Last week’s blog focused on SAP BI, and we felt it prudent to also highlight what’s new with Oracle. Oracle recently announced the release of a cloud-based business intelligence tool branded Oracle BI Cloud. This new offering added an important component to Oracle’s BI tools and extended the benefits of BI to a larger swath of small and mid-sized businesses. In addition to lowering costs and cutting deployment times, the Oracle BI Cloud introduces powerful self-service analytics tools, finally making BI available to more non-technical users. We outline some of the core features below to help you evaluate whether or not BI cloud is relevant to the future of your business.
Easy Data Integration
Actionable insights can’t be gleaned from incomplete data sets. The Oracle BI cloud makes it easy to gather data from multiple sources, load it without having expertise in databases of SQL, and then import data from web sources and SaaS applications on an ongoing basis. Building and maintaining the foundation of your business intelligence is streamlined and simplified.
Powerful Data Management
Generating relevant insights is much easier thanks to the data management tools built in to the Oracle BI Cloud. Users can verify that data types match up and quickly make corrections if necessary. They also can connect different data sets according to their own specifications and use a menu of pre-built analytic tools to extract the insights from the data. Previously, these capabilities would have been beyond the capabilities of the average user.
Refined Data Presentation
It’s too easy for essential insights to get lost in a sea of numbers. The Oracle BI Cloud offers an agile analytics platform that can be customized using smart defaults and drag-and-drop compositions. Data then can be viewed through a variety of visualizations according to the user’s preferences or recommendations made by the application.
Mobile Data Access
The cloud configuration of this solution enables on-the-go access and easy distribution of insights. Users throughout an enterprise can work with the same tools and the same data no matter where they are located or what they are doing. That kind of flexibility and agility enhances the overall utility of business intelligence significantly.
User Centricity
The most transformative feature of the Oracle BI cloud is the way it enables self-service analytics and gives the user meaningful levels of control. BI has traditionally flowed outwards from IT departments, but now that any user can quickly learn this platform, easily use it to the fullest, and customize it to meet their specific needs, BI becomes responsive to the users who need it most.
Oracle BI is undergoing an exciting evolution and charting a course for the future of data-driven analytics. If you would like to learn more about Oracle BI, contact your representative at Resolute Technologies.