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Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence

Mark Rittman, Technical Director, Rittman Mead


Author of the Oracle Press book Oracle BI Developers Guide
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Mark Rittman
Mark Rittman, Co-Founder of Rittman Mead
Oracle ACE Director, specialising in Oracle BI&DW
15 Years Experience with Oracle Technology
Oracle BI since 1998 (Discoverer, Designer etc)
OBIEE since 2007 (OBIEE 10g+)
Oracle OLAP/Express since 2000
OWB, ODI, Oracle RBDMS (OCP) etc
Regular columnist for Oracle Magazine
Author of two Oracle Press Oracle BI books
Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide
Oracle Exalytics Revealed
Email : mark.rittman@rittmanmead.com
Twitter : @markrittman

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Regular Speaker at OOW, Blogger, Writer for Oracle Magazine


Presenter on Oracle BI at the
last 5 Oracle Open Worlds
Columnist for Oracle Magazine (Oracle BI)
Writer for OTN
Past board member for ODTUG,
chair of UKOUG BIRT SIG
Oracle ACE Director
Blogger for Rittman Mead blog
Tweeting at @markrittman

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About Rittman Mead


Oracle BI and DW gold partner
World leading specialist partner for technical excellence, solutions delivery and
innovation in Oracle BI
Approximately 30 consultants worldwide
All expert in Oracle BI and DW
UK based
Offices in US, Europe (Belgium) and India
Skills in broad range of supporting Oracle tools:
OBIEE
OBIA
ODIEE
Essbase, Oracle OLAP
GoldenGate
Exadata
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Rittman Mead in the Developer/User Community

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Oracle BI Developers Guide : Oracle Press, 2012

End-to-end development guide for OBIEE 11g (covers up to 11.1.1.6)


From installation and architecture, through to dashboards, integration and team development
Based on 6yrs+ of OBIEE experience, beta program participation, implementation etc
Technical focus, step-by-step instructions along with concepts and product history
Participation by the Oracle BI development team,
including technical editing by
Mike Durran, forward by
Balaji Yelamanchili

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Oracle BI Developers Guide : Oracle Press, 2012

Chapter 1 : Oracle Business Intelligence Overview and Architecture


Chapter 2 : Installation and Upgrading of Oracle Business Intelligence
Chapter 3 : Modeling Repositories using Relational, File and XML Data Sources
Chapter 4 : Creating Repositories from Oracle Essbase and Other OLAP Sources
Chapter 5 : Configuring and Maintaining the Oracle BI Server
Chapter 6 : Creating Analyses, Dashboards, KPIs and Scorecards
Chapter 7 : Actionable Intelligence
Chapter 8 : Security
Chapter 9 : Creating Published Reports
Chapter 10 : Systems Management
Chapter 11 : Managing Change
Chapter 12 : Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

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Oracle Exalytics Revealed, Oracle Press (ebook), 2012


Special-edition e-book that took the Exalytics chapter and updated for 11.1.1.6.2
Additional content on ILOM, testing, aggregate building,11.1.1.6.2 BP1 visuals (trellis charts etc)
Nowhere will you find a more
comprehensive look at
Oracle Exalytics from start to finish
than in this book extremely
thorough and easy to follow
and I find this narrative
incredibly useful to explore

the product.
The book delivers what it
promises on its title, a thorough
review on the most important aspects
of this engineered system created
by Oracle Corporation

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What is Oracle Business Intelligence?

Oracle BI provides a set of web-based tools for reporting and analyzing data
Based around dashboards, built around graphs, tables, pivots etc
Multiple server architecture that splits data access / presentation elements
Based on Siebel Analytics technology
Connects to multiple data sources
Oracle DB & Exadata
SQL Server, DB/2, Teradata
Essbase, Oracle OLAP, MSAS
ADF View Objects etc
Integral part of Oracle Fusion Middleware

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Some Cool Things About Oracle Business Intelligence 11g


The Oracle BI Repository (semantic business model)
Interactive dashboard analytics
Integrating BI with business processes, rich web applications, and mobile applications

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Example 1: An Enterprise-Wide Business Analytics Semantic Model

All reporting tools within Oracle BI take their data from a shared metadata layer
Defined as dimensional model, embeds common calculations and drill paths
Subject-area and row-level security
Three-layer design to provide
abstraction from underlying
complicated source systems
Can source data from
Oracle DB + other RBDMSs
Oracle Essbase, OLAP
Oracle ADF, web services
Hadoop
Simplification of the Data Model
Oracle TimesTen
Integration of Disparate DataSources
Addition of Business Logic and Calculations
etc

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Demonstration
The Enterprise Semantic Model

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Example 2 : Rich Interactive Dashboards, No Programming Needed


Users access information and analytics through rich, analytic role-based dashboards
Can also publish reports to PDF, distribute, or access through MS Office

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Demonstration
Creating dashboards and analyzing data

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Example 3 : Integration Across Oracle Fusion Middleware


BI content can be embedded in ADF and WebCenter applications, share common
look-and-feel, security, event handling model, tooling
Basis of the Oracle Fusion Applications

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More Information

Thank you for attending this presentation


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Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide and Exalytics Revealed out now!
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Demonstration
Oracle BI Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware

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Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence


Mark Rittman, Technical Director, Rittman Mead
Author of the Oracle Press book Oracle BI Developers Guide
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