Computerworld: “Oracle retools business intelligence offerings”

Computerworld.co.nz: "... Wohl also said that Oracle is enhancing its daily business intelligence capabilities, an architectural feature embedded in the suite that allows managers to get quick updates on business performance. To make the feature more appealing, Oracle is adding six dashboards to the existing 31 and increasing the number of reports it offers to 581, up from 319. It will also boost the number of business metrics to 254, up from 166. To make the applications easier to use, a new interface can collapse more data into fewer screens. For instance, a sales lead follow-up workflow that once required navigating five screens has been shrunk to two on the new dashboard, he said..."

"...New features are also coming to Oracle's technology and infrastructure portfolio. Oracle plans to enhance its business intelligence platform part of the 10g Application Server suite to help compete with Business Objects and Cognos, said Chuck Rozwat, executive vice president of database technologies, who also participated in the webcast.

During the next several months, he said, Oracle expects to improve the front end of its business intelligence offerings to allow them to be more interactive with users. The new capabilities in the next iteration of the Oracle Discoverer query, reporting and web publishing tool are designed to help users of the business intelligence platform do drag-and-drop functions, drill down through various data views and do personalization and publishing routines."