Obiee 12c: Look under the bonnet and test drive

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OBIEE 12c
Look Under the Bonnet and Test Drive
Guillaume Slee – EPM Services Director
Infratects Top Gun Conference 2016

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Agenda
• OBIEE 12c overview
• New Architecture
• Installation
• Upgrade
• Administration
• EPM Connectivity Update
•New Features
• BI Ask
• Visual Analyzer
• BI Application Archive
• Advanced Analytics (R)
•Demo

Guillaume Slee
• EPM Services Director - Brovanture
• 15+ years experience in the EPM domain
• First OBIEE-Essbase integration project in 2009
• Previous experience…
• Infratects – EPM & BI Infrastructure Specialist
• KPMG – EPM Manager
• Analitica – Essbase/Planning consultant, Support and Infra Team Lead
• Hyperion – Senior Essbase Product Specialist
• Blog: http://hyperion-epm-bi.blogspot.com

About Brovanture
• Oracle Platinum Partner, Blackline Systems Gold Partner
• Formed in 2005, approximately 20 consultants all UK based
• Certified in:
• Oracle Essbase
• Oracle Planning
• Oracle HFM
• Oracle DRM
• Oracle OBIEE
• Blackline Reconciliation (Financial Close/Reconciliation)
• Oracle Cloud Specialized (PBCS)
• www.brovanturecloud.com
• Functional and Infrastructure consulting
• Managed Support for all EPM/BI components
• Standard, Proactive, Pay-as-you-go
• Infrastructure Hosting

The Story So Far…
R1
12c
(10/15)
BICS DVCS

OBIEE 12c Overview
• Released October 2015
• Most significant update in 3+ years
• New features in BI Cloud service
trickle down to on premise
• Cleaner look and feel
• Easier to use
• Simplifies data visualization
(compete with Tableau/Click)
• Easily blend/mashup data from
multiple sources
• Even better mobile capabilities

Refined Classic BI Home Page
• Makes better use of space and incorporates common Oracle 12c header
• Strikes a balance between new design patterns and providing a familiar
environment for 11g users
• Consistency across on-prem and cloud
8

12c Architecture
• Similar topology to 11g
• Removal of OPMN

OBIEE 12c Compatibility
• Repository Database:
• Oracle 12.1.0.1+, 11.2.0.4+
• SQL Server 2008 R2*, 2012
• Operating System
• Win 2012, 2012 R2
• Oracle Linux 6,7
• RH Linux 6,7
• SLES 11
• Solaris x86, SPARC

Installation and
Configuration

12c Installation (Oracle Slide)

12c Installation
• Weblogic not bundled with installer
• Installation sequence:
• Install Java JDK 8 update 66
• Install Weblogic 12.2.1
• Install OBIEE 12c
• One install type (no Simple/Enterprise/Software Only)
• Configuration sequence:
• Run RCU now bundled with installer:
Oracle_Homeoracle_commonbinrcu.bat
• Run configuration: Oracle_Homebibinconfig.cmd

12c Installation
• Much quicker installation
• Less selection steps

12c Installation
• OBIEE Admin Tool
• Requires separate installation (not included with Windows server installation)
• Add ODBC connection manually (note port number!):

OBIEE Installation
• EPM and OBIEE on same server? OBIEE will not start.
• OBIEE will pick up older EPM libraries from the system path and OBIEE will fail
to start.
• Create a separate batch script to start OBIEE:

11g – 12c Upgrade Process
1. Install and configure OBIEE 12c
2. Run migration tool on 11g to extract repository, catalog and user
roles to single migration file.
3. Copy migration file to 12c environment and import

• Upgrade to 12c supported from 11.1.1.7 and 11.1.1.9
• Before upgrading to 12c, make sure 11g catalog is upgraded(set
<UpgradeAndExit> tag to true in instanceconfig.xml).
• Copy the OBIEE 12c migration tool from your 12c installation to your
11g installation and launch tool
• E:OracleOBIEEOracle_Homebimigration-tooljlibbi-migration-tool.jar

• Copy the exported file to your 12c install
• Launch the bi-migration-tool again to import RPD, catalog and
application roles

OBIEE Baseline Validation Tool
• Enables the creation of a baseline set of data that can be compared
with data from another system
• Automated regression testing on any two compatible Oracle BIEE
environments
• Data verification
• Visual verification
• Query verification

BVT - Data Verification

BVT - Visual Verification

BVT - Query Verification

OBIEE 12c Administration
• Port changes
• Standard OBIEE Login: http://server:9502/analytics
• Visual Analyzer Login: http://server:9502/analytics/va
• Weblogic Console: http://server:9500/console
• Start/Stop process
• No OPMN.
• Scripts provided to start all components.
• Command line/WLEM used to control individual components

• Log file locations found in one simple location
• E:OracleOBIEEOracle_Homeuser_projectsdomainsbiservers
• Some file names have changed

• RPD uploaded via command line
• RPD located in user_projectsdomainsbibidataservice_instancesssimetadatadatamodelcustomizations
• uploadrpd -I <RPDname> [-W <RPDpwd>] -SI <service_instance> -U
<cred_username> [-P <cred_password>] [-S <hostname>] [-N <port_number>] [-
SSL] [-H]
• downloadrpd -O RPDname [-W RPDpwd] -SI service_instance -U cred_username
[-P cred_password] [-S hostname] [-N port_number] [-SSL] [-H]

EPM Connectivity Update
• Full integration for following sources since OBIEE 11.1.1.9:
• Essbase
• Planning
• HFM

Essbase 12c

Essbase 12c
• Java agent replaces OPMN
• Clustering still active-passive (see the venerable John Goodwin’s blog)
• Essbase 12c BI Acceleration Wizard - Use Essbase to aggregate
relation data source to improve query performance
• Support for renegade members
• http://servername:9502/cds/view

Essbase 12c BI Acceleration Wizard

Data Visualization

Data Visualization
• Additional paid add-on
• Designed to securely scale
stories across the organization
• Turn on exploratory analytics for
all data sources
• Optimal for quick sprints in
departmental initiatives where
data is scattered in many places
• Touch friendly mobile authoring

Data Visualizer – BI Ask
• Just ASK OBIEE for the data
you want to visualize
• Interprets semantic layer,
catalog artifacts and
underlying data using
intuitive keyword search
• Generates on-the-fly queries
- Visualizations auto-created
while user types
• Easy entry point into
authoring tools

Data Visualizer– BI Ask
• Enable Data Model and Catalog crawling from within Administration
menu (Administration->BI Search)

Data Visualizer - Blending
• Data Blending/Mashups
• Ability to easily merge existing data to new uploaded data.
• Excel format (.XLSX) currently supported, more file formats to follow.

Blending Process
Take existing VA report
(OBIEE RPD datasource)
Upload your spreadsheet
data
Map the spreadsheet
columns to existing
datasource dimensions
You’ve now blended your
spreadsheet data with the
OBIEE data!

Data Visualizer - Blending
• By default data files stored in user_projectsdomainsbibidatacomponentsDSSstoragessi
• Information on uploaded files (name, column mappings…)
stored in S_NQ_DSS* tables:
• Limits defined in EM System mBean Browser:
20GB
100MB
20GB

Data Visualizer Architecture
• Data Set Service within bi_server
manages blending process
• .XLSX file uploaded to file store
• Maps stored in OBIEE repository
• Optional “External Subject Area
Cache” (XSA) used to store data
(better perf)
• See Doc ID 2087801.1 for XSA config

BAR Archive File
• New easy way to archive/migrate entire OBIEE instance to new server
• Contains the following components:
• Authmodel: All security roles and associated users
• Content: Entire web catalog
• Datamodel: Repository RPD file
• No web/gui. Only done via the command line using weblogic scripting
tool wlst

BAR Archive File Export
• Oracle_Homeoracle_commoncommonbinwlst.cmd
• exportServiceInstance(
• domainHome, 'E:/Oracle/OBIEE/Oracle_Home/user_projects/domains/bi'
• serviceInstanceKey, 'ssi'
• workDir, 'E:/OBIEE_Files/BAR/Working'
• exportDir, 'E:/OBIEE_Files/BAR/Export'
• )
• exportServiceInstance('E:/Oracle/OBIEE/Oracle_Home/user_projects/dom
ains/bi','ssi','E:/OBIEE_Files/BAR/Working','E:/OBIEE_Files/BAR/Export')

BAR Archive File Export

BAR Archive File Import
• importServiceInstance(
• domainHome,
'E:/Oracle/OBIEE/Oracle_Home/user_projects/domains/bi'
• serviceInstanceKey, 'ssi'
• barLocation, 'E:/OBIEE_Files/BAR/Export/ssi.bar'
• importRpd, true
• importWebcat, true
• importJazn, true
• )

Advanced Analytics
• Exposes Oracle R distribution to
the BI Server
• “The R language is widely used
among statisticians and data
miners for developing statistical
software and data analysis”
• Trendline, Forecast, Cluster,
Outlier, Regression
• Regular “R” package is bundled
with install but it needs to be
installed and configured
manually

OBIEE 12c Tuning Guide
• Oracle Support doc 2106183.1
• It’s a GUIDE, if your query is awful it won’t speed thing up.

Should you upgrade yet?
• Some great new features
• Data visualizer
• Blending
• Still not fully mature
• No UI for RPD upload
• No UI for BAR archives

Demo
• OBIEE Visual Analyzer
• OBIEE Ask
• Data Blending

Thank you!
guillaume.slee@brovanture.com
@epm_bi
http://hyperion-epm-bi.blogspot.com

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