BI Technologies

the technologies currently being used at our place is OWB, Business Objects..

Business Objects is an excellent reporting tool that has gone very well for us as a DW presentation layer. We had recently upgraded to XI R2 and it was a smooth changeover. The extra security benefits and architectural changes in XI R2 has only enhanced this.

OWB as an ETL tool is doing a decent job. Main reason for choosing this is because we have Oracle as the DB and it's tightly integrated with that. Backups / maintenance is not a nightmare. For the designer it's very user friendly. We are currently in the process of rebuilding our OWB ETL jobs are doing it in 10.2.0 version.

Will post on the progress of the ETL development..