Overview of a simple Implementation with Oracle E-Business as the Data Source

Feb 27th 2009 Presented by

Al Kannan

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Objectives & Audience Introduction to OBIEE Architecture Installation Repository Creation Simple Report Example Star Schema Report Example Next Steps Q&A

Objectives & Audience

Objectives Introduction to OBIEE Installation Basics Demonstrate a simple repository creation Demonstrate OBIEE Answer Requests and Dashboards Audience Oracle Reports Developers with no OBIEE exposure Oracle Discoverer Administrators and Developers with no OBIEE exposure Traditional Oracle Report Users

Introduction to OBIEE

It is a query tool Unlike simple reporting tool, it allows users to carryout Analysis It has far more rich features than Discoverer It is completely web based design It has an impressive common sense, intuitive user interface, very easy to learn It came with Siebel acquisition, Siebel got it from nQuire Software in 2001, it was designed to be database/Applications vendor independent It is a myth to assume OBIEE can improve performance, improving performance depends on optimal Data Source Schema design and accurate Metadata setup in the repository

Architecture
Clients Oracle BI Answers to build Requests (Reports) BI Dashboards to Display results of the Answers Requests BI Administration Tool to build repository Oracle BI Presentation Services Renders pages Extension to Web Server Users a catalog folder to store user content Acts as an intermediary, receives data from Oracle BI server and provides it to the client Oracle BI Server Uses the RPD file (metadata) to form dynamic SQL It can connect natively (Oracle OCI) or through ODBC to the RDBMS It Structures the results set Data Sources Relational Database, OLAP databases, Flat Files, Spreadsheets, XML files

Some of the Other Components

Oracle BI Scheduler Just like Concurrent Manager, it schedules Answers Requests, Scripts, Alerts Oracle BI Delivers Few Web pages that allows us create alerts based on Answers Requests IBOTS (OBIEE provides few web pages that allows us to create alert setups) It works with the Scheduled BI Administration tool to manage Analytics Metadata RPD files (Windows Based only)

Sample Request Processing

1. Users views a dashboard or submits a request via Answers 2. Oracle BI Presentation Services makes a request to Oracle BI Server to retrieve the requested data 3. Using the repository file, Oracle BI Server optimizes functions to request the data from the data sources 4. Oracle BI Server receives the data from the data sources and processes as necessary 5. Oracle BI Server passes the data to Oracle BI Presentation Services 6. Oracle BI Presentation Services formats the data and sends it to the client

Install Options
It can run on both Windows and Linux You can deploy all server based components in one server or in multiple servers (with cluster configurations) Basic Install does not require a separate Applications Server, Advanced Install do. Basic Install is available only on Windows and it is very easy to install There are some tools such as BI Administration Tool that are windows based only

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