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Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboard Screenshots

Scoring a 3.7 in the 2005 Meta Group ranking of Enterprise Dashboard vendors is Oracle. Since the report was issued, much as gone on in the world of Oracle and its plans for business intelligence dashboards. First, let’s take a look at an excerpt from the Meta Group report. Back then, it focused on Oracle Reports Dashboards:

Oracle Reports 9.0.4

Oracle Reports is a strong product for Oracle database reporting requirements. However, it is rarely considered for reporting needs beyond an Oracle environment. This is reflected in the low scores for presence and connectivity.

Strengths

• Strong Excel support with a common add-in used between Oracle Reports and Discoverer
• Check in/check out and versioning support for multiple developers provided with Oracle SCM
• Reasonable pricing and flexible in negotiations

Limitations

• Connectivity to heterogeneous sources requires DBA setup of database connectors
• No access to non-relational legacy data sources
• Scheduling of reports based on periodicity and events requires custom coding
• No out-of-the-box security integration with non-Oracle solutions

Its been a busy time since that report for Oracle in terms of Enterprise Dashboards and Business Intelligence. They have acquired companies and released new versions of enterprise BI software. As often the case when a company is assembling its product line for a new market, the message sometimes is not clear. Such was the case at the 2006 ODTUG (Oracle Users Group) conference. As reported by the AMIS blog (sorry for stealing so much content, but, hey, this is the Dashboard Spy!)

Oracle BI Strategy

A fascinating topic this year: Oracle’s BI Strategy. For many years - probably since the launch of the Oracle 9iR2 database with embedded OLAP (multi dimensional workspaces) and DataMining engine as well as a rich set of ETL and BI supporting enhancements in the SQL engine - the theme for Oracle in BI has been: do as much in the database as possible. And a lot can be done in the database, especially the hard work, leaving little more than the presentation and handling of user interaction to the client tools, like Discoverer OLAP and BI Beans. With the release of the Discoverer Drake release last year and OWB 10gR2 this year as well as a set of new features for BI applications in the 10gR2 release of the RDBMS, the technology stack seemed pretty much in place. And then… there was Siebel.

Siebel has something Oracle never really achieved: a notable presence in the BI arena at enterprise level. The Siebel Analytics product with pre-built ETL processes and Multidimensional Cubes for standard ERP and CRM applications like SAP, Oracle Applications, Siebel and JDEdwards has a real presence in the board rooms when it comes to BI, whereas Oracle’s products on the whole seem to be more technology driven and slightly less business focused. With the exceptions of OFA, OSA and EPB &B (Enterprise Planning and Budgeting).

In Sunday’s general session, we were given an overview of the BI strategy. Frankly, it was not clear at all. And in hindsight, it was a strange combination of the Siebel approach: business oriented, database independent and the ‘traditional’ Oracle approach with strong emphasis on the database and web-enabled technology. This presentation started with Siebel Analytics - now Oracle BI Server - in the board room and concluded with Mark Rittman’s demonstration of the Data Quality option in Oracle Warehouse Builder. Covering an enormous territory and never quite bridging the gap.

On Monday I sat in on the BI Strategy session by Christina Kolotouros, who seemed not at ease with the story she was telling. Apparently, a lot of changes are being made in this period and the dust has not yet fully settled. Christina’s introduced the BI Suite Editions- Standard Edition One, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition, with a clear split between traditional Oracle BI technology and the Siebel based stacks - and tried to demonstrate a unified approach to Business Intelligence. Oracle BI Server - pka Siebel Analytics Server - is a middle tier product, written in C++, that can be approached through ODBC. It knows how to extract data from various heterogeneous data services and sources, of which the Oracle database is but one. And historically, as I am being told, not even the primary one since Siebel had better and earlier support for specific features in SQL Server and DB2. Yet Christin’a story was that the BI Server ‘uniquely leverages the Oracle database’. It probably will eventually, but whether is actually does that today is somewhat hard to believe. She did not elaborate on this unique support, so it remains very uncertain whether the BI Server at this point leverages the OLAP engine or the Data Mining functionality of the Oracle RDBMS. And whether it has specific understanding of Analytical SQL Functions, Materialized Views, In-Line queries and the likes. It may and if not it will. The presentation did not make it clear, which may be an indication in its own right.

Christina presented the release-plans for the BI Suite, with a 10.1.2.2 release followed by 11g for the Standard Edition - remember that’s Discoverer and associated technology - without giving specific dates. She made it clear that while Discoverer will be further enhanced, no major new functionality - especially if it would impact the tool’s architecture. Again, this sounds a lot like the predicament of Oracle Forms.

The report goes on, but I’ll leave it to you to check the source. Here are a smattering of different enterprise dashboards from Oracle. If you have more examples of oracle-related business dashboards, please send them to The Dashboard Spy. Thanks.

Oracle BI Server Architecture

Oracle Reports Dashboard

Screenshot of Oracle Portlet Configuration

Screenshot Oracle Dashboard

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One Response to “Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboard Screenshots”

Lynn Scott Said on December 27th, 2006 at 10:37 am quote
Dash,

Is there anyway to rearrange you page so that the date of your most recent post appears near the title instead of the at the bottom of the article. I can’t get here every day, and so I often start to read, then go “I think I have read this already.” Then I go check the date. Putting it near the title (if doable) would save us frequent readers some time.

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