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lunes, 29 de mayo de 2017

Oracle Analytics Cloud Service is Now Live!

Today we have a guest blogger, Tim Vlamis VP & Analytics Strategist for Vlamis Software Solutions. Vlamis Software Solutions is an Oracle partner that specializes in the analytic options of Oracle Database including Oracle Advanced Analytics (Oracle Data Mining and Oracle R Enterprise), OLAP, Spatial and Graph, and Database In-Memory options and their integration with OBIEE and business analytics systems. In this segment, Tim discusses Oracle's new Oracle Analytics Cloud, and the benefits this cloud service can offer their customers.

Now that it’s released, we can talk about Oracle Analytics Cloud (#OAC—pronounced “Oak”). I’ve heard some confusion about what exactly this is and isn’t, so let me try to clear this up a bit.

Basically, OAC is Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (#OBIEE) running in the #OracleCloud. In case you thought that was what Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (#BICS) was, here’s how the two differ:

OAC

Oracle managed

Can modify settings
Can install your own plugins
You determine when you upgrade
Can SSH into server
Full control over networking including VPN

Flexible licensing

License by OCPU, unmetered and metered
Bring own license of Oracle DBaaS or Exadata Cloud
Requires IaaS for network and storage
Std $3,000/month/OCPU, EE $6,000/month/OCPU
Min 1 OCPU: Std $36,000/year + DB + IaaS
Min 1 OCPU: EE $72,000/year + DB + IaaS

Includes Essbase
Cloud Data Modeler or use BI Admin Tool

BICS

User managed

Cannot modify settings
No plugins
Oracle updates/patches for you
Customer cannot access server
Limited network and security options

Simplified licensing

License by user
Requires Schema as a Service
No IaaS required
$1000/month + $150/month/user
Min 10 users, 50GB: $30,000/year

No Essbase
Cloud Data Modeler

So why OAC? Well, BICS is great for a departmental solution. But if you are in IT and want finer control over your BI instance, you’re going to want OAC. BICS is great to get started, but eventually you’re going to want to graduate to OAC to gain finer control over your environment. Also, Oracle is adding new capabilities to OAC such as access from the new Day By Day app coming out any day now. Also, available with OAC is scenario modeling with Essbase.

Another big difference between BICS and OAC is how Oracle is treating the required database license and infrastructure costs. With BICS, Oracle simplified the pricing model, and required a Schema as a Service license (limited to 50GB, and 300GB/month data transfer). That’s what the extra $1000 per month was for. But for organizations that already have a Database as a Service license or want more flexibility, with OAC you un-bundle the database license, storage costs, and Infrastructure as a Service costs and pay for what you need. Finally, with OAC we now have the option of metered licensing by the hour for situations where you are not going to be running an instance all the month.

So what’s the difference between Standard Edition OAC and Enterprise Edition OAC? Well, Standard Edition is basically an OCPU-licensing of Data Visualization Cloud Service (#DVCS). Standard Edition is great for departments that access spreadsheet data or raw data via connectors. Each user needs to model the data (light ETL work, joins, etc.) for himself. This can be liberating at first since you’re not relying on some centralized IT department to “map” the data, but after a while users will tire of having to redo the mappings each time they want to share information.

With OAC Enterprise Edition, you add in the capabilities of Answers and Dashboards, and the ability to access a Common Enterprise Information Model (CEIM) that you can edit using the regular Oracle BI Admin Tool, including use of Session and Repository variables. These are high-powered tools that you are going to need in an enterprise deployment of Oracle BI.

OAC is now available and ready to use. It’s time to get serious about Oracle BI on the cloud!

If you want to talk about your business and how a workshop might help, send me a note to tvlamis@vlamis.com

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