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3.5 Oracle Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence BI is a portfolio of technology and applications that provides the industrys first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance
Management System, including BI foundation and tools as well as financial performance management applications, operational BI applications, and data
warehousing.
Oracle Business Intelligence includes the following:
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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition EE
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Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
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Oracle Real-Time Decisions
3.5.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition EE
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Oracle BI EE is a comprehensive set of enterprise business intelligence tools and infrastructure, including a scalable and
efficient query and analysis server, an ad-hoc query and analysis tool, interactive dashboards, proactive intelligence and alerts, real-time predictive intelligence, and an
enterprise reporting engine. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is designed to bring greater business visibility and insight to a wide variety of users.
The components of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition share a common service-oriented architecture, data access services, analytic and calculation
infrastructure, metadata management services, semantic business model, security model and user preferences, and administration tools. Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition provides scalability and performance with data-source specific optimized analysis generation, optimized data access, advanced calculation, intelligent
caching services, and clustering.
For more information, see Introducing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition and Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence System Administration in the Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrators Guide for Oracle
Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
3.5.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher BI Publisher, formerly XML Publisher allows you to create highly formatted reports that are suitable for printing. BI Publisher
reports are built on top of BI Publisher data models. A BI Publisher data model can consist of data sets from a wide range of sources, such as subject areas from the BI
Server or analyses, SQL queries against relational data bases, MDX queries against Essbase or other OLAP sources, LDAP, Web Services, Microsoft Excel, HTTP feeds, or
XML files. BI Publisher supports a wide range of layout types, so you can create the full range of documents that your organization might need. Within Oracle BI EE, you
can view, create, edit, and schedule BI Publisher reports and then include them in dashboard pages.
For more information on running reports with Oracle BI Publisher, see Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Report Designers Guide.
3.5.3 Oracle Real-Time Decisions
Oracle Real-Time Decisions Oracle RTD enables you to develop adaptive enterprise software solutions. These adaptive solutions continuously learn from business
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transactions while they execute and automatically optimize each transaction, in real time, by way of close loop business rules and predictive models.
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform Developers Guide for Oracle Real-Time Decisions.
3.6 Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer