Oracle’s BI Release 7.6.9 provide greater insight in business operations

Software giant announced Business Intelligence Applications Release 7.6.9 this month.

Commentators have leapt to analyse Oracle’s latest BI offering. Forrester Research analyst Boris Evelson told ComputerWeekly that the real developments in BI now are in applications, with all core functions having been addressed by previous products.

He went on to say that small to medium sized businesses will be drawn to the pre-built tooling in applications like Loyalty Analytics that this release presents. These, Evelson said, assist small businesses in getting their software running as quickly as possible. “A customer might say, ‘We're a small bank, we know everything about banking, but not CRM. We're going to trust Oracle,’" Evelson said.

Inatech’s Simon Ellis gave his view on the new Oracle offering, first outlining the practical developments of the product.

“With this release Oracle further extends its out of the box reporting platform on top of their Enterprise suite of products. This release sees additional reporting dashboards added to HR and Finance. Oracle has also now extended its technology footprint to the JDEdwards Enterprise One Financial management platform to allow advance Financial Analytics.”

All of these new features mean that customers have more and better access to information than ever before, Ellis explained: “In practical terms it is now easier than ever for customers to gain insight into their business operations by leveraging pre-built analytics on their transactional ERP systems.

“It is now even easier for Oracle Specialist Inatech to enable this insight for customers, leading to a greater ROI and lower TCO through utilising Oracle’s pre-built solution,” he concluded.