Preface

The Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite is a complete, open, and integrated solution for all enterprise business intelligence needs, including reporting, ad hoc queries, OLAP, dashboards, scorecards, and what-if analysis. The Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite includes Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) is a comprehensive set of enterprise business intelligence tools and infrastructure, including a scalable and efficient query and analysis server, an ad-hoc query and analysis tool, interactive dashboards, proactive intelligence and alerts, and an enterprise reporting engine.

The components of Oracle BI EE share a common service-oriented architecture, data access services, analytic and calculation infrastructure, metadata management services, semantic business model, security model and user preferences, and administration tools. Oracle BI EE provides scalability and performance with data-source specific optimized request generation, optimized data access, advanced calculation, intelligent caching services, and clustering.

This guide contains information about installing and administering the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine. The guide includes topics on installing, upgrading, and maintaining the Exalytics Machine.

Audience

This document is intended for installation engineers and middle-tier administrators who are responsible for managing Oracle Business Intelligence processes, upgrading, and installing.

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) documentation set:

• The Oracle Business Intelligence chapter in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Release Notes for your platform

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence

• Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Metadata Repository Builder's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

• Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: