Differences between SAP BI and OBIEE ?

	SAP BI	Oracle BI
Introduction	Ø  Ø  For businesses that require a full, detailed picture of every company process, SAP Net Weaver BI steps in. Ø  Ø  This full-function tool is designed to cater to a diverse set of needs, satisfying the requirements of everyone in your organization – IT professionals, senior management, and end users included. The tool’s robust infrastructure hosts wide-ranging functionality in one integrated platform.	Ø  Ø  For businesses with serious BI needs, OBIEE is an incredibly powerful business intelligence tool. Ø  Ø  The Enterprise Edition integrates many of Oracle’s most useful components, including BI Server, BI Answers, BI Interactive Dashboards, BI Delivers, BI Publisher, the MS Office Plug-in, Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Hyperion SQR Production Reporting, Hyperion Financial Reporting, and Hyperion Web Analysis. In other words, for almost any conceivable data measurement, visualization, reporting, or information manipulation, OBIEE has a solution.
Features	Ø  Ø  A single, integrated platform pulls together   applications and reporting to provide a detailed snapshot of your organization. Ø  Ø  Visualization makes it easy to understand your data. Ø  Ø  Improve your company’s collective IQ by giving all collaborators insights into data and performance indictors Ø  Cost: Free Trial; contact for pricing	Ø  Ø  Comprehensive BI tools inform and inspire better decisions across your organization Ø  Ø  OBIEE allows for full collaboration within an organization Ø  Ø  Interactive dashboards make reporting and data visualization simple Ø  Cost: Contact for pricing
BI	SAP offers Business Objects and SAP AP Net Weaver Business Intelligence.	Oracle Offers DBI (Daily Business Intelligence). OBIEE, BI Apps and Oracle Hyperion.
Data Integration	Business Objects Data Integrator	Warehouse Builder (OWB).
Data Aggregation OLAP  Cube	Aggregate tables or 3rd party (Eg: SSAS) Microsoft SQL Server Analysis, Services Hyperion, Essbase, IBM DB2 OLAP, SAP BW	Essbase, OLAP option in DBMS.
Data Abstraction Modeling	Universe Designer.	BI Server Modeler, Essbase Modeler.
Report Authoring	Crystal , Web Intelligence	BI Publisher, Financial Reporting.
Analysis Tool	Web Intelligence, Voyager	BI Answers, Essbase.
Adhoc Query / Report	Web Intelligence	BI Answers
Dashboard Authoring	Xcelsius, Dashboard Builder	BI Interactive Dashboards
Scorecard Authoring	Xcelsius, Dashboard Builder	BI Interactive Dashboards
Portal	Business Objects Enterprise Portal	BI Portal
Data Mining	Predictive Analysis	No Data Mining
Advantage	High Visualization Customer Friendly	All in One portal implementing BI Concept
Disadvantage	No Cube	Ordinary Visualization many versions (compatibility issues)
Performance	Slow Performance	Need High Machine for Good Performance
Usability	8	7
Product Bundling	Only core modules are offered. Database would be extra.	Oracle 11g database and to some extent on Microsoft SQL
Middle ware	Its middleware is called as Net weaver.	The middleware is called as Fusion Middleware.
Implementation	Major implementation solutions to the discrete Manufacturing Industries	Major implementation done in Services Industries, BFSI (Banking, Financial services and Insurance).
Open / Proprietary standards	SAP is based on ABAP (current version mix of ABAP and Java). It is difficult to Get/ maintain and retain a ABAP resource	Oracle follows open standards Java. There are lot many resources available who know java than ABAP. Hence TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) is lower here.
Product Architecture	There is a architectural changes in R/3. Business One and All in one. The up gradation from either of the above versions is not possible. In case of migration the customer needs to buy new   licenses and reimplement again	There is only one version available to all the customers. I t is Oracle ebusiness Suite.
Product Upgrades	Upgrade from 4.7 to 6.0 is not free. Customer needs pay for the license and implementation. The ATS is 22% of the license amount	Product upgrades are free. They are covered in the 22% ATS fee paid to Oracle Split- 15% Updates and 7% Upgrades. Customer needs to pay only for the upgrades (Consultant fees only).
Future Product	-	Oracle Fusion
Database Support	SAP supports Oracle, DB2, Max-DB, MS SQL and other database versions	Oracle works on Oracle database and to some extent on Microsoft SQL.
Complex Reports	It is difficult to create complex reports.	Excellent and comprehensive to create complex reports (Data mining easy tool).