So Hard to get started

Hello all,
I want to state somethings that I have found so confusing in getting started with Oracle Business Intelligence.
Whenever someone attempts to get in the Oracle BI world, there seems to be a myriad of products, tools and suites that one may not really know where to start.
Up till now, I have not been able to pick or find a resource on what is which. Sorry to compare products, I have been taken a look at Microsoft Database and its associated BI solutions, and indeed it was relatively much easier to say this does this. But for as long as a I have been in Oracle Database usage and putting my hand on work using its tools, I find it hard differentiating
Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition from
Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One and also from
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus from
Oracle Essbase
or differentiating
Hyperion Enterprise from
Oracle BI Applications
and why I should not install tools like Oracle BI Publisher or Oracle Data Miner or Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) when I have any of the above installed.
Thank God for Oracle 11g. The confusion is a lot reduced, because with 11g, almost everything seem to be in the right place.
So, my request is that someone should please show me a reference that tell what is different from what with respect to the above mentioned BI products.
Regards,
Michael

It's all on the Oracle web site, I think you need to do a bit of homework research before asking a question like this...
OBISE = Old Oracle Discoverer.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/standard-edition.html
OBISE One = Cut-down OBIEE version plus OWB.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/standard-edition-one.html
OBIEE = OBIEE+ plus Hyperion Essbase See:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/enterprise-edition.html
Oracle Essbase = Proper OLAP cubes
http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-intelligence/essbase.html
Oracle BI Applications = It's a bit pre-packaged BI Application (based on OBIEE) that's used to do BI on Oracle Apps
http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-intelligence/bi-applications.html
Oracle BI Publisher = Pixel Perfect reports
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/xml-publisher/index.html
Oracle Data Miner = Data mining, if you don't know what that is then you probably don't need it.
OWB = ETL
All in all I would say you are getting confused and you are mixing too many products in the same bag. Sure you could say it's "confusing" to have so many products. But if you were to go to the supermarket without knowing what to buy, wouldn't that be confusing as well? Rather than looking at "what's available" you should look at what sort of product you need and based on that search which products meet your needs. Or would you go to the supermarket and ask to see and understand what every product does before buying what you need?

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