Top Benefits of an OBIEE 11g Upgrade for IT

1. Oracle BI 11g
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2. Agenda
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3. Agenda
① Use of Weblogic Application Server
② Unified Systems Management
③ Simplified and Integrated Lifecycle Management
④ Improved Performance Monitoring
⑤ Automated Operational Tasks
⑥ Improved Enterprise Security
⑦ Better BI Administration Tool
⑧ Expanded Oracle BI Platform Support
⑨ Oracle BI Map Views
⑩ Performance, Scalability & Availability Optimizations
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4. Top Benefits of an OBIEE
11g Upgrade for IT
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5. ① Use of Weblogic Application Server
WebLogic Domain
Admin Server Managed Server
Admin Console Action Service BI Office BI Publisher
Enterprise Manager Web Service SOA BI Plugin Security
Node Manager
Oracle BI System Components
BI Server BI Scheduler BI Presentation Server BI Java Host Cluster Controller
OPMN
Supporting Database Schemas (Created by RCU)
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6. Simplified Administration & Lower TCO for OBIEE
 BI System Management
 Lower TCO
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7. Time to Value, Simplified Administration, Lower TCO
 Install and Upgrade
 Patch and Support
 Backup/Restore/Test
to Production
 Enterprise
Deployment
Time to Value, Simplified
Architecture Administration, Lower TCO
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8. Comprehensive Support in Enterprise Manager
 Diagnostics &
troubleshooting
 Across single
instance & clusters
 1-click scale-out &
online clustering
 Dynamic capacity
management
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9. OBIEE 11g
 Centralized
Configuration &
Process Control
 Centralized
Diagnostics and
Monitoring
 Availability and
Cluster Management
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10. Highly Secure, Simple, & Certified Identity Mgmt. Integration
 Pluggable SSO and Identity
Management
 Application Roles
 Standard, Certified, & Secure
 SSL Everywhere
 Simple to Maintain
Comprehensive integration with hot pluggable Fusion Middleware Security
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11. Simplification and Ease of Use
 64-bit Admin Tool
 Client Installer
 Smaller Footprint (Simple Install)
 Consistency Checker (Enhanced)
 BI Server Metadata Web
Service
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12. Expanded Oracle BI
Platform Support
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13. OBIEE 11g
All Languages BI Server Data Sources
Browsers  Oracle 10g & 11g
 IE7 & IE8  Teradata 12 & 13/13.10
 Firefox 3.5+  SQL Server 2005 & 2008
 Safari 4.x and 5.x
 DB2 9.1, 9.5 & 9.7
 BI Publisher in IE8
 Essbase 9.3.3 & 11.1.2+
Windows Client  Fusion ADF BCs
 32-bit XP, 2003, Vista, 2008,
Win7  Oracle OLAP
 32-bit BI Client Developer  Oracle TimesTen
Tool for client access  Microsoft SSAS 2005 &
 Admin Tool, Catalog 2008
Manager
 Oracle RetekRPAS
 BI Publisher Office Plug-ins
 BI Office Plug-in  HFM 9.x, 11.1.1.x, & 11.1.2
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14. OBIEE 11g
RCU Database Office Support
 Oracle 10g & 11g  Microsoft Office 2010
 SQL Server 2005 & 2008
 DB2 9.7 Security via FMW
 Active Directory 2003 &
Application Servers 2008
 WebLogic Apps
Server 10.3.5  CA SiteMinder 6
 OpenLDAP 2.3.37
Portals
 Sun Java System Directory
 WebCenter 11.1.1.4+
Service 6.3
 JDeveloper 11.1.1.4+
 Novell eDirectory 8.8
Mobile Support  Oracle Directory Server
 Mobile App Support iOS Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.3+
4.2.1+
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15. Oracle BI Map Views
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16. Map Views in OBIEE 11g
 Google Maps can be background maps
 Useful for displaying rich background maps
 Useful if geo-data is mostly in Long/Lat coordinates
 Must obtain a Google Maps API
 Requires spatial data for geometries from NAVTEQ
or other provider if you want to display shapes (for
e.g. country boundaries)
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17. Google Maps - State Format & Bar Graphs
Google Maps – San Francisco Oracle eLocation Map – San Francisco
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18. OBIEE 11g
 Performance
 Massively scalable with
flexible deployment options
 Highly available with Active-
Active Clustering
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