Oracle BI Server

Oracle BI Server

Oracle BI Server is the core server behind Oracle Business Intelligence. It is an optimized query

engine that receives analytical requests, intelligently accesses multiple physical data sources,

generates SQL to query data in the data sources, and then structures the results to satisfy the requests.

It also handles requests from a variety of front ends, including Oracle BI applications as well as

third-party tools. Oracle BI Server allows a single information request to query multiple data sources,

providing information access to members of the enterprise and, in Web-based applications, to

suppliers, customers, prospects, or any authorized user with Web access.

Oracle BI Server serves as a portal to structured data that resides in one or more data sources:

multiple data marts, the Oracle BI Data Warehouse, an enterprise data warehouse, an operational

data store, transaction system databases, personal databases, and so on. Transparent to both end users

and query tools, Oracle BI Server functions as the integrating component of a complex decision

support system by acting as a layer of abstraction and unification over the underlying databases. This

offers users a simplified query environment in which they can ask business questions that span

information sources across the enterprise and beyond.

Oracle BI Server runs as a service in the Windows environment on your classroom machine