Introduction of Oracle BI and BI Interactive Dashboards

1. Introduction & Building Reports
By :
Deepika Walia
Senior BI Consultant

2. AGENDA
 About Oracle BI EE
 Components of Oracle BI EE
 Answers
 Interactive Dashboard

3. Introduction To Oracle BI EE
 Business intelligence is a group of processes and technologies that transform the
transactional data into valuable knowledge.
 Enables business users to make correct decisions.
 Improves the productivity of their enterprises, especially in the markets where there
is huge competition.
 In past days, business intelligence was related to only historical data. But now, real-
time reporting is one of the most important requirements. Before, there were many
reporting tools that were part of transactional applications. They were used to generate
operational reports. But now, as you will imagine, there are many applications that are
based on different technologies in an enterprise and a unified reporting solution is an
important requirement.

4. Introduction To Oracle BI EE
 Analytical tool used to help users to view and
analyze data.
 Provide metrics to measure the state of the
data
 Presents Key indicators of changes in the
market trends etc.

5. Advantages of Oracle BI EE
 Simple User Manipulation.
 No deep Technical skills required.
 Robust Customizations.
 Multilanguage reports can be created with
data.

6. Architecture of Oracle BI EE
Client Presentation
Services
BI Server
BI Scheduler
Repository
OO
Oracle
SAP
Siebel
Data
Source
Data Source

7. Oracle BI Components
 Oracle BI Client:
• Web based User Interface.
• Allows the users to create Answers or reports and
view them.
• Allows the users to add the reports to the dashboard.
 Oracle BI Presentation Services:
• Business intelligence data to the clients through web browsers.
• Communicates with the BI server component
directly and consists of query clients such as Analysis Editor and
dashboards.
• End users will be able to create and modify analyses or just
access business data.

8. Oracle BI Components
 Oracle BI Server:
• Oracle BI Server is the main component in the suite.
• Query engine that converts the logical requests to a physical SQL statement in order
to execute it in the data sources.
• Optimized queries are generated based on the business rules that are defined in the
BI server repository.
“ Show me sales through today for my
highest value customers. Assure sufficient
inventory to fulfill orders.”
Oracle BI Server
Intelligent Request Generation
Data Warehouse Operational
Inventory
System
Historical sales
(through
yesterday)
Today’s sales Current
inventory
•Repository
•NQSConfig.ini
•NQServer.ini
•NQquery.log

9. Oracle BI Components cont…
Oracle BI repository: Is built and managed by the Oracle
Administration tool and provides information and measures to
clients used to create the reports.
Physical
layer
Business
layer
Presentation
layer

10. Oracle BI Components cont…
 NQSconfig.ini: This file is used for enabling and disabling the
cache and defining the repository to load.
 NQServer.log : Record the OBI server messages.
 NQquery.log : Records the messages of a query.

11. Oracle BI Components cont…
 Oracle BI Answers:
 Guided experience leads user from insight to action.
 Personalized, function-specific and role-based.
 Allow the users to generate alerts.
 Oracle Interactive Dashboards:
 Ad-hoc data exploration.
 True business user self sufficiency.
 Create , modify and author analysis, pivots and dashboards.
 Oracle BI Publisher:
 Schedule and distribute enterprise-class reports.
 Sophisticate “pixel-perfect” report layout controls.

12. Oracle BI Answers

13. Oracle BI Answers
 Provides end users ad-hoc query and analysis
capabilities.
 Users interact with the logical view of information.
 Requests that you create are saved Oracle BI
presentation catalog.

14. Answers Workspace
Subject Area
Selection

15. Add criteria to answers
Add Criteria
in report
Presentation
Columns
Filters

16. Display results in answers

17. Report parameters
Add Criteria
in report
Report
Parameters
Mandatory

18. Interactive Dashboards

19. OBI Interactive dashboard
 User’s default dashboard is typically the first page that
appears.
 Flexible information containers.
 Personalized to automatically display data based on the
user’s identity or role.

20. Dashboard Objects
 Pages : Contains one or more columns and are used to
align contents on the dashboard.
 Sections: Within columns hold actual data. Can
contain results, dashboard prompts, links, images,
embedded content, text, folder, guide navigation link etc.

21. Dashboard Builder

22. Adding catalog object into DB

23. How it works..

24. OBIEE best practices
 Instead of creating the Physical layer objects manually, use the
Import option from the File menu.
 Circular joins shouldn't be used in the repository.
 Create aliases for each physical table to avoid the circular joins.
You may create more than one alias for a single physical table.

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