Settings Adminstration - allows administrators to manage the Web application My Account - displays information about the present user

session Security Click on Settings Administration, allows Object-level permissions to be set on Web Catalog objects such as Folders, Filters, Dashboards etc. Creating BI Interactive Dashboards Dashboards are simply containers for reports and other content. It allows multiple reports to be displayed in a tabbed interface. It is ideally used to provide highly summarized and graphical content. Dashboards are first created via the Administrator Console, and are empty upon creation without any content. One can click on the edit link or choose Page Options Edit Dashboard. A report is added to a dashboard by dragging and dropping into the appropriate section. Multiple reports can be dragged per section. Page Editing Controls

A report can be added to a section in the new column, by first creating a new page column, then drag and drop the report to the section. Click Save. Dashboard displays the saved Dashboard. Properties button of a Report presents several Report Display Options, such as a link to the report instead of results, a link option with the report to appear in a new window etc. Report Links provide user options to appear below a given report. Modify Request option opens Answers page to edit the report. Guided Navigation allows a link between two or more reports, with the navigation to reports down the link, dependent on pre-defined conditions and results of the top report. OBIEE Pre-Packaged Content Fusion Intelligence Applications OBIEE Repository for Fusion Intelligence Applications such as Financials Intelligence, Supply Chain Intelligence, HR Intelligence etc. includes predelivered Answers and Dashboards. Business Intelligence Applications Prepackaged Business Analytics Warehouse (StarSchema) Data Warehouse content and OBIEE repository for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i (11.5.8 and above)/Release12, Siebel, PeopleSoft, SAP etc. Comes with Informatica PowerCenter ETL Server and Client ETL tool. Documentation and Related Sites Documentation site for OBIEE http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/b i_ee.html Tutorial covering the functionality of OBIEE http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe_bi/bi_e e_1013/index.html Oracle BI Applications http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/b i_apps.html
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1. Dashboard Properties Allows renaming or deleting of pages 2. Select a page to edit 3. Add a page 4. PDF / Print Controls 5. Add a vertical column to the page

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE) OBIEE Plus is a comprehensive BI platform that provides the best foundation for building enterprise BI solutions. It includes a full range of easy-to-use and intuitive end-user tools such as Interactive Dashboards, advanced reporting and publishing, full ad-hoc analysis over the Web, proactive detection and alerts, mobile analytics, Microsoft Office integration, Web Services and business process integration, and more. Oracle BIEE Plus also bundles key Hyperion reporting products for integrated reporting with Hyperion financial applications. Reporting UI major Components Oracle BI Server - Data access and handling environment for the end user products and other SQL-based tools Oracle BI Answers - Adhoc query and reporting Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards - Highly interactive dashboards for accessing business intelligence and applications content Using BI Answers Oracle BI Answers was derived from Seibel Answers and is the only report-building interface for OBIEE. It is used for the construction of both Queries (the data) and Reports (the presentation). BI Answers Navigate to the OBIEE Home page. Click the Answers link in the upper right-hand corner. The Answers start page will display. It contains 3 main sections, 1) Answers Web Catalog for storage of reports, dashboards, filters 2) BIS Presentation Layer for queries to the BIS Server 3) Applications and Administration Links.

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The pre-populated Subject Area appears on the upper right-hand portion of the window. Subject area is a simplified representation of data elements for end-users, and is part of Metadata Repository, which can be found in $BI_HOME/server/repository/*.rpd on the Server. It is designed and managed via OBIEE Administrator tool. Select a Subject Area to analyze. This takes us to the Criteria tab. Expand the column picker in the left pane to view columns available for use in the report. Click on a column, it appears in the workspace section of the page.

Results tab - shows the output. Several types of Views are available. Prompts tab - allows User to enter parameters before a report is run (similar to Filters). Advanced tab - offers the following key features: Create static HTML links to saved reports Download Microsoft Excel Query file (IQY), and when executed, it will pull the results directly into Excel Modify report definition Retrieve/analyze/modify Logical SQL sent to the BI Analytics Server Alternative way to view SQL Click on Settings Administration Manage Sessions to monitor system usage, view Logical and Physical SQL. Long running queries can also be canceled. The same can be viewed in NQQuery.log file on the Server under $BI_HOME/server/log directory.

Columns can be dragged to either side. Column properties, format, formula, filters, deletes and order can be edited from the icons below the column name.

Dashboards Takes us to the Dashboarding environment. More Products Delivers - allows delivery of critical information via email, mobile devices, dashboards and workflow functionality BI Publisher - is integrated into the suite to provide for Pixel perfect report formatting Marketing - for the Marketing segment Disconnected - for Offline, Mobile Analytics

Conditional Formatting such as color-coding based on a certain condition can be set via
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