BAM 12c is a significant upgrade in architecture from BAM 11g. You can migrate the data objects and the data, but you cannot migrate the dashboards. Fortunately, creating dashboards in BAM 12c is very easy. The process is designed for business analysts so creating new dashboards is very simple using standard Oracle chart types.

BAM 11g is only certified to run on IE9 and earlier versions of Internet Explorer. To use other browsers, you should migrate to BAM 12c.

BAM 12c supports all of the major browsers. See the Oracle Fusion Middleware certification matrix for exact details.

Yes. BAM 12c offers many ways to customize the look-and-feel from choosing custom color patterns to embedding of images. BAM 12c has a CSS framework that will allow advanced users to customize BAM using custom style sheets to do extensive customization. It provides a lot of powerful customization options.

Yes. Oracle BAM supports drilling to details which allows the end user to see the lowest level of detail for the data which was used to calculate a particular element of the chart. The dashboard designer can choose which fields and in what order the user will see when they drill through to the low-level details.

Yes. Oracle BAM calls this “drill-across’. The dashboard designer can design a dashboard so that the end user can easily open another one based on the selection of single slice of a pie chart or bar of a bar chart.

BAM 12c allows you to input data at a much higher rate than BAM 11g. BAM supports both real-time and tactical dashboards. You should focus on keeping a reasonable amount of data in BAM for everyday needs. There’s no set limit, but keep in mind that storing extremely large volumes could impact performance. This is partially offset by BAM 12c’s in-memory incremental calculation capabilities for updating real-time dashboards. But, for long term data storage needs, you should use OBIEE or Big Data products.

It may not be possible to predict the needs of all the business users in a large organization. BAM 12c allows dashboard designers to define business queries using parameters. When this is done, it provides the end user with a side-panel which easily allows the end-user to set the values for the parameters based on their own needs.

Yes. BAM 12c supports calculated fields with a rich library of functions that can be used. Customers often create duration fields based upon the difference between start and end times or assign a value of 1 to a row that meets a specific criteria, so that they can easily create a simple group query that counts how many rows have met that criteria.

No. BAM 12c has row-level security capabilities that allow end-users access to only the data that they have the right to see without you needing to specifically create dashboards for different departments.

Yes. BAM allows the dashboard designer to define hierarchies on the data which can be time or non-time based hierarchies. Once a business query and view have been created using the highest level of the hierarchy, the end-user can drill through the levels of the hierarchy without requiring specific queries and views to be created at each level.

Yes. BAM 12c has several geo-map chart types that allow you to display your data on a map.

Yes. You can use chart types such as the bubble chart that allow you to have an X-axis and Y-axis in addition to configuring a value for the size of the bubble (Z-axis).

Yes. BAM 12c has a concept of a project. You should create a new project for your own artifacts. The command line utility called "bamcommand" allows administrators to easily move artifacts from one environment to another.

Yes. BAM 12c even has out-of-the-box analytics dashboards that provide a lot of technical information about your SOA composites or BPM processes. You must turn on this feature before deploying the composites or BPM processes.