New Release of OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 is Available for BI Enterprise

Posted on by Navneet Goel

Oracle OBIEE, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Value Chain Planning, The new release of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, Release 11.1.1.7, features more than two hundred enhancements, designed to add new functionality, improve performance, and deliver an enhanced end-user experience. Some of the major new features and enhancements are:

  • New visualizations and user-interactions including Performance Tile, Waterfall, and 100 percent stacked bar graphs. Breadcrumbs provide contextual awareness and navigation. Users can now anchor the header for tables or pivot views using the “Freeze Header” feature, which is also available on the BI Mobile app via the scroll gesture.
  • New Visualization Suggestion Engine helps business users select the chart type best suited for the display of current data and the analysis task they wish to perform— “Comparing Values”, “Analyzing Trends”, “Comparing Percentages”, etc. An algorithmic engine evaluates data types and the cardinality of the result set to recommend the most optimal visualization.
  • New Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office Integration – The Smart View 11.1.2.2 Add-in replaces the Oracle BI Office Add-in as the primary Office application for Oracle BI Foundation. Both are still available with OBI 11.1.1.7. Users now can access the Oracle BI Foundation Catalog in Smart View, add dashboards and analyses, create new analyses from scratch, in Excel, and save them as either Excel worksheets or back in the Oracle BI Foundation Catalog.
  • BI Mobile Enhancements – All new 11.1.1.7 visualizations are touch enabled and support gestural interactions. Double-tap on a view renders it in full-screen mode. Enhancements to email settings now allow users to email attachments in the PDF format also.
  • Tighter OBI-BI Publisher Integration – Translate OBI Dashboards to BI Publisher layouts automatically. Use multiple templates to allow pixel-perfect printing of dashboards. BI Publisher can now directly access subject areas in the Oracle BI Foundation Catalog, removing the need to create separate BIP data models.
  • BI Publisher Enhancements – Report Wizard enhancements, Layout Editor Extensions for Interactive Viewer, improved Data Model Editor usability, and private JDBC connections are now supported. XML and CSV formats can now be configured as “local sources”. Integration with enterprise applications has been enhanced with the ability to convert an EBusiness Suite catalog to BI Publisher. E-Business Suite Flex Fields are now supported as BI Publisher Report parameters.
  • Advanced and Predictive Analytics – OBI Dashboards and prompts can run Oracle R for Enterprise (ORE) scripts that perform complicated statistical analyses, and Oracle Data Mining algorithms and cluster analysis, and visualize the data set as interactive images embedded in Dashboards.
  • Big Data integration to Apache Hadoop as a data source – The BI Server is now able to generate Hive query language commands to query federated Hadoop data sources.

OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 is available to download from the Oracle Technology Network and the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

For more information, visit the Oracle website to read more about Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise, or to download their datasheet.

Navneet Goel | Key Contributor

Navneet Goel is a Managing Partner and Executive Vice President of Inspirage. He is responsible for managing and growing the Value Chain Practice. Navneet is a leading expert in the field of supply chain management with experience in design, development, implementation, and support of large-scale global supply chain solutions for Global Fortune 500 firms in various SCM areas.