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Sun Systems for Oracle Business Intelligence

Overview

Business Intelligence (BI) applications empower enterprise users with data to make better business decisions, but they can be challenging to build and operate. Sun and Oracle have collaborated to build a highly available BI platform with massive scalability, and unmatched performance and savings to meet the needs of growing enterprises.

At A Glance

Get a full range of analysis and reporting capabilities with Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE).
Track and analyze vast amounts of complex data sets — Up to 28,000 concurrent Oracle BI EE users on a single system.
Make quicker, smarter decisions — Response times up to 2x faster than published competitive results.
Decrease hardware operating costs — Up to 62% lower price/user and 90% less power and space than comparable environments.
Combine Solaris Containers and Sun Logical Domains (LDOMs) with Oracle RAC and Oracle Clusterware for world-class availability.

The Ideal Business Intelligence Platform

Sun and Oracle engineers have architected a complete hardware and software solution featuring Oracle BI EE, Oracle Database 11g with Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Clusterware, Sun's eco-efficient Chip Multithreading (CMT) servers, Sun Open Storage, and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). This high availability (HA) BI platform enables enterprises to make smarter, faster decisions with dramatically lower cost, using less power, and requiring less space than competitive offerings — all while speeding deployment.

Self-Healing Sun Storage

Real-time analysis and monitoring functionality based on Sun's award-winning Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology uses built-in instrumentation to analyze key storage subsystems. When problems arise, the self-healing capabilities of Sun's Fault Management Architecture automatically take faulty components offline. A two-node cluster configuration with no single point of failure further reduces the risk of downtime.

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Industry Leading Performance and Scalability Translate to Savings

The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server delivers outstanding performance and scalability, with 28,000 concurrent Oracle BI EE users on a single system, and response times of only 0.22 seconds! This single CMT system outperforms published competitive results with up to 2x faster response times, up to 7x the scalability, up to 90% less power and space, and up to 62% lower price/user. This enables entire organizations to effectively acquire, track and analyze vast amounts of complex data sets to enable smart BI decisions in real-time.

Fault-Tolerant, High Availability Architecture

Multiple Oracle BI EE instances can run with built-in server virtualization technologies such as Solaris Containers and Sun Logical Domains (LDoms), which allow automatic failover at multiple levels — at the application, directory and database. And with Oracle RAC and Oracle Clusterware, you can deploy over a cluster of servers, providing fault tolerance from hardware failures and planned outages without the need for application changes.

Advanced Data Protection Features

The Solaris 10 OS delivers the performance, stability, and advanced security features required for BI applications. Data protection is a key requirement for BI services, and leading-edge security capabilities help reduce the risk of intrusions, secure your applications and data, assign the minimum set of privileges and roles needed by users and applications, and control access to data based on its sensitivity label.