5 Oracle Business Intelligence

This chapter covers licensing for Oracle Business Intelligence products. It contains the following sections:

Section 5.1, "Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition"
Section 5.2, "Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher"

5.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition

Note:

Oracle Business Intelligence is available only for Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2).

Oracle Business Intelligence can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Application Server edition. Oracle Business Intelligence is also included in Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition.

When you license it independently, Oracle Business Intelligence includes:

Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer
Oracle Discoverer Administrator
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Portlet Provider
Oracle Business Intelligence Beans
Oracle Warehouse Builder
Oracle Spreadsheet Add-in
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control
Oracle Data Miner

In order to use the Oracle Business Intelligence offering, you must separately license Oracle Database Standard Edition (for use with Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Relational) or Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and the Oracle OLAP option (for use with Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer OLAP).

In order to use the Oracle Spreadsheet Add-in, you only need to license Oracle Database Enterprise Edition with the Oracle OLAP option. You do not need to license the Oracle Business Intelligence offering.

5.1.1 Restricted-Use Licenses

The following restricted-use licenses are included when you separately license Oracle Business Intelligence:

Oracle Internet Developer Suite is provided for use with Oracle Warehouse Builder and Discoverer Administrator only. Two Named User Plus licenses per Processor are provided.
Oracle HTTP Server and its modules are provided for running Oracle Business Intelligence applications only.
Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) is provided for running Oracle Business Intelligence applications only.
Oracle Advanced Security Option is included, with use limited strictly to the Oracle Java SSL Library.
An Oracle Database (Standard Edition One, Standard Edition, or Enterprise Edition) is provided for use with Oracle Business Intelligence strictly for storing Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer metadata.
Notes:
During installation, you can choose to install the product metadata into an existing, licensed database. Choosing this option has the following licensing implications:
- The restricted use license does not apply to the use of the existing database as a metadata repository.
- If the machine on which your existing database is running does not run any other Oracle Application Server installations, there is no Oracle Application Server license requirement for that machine.
- Installing the metadata repository into your existing database may increase the number of users accessing that database, and may thus affect your database license needs. You need to make sure that you have the appropriate number of database licenses to ensure compliance.

5.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher is a Java-based tool that allows users to convert XML into other document types, such as Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word.

5.2.1 Restricted-Use Licenses

The following restricted-use licenses are included when you separately license Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher:

Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) is provided for running Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher only.