Enabling compression at the web/HTTP server tier comes at the highest recommendation of Oracle. Particularly, this configuration solves a problem inherent in Internet Explorer browsers. This compression configuration exponentially optimizes response times from requests sent to the Oracle BI server and should be conducted in every environment in which you wish to install Oracle BI 12c, but especially in Oracle BI 11g if you still need to use that legacy environment.
All major HTTP servers have the ability to cache static files and compress files and data traffic over the network to expedite responses to user requests flowing through the Oracle BI system.
Compression reduces the size of transmitted data. Nginx does not compress data that has already been compressed. And the compression happens at runtime, which increases potentially the processing overhead on the server. But with a beefy server with plenty of...