SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2008, ORACLE OPENWORLD -- The release of Oracle(R) Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus 10.1.3.4 (Oracle BI Suite EE Plus) introduces new integrations with the recently announced Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System as well as key product enhancements.

Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.

Increased Product Integration and Enhanced Features

Oracle BI Suite EE Plus takes advantage of three key capabilities of the Oracle EPM System that collectively provide a common, unified user experience across the system's modules and applications. Oracle BI Suite EE Plus, along with Oracle Essbase and Oracle Real-Time Decisions, forms the technical foundation of business intelligence (BI) tools and services for the Oracle EPM System.

The latest integrations of Oracle BI Suite EE Plus with Oracle EPM System span:

-- Oracle EPM Workspace - integration enables end-users to access and interact with Oracle BI data alongside Oracle EPM System data through a single, thin-client Web interface;

-- Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office - offers users a common, powerful solution for integrating Oracle EPM System content, and now Oracle BI content, with Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications; and,

-- Oracle Smart Space - provides Oracle BI content such as dashboards and reports to end-users via personalized desktop gadgets to enable real-time information access and collaboration.

Beyond the integrations with the Oracle EPM System, the new release of Oracle BI Suite EE Plus features key enhancements across the product including Oracle BI Publisher - Oracle's enterprise reporting solution to author, manage, and deliver all types of highly formatted documents. Oracle BI Publisher features enhancements for Service-Oriented Architecture development, increased integration with Oracle BPEL Process Manager, and a variety of updates for report designers.v The new release also introduces the Oracle Metadata Conversion Assistant, a migration utility that accelerates the conversion of Oracle BI Discoverer metadata to Oracle BI Suite EE Plus metadata, helping customers save time and costs should they choose to migrate from Oracle BI Discoverer to Oracle BI Suite EE Plus.

Oracle BI Suite EE Plus provides comprehensive BI and analytic capabilities based on category-leading products for interactive dashboards, ad hoc analysis, proactive detection and alerts, advanced reporting and publishing, mobile analytics, and more. The software's hot-pluggable design enables organizations to take advantage of existing Oracle and non-Oracle data sources and applications, including SAP.

A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle EPM System supports strategic, financial and operational management processes across a common foundation enabling organizations to become smart, agile, aligned and better able to optimize enterprise-wide performance.

Oracle BI Suite EE Plus 10.1.3.4 is generally available and is priced at $2,000 per user or $295,000 per processor. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

Oracle Customer Services provides complete coverage of Oracle BI Suite EE Plus with the world's leading portfolio of IT lifecycle-based service and support offerings. Oracle Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership through continued advances in providing personalized, proactive support and knowledge management capabilities.

"Since the acquisition of Hyperion in 2007, Oracle has worked towards establishing tight integration between Oracle BI and Hyperion applications and Essbase," said Paul Rodwick, vice president of product management, Oracle Business Intelligence. "This release of Oracle BI Suite EE Plus represents another milestone accomplishment in Oracle's strategy to deliver an integrated EPM system."

About Oracle

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND MAY NOT BE INCORPORATED INTO A CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT.