Oracle Data Integrator 12.2.1

V pátek 23.10.2015 byla oficiálně uvolněna 12.2.1 verze Oracle Data Integrator.

Nová verze je ke stažení z eDelivery nebo z OTN.

Mezi hlavní novinky patří:

1. Enhanced Big Data Support: Oracle Data Integrator 12.1.3.0.1 brought together a series of advanced Big Data updates and features for customers to help take their Hadoop projects to the next level with support for Apache Spark, Apache Pig, and orchestration using Oozie. Today, we continue to enhance this functionality by allowing users to choose between Task and Session execution modes for Oozie workflow generation.
2. Lifecycle Management of Oracle Data Integrator Objects: Oracle Data Integrator is now integrated with Apache Subversion to allow customers to better manage their code as well as their development, testing and production environments. Users can create versions, view, compare and merge versions with each other as well as create tags. It is also possible to create and merge branches for parallel development from distributed locations or for parallel development on multiple releases. In addition Deployment Archives are introduced to facilitate the deployment of objects from development into other environments as well to support the creation of patches.
3. ODI Exchange for Sharing Global Oracle Data Integrator Objects: Oracle Data Integrator is creating more of a community feel by providing a place to browse, download, and install global ODI Objects made available by Oracle or other Oracle Data Integrator users through Official or Third-Party Update Centers. This functionality is available for Global Knowledge Modules, Global User Functions, and Mapping Components. 
4. Oracle Connectivity Enhancements: Oracle Data Integrator's repertoire of Knowledge Modules is continually improved. A Knowledge Module to perform Partition Exchange Loading is available to allow users to swap partitions as needed. Improvements have also been made to the Loading Knowledge Modules using External Tables, which allows the ability to load more than one file at a time. Data Pump Knowledge Modules have also been improved.
5. Enhanced Integration with Oracle Enterprise Data Quality: A new Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) technology is available in Topology and allows the creation of data servers, physical schemas, and logical schemas for EDQ. In addition, the OdiEnterpriseDataQuality tool was improved to support EDQ data servers through Contexts and Logical Schemas.
6. Complex File Enhancements: Oracle Data Integrator's Native Format builder utility is now included with Oracle Data Integrator Studio and allows you to create nXSD files without having to leave the Oracle Data Integrator user interface.

Oracle Business Intelligence 12c

V sobotu 24.10.2015 byla oficiálně uvolněna 12c verze Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Nová verze je ke stažení z eDelivery nebo OTN.

Mezi hlavní novinky patří:

1. Easy to upgrade:  BI 12c offers a radically simple and robust upgrade from 11g, saving customers time and effort in moving to the new version.  BI 12c includes a free utility to automate regression testing, the Baseline Validation Tool, which verifies data, visuals, catalog object metadata, and system-generated SQL across 11g and 12c releases.
   
2. Faster:  Sophisticated in-memory processing includes BI Server optimizations and support for multiple in-memory data stores, while in-memory Essbase on Exalytics offers enhanced concurrency and scalability, as well as significant performance gains.
   
3. Friendlier:  Usability updates throughout BI 12c demonstrate Oracle’s continued commitment to making analytics as fast, flexible, and friendly as they are powerful and robust.  A new user interface simplifies the layout for the homepage, Answers, and Dashboards, making it easier for users to quickly see what’s important; HTML-5 graphics improve view rendering; and it’s easier for users to create new groups, calculations, and measures, for simpler, more direct interaction with results.
   
4. More Visual:  A consistent set of Data Visualization capabilities are now available across Oracle BI Cloud Service and Oracle BI 12c, as well as the upcoming Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service, offering customers a continuity of visual experience unmatched by our competitors.  Business users can point and click to upload personal data and blend it with IT-managed data in BI 12c, which automatically infers connections between data sets.  Visualizing data is as easy as dragging attributes onto the screen, with optimal visualizations automatically displayed – no modeling or upfront configuration required.  Related data is automatically connected, so highlighting data in one visual highlights correlated data in every other visual, immediately showing patterns and revealing new insights.  These insights, along with narrative comments, can be shared as interactive visual stories, enabling seamless collaboration that drives fact-based decisions.
   
5. More Advanced:  Predictive analysis is more tightly integrated, enabling customers to more easily forecast future conditions based on existing data points, group elements that are statistically similar, and expose outliers.  BI 12c includes the ability to run the free Oracle R distribution on BI Server, and extend existing analytics with custom R scripts, which can point to any engine (R, Oracle Database, Spark, etc.) without needing to change the BI RPD to deliver results.
   
6. More Mobile:  Keyword search (“BI Ask”) empowers users to literally talk to their data, asking questions and having visualizations automatically created as responses, opening up an easy entry point for authoring.  Additionally, the interface for iOS has been completely redesigned; and Mobile BI for Android offers sharing and following for nearby devices, as well as the ability to project any dashboard or story to GoogleCast-enabled devices.
   
7. Bigger Data:  BI 12c enables customers to use new data, from local, Oracle, and Big Data sources, including personal files uploaded by users; direct access to data in Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning applications; and ODBC access to Cloudera Impala.  Apache Spark will be accessible via native Spark SQL in an upcoming update.
   
8. Higher ROI, Lower TCO:  Streamlined administration and life cycle management reduce the time and resources required to manage BI 12c, decreasing costs and increasing value for this and future releases.  Enhancements include separating metadata from configuration; simpler, more robust security; easier backup, restore, and disaster recovery; hot patching of metadata; and many more.