New Features for Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile Users

This preface describes new features and upgrade considerations in Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile 11g Release 1 (11.1.1).

This preface contains the following topics:

• "New Features for Oracle BI Mobile 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6)"

• "New Features for Oracle BI Mobile 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5)"

• "Backward Compatibility of Oracle BI Mobile 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6)"

New Features for Oracle BI Mobile 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6)

There are no new features for Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile in Release 11.1.1.6.0.

New Features for Oracle BI Mobile 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5)

Release 11.1.1.5 of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition introduces Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile. Oracle BI Mobile includes many new features, including the following highlights:

• Platform support for the Apple iPhone and the Apple iPad.

• Your BI EE content is available for immediate consumption on your mobile device, optimized for mobile viewing without the need to redesign any content.

• Support for the following BI EE objects: dashboards, analyses, BI Publisher reports, agent-resultant reports, and scorecards.

• In analyses and dashboards, the Oracle BI Mobile application provides all analytic actions (such as drill, action link, prompts, and so on).

• For BI Publisher, the actions supported match those of the desktop (based on output type).

• In scorecards, the Oracle BI Mobile application provides a subset of actions.

Backward Compatibility of Oracle BI Mobile 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6)

Release 11.1.1.6 of Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile is backward compatible with Release 11.1.1.5.x of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. The 11.1.1.6 BI Mobile application available from the Apple iTunes App Store works with 11.1.1.5 servers and also with 11.1.1.6 servers.