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Oracle Business Intelligence Product Licensing

Oracle Business Intelligence has the following licensed products.

Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure

The Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure is a set of servers, programs, and tools used to build Oracle Business Intelligence applications. Using the Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure, you can develop your own integrated business intelligence application solution. The components that make up the Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure are described in Table 1.

Table 1. Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Components
Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Components

Oracle Business Intelligence Server

Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services

Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler

Related component programs:

  • Oracle Business Intelligence Administration Tool
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Catalog Manager
  • Oracle Business Intelligence ODBC Client
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Client Tools

The following documentation is applicable to the Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure:

  • Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide. This guide provides information about the installation and configuration of the Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure.
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Administration Guide. This guide provides post-installation configuration and administration procedures for Oracle BI Answers, Oracle BI Delivers, Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards, the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, and Oracle BI Server.
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Server Administration Guide. This guide provides information about administration of the Oracle BI Server, Oracle BI repository files, and Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics.

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications are prebuilt business intelligence solutions.

You must install the Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure before you install Oracle Business Intelligence Applications.

Oracle Business Intelligence applications support Siebel (CRM) and Oracle E-Business Suite applications, such as Oracle's Siebel Sales, Oracle's Siebel Service, and Oracle's Siebel Marketing. If you already own one of the Siebel (CRM) or Oracle E-Business Suite applications, you can purchase Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications to work with the application.

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications also provides complete support for enterprise data, including financial, supply chain, and workforce sources. These enterprise applications typically source from both Oracle data sources (such as E-Business Suite and Peoplesoft) and non-Oracle data sources (such as SAP).

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications consist of the components shown in Table 2.

Table 2. Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Components
Component
Description

DAC metadata repository files

This content includes repository objects such as tables, subject areas, execution plans, and tasks, and is contained in XML files.

Embedded Informatica ETL Tool

This is a third-party application that performs the extract, transform, and load operations for the Data Warehouse.

Prebuilt Informatica content

This content includes Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) repository objects, such as mappings, sessions, and workflows, and is contained in the Informatica repository file (Oracle_BI_DW_Base.rep).

Prebuilt metadata content

This metadata content is contained in the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications repository file (OracleBIAnalyticsApps.rpd).

Prebuilt reports and dashboard content

This content is contained in the Oracle BI Presentation Services Catalog.

Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse

The prebuilt data warehouse that holds data extracted, transformed, and loaded from the transactional database.

For more information about managing your data using the Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Administration Console, see Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Administration Console Guide.

  
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