ABSTRACT
The technology that supports using Oracle Essbase and Oracle BI for comprehensive business intelligence (BI) starts with implementing Oracle Essbase as an online analytical processing (OLAP) solution through data integration, then using it for Analytical BI. Oracle Essbase provides forward-facing analysis
via its ability to model what-if scenarios and forecast future trends. It goes a step further by providing end user-enabled custom analytics, which can be augmented by Oracle BI and Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) for operational and interactive BI. While discussing the successful players and products, it is imperative to list the same categorized under multiple areas of OLAP and BI space. These include engineered solutions, enterprise reporting, OLAP Analytics, Enterprise BI, self-service, operational, interactive, mobile BI, and most recently Big Data. Oracle BI provides the ease of deployment on the platform of choice that includes on-premise, on-cloud, or on-mobile.
