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 System App Services Workforce Planning – a special-purpose planning module Applications Siebel Analytics as the BI Suite Enterprise Edition. With the Identity Mgmt. Mgmt. Identity 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 Directory Provisioning, Hyperion Solutions Corporation offers a traditional Essbase add- Financial Reports (formerly Hyperion Reports) –Designed Messaging, ESB, BPM, B2B, BAM, MDM Mgmt. System in tool for Microsoft® Office Excel® along with new data for Finance departments and reporting from multi- Sign On, Identity On,Sign Identity Application Server Developer Tools Developer visualization tools. Hyperion also supplies a full suite of dimensional sources. SOA Tools 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. Page 1 of 6 Oracle Fusion User Business Intelligence Capability Discussion Guide Last updated: 11/10/07 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