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ORACLE� OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continuing its strategy to reduce the cost and complexity of building and deploying business intelligence (BI) solutions, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) today introduced Oracle� Business Intelligence 10g. Oracle Business Intelligence 10g is a comprehensive, standalone product designed to address the entire spectrum of analytical requirements facing businesses including information access, analysis and reporting, data integration and management

Building a traditional BI solution typically requires companies to undertake the time consuming and costly approach of purchasing and integrating multiple tools from various vendors. Oracle Business Intelligence 10g removes the headache of piecing together point solutions by delivering a comprehensive product.

Oracle Business Intelligence 10g includes the following integrated components:

• Oracle Discoverer -- query, reporting and analysis with dashboard features;
• Oracle Spreadsheet Add-In -- direct access to Oracle OLAP from within Microsoft Excel spreadsheets;
• Oracle Warehouse Builder -- robust data quality and ETL functionality; and,
• Oracle BI Beans -- custom BI application development.

A few years back, we set into motion a plan to simplify complex BI environments," said Ray Roccaforte, vice president of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Oracle Corporation. "Initially, we focused on eliminating the need for customers to acquire multiple, specialized data mining, OLAP and statistical databases for their BI initiatives by consolidating that functionality directly into the Oracle Database. We've now extended that philosophy to BI tools by combining all of the necessary tools in a single product for customers to use for their BI needs."

For more information, visit www.oracle.com.