Oracle business intelligence overview

Rajesh NadipalliRev2Jan 2012 rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

This is an overview of Oracle’s key BI product OBIEE, formally known as Siebel Analytics. The presentation will start with an overview of Oracle’s BI strategy and then OBIEE configuration and then development.For complete product details, please visit Oracle’s site http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance- bi/enterprise-edition-066546.html rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

 Oracle’s BI Strategy OBIEE Architecture (11 g) OBIEE Report Development OBIEE Meta Data Development 11g key new features rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

 Oracle acquired several companies in the BI space (Siebel, Hyperion, Endeca) and now markets BI under it’s Fusion middleware. It is positioned to dominate the BI space which includes competition from SAP BO, IBM Cognos, Pentaho, Tableau, Qlickview etc Oracle has embraced the Big Data, NoSQL trend and plans to extend it’s architecture to support them rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/endeca/general-presentation-517133.pdf User Experience Interactive Reporting, PuCapability Dashboards, blishing, Ad- Scorecards, K Alerts Multi Data PI Dimensional Discovery Mobile BI hoc OBIEE Answers, Pub OBIEE Agents, S Hyperion Endeca Tool Dashboards lisher Scorecards cheduler Metrics, Aggregates Enterprise Manager Oracle Database Endeca MDEX Hyperion Essbase Data Staging & Processing Oracle Data Oracle Hadoop Hadoop Integrator Tools , HDFS Data Sources Sentimental / Applications Databases Documents Crowd Sourcing rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/core.1111/e10106/bi.htm#CHDHFBEAPresentation and BIserver are the keyservices rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e10541/configsettings.htmBI Component Configuration File Default File LocationBI Server NQSConfig.ini, instancesinstance1configOracleBIServerComp logconfig.xml onentcoreapplication_obis1Presentation Server, Instanceconfig.xml instancesinstance1configOracleBIPresentatioBI Scheduler nServicesComponentcoreapplication_obips1Cluster Controller ClusterConfig.xml instancesinstance1configOracleBIApplication coreapplicationJavaHost Config.xml instancesinstance1configOracleBIJavaHostCo mponentcoreapplication_obijh1BI Presentations bridgeconfig.properties mw_homeuser_projectsdomainsbifoundation_Services plug-in domainconfigfmwconfigbiinstancescoreappli cation rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10541/cluster.htm Vertical Scaling: Same hardware, multiple BI environments . Examples – QA and User Beta separate code bases but on same server. This can be done using the Fusion Middleware control Horizontal Scaling: Multiple Servers for same environment. Example to support more users on production. I’ll explain this more on next slide rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10541/cluster.htm Configure shared files and Directories During Install, select “Enterprise Install” and then “Scale out BI System” Scale out to the new hosts; OBIEE will setup managed servers like “bi_server1” “bi_server2” “bi_server3” Configure an HTTP server with a load balancer to distribute requests across the multiple managed servers (this is based on weblogic clustering) rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e10541/components.htm  Oracle’s Enterprise manager is one stop for Fusion Middleware control  OBIEE is now an application under Fusion  Bifoundation_domain includes AdminServer and bi_cluster  Coreapplication is under Business Intelligence rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

Answers, Dashboards

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e10544/getstart.htm Navigate to Specific Build New Dashboard ReportsNavigateto YourSavedContent rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/odtug_2011_rittman_obiee_reporting_nf.pdf rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e10544/getstart.htmrajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/odtug_2011_rittman_obiee_reporting_nf.pdf rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

Also Known as RPD

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10540/planning.htm  This is where you have to map the physical table to presentation objects  Support Dimension, Hierarchies and Content Switches for performance  Caching is also enabled here  This drives the intelligence and dynamic queries from the serverrajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10540/intro.htmrajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10540/busmodlayer.htm  Keep Physical model close to what’s in the database  Business Model is where you can define new logical column – example shown on left is aggregation done on Business model rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

Closer look at some popular new features

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e16364/actions.htm Integrates BI Dashboard with external applications making BI actionable Can invoke any web service over http See right side process flow on how this works rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/presentation_hierarchy Support for Level based like time hierarchy Support for Parent - child example Product Category - > Product Support for ragged hierarchy like employee reporting chain Answers shows a “+” to expand this hierarchy RPD Presentation layer allows to create this object (see right screen shot below) rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/map_viewrajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10544/creatingviews.htmhttp://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10544/prompts.htm rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/odtug_2011_rittman_obiee_reporting_nf.pdfOracle has attempted to simplify creation of a simple report alternative tothe tab based selections rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

 http://www.slideshare.net/rittmanmead/collaborate1 1-obiee11g-architecture-internals http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e105 44/getstart.htm http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/ endeca/general-presentation-517133.pdf http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/odtug_2011_ritt man_obiee_reporting_nf.pdf rajesh.nadipalli@gmail.com

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