Intro to OBIEE
(Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition)
Below is a transcript of a portion of a North Texas Hyperion User Group Conference workshop led by consultants form US-Analytics. US-Analytics IT infrastructure experts discuss Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) and answer questions from the audience.
"This is the Business Intelligence of the past. Basically before OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence) was forced this is what the enterprise business intelligence mark would look like. Everything was siloed, there were so many pieces scattered across an enterprise. You had to have specialized consultants to be able to manage their particular engine or application. So Oracle came up with idea of combining all these particular things into one centralized system, and voila we have OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition). "And just real quick, my add-in to that is that: you’ve got really siloed data and siloed division of labor, which obviously escalates IT costs. You’ve got different people doing ETL, data mining, data modeling, got some DBA’s… this entire group, this escalating group of people, of functions, of knowledge workers that again drives huge amounts of costs, and that’s obviously one of the solutions we’re going to talk about.
Typical Challenges:
"Siloed BI deployments – again siloed information, fragmented views everywhere. You’ve got no consistent definition of any business metrics. You’ve got sales people, inventory people looking at different maybe even the wrong numbers. Again, across the board going end to end with some of the calculations they may be off because they may be housed in different applications, in different environments, different BI applications. You’ve got a lot of different players.
"A report-centric model, meaning instead of actionable it is more report driven, so you’re just handing numbers and reports to people and then what do they do with that report? They call somebody, an executive. Say you’ve got executive level reporting, that executive gets a bunch of numbers he doesn’t like, and it goes down the chain but it’s not going to be there for the front line managers. Again, the people that actually use the info, the front line, the middle management front line, don’t have access to it. It is kind of typical in the Business Intelligence space"
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