The overall objectives for the BI Customer Advisory Board are strategic planning, long-term performance and growth. To meet these, Oracle will be working with customers to help set our future product direction. Our vision for the Customer Advisory Board is to have customers share and apply their “real world” usage and strategic direction in terms of our products with Oracle, and for Oracle to share our current plans and future directions with CAB members.  This feedback will be used to help build the next generation Oracle Business Intelligence tools. CAB members are encouraged to join the BI customer reference and other CAB groups such as Hyperion Applications or Oracle Portal CAB.

    Main Oracle Contacts
    Marlene Alvarez
    Aydin Gencler

    Scope

    The BI Customer Advisory Board scope will address the core BI products:

• Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus
• Hyperion BI Reporting Tools
• Oracle BI Applications (formerly known as Siebel Business Analytics Applications)

    Objectives

    The objectives of the BI Customer Advisory Board are:

• Organize and focus customer recommendations on the most important issues.
• Provide a customer point of contact on development projects.
• Identify and discuss customer and industry best practices for BI.
• Identify BI requirements to facilitate the development of future BI versions.
• Discuss potential solution and implementation approaches identified by Oracle.
• Involve customers in the current and next development life cycle at periodic review points.
• Refer customers to the BI customer reference program
  

    The BI Customer Advisory Board and related membership will be active for 24 months. At the end of
    this period membership will be reviewed.

    BI CAB Member Benefits

    BI CAB members will have the following benefits:

• May influence the development of BI product functionality to meet their needs and the needs of their industry.
• Have advanced knowledge of BI plans and development.
• Obtain a preview of BI feature plans.
• Share and gain knowledge and experience among other Customer Advisory Board members.
• May lead to taking members application in-house to be included in QA cycle of the BI product.

    Participation in the BI CAB is voluntary and offers customers an opportunity to convey their recommendation to
    the Oracle BI product groups.

    Description of Functional Area

Oracle’s Business Intelligence (BI) solutions provide a comprehensive and integrated suite of products that empower users to answer questions about their business operations. Oracle’s BI solutions have been designed to address the full range of user requirements for information publishing, data exploration, and advanced analysis.

    At a high level, Oracle offers the following suite of BI products:

• Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition

• Oracle BI Answers
• Oracle BI Dashboards
• Oracle BI Publisher
• Oracle BI Server
• Oracle BI Administration
• Hyperion Interactive Reporting
• Hyperion SQR Reporting
• Hyperion Financial Reporting
• Hyperion Web Analysis  
• Microsoft Office Integration

• Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

• Oracle Financial Analytics
• Oracle HR Analytics
• Oracle Marketing Analytics
• Oracle Order Management Fulfillment Analytics
• Oracle Sales Analytics
• Oracle Service and Contact Center Analytics
• Oracle Supply chain Analytics