Oracle Primavera Analytics – Which Oracle Business Intelligence Edition is Right for You?
Oracle Primavera Analytics requires one of the following three Oracle Business Intelligence products, which must be licensed separately:
- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Foundation Edition
- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Extended Edition
- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Foundation Edition for Oracle Applications
Only versions 11.1.1.9.160719 and 12.2.1.1.0 of these products are supported with Primavera Analytics 16.2.
I’m using acronyms liberally in this entry for your and my benefit … these names are a mouthful!
- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Foundation Edition (OBISFE)
- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Extended Edition (OBISEE)
Of these three choices, two options do not impose supplemental restrictions on how you can use Oracle Business Intelligence with Primavera Analytics within your organization.
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Foundation Edition for Oracle Applications (OBISFEOA)
Oracle uses the “for Oracle Applications” licensing to denote that the product is only usable with certain eligible products, and that additional restrictions may apply. One of the additional restrictions for OBIFSOA is enough to make this unsuitable for many customers.
Customers who use OBIFSOA are only allowed to use the out-of-the-box repository definition. This does enable customers to use all of the analyses that come with Primavera Analytics and to build many others. However, it is likely that customers will have requirements that are not supported by the out-of-the-box repository definition. Those customers will need to use one of the other two products.
Conclusions
For most customers, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus will be the best choice as it includes all of the Business Intelligence features and doesn't place any restrictions on the functioning of Primavera Analytics.
Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One might be an acceptable choice for customers with no more than a single data source of each type, no requirement to report on historical data at the activity or WBS level, and a small dataset – it can be upgraded to Enterprise Edition Plus if it needs to grow. I would still recommend Enterprise Edition Plus to these customers.
Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite for Oracle Applications is not suitable for any customer unless their needs are entirely satisfied by the pre-built repository definition that comes with Primavera Analytics.
About the Author
Dan MacMillan - Integration Specialist
Dan has been developing software professionally for over 20 years, joining Emerald Associates in 2003. His experience includes accounting, supply chain management, drilling program management, project management, and contract management integration, automation and dashboarding elements.
Dan learned how to program computers as a child by watching his older brother making games on his Commodore 64. His interest in computers and programming drove him to teach himself BASIC, 6502 and 80386 assembly language programming, and then C so that he could write hobby programs. Moving from hobby to professional, Dan did his computer science studies at SAIT in Calgary.
In his first professional programming job, Dan had the autonomy to make mistakes, live with them, learn from them and fix them. He realized that quality in software derives, not from what it does, but from the way it is written, and yields benefits such as having fewer bugs, and being easier to read and change. On that project, Dan transitioned from programming hobbyist to craftsman with a “quality first” focus in his work.