Oracle BI: Right Choice?

Hello,
We are in process of revamping our reporting solution. We want to publish our reports over the internet with some graphics (charts, graphs, scales, meters, etc). Also want reports where business user can drill down into different level and also manipulate the data. Should be able to save their work or print in pdf, excel, etc.
What is correct solution to implement? Oracle Discoverer or BI Answer or BI Publisher?
We are also looking into other vendors too like Actuate and Cognos.
Thanks much in advance
Maresh

i think for u r requirements obiee answers is a gud choice it does have everything you r looking for like drilldown features and u can download that reports into excel and PDf etc.. many formats
as per my knowledge its one of the best reporting tool available in market..

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My primary concern: is there a point in using OWB to feed an existing DWH? I've no need for new design, actually. May I use only the ETL tools in OWB, technically speaking? would it be a pointless choice to use OWB only to let sources DBs and target DWH communicate?
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Regards,
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Arron,
The next major release does not have a version number assigned yet. That release is expected at the end of the year.
I respect your opinion on comparing OWB to other ETL products. However if you can list specific areas for improvement of OWB, it will be helpful. Generic statements like "it's not the best" and "weak" do not provide an actionable feedback to OWB development.
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Listen to us, Lovekate!
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The right choice

hey, i have been reading around this site a. Is there no live chat at all for support or sales to discuss the best solution?? anyway.. i need some help making the right choice and setup with skype for my small business.
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Oracle DataMart is this the right choice?

I currently have a project that is creating Access formatted
files and comma delimited files. Via another application these
files are deposited on a network files server at changing
intervals of time. I've attended the 2-day Oracle Datamart
integration course and I beleive that possibly the Datamart tools
used to pull data into Oracle would be the way to go. Does anyone
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but that is not something I can have done. Is their possibly a
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Charles,
This feedback has come in from one of our consultants in
the field. I hope this helps.
Regards,
Marie
>>>>>
1) The Data Mart Suite is very suitable for taking data out of
MS Access and flat files and storing them in Oracle. That I have
done several times.
2) I had one customer that successfully migrated his MS Access
application to an Access application running on top of Oracle.
There was just one issue regarding the ODBC used with Access. He
had certain Access programs that stayed within Access and then
used ODBC to get to Oracle. Since the defaults by Microsoft
are very SQL Server specific they did not work well for Oracle.
As a result the Oracle solution was running a lot slower than
SQLServer. However, once we established the optimal settings
Oracle ran approx. ten times faster than SQLServer.
Charles Moore (guest) wrote:
: I currently have a project that is creating Access formatted
: files and comma delimited files. Via another application these
: files are deposited on a network files server at changing
: intervals of time. I've attended the 2-day Oracle Datamart
: integration course and I beleive that possibly the Datamart
tools
: used to pull data into Oracle would be the way to go. Does
anyone
: have an opinion?
: My first choice would be to modify the application which
: originally created the Access files and have it Log-On to
Oracle,
: but that is not something I can have done. Is their possibly a
: migration tools that could help?
Oracle Technology Network
http://technet.oracle.com
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Oracle ADF Technology Choices

Hi,
I am new to Oracle ADF.
There are several technologies to choose from to build business services in the data model: ADF BC, EJBs, JPA entities etc.
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To summarize, there is no "right" nor a "best" technology - if there were, Oracle would simply implement the "best" one and ignore the second-best ones. The choice as to which one you use in all likelyhood will boil down to what you may or may not already have experience and training in. Even though ADF is "easy to learn," in reality, any framework and new technology takes a substantial amount of time to properly learn and master. I will say from experience that if you have a team with little or no Java/J2EE experience, it can be relatively quick for that team, with a good leader/mentor to start being productive writing apps using the full ADF stack (ADF BC/ADF Faces).
Sorry for the rambling post - if you want the answer in two words: "it depends."
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