A simple one today, but a question I get asked regularly is the difference between OBIEE+ and OBISE1. OBISE1 is a cut down version of OBIEE+ designed to cater for entry level deals however both are based on the same technology platform. The differences between the 2 are:
OBIEE+
- Can be licenced either by Named User or Processor
- Min 50 users, or 1 CPU
- Has the modules (see here for more detail):
- BI Server - Common enterprise business model and abstraction layer
- BI Answers – Ad-Hoc Analysis and Reporting
- BI Interactive Dashboards - Proactive business activity monitoring and alerting
- BI Briefing Books - Snapshots of dashboard pages to view and share in offline mode
- BI Publisher – Enterprise reporting and distribution of "pixel-perfect" reports
- BI Delivers – Proactive business activity monitoring and alerting
- BI Office – MS Office plugins
- Disconnected Analytics - Full analytical functionality for the mobile professionals
- Note this is an extra cost option to OBIEE+
- Licence also contains the old Hyperion Reporting Tools
- Interactive Reports
- Production Reports
- Web Analysis
- Financial Reports
OBISE1
- Can only be licenced by Named User
- Min 5, Max 50 Users
- Licence also includes a Oracle Database SE1 licence for the same # of Named Users
- Product is restricted to be used against the included Database and 1 other relational data source
- but unlimited flat file sources
- Does not contain BI Office, BI Delivers, or the Hyperion Reporting Tools. Thus only has:
- BI Server - Common enterprise business model and abstraction layer
- BI Answers – Ad-Hoc Analysis and Reporting
- BI Interactive Dashboards - Proactive business activity monitoring and alerting
- BI Briefing Books - Snapshots of dashboard pages to view and share in offline mode
- BI Publisher – Enterprise reporting and distribution of "pixel-perfect" reports
Customers can start with OBISE1 and the later migrate to OBIEE+ if they require additional users or functionality. BTW, one question I often get is can OBISE1 integrate with MS Office. You can download content from Answers/Dashboards into Office (Excel/Powerpoint) but it is a static copy of the data, unlike OBIEE which also has the BI Office plugin’s for MS Office which allow you to refresh and secure the reports directly from Excel/Powerpoint.
Comments (2)
Hi Darryn this is great information; the next license challenge i am trying to figure out is the content.
If i have an EBS customer who wants to purchase BI, they can purchase OBISE1 or OBISE but the content/relationship/cubes/hierarchy of data must be created by hand, correct?
To get some form of "seeded" OBI data model in OBISE you'd have to get the Applications Intelligence which has several other license and prerequisites to it also, correct?
Posted by Stephen Manning | July 9, 2009 11:10 AM
Posted on July 9, 2009 11:10
Hi Stephen
You are perfectly correct, OBIEE+ and OBISE1 currently have no metadata understanding of the e-Business Suite (EBS) tables.
Within the Oracle Product set, the choices you have today are:
As you mention, BI Apps requires you to licence additional components. The three components required are:
Regards
Darryn
Posted by Darryn Hinett | July 10, 2009 8:55 PM
Posted on July 10, 2009 20:55