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Oracle launched version 11g of its Oracle Business Intelligence offering on Wednesday, the result of three years of work integrating technologies acquired with the buyouts of companies such as Siebel and Hyperion.
The product offers an environment for accessing relational, online analytical processing and XML data sources. It also improves integration with Oracle tools such as Essbase and Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g, Oracle said in its announcement. Essbase, a multi-dimensional database management system, was acquired with Hyperion in 2007.
Key to Oracle’s strategy with the product is the integration of different business intelligence tools to give a coherent overall picture, the company said.
Oracle is releasing a huge number of security patches to its customers today, addressing flaws in hundreds of its products.
The 59 patches in the “critical patch update” fall across products ranges from the Oracle Database – 13 fixes – Fusion Middleware – seven fixes – Applications – 16 fixes – and Enterprise Manager Grid Control – one fix.
However, the most fixes are for the Solaris product suite, acquired by Oracle when it bought out Sun Microsystems in January this year.
“Seven of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e. may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password,” warned a security advisory from the company.
“Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply Critical Patch Update fixes as soon as possible.”
The large patch by Oracle has filled the whole left by Adobe which would have normally conducted its quarterly patch today. However it had to bring the patch forward to the end of June after critical flaws were found in its Acrobat and Reader products.
Major Oracle BI Launch Next Month
IDG News Service — Oracle (ORCL) is planning to release one of the most significant updates to its BI (business intelligence) platform in years at a July 7 event in London, according to the company’s Web site.
Company President Charles Phillips and Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development, will deliver presentations at the event.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g will include improvements in analytic processing, reporting, scalability, performance and system management, according to the blog post. The release also delivers an “unrivaled” end-user experience, according to Oracle.
A rundown of breakout sessions planned for the event provides further clues to the release’s feature set, which appears to foster tight connectivity between BI and ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems.
Attendees can learn about an “industry-first innovation that connects business intelligence directly to your business processes,” according to a statement. “You can spot an opportunity or issue, and immediately initiate appropriate action directly from your dashboard.”
Oracle has indicated that its next-generation Fusion Applications, which are supposed to surface this year after a long delay, will incorporate pervasive BI capabilities.
Users have been hotly anticipating the OBIEE 11g product launch, with some even participating in a betting page on the general availability date.
Oracle’s announcement does not specifically state such a date, although it would presumably closely coincide with the launch event. An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment.
The product should live up to the hype, with “game-changing” enhancements that no other vendors have, said Forrester Research analyst Boris Evelson.
Evelson declined to elaborate further, citing a nondisclosure agreement with Oracle.
Oracle’s Fusion suite of business applications will go on sale in 2010, chief executive Larry Ellison confirmed in his final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today.
The Fusion suite will tie together the most important product portfolios Oracle has acquired in recent years, and make them available via the cloud or on premise.
The products will be given updates, and new applications are on the way, Ellison explained at the customer and partner event.
“The Fusion applications will contain replacement applications, and then brand new applications that you might want to add to products such as the Oracle E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft, ” he said.
Ellison added that Fusion will co-exist with Oracle’s current applications, so customers would not feel pressured to upgrade.
“We will make it easy for Fusion applications to be easily integrated with applications such as E-Business suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel, and continue to make large investments in our existing applications,” he said.
“We know that not all customers will replace their current applications with Fusion, and that most are likely to augment.
“We’re a pretty big software company, so we can afford to build the next generation of applications as well as maintain the old ones. So, as a customer, you can move if you want to, when you want to.”
Ellison explained that the first version of Fusion will not contain the same functionality as software such as E-Business suite, but that more will be added over time.
Applications ready for 2010 include: financial management, human capital management, sales and marketing, supply chain management, project portfolio management and procurement. A business intelligence (BI) add-on will also be available, although Ellison said that BI is to be at the heart of all Fusion applications.
“The user interface is BI driven. In fact you can’t use the interface without BI,” he said.
Ellison also said that, when providing Fusion applications via the cloud, the company will monitor the service levels it commits to with customers.
“We have built this monitoring into enterprise support to prove that we will deliver the service levels we have committed to,” he concluded.
Oracle unveils new version of EPM system
Adds ERP Integrator module to its Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management
Oracle has launched Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Release 11.1.1.3, which combines performance management and Business Intelligence (BI) to support strategic, financial and operational management processes.
According to Oracle, the new release adds Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Integrator module for Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management that integrates the E-Business Suite General Ledger and PeopleSoft Enterprise General Ledger metadata directly into Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning applications, and supports bi-directional data integration for financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
The EPM System Release 11.1.1.3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, delivers enhancements and integrations spanning simulations, data visualisation and enhanced calculation management capabilities, the company said.
Oracle said that the new offering also features enhanced integration between Oracle Essbase and Oracle Crystal Ball, a spreadsheet-based application for predictive modeling, forecasting, Monte Carlo simulation and optimisation. This integration enables inline simulation within the hyperion smart view for excel interface, which allows end users to view, import, manipulate, distribute and share hyperion application and Essbase data in Microsoft Excel.
Bill Guilmart, vice president of EPM product management at Oracle, said: “The introduction of the ERP Integrator module significantly strengthens the integration between the Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise with Hyperion applications. With the module making metadata and data integration simpler, customers can extend their ERP investments while improving their reporting, analysis and planning cycles.”
Source: CBR
