Oracle BIEE 11g – Comments on the Release
Oracle released their latest Business Intelligence platform a few days ago. To me the most interesting parts of the offering, in terms of raising the bar for BI solutions are:
- Insight driven actions – makes it easier for users to take action based on information. I can picture a user drilling down into reports, seeing a potential issue with number of service calls at a particular customer and clicking a button to get an account service manager to call in. Or clicking a button to deny further credit to a customer who has missed payments.
- My opinion: Cool, but what if the process changes? Also, I can see this would be only marginally quicker than switching windows to the CRM and making the change there. Am I missing something?
- Business Process Optimization – BIEE integrates with Oracle BEPL Process Manager. I’m not really familiar with this piece, but I gather one use case example is: the solution can notice a large order coming in, notify the account rep and check inventory. If you set it up right.
- Anyone have insight as to how BIEE adds value to the BEPL Process Manager? i.e. can the BEPL Process Manager not do this on its own?
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-IainR
Sr. Marketing Manager – The BI Builders