Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One - a business intelligence (BI) solution

ORACLE DATA SHEET ORACLE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE STANDARD EDITION ONE FEATURES AND FACTS Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One is a complete, KEY PRODUCT FEATURES • Complete BI solution including integrated, and attractively priced business intelligence (BI) solution highly formatted reporting, for midsize companies or workgroups. It provides everything you integrated dashboards and ad-hoc analysis, data need to create highly formatted reports, operational dashboards with modeling, ETL and database. • Easy-to-install package ad-hoc analysis, and to consolidate your data for a complete view of conveniently designed to run your business. It includes the same technology as Oracle Business on a single server. • Uses proven, category- Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, making it simple to scale as leading technology for every your business needs grow. component. • Attractively priced for midsize businesses or workgroups. Choosing the Right Business Intelligence Foundation You’re a growing midsize business and you need a solid reporting solution. Something that can generate dashboards, management reports, operational reports, invoices, shipping labels, checks, tax forms, and regulatory filings – all the business documents to keep your business running smoothly. You also recognize the importance of having accurate, reliable, and timely information to analyze daily operations, closely monitor business performance, to maximize the efficiency of scarce resources, and to seize opportunities as soon as they arise. You understand the importance of integrating data from all your departments to get a complete picture of performance – sales, inventories, purchases, contracts, salaries, marketing expenses and more. If you are like many organizations, you have numerous, semicompatible systems in use that are relatively isolated from one another, requiring tremendous time and effort to bring data together. Ideally, you want a system that is easy-to-use, meets all of your reporting and information needs, and provides the insight you need to make better decisions across functions You also want a system that is easy to implement, priced within your budget, and can scale and grow with your business over time. We can help. A Complete Business Intelligence System Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One is a complete, integrated business intelligence system specifically designed with the emerging enterprise in mind. It includes everything needed to solve your pressing business needs, including: • Oracle Business Intelligence Server - The same engine that powers Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus is also included. The BI Server provides a rich calculation engine and can integrate multiple, disparate data sources into a single federated view with support for Oracle and non-Oracle sources including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Excel, most ODBC 1 ORACLE DATA SHEET sources, multi-dimensional sources, XML, flat files, and more. • Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards – Interactive Dashboards provides a web browser interface to instantaneously view important metrics, reports, and visualizations – like gauges, charts, tickers, and more – enables full drilling and navigation capabilities all the way to transactional data, and provides summary reports that take the pulse of the business – perfect for management reporting. • Oracle Business Intelligence Answers - Oracle BI Answers is a 100% thin client, ad-hoc query and analysis solution that is fully integrated with Interactive Dashboards and BI Publisher. End users can easily and quickly create their own queries, then drill, analyze, visualize and embed the results in their personalized dashboard or deliver them to a variety of formats and channels via BI Publisher. • Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher - BI Publisher is a single solution to create, manage, and deliver all of your business documents and reports. Generate sales orders, invoices, checks, purchase orders shipping labels, management reports, and even government forms. BI Publisher allows you to define report queries using a simple web interface and create highly formatted layouts using tools you already know how to use like Microsoft Office Word and Adobe Acrobat. The BI Publisher report server then generates these documents and can deliver them to multiple destinations including printer, email, fax, and directly over the internet in formats like PDF, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel, EFT and more. Reports can be built directly against your database or the BI Server and you can leverage analyses developed within Oracle BI Answers. • Oracle Database Standard Edition One - The world’s leading database is included, serving as the foundation for storing all of your integrated data in a data warehouse. • Oracle Warehouse Builder - Recognized by Forrester as one of the leading extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools, Warehouse Builder allows you to 2 ORACLE DATA SHEET model, deploy, and maintain a coherent picture of data operations from multiple source systems such as relational, multidimensional, or flat files in your data warehouse. Complete and Flexible Designed with midsized business or workgroup in mind, Oracle BI Standard Edition One features a streamlined installation experience and is pre-configured out of the box to be production ready, getting you up an running in the fastest time possible. In addition to providing a complete package with everything you need Oracle BI Standard Edition One is designed for flexible implementations. Organizations can choose which components they want to start with and build out as business needs demand. For example you might want to start with Oracle BI Publisher to generate invoices and later build out an operational dashboard using Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards and Oracle BI Answers. Designed with Business Users in Mind Oracle Business Intelligence SE One was developed with business user self- sufficiency in mind; featuring business user interfaces that do not require coding, SQL or other technical skills. Report layout and design is conducted with everyday tools like Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat; new interactive dashboards are built through a simple, drag and drop Web interface; and new ad hoc analyses are built by pointing and clicking on items from a simplified, logical business model of the data. These ease-of-use capabilities enable greater business value and reduced reliance on IT for reporting and analysis needs. Ready to Grow with Your Business Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One uses the same technology components as Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, so you can effortlessly upgrade to Enterprise Edition Plus licenses when needs expand – with no need to convert or re-develop reports, dashboards, or data models. This makes it simple to expand your system via functionality provided with Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, such as Oracle BI Delivers, an advanced proactive detection and alerting capability, or Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics, which provides full dashboard and ad hoc analysis capabilities on a disconnected laptop. As a result, any investment in Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One is protected as your business grows. The Right Business Intelligence Foundation for the Growing Business Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One provides you with an attractively priced, complete, and integrated solution for virtually all of your business intelligence needs. From operational reporting to data consolidation to management dashboards and ad-hoc analysis, Oracle BI Standard Edition One provides the right BI foundation for midsize organizations or workgroups, now and for the future. 3 ORACLE DATA SHEET KEY BENEFITS AND RELATED PRODUCTS Contact Us THE RIGHT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE For more information please visit oracle.com/appserver/business- FOUNDATION FOR THE intelligence/standard-edition-one.html or call +1.800.