Oracle9i Business Intelligence Beans (BI Beans) is an integrated component of Oracle9i JDeveloper that provides a set of reusable application components and services enabling the rapid development of business intelligence applications.

BI Beans leverages Oracle9i OLAP to provide complex analytic functionality in applications by supplying analytically-aware application building blocks.

BI Beans comprises standard JavaBean components and utilities that can be used in any Java development environment. Because BI Beans fits seamlessly into the IDE of JDeveloper, using BI Beans within JDeveloper provides a highly productive development environment for analytical applications.

In JDeveloper, wizards guide you through the process of creating BI objects as well as the application logic that manipulates those objects. You can create a variety of BI objects, including graphs, tables, crosstabs, queries, and calculations. A live data connection to the database at design time allows you to visually create a data presentation, query, or calculation, and then view the results without having to compile and run the application. To facilitate the development of an application, code generation wizards are provided to build ad hoc query and analysis applications for both Java and HTML clients. A custom JSP tag library makes it easy to embed BI objects into JSPs.

Applications built with BI Beans can be deployed as Java client applications or applets, or as HTML clients using servlets and JSPs. Because these applications leverage the BI Beans Catalog, they provide a secure and collaborative environment for sharing end user analyses.

With BI Beans you can: