At the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing there was discussion about some changes affecting OBIEE. I haven’t confirmed yet but it was mentioned that Oracle has announced the ability to use Oracle Data Integrator (formerly Synopsis) as the ETL engine for OBIEE rather than Informatica.
Why is this of interest? The Informatica product(s) were considered much more expensive and more complex to manage than ODI for handling Extraction, Translation and Loading (ETL) data. With the ability to begin using ODI there is now another supported option when considering the backend for OBIEE.
In the announcement last week, only 4 or 5 of the 10 data warehouse modules are apparently supported by ODI, but the remaining are being developed. This limits what data can be loaded into the OBIEE data warehouse with ODI but the good news is that Oracle is working on the remaining features.
More information about ODI can be found here
I’ll dig up more information about this announcement and post it after the OAUG conference.
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