What is Oracle BI Applications?

Oracle uses the term Oracle Business Intelligence to cover a wide range of heterogeneous business intelligence tools and applications, among which is Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, understandably abbreviated to OBIEE+.

OBIEE+ is essentially a BI platform made up of common components upon which Oracle has built a wide range of analytics applications.  As well as Project Analytics, there are analytics for Financials, HR, Marketing, Order Management Fulfilment, Sales, Service, Contact Centre and Supply Chain. 

OBIEE+ has the following components (though not all are used in each analytic product):

• Oracle BI Server
  Common enterprise business model and abstraction layer
• Oracle BI Answers
  Ad-hoc query and reporting
• Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards
  Highly interactive dashboards for accessing business intelligence and applications content
• Oracle BI Delivers
  Proactive business activity monitoring and alerting
• Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics
  Full analytical functionality for the mobile professionals
• Oracle BI Publisher (formerly known as XML Publisher)
  Enterprise reporting and distribution of "pixel-perfect" reports
• Oracle BI Briefing Books
  Snapshots of dashboard pages to view and share in offline mode. 

Click here to see an Oracle presentation about BI Applications (Flash)