OBIEE Tools:

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, also known as OBI EE Plus,

is Oracle's set of business intelligence tools consisting of former Siebel business intelligence

and Hyperion business intelligence offerings.

The industry counter-part and main competitors of OBIEE are Microsoft

BI, IBM Cognos, SAP Business Objects and SAS. The products currently leverage a common

BI Server providing integration among the tools.

Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite is a complete, open, and architecturally

unified business intelligence solution for the enterprise that delivers capabilities for reporting,

ad hoc query and analysis, OLAP, dashboards, and scorecards. All enterprise data sources, as

well as metrics, calculations, definitions, and hierarchies are managed in a Common

Enterprise Information Model, providing users with accurate and consistent insight,

regardless of where the information is consumed. Users can access and interact with

information in multiple ways, including web-based interactive dashboards, collaboration

workspaces, search bars, ERP and CRM applications, mobile devices, and Microsoft Office

applications.

Sometimes OBIEE is used interchangeably with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

(OBIA), which is a pre-built BI and data warehousing solution built on the OBIEE

technology stack. The OBI EE Plus integrates the components of the toolset to include

a service-oriented architecture, data access services, an analytic and calculation

infrastructure, metadata management services, a semantic business model, a security model

and user preferences, and administration tools.

Cognos:

Cognos (Cognos Incorporated) was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business

intelligence (BI) and performance management(PM) software. Founded in 1969, at its peak

Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135

countries.

Originally Quasar Systems Limited, it adopted the Cognos name in 1982. On January 31,

2008, Cognos was officially acquired by IBM.The Cognos name continues to be applied to

IBM's line of business intelligence and performance management products.

In January 2010, as part of a reorganization of IBM Software Group, Cognos software and

software from recently acquired SPSS were brought together to create the Business Analytics

division.

Comparison between OBIEE and COGNOS Tool

 

OBIEE Cognos

Tier (Architecture) N N

Inbuilt Web Support  Y Y

HOLAP/ROLAP/MOLAP

Support  Y Y 

MDDB Support  Y  Y

User Interactivity support (Drag

&Drop)  Y  Y

Dynamic Drill Features  Y  Y

On-the-Fly Calculations  Y  Y

Integration with MS Office  Y Y