Oracle business intelligence overview

Rajesh Nadipalli
Rev2
Jan 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


 Oracle’s BI Strategy
 OBIEE Architecture (11 g)
 OBIEE Report Development
 OBIEE Meta Data Development
 11g key new features


 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


http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/endeca/general-presentation-517133.pdf

User Experience
Interactive Reporting, Pu
Capability 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


http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/core.1111/e10106/bi.htm#CHDHFBEA

Presentation and BI
server are the key
services


http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e10541/configsettings.htm

BI Component Configuration File Default File Location
BI Server NQSConfig.ini, instancesinstance1configOracleBIServerComp
logconfig.xml onentcoreapplication_obis1

Presentation Server, Instanceconfig.xml instancesinstance1configOracleBIPresentatio
BI Scheduler nServicesComponentcoreapplication_obips1

Cluster Controller ClusterConfig.xml instancesinstance1configOracleBIApplication
coreapplication
JavaHost Config.xml instancesinstance1configOracleBIJavaHostCo
mponentcoreapplication_obijh1
BI Presentations bridgeconfig.properties mw_homeuser_projectsdomainsbifoundation_
Services plug-in domainconfigfmwconfigbiinstancescoreappli
cation


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


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)


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


http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e10544/getstart.htm

Navigate to Specific
Build New Dashboard
Reports

Navigate
to Your
Saved
Content


http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/odtug_2011_rittman_obiee_reporting_nf.pdf


http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e10544/getstart.htm


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 server


http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10540/intro.htm


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


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


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)


http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/map_view


http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10544/creatingviews.htm
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10544/prompts.htm


http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/odtug_2011_rittman_obiee_reporting_nf.pdf

Oracle has attempted to simplify creation of a simple report alternative to
the tab based selections


 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


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