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Oracle Fusion User Business Intelligence Capability Discussion Guide Last updated: 11/10/07

Oracle Introduction Sell DB options and DB switches to new customers. Hyperion Essbase System 9 Overview: In October 2005 Sell MW as extension of DB and applications. Hyperion launched their System 9 product. This is primarily an Oracle’s Profile: Continuing acquisition strategy: integration release designed to bring all their products (Brio, Oracle was founded in 1977, with offices in 145+ countries. o Consolidate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Essbase, Hyperion Reporting, and Financial Applications) onto a As of 2007, Oracle employs ˜75,000 people. Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain single platform.

Is the leading enterprise software company. Management (SCM), and Business Intelligence (BI) market Capabilities on the new platform include financial reporting, Is No. 1 in database (DB), No. 2 in business intelligence (BI), segments. production reporting, interactive reporting, dashboards, and No. 3 in middleware (MW). o Build vertical expertise. advanced analytics, metrics management, data mining, and Claims $1 billion in MW sales—more than BEA. o Fill MW gaps. visualization. (Source: Oracle FY08 Q1 Financial Reporting) Oracle Fusion Business Intelligence (BI) Offerings Essbase System 9 - New Components

Oracle Fusion Middleware includes all Oracle software other Important Notes: Foundation Services – which offer single user provisioning, than applications or database. Oracle MW Web site: common security, a single repository for all documents, and 1) Oracle announced closure of its acquisition of Hyperion www.oracle.com/products/middleware centralized license management.

Solutions Corporation in March 2007, although it appears to Oracle’s Strategic Goals: have not yet articulated a definitive strategy of how it will Workspace – a newly designed thin client portal.

reconcile the Hyperion product set with its current offerings. Lead in business applications Essbase System 9 - Analytic Applications Components For this reason, this discussion guide provides coverage of Present a complete stack (with the help of Linux) Hyperion’s products but does not address their marketing and Strategic Finance – provides financial modeling for impact Build maintenance revenues positioning. analyses of alternative strategies. Planning – a Web-based planning, budgeting and Oracle Fusion Middleware Framework: 2) Oracle has repositioned its classic BI tools (Reports and forecasting solution. Discoverer) as the BI Suite Standard Edition; it has renamed System AppServicesSystem Workforce Planning – a special-purpose planning module Applications Siebel Analytics as the BI Suite Enterprise Edition. With the

Identity Mgmt. for headcount, salary and compensation. acquisition of Hyperion, Microsoft Corporation expects that Oracle applications, SAP, R/S, mySAP Financial Management – a Web-based application for Oracle is likely to make some additional revisions. User Interaction global collection, financial consolidation, reporting, and

Portals, Content, Search, Desktop, Hyperion Solutions Corporation has strong analytic analysis.

Mobile, VoIP applications, many of which are built on the Hyperion Essbase Performance Scorecard – a balanced scorecard application

Business Intelligence Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) architecture. Hyperion that provides a collaborative tool for score-carding. ETL, Q&A, OLAP, Reports, Alerts, Real Essbase is a traditional multi-dimensional online analytical Time Essbase System 9 - BI Platform Components processing (MOLAP) database engine. On the front end, Integration and Process Mgmt. Admin. Single Provisioning, Directory Hyperion Solutions Corporation offers a traditional Essbase add- Financial Reports (formerly Hyperion Reports) –Designed

Messaging, ESB, BPM, B2B, BAM, MDM System Mgmt. in tool for Microsoft® Office Excel® along with new data for Finance departments and reporting from multi-

Sign On, Identity SignOn, Application Server Developer Tools Developer visualization tools. Hyperion also supplies a full suite of dimensional sources.

SOATools and Framework J2EE, WS-*, Events, Rules reporting tools with the former Brio Software solutions. Interactive Reports (formerly Brio Intelligence) – Grid Infrastructure Provides report creation and ad-hoc query to relational Clusters, Metadata, Registry, Security Hyperion Essbase System 9 (aka Essbase): Currently branded data. Databases as ―Essbase System 9 BI+,‖ Essbase is available in two versions:

Production Reports (formerly Brio SQR) – A developer- Enterprise Analytics, which provides a new Aggregate Storage Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server™, focused report writer for enterprise reports and distribution Sybase option optimized for the handling of sparse dimensions, and to a mass audience. Essbase Analytics, which does not offer the Aggregate Storage Web Analysis (formerly Hyperion Analyzer) – A front-end For additional information on acronyms and components, please see option, but is optimized for financial applications. For vendor OLAP client for dynamic end user analysis on Essbase cubes the Glossary at the end of this discussion guide. information on Essbase from Oracle, consult the Oracle Business or SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW). Intelligence Web page. Oracle Business Strategy: Enterprise Metrics – A centralized metrics library and Provide unified applications vision with MW. engine for business rules and analytical methods.

Microsoft, Active Directory, Excel, PerformancePoint, ProClarity, SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server System are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries/regions. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. This document is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS DOCUMENT.

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Visual Explorer – A data visualization tool for Essbase. Oracle Business Intelligence Applications are pre- Through its applications acquisitions, Oracle DB runs on a packaged data warehouse schemas with pre-built data large number of customer back-end systems (continued) models, pre-built ETL packages, metadata, and dashboards. Oracle has already been recognized—even prior to the Analytic Integration Services – Resembles an ETL (extract, The data warehouse solutions work ―out-of-the-box‖ with Hyperion purchase—for the technology it acquired from transform, and load) and/or data-model tool designed to Oracle’s transactional systems, including Siebel, Oracle E- Siebel. Oracle (and Hyperion) were listed as leaders in bridge the gap between a source system and cube. Business Suite, and PeopleSoft. business intelligence by a leading analyst firm. Master Data Management (MDM) Services – Offers The Oracle BI EE offers a relatively strong heterogeneous Oracle BI EE Architecture services such as synchronization of master data between architecture with unique federation features and includes Essbase cubes. To learn more about BI EE’s architecture, visit Oracle’s Business analytical applications.

Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus Web page. As the current market leader in database revenues, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Microsoft believes Oracle likely has the largest installed base Formerly Siebel Analytics, Oracle’s Business Intelligence Suite Oracle Fusion BI Strategy of data warehouses to market BI to.

Enterprise Edition Plus (BI EE) delivers ad hoc analysis, score- Oracle reports that Oracle Hyperion was a 2006 market Oracle Fusion BI Strategy carding, dashboards, event management, and reporting. This leader in corporate performance management (CPM) suite solution includes: At this time, Microsoft expects Oracle’s BI strategy to remain in according to a leading analyst firm. transition as the Hyperion line of solutions is integrated into Oracle BI Server: A relational OLAP (ROLAP) server that Oracle’s messaging framework. However, Oracle’s goal is to be Oracle Fusion BI Strengths provides analytics data to Siebel Analytics Web and other the leading BI player in the industry and it can be expected to open database connectivity (ODBC)-compliant reporting Strong direct sales and account penetration. execute on the following strategy: tools. The server supports modeling of the underlying data Strong in data for transactional systems. Provide BI infrastructure that integrates Oracle’s many in a three-tier business schema that can be queried by any Easy-to-use reporting that helps to liberate business acquired applications with a focus on utilizing its database- ODBC-compliant reporting tool (though sold and used with divisions from IT. Oracle Answers) and also supports the definition of different installed customer base. Good data access functionality. authentication mechanisms and policies for cache. Oracle BI Provide packaged BI applications to speed/increase Good local language support. Server is similar to Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Analysis customer return on investment (ROI) and differentiate Services, but lacks a MOLAP data store. Oracle from its horizontal BI competitors. Well-regarded solutions (e.g., a leader in leading analyst

Oracle BI Reporting and Publishing: A pixel-perfect report firm’s assessment of business intelligence vendors and a Overall Messaging leader in other analytical applications rankings). generator/formatter similar to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Oracle Fusion Business Intelligence solutions provide: Ready-built analytic applications that automate certain BI Reporting Services. Oracle Interactive Dashboard: A feature offering role and tasks and are sometimes vertical-specific (see figure below). Rich, easy-to-use, and guided analytics that are provided identity-based interactive dashboards that provide charting pervasively to all knowledge workers in the organization. Oracle Fusion BI Challenges and content and data presentation capabilities. Self-service analytics capability that allows IT to off-load

Oracle Answers: A feature providing similar functionality report and dashboard creation to business users. Reconciling multiple BI products into a unified strategy. to Microsoft Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007; it Packaged analytical applications that lead to lower BI development tools vary and some customers may find allows users to create reports and dashboards and supports implementation cost and quicker time-to-market. them to not be sufficiently integrated with other Oracle the suite’s events management functionality. Pervasive Web access to data through easy-to-use interfaces development tools. Oracle BI Publisher (formerly known as Oracle XML that encourage self-service. Publisher): An extensible markup language (XML) publishing May require complex meta-data modeling, even for simple reports. solution which is available as a separate add-on option. It Why Is This Important to Solutions Partners? utilizes a set of familiar desktop tools to allow users to Does not natively support centralized Key Performance create and maintain their own report formats based on By buying Hyperion, Oracle is widely considered by analysts to Indicator (KPI) management. extracts from diverse sources. constitute the second largest BI player in terms of revenue. Oracle Cache does not auto-update when data changes. Oracle Delivers is a subscription-based alert delivery BI assets now include three suites of BI solutions as well as their Multiple ETL technologies are included with analytic engine which closely resembles SQL Server 2005 respective installed bases. applications (e.g., Oracle Warehouse Builder with Oracle Notification Services. Microsoft solutions partners should expect to hear the following EBS, IBM Ascential for PeopleSoft, Informatica for Siebel, claims from or about Oracle Fusion BI:

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etc.). Some customers may find that these do not fit or Integration with SQL Server – SQL Server Analysis Services but a platform that is designed to support future BI operate together as expected or needed. is integrated with SQL Server. solutions (e.g., data warehouse, ETL, and data mining). Multiple reporting and analytics tools are also included Central location for managing KPI – KPI is managed Microsoft BI solutions are also designed to provide with different applications (e.g. EPM for PeopleSoft). centrally, as opposed to spreading it across queries and customers with low acquisition cost. reports. Microsoft BI experience and industry leadership.

Front-end partner ecosystem – Microsoft’s rich Microsoft is noted for its high ability to execute by a leading How to Succeed Against Oracle Fusion BI analyst firm; in addition, according to the April 2007 ecosystem of solutions partners add value to SQL Server Analysis Services (e.g. OutlookSoft, the Infor-acquired Geac findings of The OLAP Report Surv ey: Overall Success Topics team, and others). o In 2006, Microsoft was reported to be a leader in the Use the following general success topics and themes, followed by ―OLAP market‖ with a 31.6% share of sales, with the specific technology-oriented approaches that follow below. Reporting Success Topics Hyperion following at 18.9% prior to its acquisition by Ease of Integration – When demonstrating the Microsoft Identify and segment customer reporting needs in terms of user Oracle; Microsoft has been reported as the leader for BI solution, utilize multiple solutions to demonstrate both communities. Emphasize: each successive year since 2002. the richness of the BI portfolio as well as its interoperability Enterprise reporting for IT – SQL Server 2005 Reporting o Evidence from the same OLAP surveys reportedly and ease of integration (e.g., SQL Server Analysis Services, Services is designed to deliver high-scale reporting for IT indicated increasing disillusionment with Oracle’s Reporting Services, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office organizations ―out-of-the-box.‖ traditional BI offerings although The OLAP Report ® ® SharePoint Server Services, Microsoft ProClarity , etc.). Business user report design – PerformancePoint and finds it too early to tell if the BI tools acquired from Ease of development – Demonstrate the ease of building ProClarity are designed to provide rich BI capability to the Siebel will do better. Microsoft BI solutions in comparison to Oracle. business user. o Average prices have reduced sharply now that References – Discuss the documented success of the many Cost-effectiveness – Reporting Services is included with Microsoft is the largest vendor (though volumes are leading organizations—across a range of vertical SQL Server 2005, which is priced to compete favorably growing more strongly than ever). Many Microsoft industries—that rely on Microsoft BI. Use examples such as with other BI solutions, such as Oracle’s. OLAP sales are being made at the expense of pricier Barnes & Noble, Experian, and Del Monte Foods, (See Open architecture – SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services alternatives, and there is evidence of a slowdown in Additional Information section below for additional case several companies’ growth rates from 1999. includes a Web services architecture that is designed to studies, recognition, and awards). allow virtually any tool to publish and consume its reports. o Many companies who buy the low cost Microsoft OLAP Success Topics Development flexibility – Reporting Services is based on OLAP server also expect to pay less for OLAP clients, extensible markup language (XML), allowing its reports to which further drives down average prices. Direct the technical discussion so that it focuses on the be integrated easily in Microsoft Office documents and importance of core investment in an OLAP server and store. o There is evidence Microsoft OLAP sites use much less other add-on solutions. Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and its robust OLAP external consulting on average than users of most architecture are designed to solve problems that Oracle may not Microsoft Value Proposition other OLAP servers do. be able to tackle. For example, SQL Server Analysis Services has Integrated components. SQL Server 2005 is designed to the following specific strengths: The best approach toward succeeding against Oracle is to focus provide strong integration with Microsoft Office Fast, predictable performance – SQL Server Analysis on Microsoft’s anchor strengths: PerformancePoint and Excel to provide BI analysis on the Services is designed to be highly efficient due to its use of TCO Leadership desktop. It has an extensive partner ecosystem and stored aggregations. User Experience Excellence heterogeneous data support. Proactive cache management – SQL Server Analysis Complete Software Stack Low cost of acquisition, development, and deployment. Services Analysis Services can auto-update its cache when Rich Integration and Interoperability Not only is SQL Server 2005 favorably priced, it also includes underlying data changes. Demonstrate the robustness of Flexible and Agile Development Environment ETL, reporting, and analysis capability. It is also designed to Microsoft’s cache management (i.e., auto-updating for Single Platform from Mobile to Data Center integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and underlying data changes). Microsoft’s Management platform. BI-Specific Value Proposition Rich calculations – SQL Server Analysis Services utilizes the Adherence to open standards. SQL Server 2005 supports richness and skills made possible by an industry-standard Microsoft provides strategic end-to-end BI. Microsoft open standards such as extensible markup language for multi-dimensional expression (MDX) language. not only provides strong analysis and reporting solutions,

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analysis (XMLA) through SQL Server Analysis Services and evaluating Microsoft SQL Server and its ability to provide Response: Microsoft works with leading BI solution the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). support for dynamic IT and RDBMS: IDC’s white paper providers to provide strong and economical analytic ) ―Putting Enterprise Information to Work with Microsoft SQL solutions. Solution partners such as OutlookSoft Sales Objection Handling Server 2005‖ set forth the RDBMS requirements necessary Corporation and Infor (formerly Geac) offer real-time for ―dynamic IT,‖ a technology designed to simplify an corporate performance management (CPM) software SQL Server cannot natively connect to ERP systems. enterprise’s IT architecture to help make it more highly powered by the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform. responsive to real-time business needs. In it, IDC also Response: SQL Server 2005 has a connector for SAP R/3 that We’ve heard that Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis reported that SQL Server 2005 delivered support for RDBMS is designed to allow authors to provide reports on top of Services, Reporting Services, and Data Transformation requirements and was well-positioned to meet the needs of SAP. Services (DTS) do not work well with non-Microsoft dynamic IT with its feature-competitive and favorably priced data sources. We don’t believe that Microsoft is a leader in the BI solution. arena. Response: DTS, Reporting Services, and Analysis Services Microsoft is not speaking to my business problem. I are designed to enable consumption of data from non- Response: Microsoft is a strong provider of basic BI need a specific solution for my vertical or horizontal BI Microsoft databases via object linking and embedding solutions, According to a June 2007 IDC competitive solution. database (OLE DB), open database connectivity (ODBC), analysis was the fastest growing among the top five Response: Microsoft is committed to specifically and other .NET data providers. providers of BI solutions in terms of worldwide software understanding each customer’s unique business needs and revenue for the periods 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. In When compared with NCR, Teradata, Oracle, and IBM, is prepared to help resolve complex business problems. The addition, leading analysts, trade publications, and customer Microsoft’s relational data warehousing story is weak Microsoft BI platform is designed to work with an array of organizations confirm that Microsoft BI solutions not only in scalability and performance. partner offerings to help customers quickly deploy each appeal to a large community of Microsoft application Response: Transaction Processing Performance Council solution. developers, but that its pricing, packaging, and integration (TPC) benchmarks show that SQL Server 2005 has scaled with Microsoft Office (including PerformancePoint Server) SQL Server reporting is more developer-focused and past the barrier of 1 million transactions per minute, type and SQL Server solutions comprise an attractive offering to not as friendly for business users. "C" (tpmC), becoming the first to do so on Windows. SQL organizations that have standardized on Microsoft Response: SQL Server 2005 Report Builder is designed to Server 2005 has also demonstrated the best performance information infrastructure. For more information, please see offers comprehensive and easy-to-use functionality for ad on Windows. the IDC Competitive Analysis listed at the end of this guide, hoc queries. Microsoft ProClarity is designed to allow In addition, SQL Server 2005 currently holds various In addition, please see The OLAP Report Web site for further business users to be self-sufficient. performance and price/performance records on the TPC evidence of Microsoft market leadership. We use non-Microsoft databases. How does Microsoft type ―H‖ benchmark: The Microsoft RDBMS can’t scale and is not sufficiently work with them? o In the 100-GB category, SQL Server 2005 has the enterprise-ready to handle complex data volumes. Response: SQL Server 2005 is designed to work in world-record performance of 19,323 QphH (queries Response: Microsoft is enterprise-ready: it’s not only heterogeneous environments and has drivers for accessing per hour/H) at 100GB and price/performance of scalable, but offers strong RDBMS support for ―dynamic IT.‖ data in virtually all standard third-party databases. 10.67 $/QphH at 100GB.

Scalability: The 2005 Winter Corporation TopTen Award I already have a BI Reporting solution. Why should I o In the 300GB category, SQL Server 2005 has the best Winners list, a bi-annual large database survey award, switch? performance on Windows. o In the 1-terabyte category, SQL Server 2005 has the demonstrates that SQL Server databases are not only able to Response: SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is designed best performance on Windows. achieve not only high levels of scale (e.g. 19,467 GB), but to provide customers a productive, dependable, cost- o In the 3-terabyte category, SQL Server 2005 has the that they are well represented among data warehouse (DW) effective, and connected solution that can provide lower best performance on Windows and best and online transactional processing (OLTP) top ten lists— TCO than competing solutions. Customers should ® price/performance overall for non-clustered systems. especially among those running Microsoft Windows . SQL consider whether Microsoft solutions are more economical Server represented 80% of all Windows-based 2005 than Oracle—or other—BI Reporting solutions. What is Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) DW and OLTP category winners; Oracle solutions your BI Reporting cost/TCO? Benchmarks. Note: The above results represent current, represented 20% of the winners in those categories. We do deep financial analytical processing. We heard standing performance benchmarks that were achieved on RDBMS and dynamic IT support: In 2005, a leading analyst that Microsoft is weak in this area. multiple dates via multiple tests of varying configurations. firm prepared a Microsoft-commissioned white paper

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Please see the TPC results for full details, methodologies, Microsoft Success Stories and Customer Evidence Del Monte Foods and test conditions. ―Del Monte Foods Automates Formula Change Process to Reduce Cycle Time by 33 Percent‖ (Posted 02/28/2007) Microsoft is selling a version one reporting solution Barnes and Noble, Inc. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy that is missing key features. ―Bookseller Gains Business Insights across Sales Channels with New Data Warehouse‖ (Posted11/11/2005) id=201119 Response: SQL Server Reporting Services was released in http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy 1-800 CONTACTS January 2003 and has had a major revision in SQL Server id=48839 Contact Lens Provider Has Clearer Vision of Business with New 2005, now supported by Service Pack 2. PREMIER Bankcard Inc. Data Warehouse Posted: 11/05/2006 Additional Information ―Credit Card Company Deploys Extensible 4-Terabyte Solution http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy for Mission-Critical Data‖ (Posted: 11/29/2004) id=200100 Key Resources and Sites http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy id=53363 Microsoft Business Intelligence Web site: Sources and References www.microsoft.com/bi HMC, Health Management Corporation

―WellPoint HMC Improves Patient Care with 6-Terabyte SQL Oracle: ―ORACLE REPORTS Q4 GAAP EPS UP 27% TO 31 SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Web site: Server 2005 Data Warehouse‖ (Posted 11/03/2006) CENTS, NON-GAAP EPS UP 28% TO 37 CENTS‖ (6/26/07) http://www.microsoft.com/sql/solutions/bi/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy http://www.oracle.com/corporate/investor_relations/earnings/4q0 Awards and Leadership id=200088

7-pressrelease-june.pdf Microsoft is identified as leader in OLAP according to The TDC OLAP Report. ―Denmark Telecom Leader Slashes Costs with 6 Terabyte Data BEA: ―BEA Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Results‖ Warehouse on SQL Server 2005‖ (Posted11/08/2006) Microsoft is a leading vendor of BI solutions and the was (2/22/07) http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy the fastest growing among the top five vendors in terms of http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/BEAS/178562551x0x8264 id=200154 4/415c7f1d-cf17-4d11-ae9f- worldwide software revenue for the period of 2004-2006 according to IDC. Clalit Health Services b4d10b473437/Q4%2007%20earnings%20release%20final.pdf Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Helps Clalit Preserve Oracle: ―Oracle Portal‖ (Web site) Glossary and Definitions Health and Save Lives‖ (Posted11/03/2005) http://www.oracle.com/appserver/portal_home.html http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy

CLI: Common Language Infrastructure id=49173 Oracle: ‖WebCenter‖ (Web site) EPM: Enterprise Program Management EXPERIAN http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/webcenter.html Information Provider Speeds Data Process 500 Percent, Gives ETL: Extract, Transform, and Load Customers Greater Insight (Posted10/27/2005) JDBC: Java Database Connectivity Oracle | Hyperion Web site http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol http://www.hyperion.com/ id=49130 MDX: Multi-Dimensional Expression ODBC: Open Database Communication CROSSMARK Oracle: ―Complete, Integrated BI for SMBs: Oracle Unveils OLAP: Online Analytical Processing ―Three Terabyte Data Warehouse Set for Growth with SQL Business Intelligence Standard Edition One‖ (Web site) OLE: Object Loading and Embedding Server 2005‖ (Posted11/06/2005) http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/index.html http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy OLTP: Online Transaction Processing Oracle: ―Oracle Business Intelligence Suite—Enterprise id=49191 RDBMS: Relational Database Management System Edition Plus‖ (Web site) SOAD: Service-Oriented Analysis and Design TUV NORD Group http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business- SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol ―Global Certification Group Improves Safety and Quality Audit intelligence/enterprise-edition.html Efficiency by 20 Percent‖ (Posted 03/09/2007) SQL: Sequential Query Language http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudy VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol id=201165 (continued)

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Oracle: Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition (Web http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/d/56dc68b4- site) 18a5-4b48-847e-7b4bd91e1dd9/ReportBuilder_Final.pdf http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/standard- Microsoft: ―Microsoft Business Intelligence Products: edition.html ProClarity analytics‖ (Web site) http://www.microsoft.com/bi/products/ProClarity/proclarity- Oracle | Hyperion: ―Essbase Analytics‖ (Web site) overview.aspx http://www.hyperion.com/products/resource_library/product_coll ateral/Essbase-Enterprise_Analytics.pdf Microsoft: ―Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services‖ (Web site) Oracle | Hyperion: ―Essbase Enterprise Analytics‖ (Web site) http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/reporting/default.ms http://dev.hyperion.com/products/s9_enterprise_analytics/ px

Oracle | Hyperion: ―Business Intelligence‖ (Web site) OutlookSoft Corporation: ―Company Overview‖ (Web site) http://www.hyperion.com/products/business_intelligence/ http://www.outlooksoft.com/us/company/

Oracle: Siebel Web site Infor Global Solutions Web site http://www.oracle.com/siebel/index.html http://www.geac.com/page/default_CORP.html

Oracle: ―Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus‖ Microsoft: ―TPC-C and TPC-H Benchmark Results for SQL (Web site) Server‖ (5/21/07) http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/enterprise- http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/compare/tpcc.mspx edition.html Oracle: ―Oracle’s Hyperion Named Worldwide Market Share Oracle : ―Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation and Tools‖ Leader in Corporate Performance Management Suites by (Web site) Leading Analyst Firm‖ (8/23/07) http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business- http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_aug/cpm-market- intelligence/index.html share.html

Microsoft: ―Microsoft SQL Server Development Center: The OLAP Report (Web site; Last updated on April 10, 2007) Analysis Services‖ (Web site) http://www.olapreport.com/market.htm http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/Aa336310.aspx IDC: ―Competitive Analysis: ―Worldwide Business IDC: ―Putting Enterprise Information to Work with Microsoft Intelligence Tools 2006 Vendor Shares,‖ Document No. SQL Server 2005,‖ Document No. IDCUS05P002297] (9/05) 207422 (June 2007) http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/put-info-to- http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/4/D/14DAC5A3- work.mspx 134B-42BE-B508- 1165A6B65AB1/IDC%20Worldwide%20BI%20Vendor%20Shares% Winter Corporation: ―2005 TopTen Award Winners‖ (Web 202006%20June%202007.pdf site) http://www.wintercorp.com/VLDB/2005_TopTen_Survey/TopTen Winners_2005.asp

Microsoft: ―Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services : Report Builder‖(Web site)

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