New Features for Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.9)

New features in Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.9) include:

• "Key Terminology Changes"

• "EnhancementOracle Scorecard and Strategy Management"

• "Enhancement to Dashboards"

• "Enhancements to Managing Accounts"

• "Enhancement to Selection Steps"

• "Enhancements to the Export Functionality"

• "Enhancements to Analyses"

Key Terminology Changes

In this release, the following terminology changes have been made:

• Contribution wheels have been renamed to strategy contribution wheels. See "Understanding a Strategy Contribution Wheel Diagram" for additional information on strategy contribution wheels.

EnhancementOracle Scorecard and Strategy Management

This release provides the ability to specify the number of decimal places to include in scores. See "Settings dialog: Assessment Mappings tab."

Enhancement to Dashboards

This release provides the ability to create custom export layouts for exporting dashboard content to Excel. See "About Creating Custom Layouts for Printing and Exporting Dashboard Pages."

Enhancements to Managing Accounts

This release provides enhancements that enable you to replace account entries in the Access Control List (ACL) and to manage Unresolved Accounts. See "Permissions dialog."

Enhancement to Selection Steps

This release provides the ability to use variables to override values in selection steps. See the Override with component in the "Select Values dialog."

Enhancements to the Export Functionality

This release includes the following enhancements to the export functionality:

• New and changed components in the "Print & Export Options dialog," including:

  • New options in the Orientation component to specify the orientation for PDF and Powerpoint.

  • New options to specify whether to include charts, images and formatting.

  • New option to specify whether to wrap text in columns.

  • New option to limit column width.

  • The default value for the Print Rows component has changed to All.

• The page break options have been renamed to Each member of all columns (previously Innermost Column) and Each member of first column (previously Outermost Column in the "Section Properties dialog" and the "Sections Formatting dialog: Display Options tab."

• When you export a column that includes an image to Excel, the extra blank column that previously appeared will no longer appear.

• The Format component in the "Agent editor: Delivery Content tab" now includes the Excel 2007+ value.

• The Export menu no longer includes the Excel 2003 and Powerpoint 2003 options.

• When you export a column whose data format is set to Percentage, the column is now exported as a percent format. (In previous releases, the column was exported as a custom format. Then, in Excel, when you changed the format from custom to percentage, Excel multiplied the value by 100 and displayed the result with a percent symbol, which changed the data.)

For more information on the export functionality, see "Export Menu Options for Views and Results."

Enhancements to Analyses

This release provides, for analyses, the ability to:

• Initiate a search within the subject areas that are displayed in the Subject Areas pane. See "Subject Areas pane."

• Save columns to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog for reuse in other analyses. See "Saving Columns to the Catalog."