OBIEE Introduction

·    OBIEE stands for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. The current version is 11g and  immediate previous version is 10.1.3

·    OBIEE is  Analytical (Reporting/Publishing ) Software Engine which facilitates data analysis, mining and publishing capabilities on top of physical data ware house.

·   The base product of OBIEE is Siebel Analytics which was a product of Siebel Corporation and later this was taken over by Oracle Corporation and re-named as OBIEE.

·    Prior to Siebel Analytics this product was originally built by a company called nQuire and it used be referred as nQuire software in older days.

·     Siebel is one of the market leaders in CRM application and owning few of domain specific Applications like CRM, Finance, Retail, etc.

·       Siebel Analytical software has got two flavors of products.

1)    Siebel Analytics

2)    Siebel Application

Siebel Analytics works as a standalone analytical application which provides data analytical capabilities on any type of physical data base. For this we need to build a standalone repository.

Siebel Applications are prebuilt components/products which build based on real world functional domain like Sales, Finance, HR,Pharma etc. When a customer buys this application he will get a set of pre built repositories/reports/dashboards specific to each functional applications. This will build a data warehouse from existing OLTP application systems using Informatica pre-built mappings and DAC as a scheduling software.

  

In 2006/2007 oracle was looking for a best analytical tool for its customers especially  for data warehousing reporting purpose. It worked out a deal to buy entire Siebel Corp, as a result Siebel analytics has become Oracle product. This product was renamed to OBIEE and released as a full fledged reporting and other Applications were renamed to BI Apps.

Last version of Siebel analytics was 7.7.

OBIEE Stand alone Analytical Application :
OBIEE Analytic engine provides core Business Intelligence and Analytical capabilities on any DW application.
This product allows to create a framework / model manually on any type of dataware house.
We can logically convert relational schema to dimensional schema.
Supports Reporting, Dashboard and publishing functionality

BI Application :

Provides all features which analytics perform does including following below..

·       Apps for common industry analytical processing snow as service Analytics, Sales Analytics , Pharma Analytics, Finance HR etc.

·       Prebuilt Dashboard and Reports on business specific application.