Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Oracle BI - Localization - Translate Metadata Objects (Part 1)

Oracle BI supports dynamic name of a presentation object, which will be retrieved from a session variable.

This feature enables translation of metadata objects into various languages. The topic of translation is referred as different terms i.e.

Localization: Because the objects are displayed in local language.

Globalization: This is seen in Siebel CRM application.
Internationalization: Because, it supports users internationally.