Oracle Business Intelligence Suite: Enterprise Edition (EE) Plus

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite: Enterprise Edition is Oracle's BI application stack acquired from their Siebel acquisition and previously known as Seibel Analytics. After the acquisition of Hyperion by Oracle in 2007, OBIEE now also includes key Oracle Hyperion reporting products to allow integration with Oracle Hyperion financial applications.

The Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (EE) is a suite of enterprise BI products, including interactive dashboards, ad hoc analysis, alerts, enterprise reporting and disconnected analytics. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE is based on the proven and mature Siebel Analytics platform.
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition includes the following components:

• Oracle BI Server

Previously known as Siebel Analytics Server. This dedicated BI server provides the common business model and abstraction layer for the analytics applications. Oracle BI server supports access to multiple data sources, including relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, etc), OLAP sources (Analysis Services, Oracle OLAP) and offline sources (Excel, XML, etc) amongst others. 

• Oracle BI Answers

Previously known as Siebel Answers. Provides Ad-hoc query and reporting against the semantic layer developed in Oracle BI Server. The Answers component is the most comparable with the Oracle Discoverer product of the BI Standard Edition. 

• Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards

Previously known as Siebel Intelligence Dashboards. Provides rich dashboard environment for deploying analytic queries and reports developed in Oracle BI Answers. Dashboards is the primary interface for users of the BI EE suite and allows data from multiples sources to be reporting in a central portal environment. 

• Oracle BI Delivers

 
Previously known as Siebel Delivers. Provides data monitoring and alerting capabilities. 

• Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics

Previously known as Siebel Mobile Analytics. Provides offline analytics functionality. 

• Oracle BI Publisher

Previously known as Oracle XML Publisher. Provides enterprise reporting and distribution of presentation quality reports. 

• Oracle BI Briefing Books

Previously known as Siebel Briefing Books. Provides snapshots of dashboard pages for viewing and distribution offline. 

• Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting

Interactive ad-hoc reporting tool for the Hyperion product set. 

• Oracle Hyperion SQR Production Reporting

Used for the generation of high volume, presentation-quality formatted reports. 

• Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting

Used for the production of formatted financial and management reports 

• Oracle Hyperion Web Analysis

Web based analysis tool for Hyperion Essbase product, providing ad-hoc analysis, presentation and reporting capabilities. 

Implementing Oracle BI Suite EE involves using the Oracle BI Server administration tool to develop Physical, Business and Presentation layer models of the data sources. Queries from the front end tools (the user view of the presentation layer) are passed back through the business layer (dimensional model) and then the physical layer back to the mapped data sources. In this way, all data is retained and all data processing performed in the source systems rather than by the Oracle BI Server. For common queries, data can be cached by Oracle BI Server to optimize query performance (and the caches can be preloaded following data updates in the source systems using scheduled Oracle BI Delivers iBots).

Oracle BI EE is currently promoted by Oracle as an optional upgrade path for existing Oracle BI customers using Discoverer, Portal & Reports. These existing Oracle products will themselves continue to be developed separately as part of the Standard Edition suite but will be merged together at some point in the future.