Oracle Open World Day 2 Cont. - Oracle BI SE & EE Roadmaps

Mark Rittman

Oct 24, 2006 • 2 min read

This afternoon I firstly went along to Kurt Wolff's "Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Tips & Tricks" presentation, followed afterwards by Paul Rodwick's "Oracle BI Roadmap" session. Kurt is one of the original nQuire guys and has worked with what is now BI Suite EE - before that Siebel Analytics - right from the beginnings of the product, before it was even bought by Siebel.

The presentation itself consisted of about a dozen tips and techniques around metadata creation, and using Answers and Dashboards, and I'll try and work through many of them myself over the next week or so and post them up on the blog. There's also a nice screenshot here showing what presumably is the login screen for the Maui release, with the new Oracle look-and-feel. The second presentation was an updated version of the BI Roadmap talk that I'd seen previously at ODTUG and Collaborate'06, delivered by Paul Rodwick, ex-Siebel and now heading up BI within Oracle.

Most readers of this blog are probably aware of the general direction for BI Suite SE and EE, so I'll just go through the highlights of the session and point out the current release schedule for the two product editions. I've also linked to photos of the slides if you're interested in how it was all presented:

The release schedule for BI Suite EE is firstly to release version 10.1.2.2, with support for user-defined custom members and new graph styles, and then the 10.2.3 release which has support for enhanced custom members. The 11g release will then feature JSR-168 portal integration, integration with BI Suite EE Answers, Dashboards and Delivers, and will come with migration utilties and methodologies to support moves to BI Suite EE.
Discoverer customers will have three options going forward: to stay with Discoverer indefinately, to stay with Discoverer but take advantage of EE features such as Dashboard and Delivers, or to migrate to EE. Migration is optional though and there's no compulsion.
The forthcoming "Maui" release of BI Suite EE has 200 new features including Oracle OLAP integration, RSS feeds, Linux support and 64-bit support.
The new Maui release (10gR3 V10.1.3.2)'s 200 new features can be categorised into six areas: firstly Lower cost of setup & administration, analytic server enhancemnets and dashboard and reports enhancements, and secondly Fusion Middleware integration, Oracle DBMS & OLAP integration and Security enhancements (see slides for more details), and
The 11g release ("Negril") will feature enhancements around the Analytic Server, dashboards, better OTLP and BI integration, and support for MS Office 12.

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