ABSTRACT
OBIEE as a Comprehensive BI Solution 4.3 Key and Critical Deciding Factors in Selecting Such a Solution 4.4 The Final Pick is a Customer-Centric Solution: Key Indicator Checklist 4.5 Summary 4.6 References
Building a real-world application using Oracle Essbase and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) requires strategic planning and analysis of the business processes involved and how well they can be implemented in such a solution from design to dashboard and beyond. The essential criteria can be broadly classified into the following categories:
• Business process discovery • Information integration • Information dissemination
• Information transformation • Information visualization • User interaction • Information customization • Information in action: BI, advanced analytics, and beyond BI (competi-
tive, social, and cloud-based intelligence) • Information and Big Data
This chapter will examine each of the above categories based on how best Oracle Essbase and OBIEE can together be used to achieve implementation of the same to improve return on investment (ROI), reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and provide the significant business-oriented goals of performance and scale-in, scale-up, and scale-out capacity. Starting with the above essential criteria, it will highlight the key deciding factors in selecting such a solution and then present the key indicator checklist towards a final pick for such a solution implementation. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytic Platforms 2014 positions Oracle as a leader in the BI and analytic platforms industry (https://www.gartner.com/doc/2668318/magic-quadrant-business-intelligenceanalytics). And Oracle Essbase and OBIEE offer a plethora of analytical, tactical, operational, pervasive, and self-service BI capabilities that fit into the usage landscape of customer, business-user, developer, and architect. For a general discussion of Oracle BI, please refer to the website provided in Reference 1.1 For a BI solution that yields a better business value, please refer to the paper in Reference 2.2 This can be used as a guideline for the content in Sections 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4.
