Oracle BI and DWH

Oracle  Siebel nquire Software

History of what is now called as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)

Oracle bought Siebel Analytics in 2005 for close to $6 billion. And that is once of the reason some to script file in OBIEE installations has sbl as prefix .

Here is the example.

Go to <Home>\OracleBI\server\Scripts\Common and you will the screen as below.

sbl Prefix

And we go more deeper into the history Siebel bought nQuire Software was specialized in Internet-based business analytics capabilities.

Thomas Siebel, ex chairman and CEO of Siebel Systems bought nQuire Software in late 2001.

That is the reason some of the file in OBIEE installation still as NQ as prefix. like log files , config file ( NQSConfig.ini) etc

NQ Prefix