Oracle BI 12c Enhancements

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What’s New With Oracle
Business Intelligence 12c
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Michelle Kolbe
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Red Pill Analytics: Ownership
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Stewart Bryson
Oracle ACE Director
Previously From:
Rittman Mead
Informix Software
Data Warehousing &
Business Intelligence
since 1996
Kevin McGinley
Oracle ACE Director
Previously From:
Accenture
BI Consulting Group
Data Warehousing &
Business Intelligence
since 1997

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Regression Testing with Ease: The Baseline Validation Tool 
Stewart Bryson
Tuesday 9:45 - 10:45 am in MFEC 223
Performance Analytics: Visualizing the Power of the AWR Warehouse
Stewart Bryson
Tuesday 1:30 - 2:30 pm in MFEC 223
What’s New With OBIEE 12c and BICS 
Michelle Kolbe
Tuesday 3:00 - 4:00 pm in MPDC 105

12c Enhancements, Changes, New Features
•Installation, Conﬁguration, Architecture
•Upgrade
•System And Lifecycle Management
•Data Sources And BI Server
•Front-End Enhancements
•Data Visualization And Mashups
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Front-End Enhancements

Alta UI
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Dashboards Answers

Home Page Reﬁnements
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“Classic” Home Page New Home Page

Search
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Search for content Search for data

Enhanced Sorting For Graphs / Pivot Tables
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Heat Matrix View
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Percentile Binning ResultContinuous Color Fill

View Properties Access In Compound Layout
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You no longer need to edit view to tweak properties!

Data Visualization And Mashups

Oracle Data Visualization (Visual Analyzer)
•Separately licensed
add-on to OBIEE
•Designed for true ad-
hoc analysis, data
exploration, data
discovery
•Uses curated subject
areas and/or uploaded
spreadsheets as data
sources
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Oracle Data Visualization (Visual Analyzer)
•Separately licensed
add-on to OBIEE
•Designed for true ad-
hoc analysis, data
exploration, data
discovery
•Uses curated subject
areas and/or uploaded
spreadsheets as data
sources
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Mashups
•Requires ODV license
•Upload spreadsheets and join
to subject areas in ODV
•Extend facts and dimensions
•Once uploaded and joins
defined in ODV, Answers users
can benefit from using the files
as XSA’s
•Data can be refreshed
manually in ODV
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Repository

Filtering on Aggregate Persistence
•Allows for “Fragmented Aggregates”
•Can add WHERE clause to aggregate build
•Useful for Popular data sets like Current Year
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Changes to Time Dimensions
•Can assign a sequence number to Time Dimensions
•Improves performance of time series calculations
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Command Line
•New utilities:
• Upload Repository
• Download Repository
• List Repository Variables
• Update Repository Variables
• List Connection Pool
• Update Connection Pool
• Rename Users
• Delete Users
• Rename Application Role
• Delete Application Role
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Installation, Conﬁguration and Architecture

Eating Their Own Dog Food

Installation Overview And Changes
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Step Change from 11g to 12c
Download Software Fewer files, smaller download, RCU is included
Run BIFoundation Installer Install only; configuration done separately
Create database repository
Can run RCU 11g-style, or generate scripts to be run
by DBA later
Configure BI Domain
Full offline configuration results in faster creation of
the domain
Scale out (optional) Command line scripts to clone domain

Singleton Data Directory With High Availability
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Oracle BI Domain - Server 1 Oracle BI Domain - Server 2
Shared Storage (e.g. NFS)
Conﬁg Conﬁg
Singleton Data Directory
NodeManager
Admin Server Managed Server
BI System Components
NodeManager
Admin Server Managed Server
BI System Components
bi-environment.xml bi-environment.xml
Service Instance
Singleton Data Directory contains the
Service Instance BI Content for the
cluster

File System Changes
•No more ‘instances’ folder
•No more Oracle_BI1 folder
•user_projects contains most of
what you’re looking for
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Other Architecture Changes
•Separation of Environment Metadata and Configuration
• Single source of truth for both – no environment info in RCU DB
schemas
• Reduced dependency on hardwired server names in configuration
• One place to edit environment and/or configuration
• Most files can be edited directly by customer using any tool including
Chef / Puppet
•Removal of OPMN process control
• Nodemanager used throughout to control components
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Goodbye, Old Friend

BISystemUser
Security GUIDs
Complicated SSL Conﬁguration

Upgrades

Validate Upgrade
•Install new OBIEE 12c instance
•Upgrade from 11.1.1.7 (latest patch) or 11.1.1.9
•12c Upgrade Utility
• Copy bi-migration-tool.jar ﬁle from 12c to 11g machine
• Run utility to generate an upgrade bundle
• Move upgrade bundle to 12c machine and import using bi-migration-
tool.sh
•Run Baseline Validation Tool
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Upgrade Process
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OBIEE 11g
Production
Migration
Tool Utility
BI
Application
Archive
(BAR)
OBIEE 12c
Baseline
report with
Validation
12c
report with
Validation
Tool
Compare
Output & Fix
Discrepancies
12c Production

See into Your Upgrade Future

Baseline Validation Tool (BVT)
•Free tool provided separately
by Oracle
•Runs a set of tests against two
compatible systems
• Within and between 11g/12c
•Multiple layers of comparison
•Produces output reports with
test results
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BVT In Action
• Compare some or all:
• Data results (Reports &
Dashboards)
• Logical query results
• Catalog contents
• Visual output
• Run tests for:
• Major upgrades
• Minor patches
• Migrate new content to prod
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Run tests against current system to
create a baseline
Upgrade, apply patch, or migrate
content to new system
Run same tests on the new system
and compare to baseline
Apply ﬁxes as needed

System and Lifecycle Enhancements

Enterprise Manager - FMW 12c
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No deployments
tab!

BI Application Archive (BAR)
• Contains OBIEE content in a
single ﬁle (RPD, Catalog,
Security Roles)
• Also manages
dependencies between
other BI Modules (future)
• Does not contain database
objects nor data
• Used for:
• Backup/Restore
• Environment Migration
• Upgrades
• Cloning Service Instances
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Other StuffJAZN Data / RolesCatalogRPD
BI Application Archive
(BAR)

Pluggable Architecture
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Oracle BI
Enterprise Edition 12c
Start with a single
instance of OBIEE

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Oracle BI
Metadata Modules (Optional)
Metadata Modules
designed to be static
(OBIA for instance)
Start with a single
instance of OBIEE

Individual Service
Instances provide
customization “stripes”
to Modules
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Oracle BI
Service Instance 1
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 3
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 2
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Metadata Modules
(OBIA for instance)
Start with a single
instance of OBIEE

Individual Service
Instances provide
customization “stripes”
to Modules
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Oracle BI
Service Instance 1
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 3
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 2
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Metadata Modules
(OBIA for instance)
Start with a single
instance of OBIEE

Non-Pluggable Architecture (so far in 12.2.1)
Singleton Service
Instance (SSI) with
Metadata, Content and
Authorization
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Oracle BI
Singleton Service
Instance (SSI)
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 3
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 2
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Metadata Modules
(OBIA for instance)
Start with a single
instance of OBIEE

Deployments
•Recommended: use BAR functionality
•Alternatively:
• data-model-cmd.sh / data-model-cmd.cmd
• Params:
• uploadrpd
• downloadrpd
• updateconnectionpool
• updaterpdvariables
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Data Sources and BI Server

External Subject Areas (XSA)
•Subject Area deﬁned outside of
the RPD
•Can be joined to an RPD
Subject Area, much like a
federated BI Server query
•Can be persisted to a database
cache
•Used in new Advanced Analytics
capabilities, Oracle Data
Visualization, and Answers*
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*Can’t be deﬁned in Answers - only consumed

Big Data Sources
Cloudera Impala
• Native MPP Query Engine
• Built for low latency queries
•DataDirect Connect ODBC
driver required/provided
•OBIEE generates Impala
speciﬁc optimized SQL queries
•Also made available in 11.1.1.9
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Apache Spark
• Native Spark SQL connectivity
to report and to analyze Big
Data in Apache Spark
• Alternate Option to persist
results in XSA Cache for future
queries
• Not available in 12.2.1; coming
in future 12c update

Advanced Analytics: Built-in Functions Using R
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Advanced Analytics Setup (Basic)
•Install R on OBIEE Server
• Oracle_Home/bi/bifoundation/advanced_analytics
• Uncompress r-installer.tar.gz, r-installer.tar
• Edit proxy.txt if necessary
• sudo ./RInstaller.sh install
•Install R packages
• sudo ./RInstaller installpackages
•Edit NQSConﬁg.ini
• Advanced Analytics Script Section
• R_EXECUTABLE_PATH = “/usr/bin/R”; (or other install location)
•Other steps/prerequisites required for Solaris/Windows
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Custom R Functions Using EVALUATE_SCRIPT
•R scripts stored on the server can
be called using
EVALUATE_SCRIPT
•Scripts are stored on the server in
a directory defined in
NQSConfig.ini
•Scripts contain parameters, output
definition, and options for
execution
•Built-in functions are implemented
in the same way, but stored in a
different place
•R generates a csv file that the BI
Server treats like an XSA
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In-Memory Enhancements To BI Server
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Feature Benefit
Native XSA Cache Better performance for mashup data
Default sortsize 4mb to 64mb Faster OBIEE query performance
Reduced memory usage for variable length data More efficient deployment, more memory for data
Compression of temporary work data More efficient deployment, more memory for data
Smaller and faster sort for aggregates and group by
handling
Faster query performance
Single pass totals and subtotals for Pivots Faster query performance

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