The integration between Oracle BI 11g and the Oracle EPM tools can only get better. In the Oracle BI 10g version, an attempt was made to bridge the Oracle BI dashboards with that of the Hyperion Workspace. This was a tricky integration and ultimately not the path Oracle wished to continue on. However, several successful integration points between the two still exist and work very well. One such integration point is that of Hyperion Shared Services security, one of Essbase's security provider options which, when integrated with Oracle BI, allows for existing Essbase cube row-level security to persist for any users accessing Essbase data via Oracle BI.
Hyperion Workspace is the portal for Hyperion Products that became very popular in System 9 (version 9.x) of the Hyperion tool suite. Introducing Oracle BI users to the Hyperion product suite was a great initial concept, but was not carried over in the first minor releases of Oracle BI 11g. The next...