Oracle BI 11g provides the following top benefits for users when upgrading: 1. Improved interactivity and visualizations through features like animated transitions, range sliders, and an extensive set of chart types. 2. Access to dashboards, reports and analyses on mobile devices through a new mobile app, allowing BI to be accessed anywhere. 3. Better integration with Essbase through features that automatically import metadata and support multiple hierarchies and members. 4. The ability to incorporate scorecards and strategy management by linking objectives, initiatives and KPIs to analyze business performance. 5. A new Action Framework that allows users to define actions to be taken in response to specific data conditions within dashboards

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3. Agenda
① Enhanced Unified End User Experience
② Improved Interactivity and Visualizations
③ Access with Mobile Devices
④ Online BI Publisher Report Builder
⑤ Map Views for Spatial Data
⑥ Better Integration with Essbase
⑦ Enterprise Access to Hyperion Application Data
⑧ Incorporate Scorecards and Strategy Management
⑨ Initiate Actions with Action Framework
⑩ Access Additional Data Sources
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4. Top Benefits of an OBIEE
11g Upgrade for Users
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5. Scorecards
Mobile
Reports
Office
Integration Interactive
Dashboards
Applications
& Portals Geospatial
Visualization
Search Ad-hoc
Queries
Collaboration
New or radically Improved Enhanced in 11g
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6. ② Improved Interactivity
& Visualizations
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7. Improved Interactivity & Visualizations
 New task oriented user interface
promotes ease of use
 Recent dashboards and Favorites
help you find what you want
quickly
 Do want you want easily
 Browse and search the entire
catalog
 Create Analytis, Reports, all
objects from a single point.
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8. Improved Interactivity & Visualizations
 Animated transitions
 Range and Paging sliders
 Legend-based interactions
 Master-Detail linking
 Extensive and extended set of
chart types
 Consistent, hi-fidelity charting
across Oracle product line
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9. Improved Interactivity & Visualizations
Microsoft Office Integration
First, seamless ROLAP & OLAP
browser interface
OLAP query building with member
selection
• Member selection
• Calculated members
• Hierarchical calculations
• Custom aggregates
Navigate across relational and
multidimensional sources
• Shared metadata, calculations,
dimensions, security
• Ragged & skip-level hierarchies
• Performance for each source
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10. ③ Access With
Mobile Devices
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11. Access With Mobile Devices
 Enables iPads and
iPhones to become
another 1st class BI
channel
 Delivers mobile BI
instantly, leveraging
existing BI Foundation
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12. Access With Mobile Devices
Employs an embedded Dashboard approach
Supports Analyses, Dashboards, Publisher
Reports, Action Framework, Scorecards, Alerts,
Catalog Search
Zero training to interact with data on mobile
devices
Gestural interactions, Orientation
recognition, and Layout optimizations for
tablet and smartphone platforms
Technical
Available from Apple iTunes App Store
Devices supported: iPhone 3GS, 4, iPad
OBIEE Security Model (SSL and SSO)
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13. Self Service Reporting for Business Users
100% Pure Thin Client Interface
No Plug-Ins, Native AJAX
100% Lifecycle Support
Access Data, Design, Schedule, Manage all in
Thin Client
For Interactive Reporting
Web-centric design
For Production Reporting
Pixel perfect documents
Microsoft Office Integration
PowerPoint, Excel, Word
MSFT Office 2003 & 2007
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14. ⑤ Map Views
for Spatial Data
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15. Map Views For Spatial Data
 Most BI data already contains
geographic dimension of analysis
 Deliver deeper analytical insights
through Spatial visualization and
data
 Increase the ROI of BI & GIS
systems
 New depth and breadth of Analysis
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16. Map Views For Spatial Data
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17. ⑥ Better Integration With
Essbase
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18.  Automatic accounts hierarchy
 Supports multiple Alias tables
 Automatically adds UDAs
 Value-hierarchy modeling
 Alternate hierarchies automatically imported
 Automatic member order column
 Improved function shipping
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19. Seamless Relational and Essbase
Browser Interface
OLAP Query Building with member
selection
 Member selection
 Calculated members
 Hierarchical calculations
 Custom aggregates
Navigate across relational and
multidimensional sources
 Shared metadata, calculations, dimensions,
security
 Ragged & skip-level hierarchies
 Performance for each source
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20. BI Foundation Integration  Align plans to operational execution
 Provide those outside the planning process
 Seamlessly accesses financial data with ability to access plans
stored and managed in HFM or
 Monitor own performance
Planning
 Enable continual local management
 HFM and Planning data participate in  More timely information across the business
Common Enterprise Information Model without burdening Finance
 Drive visibility, accountability and alignment
For HFM and Planning while maintaining audit trail & compliance
Customers  Real-time monitoring of close process
 Access to dashboards, ad-hoc query,  Transparency, coordination & reliability
reporting & analysis capabilities  Help Finance deliver value-added analysis
beyond producing reporting packs
 Leverage BI Server’s federation
capabilities to analyze financial plus  Analytical depth with historical trending,
variance analysis, etc.
operational data
 Provide consolidation reporting and analysis
across the business
 Visibility beyond core consolidation team
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21. ⑧ Incorporate Scorecards &
Strategy Management
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22. Integrated BI Component KPI Watchlists Strategy Trees
 KPIs as Core Metadata
 Thresholds, Owners, History
 Auto-Generated Interactive Analyses
 Linked objectives & Initiatives
Automatic Detection Cause and Effect
 KPI alerts triggered by thresholds
 Strategy Visualization
 Strategy Maps and trees
 Cause and Effects
 Watchlists
 Annotations & Override
All methodologies
 Balanced scorecard, 6 sigma, Baldrige
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23. Incorporate Scorecards & Strategy Management
Past Future
Alerting  Strategy deployment
 Business results Benchmarking  People & team
 Operational and  Accountability maps
Metrics
strategic  Management processes
Graphics
 Root cause analysis  Initiative tracking
Reporting
 Guided navigation  Cause & effect
Metadata
 Collaboration
Dashboards Scorecards
Why did I miss my goal? How do goals support our strategy?
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24. ⑨ Initiate Actions With Action
Framework
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25. The Oracle BI Action Framework is a totally
new innovation for BI. It allows organizations to
sense conditions, perform analysis, and then
directly initiate business improving actions, all
from within BI dashboards and reports, whether
delivered via a browser, a mobile device or via  Navigate to further
email. analysis
 Initiate a business
The Action Framework let’s companies define
process
best practice actions to take under certain data
conditions. Actions are defined in the enterprise  Execute a workflow
semantic model, just in the same way as data  Deliver BI content
sources are defined and mapped.  Call a Web service
When a condition is triggered, the user is  Collaborate
presented with a list of possible actions to take.
Some of these might be to navigate to additional
BI analysis, to collaborate with a colleague, or to
initiate a defined business process.
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26. Initiate Navigate
Workflow / Business BI Content
Process (BPEL) Analytic Application View
Message/Post Event (ES) Web Content
Web Service
Delivers iBot Deliver
BI Content
Execute Web Content
Java Method
Siebel Workflow
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27.  Support added for Oracle OLAP, SAP BW,
and MS Analysis Services, Oracle TimesTen,
Oracle RetekRPAS
 Oracle BI EE natively understands
hierarchies, dimensions, metrics, etc. for
additional multidimensional data sources
 Dramatically improved metadata import and
development experience compared to 10g
 Incremental update of metadata supported
 Substantially improved UI experience—
multidimensional style look and feel with in-
place hierarchy drilling, custom groups, etc.
 For SAP BW: Introducing new BAPI adapter
for Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bit
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