At the launch of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g on the 7th of July in London it was stated that OBIEE 11g will also offer an industry-leading innovation that lets companies tie its BI activities more closely to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
This is a typical market trend that the large ERP suppliers are positioning Business Intelligence as an add-on for ERP systems instead of the traditional information layer which worked with all the data in the enterprise.

