BI, DWH

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) is a portfolio of technology and applications that provides the industry's first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System, including BI foundation and tools - integrated array of query, reporting, analysis, alerting, mobile analytics, data integration and management, and desktop integration - as well as category-leading financial performance management applications, operational BI applications, and data warehousing. Oracle's Business Intelligence (BI) Foundation is a common set of BI tools and shared services that enable the Enterprise Performance Management System. It supports both, performance management applications, and BI applications.The BI Foundation includes a Common Enterprise Information Model, which is a unified metadata model accessed by end user tools, allowing you to "model once and deploy everywhere."

Oracle's Hyperion Essbase - System 9 is also part of the BI Foundation. It is an OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Server with the most advanced calculation engine that provides an environment for rapidly developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. The BI Foundation also leverages Oracle Real-Time Decisions, a platform that combines both rules and predictive analytics to power solutions for real-time enterprise decision management. It enables real-time intelligence to be instilled into any type of business process or customer interaction.

Oracle provides the technology foundation for building a complete business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) solution. Oracle Database 10g—an analysis-ready database with ETL, OLAP, and Data Mining built into the data server—and Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition (SE) allow you to rapidly develop and deploy data warehouses and data marts with an integrated array of query, reporting, analysis, desktop integration, and BI application development capabilities.