Introducing Oracle® Business Intelligence Beans

Oracle® Business Intelligence Beans (hereinafter referred to as "BI Beans") consists of a core set of Java components and utilities that enable rapid development of analytical applications. BI Beans applications leverage the capabilities of Oracle OLAP in the Oracle Database. The development process for BI Beans applications is enhanced significantly by the use of Oracle JDeveloper. Using BI Beans, you can develop both HTML-client and Java-client applications.

BI Beans includes the following groups of Java components:

The following visual representation of BI Beans demonstrates these significant points:

Visual display of BI Beans, as described in this topic

If you create the BI Beans objects that you need for an application and save them in the BI Beans Catalog, then you can use these objects in the following kinds of applications: