Oracle Shape Shifts Search
April 28, 2010
Oracle’s SES10g search system and the native search functions in PL/SQL provide licensees with ways to locate information. Oracle has been moving to leap frog the problems of traditional search, and the article “Florida State U Transforms Reporting with Business Intelligence” may provide a glimpse of what Oracle will do to prevent search vendors from poaching. The article says:
Online Management of Networked Information, or OMNI, the university’s name for its ERP system, consists of an enterprise portal, financials, HR and payroll, and enterprise performance management. That word, “online,” is revealing. Beginning in March 2008 Florida State has been in a continuing process to move off of third-party BI vendor and legacy tools for reporting and to open up its data systems to 1,500 active users on campus through several analytics tools provided in Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE). These include a query system; dashboards; Microsoft Office-integrated analytics; and “ibots,” e-mail alerts sent when specific user-set conditions in the data occur.
Two points. The article focuses on the financial payback, estimated at no less than $360,000. Second, the integrated system delivers needed information in the context of an integrated system courtesy of Oracle. Forget search. The new system tells users about important events.
What happens to search? It becomes a utility, not the main event. I keep hearing rumors that Oracle is thinking about buying a traditional search and content processing vendor. That may be true. The story to watch is Oracle’s using cost savings and desirable new features to deemphasize traditional search. Will the approach work? To many organizations that $360,000 savings looks tempting enough to make the set up sticker shock lose its impact.
Stephen E Arnold, April 28, 2010
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