Bring the modern, industry-leading capabilities of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) and Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) right to your organization. Long gone the days of real-time data management problems and difficulties in addressing market opportunities, with Oracle Corporation’s OBIEE and OAS, your customers can now determine new insights and create informed decisions, using data visualization projects and self-service features together with the best-in-class enterprise analytics.

Fortunately, both the OBIEE and OAS have a lot to offer; by comparing key features of the two business intelligence software, businesses should be able to determine which best fits their situation. In this article, we’ll highlight both the platform’s key similarities and differences and how they will add value to your business.

OBIEE

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is a multiple server architecture business Intelligence (BI) used in gathering, storing, and analyzing data for business reports, dashboards, and ad hoc analysis. With OBIEE, organizations can change their business model accordingly and enhance their customer relationships. It also helps management implement better decisions, take informed-actions, and provide a more efficient business process. Additionally, OBIEE offers a full range of BI capabilities, including interactive intelligence dashboards, ad hoc analysis, proactive detection, and alerts. The Oracle server BI can access the business data that companies utilized in analyzing relational databases, spreadsheets, flat files, and online analytical processing (OLAP) databases.

OBIEE provides highly interactive dashboards, sophisticated BI management, and in-memory computing to address IT management-related challenges. Key features of the OBIEE that enterprises can utilize:

• Easy to use, lots of wizards, familiar look-and-feel, high awareness, and exposure within the Oracle user community
• Leveraging of Oracle’s built-in calculation, analytic, and PL/SQL functions
• Integration with Oracle database security and E-Business Suite responsibilities, and pre-built E-Business Suite reports and BI metadata layer
• Integration with Oracle Warehouse Builder
• Oracle OLAP access through Discoverer for OLAP
• Lots of functionality around totals, percentages, and other report add-ons
• Fast Analytics
• Big Data, Any Data, From spreadsheets to databases to Hadoop to cloud services, explore any data.
• Smart Dashboards, Combine multiple views of data to get richer insight. Best practices of data visualization are baked right in.
• Update Automatically, Get the freshest data with a live connection to your data or get automatic updates on a schedule you define.
• Share in Seconds, Publish a dashboard with a few clicks to share it live on the web and on mobile devices.

OAS

Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) is an on-premises self-service visualization analytics platform that offers key insights from your data, machine learning capabilities. With  Oracle Analytics Server, your enterprise can utilize sophisticated augmented analytics and world-class data collecting capabilities.

Dessuported Features from OBIEE

OAS is a robust on-prem analytics software and the recently released BI of Oracle Corporation built to supersede the OBIEE. However, that doesn’t mean that they are equipped with all the same features. 

For instance, determining an organization’s strategic management performance metrics is no longer available in OAS – the Scorecard and Strategy Management feature from the OBIEE is desupported in OAS, and future patch updates could remove the said feature entirely. 

In addition, a whole set of OBIEE features are deprecated, which can no longer be available for upgrades and improvement in future patch updates of the OAS:

• Flash Templates
• WebDAV Server Delivery Channel
• Oracle Marketing Segmentation
• Flat Files and XML-based Data Sources
• Session Personalization using System Session Variables
• Database Storage for User Group Memberships
• Act As Another User
• BI Scheduler Job Manager
• Blocking Analyses in Answers

New Features in OAS

Oracle’s latest OAS includes exciting enhanced features and state-of-the-art functionalities in a Data Visualization (DV) tool. A key highlight of OAS’s new features includes the ability to work with local databases and joining them with existing subject areas to develop new reports and the ability to manage data similar in Excel or Tableau Prep.

Additionally, OAS deploys system schemas (RCU) in the database and provides users with new features:

• Natural Language Generator – a feature that enables users to generate explanations to their data and report in 28 different languages.
• Licensing – OBIEE users can upgrade to the latest version of OAS with no additional license cost.
• Data Visualization – a feature that allows users to decipher your organization’s data with intelligent and sophisticated visuals. A big leap in contrast to the DV version available in the latest OBIEE version.
• Data Flows – OAS enables enterprises to clean and transform valuable data via a graphical user interface (GUI) based platform without leaving your analytical platform. OAS also allows users Data Visualization (DV) and Mobile options in which this feature previously comes with additional cost in OBIEE.
• OBIEE VS OAS

It’s important to note that the experience and features of using OBIEE may differ from the upgraded features of the OAS. Both BI utilized similar topology. However, OAS components are provided on a WebLogic domain (incorporating both admin and managed server). The majority of the OBIEE features are mostly still available in the OAS, plus current OBIEE users can upgrade to OAS with no additional license cost. Basically, OAS covers all the existing features in the OBIEE 12.2.1.4 with new and enhanced functionalities that perfectly envisions Oracle corporations’ mission of developing a “100% data literacy” among organizations and allowing users to employ state-of-the-art data science and sophisticated machine learning capabilities in analyzing current and future business trends.

About  Oracle Analytics Cloud

Oracle Analytics Cloud is a secure, scalable, and public cloud service. Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is the cloud version of the OAS. However, OAC is Oracle-managed while OAS is customer-managed. Oracle Analytics Cloud (AOC) is an artificial intelligence (AI) analytics platform that offers key insights from your data and machine learning capabilities. Other distinct features prohibition and configuration due to the different administration management.