Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) is a comprehensive business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of capabilities - including interactive dashboards, ad hoc queries, notifications and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, scorecard and strategy management, business process invocation, search and collaboration, mobile, integrated systems management and more.

1. Control and Business
Analysis with ORACLE
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
ENTERPRISE EDITION
Teodor Ognianov
Dreamix ltd
www.dreamix.eu

2. About Teodor
Oracle Fusion Middleware Expert at Dreamix
Passionate about:
• Oracle Technology
• Java
• Business Intelligence
• Open source development

3. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) is a
comprehensive business intelligence platform that delivers a full
range of capabilities - including interactive dashboards, ad hoc
queries, notifications and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting,
scorecard and strategy management, business process invocation,
search and collaboration, mobile, integrated systems management
and more.
OBIEE 11g is based on a proven web service-oriented unified
architecture that integrates with an organization’s existing information
technology (IT) infrastructure for the lowest total cost of ownership
(TCO) and highest return on investment (ROI).
Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition

4. Comparison of the components

5. What additional features OBIEE offers?
BI Server
• Single meta database of all end customers
• Switching from "Report-centric" to "Model-centric" approach
• Common Enterprise Information Model
• Еxtracting data from multiple sources
simultaneously
• Real-time data and historical data
• Oracle and non-Oracle data sources
• Performance
• Caching, Summary management, SQL tuning
• Load balancing across many presentation servers

6. What additional features OBIEE offers?
• Fully implementеd interface in WEB;
• Rich interactive boards;
• Integration with MS Office;
• Multilingual support;
• Distant analysis for mobile users;
BI Presentation Tools

7. What additional features OBIEE offers?
• SОА & Web Services Connection
• Integration of Oracle BPEL Process
Manager
• Oracle Internet Directory and Single Sign-
On Support
OBIEE is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware

8. OBIEE Architecture
• Clients
• BI Presentation Server
• BI Server
• Repository
• Data Sources

9. Clients
• Gives access to BI information
• Oracle BI Answers - a set of tools for creating, viewing
and modifying applications
• Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards - visualizing the
results of inquiries made with BI Answers
• Oracle BI Administration Tool

10. Oracle BI Presentation Server
• Extension of the WEB Server
• Catalog for stored content
• Receive information from the Oracle BI
Server and interpreting it to the customers

11. Oracle BI Server
• The Server for Oracle Business Intelligence
• Using meta database directly
• Generate dynamic SQL requests to the physical data
sources
• Uses ODBC to RDBMS
• Structure the results to BI Presentation Server

12. Repository
• Stores meta database used by BI Server
• Generated by the Oracle BI Administration Tool
– Imports meta base from data sources
– Organizes and structures metadata into business models
– Structures the business model for presentation to users
who request the information

13. Data Sources
• Stores the data for analysis
• Available for BI Server
• Available in any of these formats:
– Relational Database
– OLAP database
– Files
– Tables
– XML for Analysis (XMLA)

14. Reports with Oracle BIEE

15. Reports with Oracle BIEE

16. Reports with Oracle BIEE

17. Reports with Oracle BIEE

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INTELLIGENCE ENTERPRISE
EDITION
Create a repository

19. Oracle BI Administration Tool
Shows repository in three separate
panels:
• Physical
• Business Model and Mapping
• Presentation

20. Physical Layer
• Connections between dimensional and fact
tables are required for valid business model;
• By Oracle BI Server links defines the relations
between tables;

21. Measures
Summary icon that indicates a
defined aggregate function
• Increase productivity;
• Define measurable matches;
• They are on logical columns in the fact
tables;
• They have defined aggregate function;

22. Defining measures
Десен клик на
колоната
Properties
Избор на
функция
Иконата указва
агрегатна функция
Right click on Properties > Aggregation

23. Oracle recommendations
• Use only logical links in the BMM layer.
• Rename the logical columns.
• Use names corresponding to the
organization and understandable for
consumers.
• Use short names without space in them.
• Create unique names for columns.
• Avoid using same name with the name of
the logical table in the BMM.

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Repository creation
Presentation Layer and
Hierarchy

25. User interface in the presentation layer
The presentation layer defines the objects
that users see.
Object area
Folder
Column
Catalog
Folder
Column

26. Oracle recommendations
• Use talking names.
• Don`t use quotation marks (') in the names.
• Avoid double quotes (").
• Make the objects names unique.
• Grouped objects in speaking to users
• Remove unnecessary objects to simplify model
• Use short names to save space in the references

27. Hierarchy
Define hierarchies in business model
Establish levels of grouping
Establish ways of drill down

28. 1. Create Dimension
Right-click on the “business model” then
select New Object> Dimension
Right-click on the “logical dimension” then
select Create Dimension

29. 2. Add primarily level
Name
Show primary
level

30. 3. Add next level
Name
Number of
elements on the
level
Rollup

31. 4. Determine the number of elements
Determination of the items number by
updating database records.

32. 5. Columns in the levels
The logical column is connected to the
logical level
Logical columns can be
situated in chosen
position in the hierarchy

33. 6. Add features in the presentation
layer
Add new columns in the presentation
layer to make hierarchy visible for the.

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Create reports

35. 1. Workspace

36. 2. Create inquiry
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2
1
4
The selected fields are displayed
on the desktop
Select the columns from the panel to place in
the inquiry.

37. 3. Displaying results
Go to “Results”.
The application can be displayed in
many ways.

38. Change in
the look
4. Change in the look
The change in the look allows control
over visualization of information.

39. 5. Change in the column format
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2
3
4
Often used in date or numeric field.

40. 6. Filters
• The filters are handy tools to orgamize
the displayed information;
• The filters may be on one or more
columns;
• Filters can be reused if stored in the
system;

41. 1b
1а
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2
4
Create Filters

42. Filters on multiple columns
Filters can be created on multiple columns.

43. • Introduction to Oracle BI Answers
• Create tabular reports
• Create graphics
• Create titles
Legend

44. Graphics
Scroller
Scroller
Options
Columns
Result

45. Graphics options
Area
Horizontal Bar
Bubble
Vertical Bar
Line bar Combo
Line Time Series
Pareto
Pie
Radar
Scatter
Step

46. Options
Basic Options Scaling Information change
Titles and
labels
Additional labels Advanced

47. Columns
Line columnsHorizontal columns
(Х)
Vertical columns
(У)

48. Formatting on condition
Click Add
Condition
Color on condition

49. Oracle BI Delivers
• Automate BI
• Create alarms (alerts), based on
consultation with BI
• Send reports to the BI consumer or send
them by email

50. BI Delivers Access
Select More Products> Delivers

51. Homepage
Create iBot-and
Change profile
View iBot-and

52. 1. Set the General tab
Priority: High, Normal, Low
Visibility: Custom, impersonal
Run As: available only at impersonal visibility.
Specifies which user to run the robot

53. Add condition
Select a condition to start the work- Oracle BI Answers
request.
It is planned to be launched if the application returns one or
more rows.
2. Set the Conditional Request tab

54. 3. Set the Schedule tab
Three-piece
configuration.
Start report.
Repeat.
End date of
departure.
It dependents on
the time and date
on the server, not
on the local
machine.

55. 4. Set the Recipients tab
Choose receiver
Recipients
Myself
other

56. 5. Set the Delivery Content tab
Content
Empty reference message
Title
Content
Type of
transmission
Additional text
Text in the event
of a failed request

57. 6. Set the Destinations tab
Receiving
Tables
Accounts receivable
Devices
Set of devices for receiving

58. 7. Set the Advanced tab
• Select one or more actions after the
launch of the robot (with success /
failure)
• Calling next iBot
• Execution of native SQL script

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60. BI Publisher

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62. About Dreamix
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