1 What's New in This Release

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications consists of components that were formerly available from Siebel Systems as Siebel Business Analytics Applications (both CRM and Enterprise) with a number of significant enhancements.

The Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Upgrade Guide contains information about upgrading to Oracle Business Intelligence Applications from different versions of Siebel Business Analytics Applications.

Oracle recommends reading the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Release Notes before installing, using, or upgrading Oracle Business Intelligence Applications. The Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Release Notes are available:

• On the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications CD-ROM.

• On the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bi_apps.html

  To register for a free account on the Oracle Technology Network, go to http://www.oracle.com/technology/about/index.html.

1.1 What's New in Oracle BI Applications Upgrade Guide, Release 7.9.4

This section lists changes described in this version of the documentation to support release 7.9.4 of the software.

• Chapter 3, "Upgrading Oracle's Siebel Analytics Release 7.5.3" was updated .

• Chapter 4, "Upgrading Other Siebel Analytics Releases" was updated.

• Chapter 5, "Upgrading for Siebel CRM Applications" was added.

• Chapter 6, "Upgrading Older Releases for Oracle EBS" was added.

• Chapter 7, "Upgrading for Oracle EBS and PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications" was added.

• Chapter A, "Upgrading the Oracle BI Repository for Pharma Analytics" was added.