Oracle Open World Day 4 - Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.2 New Features
I've just come out of the "What's New with Oracle Business Intelligence 10.1.3.2" presentation by David Granholm, and there's a bunch of new details on what's coming up with this new release. I should say that, as with all the presentations, there's a disclaimer at the start to say that this is for information only and it shouldn't be taken as a committment to deliver, but bearing that in mind here's what's planned for the "Maui" release.
- Aggregate persistence - you'll be able to nominate a DBMS schema which BI EE will use to persist aggregates (summary tables). BI EE will create physical tables in this schema (database agnostic, not neccessarily Oracle) and the BI Server will then generate the DDL and DML to create the aggregates. At a later date, you can use the BI Server to move the aggregates back to the source data warehouse.
- Enhanced Disconnect Analytics synchronisation, including synchronisation of alerts
- Consistency check scorecard
- Automated creation of data mart logical model
- Oracle Enterprise Manager support
- Support for Linux and 64-bit operating systems, improvements of 64% over 32-bit operating systems for single node, 42% for two-node quoted
- New "Project Orientated" development, where developers or teams work on metadata projects, focused on the fact table, that are then merged into the core Enterprise Information Model
- An auto-generated, Javadoc-style metadata dictionary that you can view using a Web browser
- Integration of Answers reports in JSR168-compliant portals, including Oracle Portal
- RSS feed generator - view alerts using an RSS reader, link out to detailed report
- Improved financial-style reporting within Answers and Dashboard - totals at various levels, selectively suppress section headers, page breaks at section levels, suppression of blank rows
- Integration of XML (now BI) Publisher, which will have access to Common Information Model, and reports generated from Answers
- BPEL integration - alerts initiate BPEL processes using Delivers, users initiate BPEL processes via Action links. BPEL will be able to invoke BI EE analytic workflows via Web Services
- SAP BW Infocube support - direct access to infocubes, dynamic MDX generation via SAP XMLA interface, direct import of BW structures and hierarchies into Common Information Model
- Relational access to Oracle OLAP analytic workspaces via SQL views - sounds like an initial step now with a couple of utilties - perhaps full access via OLAP API in the future?
- Oracle VPD integration, ability to access e-Business Suite security, OID integration, SSO integration, Windows Native Authentication, Proxy user authentication