With Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.1, Oracle aims to Democratize Data Discovery.

Discovery 3.1 henceforth incorporates new enterprise self-service discovery capabilities for business users, with the goal to allow them to easily make information-based business decisions with greater success, safety and confidence.

Connectikpeople can recall that, Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.1., is the latest version of Oracle’s enterprise class data discovery platform. It offers business users additional self-service data mashup and discovery capabilities, extended support for unstructured analytics, and an even tighter
integration with industry-leading Oracle Business Intelligence software.

The new functionality includes:

·        Self-Service Data Mashup and Discovery Dashboards: With Self- Service Data Mashup, business users can combine information from multiple sources and conduct analysis on the complete set.

·        OEID 3.1 expands data sources available for business user data mashup beyond Excel, adding a strong integration with Oracle BI, connectivity to a wide range of databases, as well as semi-structured data in JSON format. 

·        The process of creating discovery dashboards has been made even easier by further investments in intuitive drag-and drop layout and wizard-based configuration. 

·         Business users can now build new discovery applications in minutes without depending on IT organizations.

·        Deep Unstructured Analysis: Business users can gain new perspectives and insights from the wide variety of conversations, dialogues, and opinions that exist in both enterprise and public sources, helping companies to build an actionable Big Data strategy.

·        Enhanced Integration with Oracle BI: Capitalizing on a common development foundation and vision, Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.1 enhances its native integration with best in class Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation.

·        Business Users can now bring information from trusted BI warehouses, leveraging dimensions and attributes defined in Oracle’s Common Enterprise Information Model, but evolve them based on the varying day-to-day demands and requirements that they must personally manage.

·        Oracle now also provides best-of-breed data access to website content through the Oracle Endeca Web Acquisition Toolkit. In order to harvest content from the Web, this new offering provides an agile, graphical interface for developers rapidly to access and integrate any information exposed through a web front-end. Organizations can now cost-effectively include content from consumer sites, industry forums, government or supplier portals, cloud applications, and a myriad other web sources as part of their overall strategy for data discovery and unstructured analytics.