Oracle Business Intelligence 11g has been available since August 14 and many people are digging into the new features. Rather than repeating what is readily available elsewhere, this article looks at a history of the product, comparing the 11g version with the 10g version, so that you can better appreciate the changes.
Oracle Business Intelligence 11g has been available since August 14 and you can be sure that lots of people are digging into the new features in this release. Rather than getting into those details here, let's instead look at a history of the product and the state of affairs with respect to the 10g version.
OBIEE, Oracle BI EE, and OBIEE Plus have all been pinned to the software. There was even something called OBIA back in the day, but that is not where OBIEE came from. I'll use OBIEE as the overall label or descriptor for the purposes of this article, and identify specific components when needed. So, what is the difference between OBIEE and OBIEE Plus? That's where the history lesson helps.
The product originated as nQuire In the mid to late 1990's. In 2002, what was then Siebel acquired nQuire and the product became more (and widely) well known as Siebel Analytics. Companies not using Oracle liked Siebel products very much, not because they didn't like Oracle, but because they really didn't need or want (to pay) for a database system that expensive or capable. Keeping that in mind, you would be correct in assuming that Analytics was pretty good at connecting with whatever data source you cared to use.
Oracle acquired Siebel in 2005 or so, which is a bit ironic given that the Siebel product was started by an ex-Oracle employee by the name of - any guesses? - Siebel. Analytics was branded as Oracle BI Suite and was available in two editions; Standard and Enterprise. By and large, the only edition that matters is Enterprise, and its prevalence contributed to "OBIEE" as opposed to references of "OBISE" for those using OBIEE.
OBIEE 10.1.3.4 has been the latest and greatest release for a good while. Related or embedded products such as Business Intelligence Publisher also kept up with the release numbering, so BI Publisher, with its own history within Oracle, has been fairly calm recently in terms of releases. That brings us up to today with the release of 11g.
If you notice the URLs to access OBIEE and related products, you can see the remnants of the original products. For OBIEE, a typical out of the box installation results in…
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