• Understanding OBIEE

Amit Sharma
OBIEE/Hyperion Trainer
learnhyperion.wordpress.com
Objective
Objective

1.1. Introduction
IntroductiontotoOBIEE.
OBIEE.
2.2. AAHistory
HistoryView
View: :OBIEE
OBIEE
3.3. OBIEE
OBIEEArchitecture.
Architecture.
4.4. OBIEE
OBIEEVarious
VariousComponents.
Components.
5.5. Role
RoleofofOBIEE
OBIEEininEnterprise
EnterpriseData
DataWarehousing
Warehousing
Technology
Technology
What
WhatisisOBIEE
OBIEE??
• •ItItisisaaquery
querytool
tool
• •Unlike
Unlike simplereporting
simple reportingtool,
tool,ititallows
allowsusers
userstotocarryout
carryoutAnalysis
Analysis
• •ItIthas
hasfar
farmore
morerich
richfeatures
featuresthan
thanDiscoverer.
Discoverer.
• •ItItisiscompletely
completelyweb webbased
baseddesign
design
• •ItIthas
has an impressive commonsense,
an impressive common sense,intuitive
intuitiveuser
userinterface,
interface,very
veryeasy
easytotolearn.
learn.
• •ItItisisaamyth to assume OBIEE can improve performance, improving
myth to assume OBIEE can improve performance, improving performance performance
depends
dependson onoptimal
optimalDataDataSource
SourceSchema
Schemadesign
designandandaccurate
accurateMetadata
Metadatasetup
setupininthe
the
repository
repository

Traditional
TraditionalReporting
ReportingTool
Tool
History
HistoryView
View: :OBIEE.
OBIEE.

OBIEE stands for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise edition (Formerly known as
OBIEE stands for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise edition (Formerly known as
siebel
siebelanalytics).
analytics).
When Oracle Corp. has acquired Siebel System and decided to make siebel analytics
When Oracle Corp. has acquired Siebel System and decided to make siebel analytics
their
their flagship
flagship analytic
analytic engine
engine andand renamed
renamed itit OBIEE
OBIEE (OBIEE
(OBIEE server
server ++ ETL
ETL engine+
engine+
Reporting).
Reporting).
The OBIEE product is coming with preconfigured ETL mappings and DW schema
The OBIEE product is coming with preconfigured ETL mappings and DW schema
available
availableforforSiebel
SiebelCRM,
CRM,Oracle
OracleEEBusiness
BusinessSuite
Suite(Financials,
(Financials,HRHRetc.),
etc.),JD
JDEdwards,
Edwards,and
and
SAP.
SAP.
OBIEE is a complete Data Warehouse technology server+application+ETL+report)
OBIEE is a complete Data Warehouse technology server+application+ETL+report)
where
whereother
otherreporting
reportingtools
toolslike
likeBusiness
BusinessObject
Object(BO)
(BO)isisreporting
reportingcomponents
componentsonly.
only.Other
Other
reporting
reportingtools
toolsBO,
BO,Cognos,
Cognos,IR, IR, can
canalso
alsoaccess
accessand
anddeliver
deliverreports
reportsthat
thatcan
canbebebuild
buildbased
based
on OBIEE DW tables..
on OBIEE DW tables..
 OBIEE
OBIEEPlus
Plusand
andFeatures
Features
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus) is a
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus) is a
comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products that delivers a full range of analysis and reporting
comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products that delivers a full range of analysis and reporting
capabilities. Featuring a unified, highly scalable, modern architecture, Oracle BI EE Plus provides
capabilities. Featuring a unified, highly scalable, modern architecture, Oracle BI EE Plus provides
intelligence and analytics from data spanning enterprise sources and applications—empowering the
intelligence and analytics from data spanning enterprise sources and applications—empowering the
largest communities with complete and relevant insight. Oracle BI EE Plus also bundles key Oracle
largest communities with complete and relevant insight. Oracle BI EE Plus also bundles key Oracle
Hyperion
Hyperionreporting
reportingproducts
productsfor
forintegrated
integratedreporting
reportingwith
withOracle
OracleHyperion
Hyperionfinancial
financialapplications
applications

Comprehensive
ComprehensiveBI BIfunctionality
functionalitybuilt
builton
ona aunified
unifiedinfrastructure—Includes
infrastructure—Includesinteractive
interactive
dashboards,
dashboards, full ad hoc queries and analysis, proactive intelligence delivery andalerts,
full ad hoc queries and analysis, proactive intelligence delivery and alerts,
enterprise
enterprise and
and financial
financial reporting,
reporting, online
online analytical
analytical processing
processing (OLAP)
(OLAP) analysis
analysis and
and
presentation, high-volume production reporting, real-time predictive
presentation, high-volume production reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, intelligence,
disconnected
disconnected analytics,
analytics, asas well
well asas integration
integration withwith Microsoft
Microsoft Office.
Office.
Hot-Pluggable BI infrastructure—Integrates with any data source, extraction, transformation and
Hot-Pluggable BI infrastructure—Integrates with any data source, extraction, transformation and
load (ETL) tool, major business application, application server, security infrastructure, portal
load (ETL) tool, major business application, application server, security infrastructure, portal
technology, other front-end and analytical tools, and databases including IBM DB/2, Teradata,
technology, other front-end and analytical tools, and databases including IBM DB/2, Teradata,
Microsoft SQL Server; SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Analysis Services;
Microsoft SQL Server; SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Analysis Services;
flat files; XML data; and unstructured data.
flat files; XML data; and unstructured data.
Architecture
Architecture

Clients
Clients
– Oracle BI Answers to build Requests (Reports)
– Oracle BI Answers to build Requests (Reports)
– BI Dashboards to Display results of the Answers Requests
– BI Dashboards to Display results of the Answers Requests
– BI Administration Tool to build repository
– BI Administration Tool to build repository
Oracle
OracleBI
BIPresentation
PresentationServices
Services
– Renders pages
– Renders pages
– Extension to Web Server
– Extension to Web Server
– Users a catalog folder to store user content
– Users a catalog folder to store user content
– Acts as an intermediary, receives data from Oracle BI server and provides it to the client
– Acts as an intermediary, receives data from Oracle BI server and provides it to the client

Oracle
OracleBI
BIServer
Server
– Uses the RPD file (metadata) to form dynamic SQL
– Uses the RPD file (metadata) to form dynamic SQL
– It can connect natively (Oracle OCI) or through ODBC to the RDBMS
– It can connect natively (Oracle OCI) or through ODBC to the RDBMS
– It Structures the results set Data Sources
– It Structures the results set Data Sources
– Relational Database, OLAP databases, Flat Files, Spreadsheets, XML files
– Relational Database, OLAP databases, Flat Files, Spreadsheets, XML files
Other
OtherObjects
Objects

Oracle
OracleBI BIScheduler
Scheduler
––Just
Justlike
likeConcurrent
ConcurrentManager,
Manager,ititschedules
schedulesAnswers
AnswersRequests,
Requests,Scripts,
Scripts,Alerts
Alerts
Oracle BI Delivers
Oracle BI Delivers
––Few
FewWeb Webpages
pagesthat
thatallows
allowsususcreate
createalerts
alertsbased
basedon
onAnswers
AnswersRequests
Requests
––IBOTS
IBOTS (OBIEE provides few web pages that allows us to createalert
(OBIEE provides few web pages that allows us to create alertsetups)
setups)
––ItItworks with the Scheduled
works with the Scheduled
BI
BIAdministration
Administrationtooltooltotomanage
manageAnalytics
AnalyticsMetadata
MetadataRPD
RPDfiles
files
––(Windows Based only)
(Windows Based only)
Disparate
DisparateData
DataSource
Source(Operation
(OperationData
DataSource),
Source),flat
flatfiles,
files,
xml, personal data
xml, personal data
 Data Warehousing Architecture
Monitoring & OBIEE Layer
Administration OLAP Servers
Metadata
Repository

Reconciled data Analysis

External Extract
Sources
Transform
Serve
Load
Refresh Query/Reporting
Operational
Dbs

Data Mining

DATA SOURCES TOOLS

DATA MARTS
 Typical Data Warehouse Architecture

Data
Marts

Metadata Metadata

Select Select

Extract Extract Data

Data Stage ODS Data Stage
Transform
Warehouse(OLAP
Transform Server or RDBMS
Data Repository)

Integrate Load

Maintain

Operational
Systems/Data
Data
Data
Preparation
Preparation

Multi-tiered Data Warehouse with ODS

Questions???
Questions???