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Oracle BI 12c Release
Top Ten Value Points

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BI 12c Top Ten
The Best of All Worlds Friendly for the Business and IT

1. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

2. Get Higher ROI for IT
3. Get Higher ROI for the Business
4. Take Analytics to the Next Level
5. Make Everything Mobile
6. Access More Data
7. Make Everything Faster
8. Seamlessly Upgrade Existing BI Projects to 12c
9. Use the Same Software in the Cloud and On Premises
10. Deliver Self-Service Discovery without Compromise

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Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
OBIEE Download
Oracle BI download compared with 11g 50% smaller
Installation and Deployment
Creation of OBI 12g domain, when compared to 11g on an Exalytics Server 25% faster
Scale-out install of OBIEE
For high availability compared with 11g 30% fewer steps
Restarts required for OBIEE configuration
All system and application configuration can be done offline - 11g required 3 restarts 0
SSL Configuration
Scripts available for SSL configuration 50% fewer steps
Scripts for Automation
Instance management, clone, diagnostics, import/export, etc. 12 new scripts
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Get Higher ROI for IT
Compelling Lifecycle Improvements and Optimizations

Simpler and quicker to install and deploy

Easier to secure, easier to maintain
Seamless conversion to high availability for easier
production deployments
Significantly streamlined operations via a single BI
Application Archive file that captures RPD, web
catalog, and security policies & dependencies
Support for Layered Customizations and Hot
Patching of Metadata

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Get Higher ROI for the Business
Enhanced Usability and User Experience

New Oracle Alta design that focuses on data and

is consistent across Oracle products
Improved look-and-feel for Answers, Dashboards
and BI Home Page
Searching and sorting within Subject Area pane
HTML-5 view rendering
New Heat Matrix view type
Direct interaction within results

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Take Analytics to the Next Level
Advanced Analytics Capabilities Built Into Oracle BI

Instantly answer predictive and statistical questions

A variety of pre-built functions via Expression Editor
Reference Line, Trend Line, Bin/Histogram, Forecast, Clustering,
Outliers and Regression Analysis
Easily add new functions without heavy IT or RPD changes
Risk Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Google Analytics Integration,
Sentiment Analysis, Market Basket Analysis, and many more
Choose from 100s of packages available for free, or write custom
R code to extend analytics

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Make Everything Mobile

Connect to BI Cloud Service and 12c with a single

Mobile App
Superior security through Oracle Mobile Security
Suite
Fully redesigned iOS user interface
Support rich sharing use cases with deep
integration into native OS frameworks
Additional group and collaboration features
Alerts in notification center
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Access More Data

EPM Data Sources

Full-fidelity reporting
Single sign-on support
Cloudera Impala
Optimized query support
Spark
Native Spark SQL generation
Caching on Spark

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Make Everything Faster
Sophisticated In-Memory Processing

In-Memory Computing In-Memory Databases, Offloading Computing to

in OBIEE Oracle DB and Essbase Spark

Faster rollups, faster sorting, Certified with Oracle Database 12c Spark as an in-memory cache
in-memory compression, etc. In-Memory Option for BI server
Extensive in-memory (not in 12.2.1)
enhancements in Essbase

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Seamlessly Upgrade Existing BI Projects to 12c
Radically Simple and Robust Upgrade from 11g

Move a single file from 11g to upgrade existing

applications to 12c
Automated testing via free Baseline Validation
Tool
Works across 11g and 12c
Enables verification of data, catalog, logical queries,
reports and dashboards
Can be used for future 12c upgrades

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Use the Same Software in the Cloud and On Premises
Oracle 12c platform underpins all Oracle BI distributions

Improves interoperability between products & releases

Oracle Cloud Service
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
Oracle Fusion Applications
Oracle BI Applications
New features available to all users more quickly
regardless of product used
Improved product quality and performance due to
variety of use, expanded adoption, and additional testing

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Deliver Self-Service Discovery without Compromise
Oracle Data Visualization

Visual Exploration for

Everyone
Rich Data Mash-ups
Quick Answers to Quick
Questions
Data Discovery on the Go

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