An Eye on Oracle BI

BI Applications 2.0: Buy and Build Less

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:01:13 GMT

During a period of around twelve years where I have executed and rolled-out more than 20 Oracle BI Applications projects on a variety of source applications, I noticed there is something wrong with the slogan "Buy vs. Build" which I tend to call BIA 1.0. This post is a first attempt to make the community aware of a more realistic picture than the binary option Buy or Build a solution.

MetaData Warehousing

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:17:27 GMT

MetaData Warehousing is about the concept of centralising and integrating the business intelligence metadata (KPI's, metrics, calculations, dimensions, hierarchies). The importance of this concept is highly underestimated during data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives. In most cases, multiple BI Tools and applications will access the data warehouse, each with their own metadata layer. The Oracle BI EE repository technology provides means to centralize the business intelligence metadata and make it available to a wide range of BI tools.

From Intelligence to Business with BI Applications

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:16:08 GMT

The current trend is BI Applications and are positioned as the BI solution with a quick ROI and time to market compared to the build alternative because of the pre-packaged nature of the (Oracle) BI Applications. Being an evangalist myself for the BI Applications which I support wholeheartedly, it is of critical importance for an implementation team to meet the expectation set by the vendor or system integrator. The key point is business process skills and operational system knowledge. This blog entry discusses the change of focus of a Business Intelligence (Applications) project from the Intelligence part to the Business part, from data integration as a goal to the integration with the primary processes and the support of these processes.

Oracle BI Applications: OBIEE security integration with Oracle E-Business Suite

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:40:14 GMT

This is an updated post about (previously about integration of Fusion Intelligence) the user interface security integration of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition with Oracle Applications' or E-Business Suite. The version of EBS considered is: 11.5.10. An in-depth methodology is described to build this integration from zero or to analyze the pre-built integration for EBS BI Applications.

Oracle BI Applications Integration Characteristics

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:03:29 GMT

While the market of Business Intelligence is emerging, the field of Business Intelligence Applications is very popular. Many enterprises have both back office and front office systems to support their daily business. Many of these companies have invested in business intelligence products or at least in the technology. A relatively small subset is convinced about the benefits of pre-packaged, integrated business intelligence applications based on best-practices and domain expertise provided by the same vendor providing the back and front office application software.