Oracle's experience in Internet Technologies is undoubted. Thereupon, the requirements from Business Intelligence suite by this vendor have been leveraged to the maximum. Oracle Business Intelligence managed to address all of them with a broad set of capabilities.

Oracle Business Intelligence is one of the most common BI suites, these days. Additionally, Oracle advertises themselves to be the first business analytics vendor. Regardless of statistical data, the name of "first among equals" is what Oracle actually deserves. By turning its Business Intelligence solution complete, open, and integrated, Oracle proved that its products deserve some special attention while choosing the vendor to deliver the organization IT system.

In a very few words, Oracle Business Intelligence provides business users with multiple and differentiated capabilities for reporting, ad hoc querying, analyzing, dashboarding, and scorecarding. These are indispensable elements in every Business Intelligence suite and - simultaneously - the ones which suite's performance depends on. To keep the performance (and, at once, business users' comfort) on the highest possible level, Oracle offer a broad set of visualization capabilities so that the users could quickly adjust the look they prefer at most. If followed with embedded search capabilities, it lets business users get quickly to information they need and - therefore - to the logical bases of decision they have to make.

Another element which boosts performance are collaboration functions. Within Oracle Business Intelligence suite, many users across the organization may work on the same data at the same time without interrupting each other. Additionally, they can quickly swap information or spread the results of their searches thank to broadened communication capabilities.

It often is impossible to predict the best time to introduce changes, thereupon business users of Oracle's solution may be provided with mobile access to the platform. Thank to that, they can quickly check what's going on through their iPhone, for instance. From the other point of view, easiness of use is guaranteed with integration to Microsoft Office suite's products which most of business users know very well. As a consequence, they don't need to learn any new specific interfaces but work within the environment which most of them consider friendly and easily understandable.

In its core, Oracle Business Intelligence solution is delivered with quite a wide set of different BI and Performance Management applications and products. What's important, the suite is very well prepared for integration with external middleware and environments of totally different types. As a result, it's not a problem to access quickly all data types - relational data, OLAP, and data from unstructured data sources.

Eventually, the quality of data is guaranteed thank to integration to different capabilities including security, clustering, metadata, administration, so on and so forth. All these features and capabilities included in one comprehensive Business Intelligence solution have let Oracle take the first place in Gartner's BI Platform Magic Quadrant. That's what only one software vendor could price itself with and the fact that this one is Oracle tells all about the quality of its solutions.

Oracle Business Intelligence resources

http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/business-intelligence/index.html - there is all information about Oracle Business Intelligence collected and sorted, and placed within one website. The vendor provides the visitor with more and more detailed data and - simultaneously - leads to numerous white papers to let him know the solution as a whole better.

http://oraclebi.blogspot.com/ - the blog behind the link represents ones' outside Oracle point of view on Business Intelligence suite. There is a lot of useful articles which every reader could benefit from. Information applies to the novelties in Oracle BI world, diverse books devoted to Oracle, and plenty of other topics which seem to be worth considering by everyone who's anyhow connected with Business Intelligence as a whole.