SUPPORT
For OBIEE11g ended in December 2018, and the extended one ended in December 2021.
Previously, in our blog Oracle Analytics, one solution to rule them all, we discussed the changes made by Oracle around its analytics solutions proposal, and how it has carried out a consolidation of the portfolio to have a single line, Oracle Cloud ANALYTICS, which includes several options:
For those OBI Enterprise Edition 11g environments, did you know that support and bug fixes ended in December 2018 and extended support ended in December 2021? Additionally, Java 1.6 and 1.7, which usually coexist with OBI 11g, are also out of support.
For those OBI12c environments, only support for the latest version (12.2.1.4) is still alive, so most of them, unfortunately, will not be able to enjoy support and bug fixes, with the consequent risk.
On an economic level, customers with an active OBI support contract can migrate to OAC/OAS without incurring additional licensing costs, as long as the metrics are aligned with Oracle's licensing rules.
In terms of functionalities, starting from those offered by the current OBI environment, we will evaluate what each "flavor" brings to the table compared to the previous one.
How about showing you some examples where a business person, with no knowledge of analytics or Machine Learning algorithms, can draw conclusions and make predictions about their data?
For example, we can teach you how to understand the reasons why an employee leaves the company, the probability of a heart attack, or the prediction of the demand for bike rentals by applying predictive numerical models.
Oracle Analytics Cloud has been the perfect ERP complement for AMIFAR LABORATORIOS in its ambitious strategic plan of transformation and growth.
The solution has provided them with agility in strategic and daily decision-making, thanks to the consolidation of all data from different systems into a single one.
In general terms, we will keep our Dashboards, Answers, Publisher, etc. applications, but what is most interesting are the new functionalities it brings: self-service analytics, DataFlows, Data Replication, Augmented Analytics, etc. If we go into more detail, we will see that OAS adds the following:
Self Service Analytics
Data Preparation
Data Visualization
Storytelling
Sharing and Collaboration
Mobile Exploration (except Day by Day, only in OAC)
Augmented Analytics
Natural language queries and speech support
Data Enrichment
"One click Explain"
Machine Learning for predictive analytics
Data Connectors
As can be seen, many new functionalities bring great value to data analysis, especially considering that thanks to natural language processing or self-service analytics, we make it easy for business profiles to process data on their own, without having to rely on a team to prepare data or dashboards if it is not necessary.
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