Oracle's lateast offering- Oracle Business Intelligence 11g

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declared the launch of Oracle
Business Intelligence 11g, the most complete, integrated and scalable
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Intelligence products for customers to achieve
better business visibility and alignment. It claims to provide an
unified environment for accessing and analyzing data that resides in
relational, OLAP, and XML data sources, enriches the end user
experience with a new integrated scorecard application and
innovations in enterprise reporting, visualization, search and
collaboration, and enhances performance, scalability, and security
through deeper integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g and
other components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

By extending capabilities in the Common
Enterprise Information Model, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is one
of the first solution that unifies Relational OLAP (R-OLAP),
Multidimensional OLAP (M-OLAP) and enterprise reporting on a common
technology foundation. Enhanced OLAP analysis capabilities enable
users to access and navigate hierarchical data stored in Oracle
Essbase and popular relational data sources from a common interface.

“Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
delivers the complete spectrum of business intelligence capabilities,
spanning enterprise reporting, scorecards, dashboards, ad hoc
queries, OLAP analysis, search, and actionable collaboration on an
integrated technology foundation,” said Paul Rodwick, VP, Product
Management, Oracle Business Intelligence. He further added, “The
new release is easy to implement for departmental needs, and scales
to provide unrivaled performance and scalability for the largest and
most demanding enterprise deployments.”

A new application, Oracle Scorecard and
Strategy Management, is an integrated component of the Oracle
Business Intelligence 11g, that helps individuals track metrics and
key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with organizational
strategy and goals. Its enhanced, task-oriented user interface
features a comprehensive range of new interactive charting and
prompting capabilities, including map visualization options directly
linked to spatial data, to provide a richer, more intuitive end user
experience. Also its integrated thin-client report design editor
enables business users to publish both interactive, Web-based reports
as well as high fidelity, pixel perfect production reports.

The Action Framework feature of the
Business Intelligence 11g is an unique and innovative feature that
closes the loop between insight and action by enabling users to
initiate an action, such as a business process or Web service,
directly from their dashboard.

New integration with Oracle Secure
Enterprise Search enables casual users to quickly and easily find
relevant reports as well as views and metrics within reports, in line
with access and security parameters defined within Oracle Business
Intelligence 11g.