Posted by: Chris Lynch in OBIEE on
Jun 10, 2009
The latest trend in the industry is "Intelligence" aka "Business Intelligence" aka "Analytics". Oracle not to be outdone has jumped head first into this market with their OBIEE tool. OBIEE (pronounced "Oh-Bee-Eye-Eee-Eee") is a suite of reporting and analytic tools that Oracle purchased with some stuff that they built themselves. These are primarily Siebel and Hyperion (Siebel became OBIEE, Siebel + Hyperion became OBIEE Plus) and Oracle XML Publisher.
Personally, I have found OBIEE to be confusing because (a) there are so many moving pieces and (b) the marketing info does not line up exactly with the product itself. This is my attempt to simplify OBIEE into the few tools that matter most.
