Component Architecture for Release 11.1.2.1 (PPT)
- Communication Flows for Release 11.1.2.1 (XLS)
- Relational Data Models for Release 11.1.2.1 (ZIP)
- Financial Management Virtualization Deployment for Release 11.1.x (PDF)
- Setting up Single Sign-on Between OBIEE and Financial Management Data Sources for Release 11.1.x (PDF)
- Financial Close Management 11.1.2.2 and Fusion Financials R6 Integration (PDF)
- Financial Close Management: Managing Account Reconciliation Tasks for Release 11.1.2.1 (PDF)
- Component Architecture for Release 11.1.2.0 (PPT)
- Communication Flows for Release 11.1.2.0 (XLS)
- Relational Data Models for Release 11.1.2.0 (ZIP)
- Financial Close Management: Manual Configuration for Release 11.1.2.0 (PDF)
- Setting up EPM System 11.1.2.x Resources for SSO Using Oracle Access Manager 11g Webgate for Oracle HTTP Server (PDF)
- Using EBS to Manage EPM System Functional Security for Release 11.1.2.x (PPT)
- Configuring Foundation Services for Kerberos for Release 11.1.2.x (PDF)
EPM Miscellaneous
- Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to Monitor Oracle's Hyperion Products (PDF)
This white paper presents information about integrating Oracle's Hyperion products with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, which provides a complete management solution for Hyperion products. - Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management, Enterprise Edition Tuning Guidelines (PDF)
- Using Hyperion Interactive Reporting with the Oracle BI Server White Paper (PDF)
- Creating Analytical Data Marts (PDF)
Explore the possibilities of expanding the reach of Essbase aggregate storage databases across the user population through the use of attribute dimensions. - IDC White Paper: Managing Master Data for Business Performance Management (PDF)
This white paper defines master data management, explains why it is important, and explores what it means for both IT and business managers. - Custom JavaScript in Hyperion Planning (PDF)
This paper describes several ways you can tailor Oracle's Hyperion Planning Web forms using JavaScript. - Spreadsheet Integration and Hyperion Smart View for Office (PDF)
Find out which spreadsheet integration features you should consider when evaluating BI suites, and how Hyperion Smart View stacks up against the competition. - 64-bit Essbase Analytic Services (PDF)
As 64-bit hardware becomes mainstreamed into I.T. infrastructures, the ability for software to tackle problems previously out of reach becomes enticing. - Non Unique Member Names - Essbase (PDF)
An easier way to build Essbase analytic applications. - Tuning of Essbase Aggregate Storage Databases (PDF)
This paper discusses the sizing and tuning methods available when designing, deploying and maintaining an Essbase Aggregate Storage database throughout its lifecycle. - The Role of OLAP in a Data Warehousing Solution (PDF)
This white paper explains how to leverage modern OLAP technology to enhance the success of a data warehousing project. - Analytical Processing: A Comparison of Multidimensional and SQL-based Approaches (PDF)
his paper provides and overview of SQL-based analysis with multidimensional systems. - Large-Scale Data Warehousing Using Hyperion Essbase OLAP Technology (PDF)
This paper focuses on the 1 Terabyte test of Hyperion Essbase and Essbase Integration Services performed at IBM's Teraplex Center. - Converting Essbase Calc Formulas to MDX (PDF)
This document provides support for rewriting calc formulas in MDX for Hyperion Essbase outlines that have migrated from block storage to aggregate storage (Hyperion Essbase 7.1) - MDX Allows Complex, Multidimensional Queries (PDF)
MDX (Multidimensional Expressions) is an industry standard data extraction mechanism in Hyperion Essbase that provides a method for forming complex and robust multidimensional queries. - Application Workload Performance Validation for EPM Cloud (PPT)
- Configuring Single Sign-On for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud (PDF)
- EPM Groovy Javadocs (7z)
EPM System 11.1.1.x
- Component Architecture for Release 11.1.1.3 (PPT)
- Communication Flows for Release 11.1.1.3 (XLS)
- Disaster Recovery Configuration Best Practices for Release 11.1.1.3 (PPT)
- Shared Services Active-Active Clusters for Release 11.1.1.2 and Later (PDF)
- Oracle Essbase Studio Catalog Database Tables for Release 11.1.1.x (PDF)
- Shared Services Active-Passive Failover Clusters for Release 11.1.1.x, UNIX Environments (PDF)
- Shared Services Active-Passive Failover Clusters for Release 11.1.1.x, Windows Environments (PDF)
- Oracle Essbase High Availability Deployment Using Oracle Clusterware for Release 11.1.1.x (PDF)
- Deploying Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office for Release 11.1.1.0.0 (PDF)
- Provisioning Oracle Hyperion Financial Management for Release 11.1.1.x (PDF)
- EPM System Import/Export Utility User's Guide for Release 11.1.1.0 (PDF)
- Implementing a Custom Authentication Module for Release 11.1.1.x (PDF)
- Provisioning Oracle Essbase and Oracle Hyperion Planning for Release 11.1.1.x (PDF)
- Security and Provisioning Best Practices (PDF)
- Shared Services First Time Lifecycle Management Migrations for Release 11.1.1.1 (PDF)
- Hyperion Financial Management Data Migration for Release 11.1.1.1 (PDF)
- Oracle Essbase Bulk Data Extraction Methodologies (PDF)
EPM System 9.3.x
- Shared Services and Reporting & Analysis High Availability for Release 9.3.1, UNIX Environments (PDF)
- Shared Services and Reporting & Analysis High Availability for Release 9.3.1, Windows Environments (PDF)
- Implementing Custom Authentication for Release 9.3.3 (PDF)
- Configuring Oracle Hyperion Workspace for Kerberos Authentication for Release 9.3.1 (PDF)
- Configuring OpenLDAP for SSL/TLS Communication for Shared Services Release 9.3.1.1 (PDF)
- Shared Services Import/Export Utility User's Guide for Release 9.3.1 (PDF)
- Introduction to Hyperion System 9 Security and User Management(PDF)
OBI
- Collaborate 10 Conference - Value of Spatial Analytics in Business Intelligence (White Paper)
- Collaborate 10 Conference - Value of Spatial Analytics in Business Intelligence (Presentation)
- Collaborate 10 Conference - Fast Delivery of Intelligent Business Solutions (White Paper)
- Collaborate 10 Conference - The Reporting Platform for Applications: Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (Presentation)
- Collaborate 10 Conference - Fast Delivery of Intelligent Business Solutions (Presentation)