Oracle's newest BI release is massive, spans multiple
product categories, and raises the bar for competitors in dramatic
fashion. In my prior post I focused on its rollout and competitive
posture. The market has waited a long time as the reconciliation of
many moving parts was accomplished - most notably the convergence of the
Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) offering and Oracle
Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). Hyperion integration
with its Essbase acquisition was not complete. In 2007, OBI's newest
release (10.1.3) was most notable in many eyes for its new Microsoft
Office support. PeopleSoft and Siebel had been acquired some two years
before that, and Master Data Management was already a topic of
discussion then (2005). There was a long way to go. And analysts? Well,
think of us as the kids in the back: "Are we there yet?"

More - warning - it's quite long.