Oracle recently announced another milestone in the growth of Oracle(r) Fusion Middleware, with the release of its open, standards-based suite of enterprise business intelligence (BI) products: The Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE) enables organizations to distill intelligence from existing applications and data sources and distribute it pervasively across the enterprise to optimize business processes, decisions, and actions.

Recognising that this product suite is a much needed solution on the market, Megabyte Ltd., Oracle Certified Partner and Oracle Certified E-business Partner has decided to team up with Oracle to offer this new BI suite to local businesses. This new product suite has been entrusted to the Oracle Enterprise Business Unit which will be responsible for selling and implementation the full product range.  To meet the demands that may emanate from the market, Megabyte has recently invested in the development of specialists who will be able to provide any client  with the necessary pre-sales consulting services to design and implement a fully‑fledged BI system.

Features of the BI Product Suite.

The new release of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE focuses on three key areas:

* new components and enhancements to enable pervasive, enterprise-wide intelligence;

* strategic integration with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database; and,

* expanded "hot-pluggable" support for third-party data sources and systems.

"In March, we introduced the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition -- a comprehensive, standards-based foundation for delivering pervasive insight across the enterprise,” said Kevin Attard, Oracle Malta, Country Manager . "The compelling benefits of the new release will further obviate the need for organizations to wire together tools from multiple point product BI vendors in order to have a complete, integrated, best-of-breed solution, regardless of whether they have Oracle, non-Oracle, or mixed environments."

Pervasive Intelligence to Optimize Enterprise-wide Performance
Enabling pervasive intelligence demands a new class of BI capabilities -- information must be relevant to all users, delivered in time to affect business results, be accessible through a broad range of mediums such as dashboards, alerts, and reports, and be integrated seamlessly into business processes and workflow. The BI architecture must also provide a foundation that can scale economically over time to handle nearly limitless data growth and user demands. The next release of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition plans to extend Oracle's unique capabilities across all of these dimensions.

Intelligent Workflow through SOA and Oracle BPEL Process Manager -- Virtually seamless integration of intelligence with workflow processes should enable organizations to link insight to action, a large opportunity for value realization as organizations expand BI more broadly. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE plans to leverage Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) techniques and integration with Oracle BPEL Process Manager to support multiple modes of analytics-driven workflow. This includes invocation of a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process from the BI environment, either through automated BI alerts or directed by BI users; BI that directs a BPEL process with intelligent decision points and conditional process steps based on analytics; and BPEL processes invoking analytic workflows through Web services.

Financial Reporting, Portals, and RSS Feeds -- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE offers users access to information through a wide range of options, including interactive dashboards, reports, ad hoc analysis, real-time alerts, mobile disconnected analytics, integration with Microsoft Office and Excel, and more. The next release plans to enhance existing capabilities and extend the accessibility of information to new mediums. For example, improved layout capabilities in Oracle Interactive Dashboards should provide financial style reporting within the context of live and interactive Web dashboards. With support for JSR-168, organizations can expect to embed BI portlets into any JSR-168 compliant portal, while Really Simple Syndication (RSS) capabilities intend to allow access to BI information and Alerts via RSS-aware applications.

Integrated Enterprise Reporting -- The next release plans to include full integration of Oracle XML Publisher, now named Oracle BI Publisher, to provide advanced, pixel-perfect reporting and publishing capabilities within Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE. As a result, organizations can plan to generate a broad range of documents such as sales orders, invoices, purchase orders, high-fidelity reports, financial statements, government forms, checks, labels, and electronic documents (EFT/EDI) -- leveraging the same unified metadata model and Oracle BI Server infrastructure in addition to operational databases and Web services. The new release plans to allow customers to schedule and deliver documents to printer, fax, email, WebDAV, or include them in interactive dashboards.

Enterprise Scalability and Manageability -- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE plans to include enhancements to speed performance and ease administration. For example, new data mart automation capabilities should enable organizations to do "model first" development, starting with the business model and leveraging new capabilities in the Oracle BI Server to automatically generate, persist, and transparently utilize aggregate tables in a database.

Strategic Oracle Product Integration to Extend Capabilities while Lowering Costs
Release 3 plans to deliver pre-integration with Oracle Applications, Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware, extending the value and capabilities of the product while lowering total cost and complexity for customers. In addition to the integration with Oracle BI Publisher, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, and Oracle Portal outlined above, the following key Oracle product integrations are planned:

* Oracle Database 10g OLAP -- Customers can reduce overheads and improve access to information by consolidating server engines to store, view and analyze data in OLAP cubes with full support for the OLAP option of Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition;

* Oracle Identity Management -- Integration with a variety of Oracle security, provisioning, and authentication products including Oracle Database Virtual Private Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, the Oracle E-Business Suite security model, and Oracle SSO Server;

* Oracle BI and Analytic Applications -- The platform for Oracle BI Applications, Oracle Business Intelligence EE is expected to deliver new dash-boarding and reporting capabilities for Oracle Daily Business Intelligence and Oracle's PeopleSoft EPM as well as serve as the foundation for BI in Oracle Fusion Applications.

Commitment to Open Standards and a Hot-Pluggable Architecture
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE is built on open standards and designed to fit into any existing IT architecture, efficiently interoperating with existing data sources, applications, security models, and end user tools. With its native Web services-based architecture, unique model-driven approach and ability to provide semantic integration of information across Oracle and non-Oracle sources, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE enables customers get a complete view of performance across multiple, diverse information silos.

Release 3 plans to expand certification and native, optimized support for third-party data sources and infrastructure products including the latest releases of IBM DB2, NCR Teradata, and Microsoft SQL Server.

These enhancements and new features represent a small sample of the full range of new functionality planned for Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3, scheduled for general availability in 2007

“We are now in a position to offer an Integrated Throughout Entire Offering for Business Intelligence and Corporate Governance to our current customer base as well as to customers who have heterogeneous environments”, said Mary Grace Busuttil, Business Manager, Oracle Enterprise Solutions for Megabyte Ltd.

For further information , please contact:

Mr Kevin Attard – Oracle Malta, Country Manager Tel:

Tel:2131 7487; email:kevin.attard@oracle.com

Ms Mary-Grace Busuttil –

Tel:2142 1600. email:mary-grace.busuttil@megabyte.net