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Monday, July 14, 2008

BI for the Masses - is here! (BI SE1)

Ever thought what you could get for $5,000? Five thousand dollars? Apart from a year's worth of mortgage payments on my apartment (and that would also change depending on the currency rate fluctuations - mind you my loan is rupee denominated, I am just getting a bit carried away with this analogy), I can think of Oracle Business Intelligence. Yes. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Standard Edition One is now available for download from OTN. Let's just call it BI SE1 and forget for a minute all the branding and marketing people who may get very, very angry with me for messing up with the branding of the product (there are others also who I may piss off, but अब किसे याद रखूँ और किसे भूलूं, आख़िर दुनिया भर का ठेका तो नहीँ लिया है मैने|)।

OK, so BI SE1 is available for download from OTN। I already said that, didn't I? Right. Where can you get it? From the OTN download page, where else? Here.
And just what exactly does this BI SE1 package contain? The kitchen sink, almost.

Oracle Database Standard Edition One (version 10.2)
Oracle Warehouse Builder (core ETL only) (version 10.2)
Oracle Business Intelligence Answers (version 10.1.3.2.1)
Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboard
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
Oracle Business Intelligence Server
Oracle Business Intelligence Server Administrator

Each of these products is best-in-class, mind you. The Oracle Database, of course. Oracle Warehouse Builder is recognized as a leader among ETL tools. And BI Suite Enterprise Edition is a big reason why so many analysts, including Gartner, have recognized Oracle as a leader in BI Platforms. BI Publisher is a world class, performant, scalable, and mighty easy to use enterprise class reporting product. So there!

And what did I mean by the $5000 figure? I was lying, to be truthful. BI SE1 is licensed at $1000 per user, with a minimum of five users. So that means that the actual pricing for the entire kitchen sink is $1000!! But of course you would want to share the wonders of this product with more than just one user, right? Of course you would!

To download the product, go to this link

There are two tiny files that need to be downloaded. How tiny are we talking? Oh, just about 2.9GB (3,073,149,672 bytes to be precise). That shall take some time.

While you wait for these tiny files to download, you may want to check the doc library for this suite. That would be this link.

As you would see, apart from the regular doc on the Oracle Database, Oracle Warehouse Builder, and Oracle BI Publisher, there is one doc introducing BI SE1, and a bunch of tutorials.

Click the 'Getting Started' tab, and there are at least two other links of interest:

Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Install Guide (HTML, PDF)
Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Tutorial (HTML, PDF). The tutorial is a 226 page document that covers all topics you would expect, like how to setup the tutorial data mart, the BI repository, how to analyze data, publish reports, create Dashboards)

Hyperion products now available for download

Firstly, if you want to try out the Hyperion BI products, you can do so by going to http://edelivery.oracle.com/ and select "Hyperion Performance Management and BI" from the "Product Pack" dropdown. This then results in the following products that are available to download:

Hyperion Performance Management and BI (9.3.x)
Hyperion Performance Management and BI (9.2.x)
Hyperion Enterprise Release (6.4.1)
Hyperion Business Modeling (4.0.5)
Hyperion Application Link (9.x) Media Pack

You can download individual product components where available, a license key, and also the product documentation - which is a good place to begin.

Secondly, to view a brief description of what these products are, at least at the 'platform' level, go to this page on OTN: Oracle Business Intelligence Platform Home. You shall find the following four Hyperion products listed as part of "Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus"

Interactive Reporting : Intuitive and highly interactive ad-hoc reporting
SQR Production Reporting : High volume, presentation-quality formatted report generation
Hyperion Financial Reporting : Formatted, book-quality financial and management reporting
Hyperion Web Analysis : Web-based online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis, presentation, and reporting

Thirdly, the Hyperion products are now also listed on the Oracle price-list. The BI Suite EE has been renamed to BI Suite EE Plus (yeah... three cheers for branding).

Wow... three factoids in one post. I must be on a roll here...

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Anonymous said...

I noticed that on Oracle technology network, a developer can download the software with Development License.
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Is there a place where a developer can download the Hyperion products with "Development License" to evaluate/learn the products or even prepare for certification?
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The reason I am asking is that the 30-day trial period on e-delivery website is barely enough for something as complex as Hyperion products. It takes a while to install/configure them!! Most existing Hyperion customers have only a few products licensed and in the past, Hyperion made it very difficult for developers of those customers to get a trial license (you had to go through sales team to get trial software who wouldn't help you unless they saw immediate money). If there was a development license for Hyperion products, I am sure many of the developers of existing customers would try out some of the remaining products that they don't currently have license for and recommend them to the business users. It would be fine if the development license terms restricted use by the individual developer for non-production use Only (there are paid Hyperion developer tools such as Dashboard Architect, studio, etc. that must still be paid for if used in production environment and any development done with Development License can not be installed in production unless a paid license has also been acquired).

Note: This individual developer "development license" would be different from the "paid development environment" license which is where the development team does the development before installing it to the "paid production environment".
(hopefully it is not too confusing)

The short answer to this question is that once software is available from OTN for download, there **should** not be any license requirement.

Oracle software - all of it - comes without any timed licenses, or trial licenses that lock you out of the product or restrict you to limited functionality after x number of days. If you take the case of Siebel Business Analytics, which became Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (with some products like Oracle BI Publisher joining this suite, which in turn came from the Oracle Applications side of the company and went by the very exciting name of XML Publisher), it also had a license key that was required to install and use the different products therein, like Answers, Dashboards, Disconnected, etc... It took some time to take out the license key requirements from the product, and when Oracle released Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.2 (aka code name of 'Maui'), it had no license key restrictions. BI EE 10.1.3.2.1 does not have a license key, nor will 10.1.3.3.0 (due very soon), or other releases.

I totally agree that a 30 day license is probably not enough to install, use, and learn the product family - I would prefer 90 days, and Hyperion does have many products that do not exactly fall in the 'Notepad' variety of easy-to-install-and-learn products (Planning, budgeting, financial performance management, etc...).

At this point I don't really have an answer - what you could try is to download and install the products with the 30 day license, and after the 30 day period try and obtain a new 30 day license file and see if that works.

Note that please do not take this as 'legal' advice from Oracle. This is my personal 2 cents (or चार आने char anne in my lingo).

Oracle Database 11g on Linux now available

For those keeping track, Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6.0) - Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, and Enterprise Edition - became avialable for download from OTN. You can download it from this link - a 1.7GB single zip file. Also see Keith's previous post - 11g OLAP – Hot Pluggable Performance Booster… and Oracle Extends Its Lead in the DW Platform Tools M...

10.1.3.3 is now available

BI EE 10.1.3.3.0 is now available for download from OTN, and should also become available on eDelivery very soon. Also releasing with BI EE 10.1.3.3.0 is the standalone version of BI Publisher 10.1.3.3.0 as well as BI Applications version 7.9.3 ("Oracle Business Intelligence Applications").

See my earlier post - Go vote! - now one can quibble whether BI EE 10.1.3.3.0 did in fact release before Aug 14 or not, because it did go RTM on Aug 14, but it takes a few days for it become available on OTN for download. But anyway...

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.3.0 is the next (semi) major release for BI EE after the release of BI EE 10.1.3.2 that happened in January this year (see posts on 10.1.3.2). BI EE 10.1.3.2.1 released in April (see posts on 10.1.3.2.1), but it was a point release with support for some additional platforms , languages, and some targeted bug fixes. BI Standard Edition One was the other big news in the world of Oracle BI (see posts on BI SE1). While this - 10.1.3.3.0 - is not as big a new release as 10.1.3.2 was, which had more than 200 new features, 10.1.3.3 is still a big enough release to warrant a celebration (or not... depending on which side of the competitive fence you are on). In brief, some of the new features in 10.1.3.3.0 are (and I am reproducing verbatim from the new features doc):

"Oracle BI Answers-Based Metadata Dictionary Feature"
"Multi-Select Dashboard Prompts Feature"
"Office Integration with BI Dashboard Feature"
"Dashboard Link Types Feature"
"Import Oracle Catalog Feature"
"Embedded Database Functions Feature"
"Drag and Drop XMLA Metadata Objects Feature"

"Oracle BI Publisher Template Builder Enhancements"
"Flash Templates for Oracle BI Publisher"
"Oracle BI Publisher PowerPoint Output"
"Oracle BI Publisher Integration with Oracle BI Discoverer"
"Performance Improvements for Oracle BI Publisher"
"Converting Reports from Oracle Reports to Oracle BI Publisher"
"Support for Digital Signature in PDF Documents"
"Support for Postscript Printers"

"Installing Oracle Business Intelligence for Microsoft Office"
"Microsoft Office Support"

In particular, I would like to call out attention to these features:

Microsoft Office Integration: there are snazzy new Excel and PowerPoint Add-ins that access BI Presentation Server based requests, there is the ability to copy and paste BI views from Answers or Dashboards into Office documents, the ability to generate PowerPoint output from Answers views, and support for PowerPoint (.ppt) as an output format for BI Publisher.
Integration between BI Publisher and Discoverer: which I think every Discoverer customer shall be delighted with, as it brings to Discoverer customers the ability to create hi-fidelity layouts from your existing Discoverer worksheets (relational as well as OLAP), and lots more.
The ability to create interactive, nice looking, offline capable Flash dashboards using the Flex builder, and populate them with data supplied by BI Publisher. Flash therefore becomes an output format supported by BI Publisher, with all the attendant benefits.
For those more interested in the server side of things, one feature that you will like is the ability to drag and drop XMLA metadata objects in the Admin Tool.

Some useful links:

Download the software - home page (the page URL actually says 101320bi :-)
Download BI EE 10.1.3.3 for Windows, Linux (1.3 GB downloads, and you also get downloads for Solaris - SPARC, HP - Itanium and PA-RISC, and IBM - AIX5L)
Download BI Publisher 10.1.3.3 (Standalone version) for Windows, Linux (the download sizes vary from 700MB - 950 MB depending on the platform you choose to download for).
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Documentation - home page
Download the doc library for BI EE 10.1.3.3 (19 MB Zip file)
View the doc library for BI EE 10.1.3.3 (HTML Welcome page)
New Features Guide (HTML or download the PDF)
System Requirements and Supported Platforms (PDF)

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

BI EE 10gR3 - Go Get the software oracle

From the Oracle downloads page, click on "Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition" in the "Middleware" section, accept the "Oracle Technology Network Developer License Terms", and you shall be on your way to downloading the product software. The software is available on "Microsoft Windows" and Linux (x86 Red Hat Linux / Oracle Enterprise Linux, and x86 SUSE) initially, with Solaris, HP, IBM ports expected shortly.
The download takes up 2 CDs - 1.1GB, and includes the following:
# Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition
# Business Intelligence Disconnected
# Business Intelligence Server Administrator
# Business Intelligence Server Enterprise Edition
# Option: Answers
# Option: Delivers
# Option: Interactive Dashboards
# Option: Office Plug-in
# Option: Reporting and Publishing (This is the same as Oracle BI Publisher, v 10.1.3.2.0)
# OC4J Standalone zip file

Oracle BI Publisher is also available as a standalone product, and includes Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise and Oracle BI Publisher Desktop.

I have been running the same software as is now available on OTN, and it is absolutely great :-)

BI EE 7.8.5.2 also available oracle

In addition to the big news that Oracle BI EE 10gR3 is now available - which has been known for some time internally and externally by the code name of "Maui" - existing customers can also download the 7.8.5.2 patch from Oracle's eDelivery site.

On the "Media Pack Search" page select "Oracle Business Intelligence" from the first dropdown, and the platform from the second list.
You should get two search results; the second one is the one you need to click on if Siebel Business Analytics 7.8.5.2 is what you are interested in.

You have to agree to some Export validation T&Cs.
Different components are listed in the Media Pack - select some or all as you need.

BI EE 10.1.3.2.1 is now available oracle

Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition 10gR3, version 10.1.3.2.1 (yep - 5 digits in all... say that fast without biting your tongue) is now available for download from OTN.

What's new there? In brief:
- Support for HP UX, Solaris, and IBM AIX, both 32 and 64 bit versions.
- Certification for the Sun Java System Web Server, IBM Tivoli, & CA eTrust Siteminder SSO Servers.
- Support for other of identity management products including Novell Identity Manager, IBM Tivoli Identity Management

Download from Oracle Business Intelligence (10.1.3.x) Downloads
Get the doc from Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Documentation

BI for the Masses - is here! (BI SE1) oracle

Oracle Database Standard Edition One (version 10.2)
Oracle Warehouse Builder (core ETL only) (version 10.2)
Oracle Business Intelligence Answers (version 10.1.3.2.1)
Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboard
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
Oracle Business Intelligence Server
Oracle Business Intelligence Server Administrator

There are two tiny files that need to be downloaded. How tiny are we talking? Oh, just about 2.9GB (3,073,149,672 bytes to be precise). That shall take some time.

While you wait for these tiny files to download, you may want to check the doc library for this suite. That would be this link.

As you would see, apart from the regular doc on the Oracle Database, Oracle Warehouse Builder, and Oracle BI Publisher, there is one doc introducing BI SE1, and a bunch of tutorials.

Click the 'Getting Started' tab, and there are at least two other links of interest:

Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Install Guide (HTML, PDF)
Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Tutorial (HTML, PDF). The tutorial is a 226 page document that covers all topics you would expect, like how to setup the tutorial data mart, the BI repository, how to analyze data, publish reports, create Dashboards)

Hyperion products now available for download oracle

Hyperion Performance Management and BI (9.3.x)
Hyperion Performance Management and BI (9.2.x)
Hyperion Enterprise Release (6.4.1)
Hyperion Business Modeling (4.0.5)
Hyperion Application Link (9.x) Media Pack

Interactive Reporting : Intuitive and highly interactive ad-hoc reporting
SQR Production Reporting : High volume, presentation-quality formatted report generation
Hyperion Financial Reporting : Formatted, book-quality financial and management reporting
Hyperion Web Analysis : Web-based online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis, presentation, and reporting

Sunday, June 15, 2008

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