Preface

This preface includes the following topics:

• Audience

• How to Use These Release Notes

• Documentation Accessibility

• Conventions

Audience

This document is intended for users of Oracle Business Intelligence.

How to Use These Release Notes

The following list provides important tips for using this release notes document:

• These release notes are updated periodically as new information becomes available. To ensure that you are reading the latest version of the release notes, check the Oracle Business Intelligence Documentation Web site:

  http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bi.html

• There is not an upgrade path from the Beta Release of Oracle Business Intelligence to the Production Release. If you installed the Beta Release, then you must also install the Production Release. For example, if you have been using the Discoverer Catalog in the Beta Release, then you must install the Discoverer Catalog after installing the Production Release. Once you install the Production Release, you cannot connect to the Discoverer Catalog that was installed under the Beta Release.

• For information about Oracle Business Intelligence Warehouse Builder, including release notes, consult the Oracle Business Intelligence Warehouse Builder CD.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: