<s>
Oracle	B-Application
Warehouse	I-Application
Builder	I-Application
(	O
OWB	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
ETL	O
tool	O
produced	O
by	O
Oracle	B-Application
that	O
offers	O
a	O
graphical	O
environment	O
to	O
build	O
,	O
manage	O
and	O
maintain	O
data	B-General_Concept
integration	I-General_Concept
processes	O
in	O
business	B-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
primary	O
use	O
for	O
OWB	O
is	O
consolidation	O
of	O
heterogeneous	O
data	O
sources	O
in	O
data	O
warehousing	O
and	O
data	B-General_Concept
migration	I-General_Concept
from	O
legacy	B-Device
systems	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Further	O
it	O
offers	O
capabilities	O
for	O
relational	B-Architecture
,	O
dimensional	B-Application
and	O
metadata	B-Language
data	B-Application
modeling	I-Application
,	O
data	B-General_Concept
profiling	I-General_Concept
,	O
data	O
cleansing	O
and	O
data	O
auditing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Whereas	O
the	O
core	O
functionality	O
is	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
database	I-General_Concept
since	O
version	O
10gR2	O
,	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
latter	O
features	O
are	O
sold	O
separately	O
as	O
options	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OWB	O
uses	O
a	O
variant	O
of	O
Tcl	B-Operating_System
over	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
PL/SQL	B-Language
called	O
OMB+	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Oracle	B-Application
Warehouse	I-Application
Builder	I-Application
was	O
built	O
from	O
the	O
ground	O
up	O
in	O
Oracle	B-Application
,	O
it	O
was	O
first	O
released	O
in	O
January	O
2000	O
(	O
release	O
2.0.4	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
10gR1	O
release	O
was	O
essentially	O
a	O
certification	O
of	O
the	O
10g	O
database	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
10gR2	O
release	O
(	O
code	O
named	O
Paris	O
)	O
was	O
a	O
huge	O
release	O
incorporating	O
a	O
wide	O
spectrum	O
of	O
functionality	O
from	O
dimensional	B-Application
modelling	O
to	O
data	B-General_Concept
profiling	I-General_Concept
and	O
quality	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
packaging	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Oracle	B-Application
Developer	I-Application
Suite	I-Application
ended	O
in	O
May	O
2006	O
with	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
OWB	O
10gR2	O
(	O
10g	O
Release	O
2	O
)	O
,	O
when	O
the	O
core	O
functions	O
were	O
included	O
in	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
10gR2	I-General_Concept
Standard	O
Edition	O
and	O
Enterprise	O
Edition	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
introduction	O
of	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
11g	I-General_Concept
in	O
July	O
2007	O
the	O
OWB	O
version	O
was	O
updated	O
to	O
11gR1	O
(	O
11g	O
Release	O
1	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
11.2	O
(	O
11g	O
Release	O
2	O
)	O
was	O
released	O
with	O
the	O
11gR2	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
Database	I-General_Concept
in	O
September	O
2009	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
features	O
include	O
support	O
for	O
Oracle	B-Application
OBI	O
EE	O
,	O
and	O
native	O
access	O
to	O
an	O
extensible	O
set	O
of	O
non-Oracle	O
platforms	O
using	O
customizable	O
and	O
user-definable	O
code	O
templates	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
Oracle	B-Application
plans	O
to	O
integrate	O
OWB	O
with	O
Oracle	B-Application
Data	I-Application
Integrator	I-Application
(	O
ODI	O
)	O
,	O
an	O
ETL	O
tool	O
Oracle	B-Application
acquired	O
when	O
it	O
took	O
over	O
Sunopsis	O
in	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Warehouse	O
Builder	O
11.2	O
code	O
template	O
support	O
is	O
in	O
fact	O
derived	O
from	O
and	O
largely	O
compatible	O
with	O
the	O
Oracle	B-Application
Data	I-Application
Integrator	I-Application
Knowledge	O
Module	O
framework	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Oracle	B-Application
has	O
publicly	O
commented	O
on	O
plans	O
to	O
release	O
a	O
data	B-General_Concept
integration	I-General_Concept
product	O
that	O
will	O
unify	O
features	O
from	O
both	O
of	O
the	O
current	O
offerings	O
.	O
</s>
