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Milena Gerova
President
Bulgarian Oracle User Group
mgerova@technologica.com
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Who am I
Project
Oracle
Certified
14
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Agenda
Oracle
Options
Manual
migration approaches
EUL objects
Workbooks
Operational environment
Workbook fine-tuning
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To:
Pervasive use
Real-time, predictive data
Fragmented view
Reporting results
Insight-driven Actions,
Process Optimization
Analytic tools
Separate BI, CRM, ERP
Oracle
BI Applications
Oracle
BI Suite
Oracle
Data
Warehousing
Enterprise Wide
Industry Specific
Interactive visualization
Data Warehousing
ETL tools
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Oracle BI Suite EE
Oracle
Oracle
+ Siebel
Powerful
BI
BI Server technology
presentation Tools
OBIEE
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Oracle BI Platform
Discoverer
DiscovererPlus
Plus
Browser
Discoverer
DiscovererViewer
Viewer
Browser
Portlet
PortletProvider
Provider
Browser
BI
BIBeans
Beans
Browser
Oracle
OracleAS
AS
Discoverer Services
Discoverer
DiscovererOLAP
OLAP
Browser
Discoverer
DiscovererAdministrator
Administrator
EUL / BI Metadata
Discoverer
DiscovererDesktop
Desktop
Excel
ExcelOLAP
OLAP
Add
Addin
in
MOLAP
ROLAP
OLTP
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OBIEE Plus
Administration
Discoverer Administrator
BI EE Administration Tool
Ad-hoc analysis
Discoverer Plus
BIEE Answers
Publishing
Discoverer Portlet
Provider
Scheduling, alerts,
distribution
Discoverer Scheduler
Oracle BI Delivers
Reporting
Oracle BI Publisher
Office integration
Mobile analytics
Financial Analysis
and CPM
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Intelligence
Performance
ad hoc analysis
over the Web
Rich
interactive dashboards
with guided analytics
Proactive
Full
MS Office integration
Disconnected
Multilanguage
support
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BPEL
Oracle
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User
interface
No ability to drill up
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Stay
Use
Migrate
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Dedicated
No
development team
forced migration
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Publish
Discoverer analysis in
BIEE Interactive Dashboards
(from Discoverer 11g)
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Post-migration work
Answers
Take
Now:
Migration Considerations
STOP
if
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Migration Approach
4. Favour the
new features
Discoverer Server
Discoverer
Workbooks
Discoverer EUL
Presentation Services
Presentation Catalog
Answers
OBI Server
OBI Repository
1. Convert EUL to
Repository Model
DW / DM
OBIEE
Common Enterprise
Information Model
Presentation Model
Logical Model
Physical Model
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Migration Approach
1st
step:
Convert EUL to OBIEE Information Model
2nd
step:
Workbook conversion
3rd
step:
Security (users & roles)
4th
step:
Favour the new features
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Range of workbooks
Arrange
user interviews
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Schema in a database
BI
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Physical Layer
Definition of source tables
No data is moved
Multiple sources
Optimized SQL generation
Regardless of Schema
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Presentation Layer
Role-based, in context,
personalized presentation
Oracle Answers, Oracle BI Publisher,
3th party tools
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using BI server
Pre-integrated
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Business Areas
Folders
Joins
Hierarchies
Item classes
Calculated items
Complex folders
Custom folders
Summaries
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Areas
Presentation Catalog
Answers Subject Area
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Layer:
New physical table defined
as of type Select
Oracle
Answers:
Direct Database Request
Oracle
Database:
View or Materialized view
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join types
Foreign
Logical
Layer
New
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Logical
dimensions
and hierarchies
in Logical Layer
to create drill paths
Hierarchy
levels
should have
at least one key
Define
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equivalent in BIEE
Need
Alias
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Function Shipping
Calculations
Calculations
in Answers
calculations
as close to the source
data as possible
Use
dedicated
OLAP technology
if available
Use
BI Server to
provide features
not found in sources
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Filters
Summaries
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Logical Table
can be presented in
more than one
Presentation Catalogs
Answers
Request uses
tables in current
Subject Area (different
from Discoverer)
Group
related items in
Presentation Folders
Use
Rename Wizard to
clean up table and
column names
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Migration Approach
1st
step:
Convert EUL to OBIEE Information Model
2nd
step:
Workbook conversion
3th
step:
Security (users & roles)
4th
step:
Favour the new features
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Subject Area
Choose
Presentation Columns
Use
tabs to fine-tune
the request
Preview
Save
the results
the request
Share
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Dashboards
Workbook
Worksheet
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Dashboards
Create
Tab Pages
Create
Sections
within a Tab Page
Add
dashboard prompts
Add
Requests
Save/preview
the dashboard
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Migration Approach
1st
step:
Convert EUL to OBIEE Information Model
2nd
step:
Workbook conversion
3th
step:
Security (users & roles)
4th
step:
Favour the new features
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Operational environment
Security
User
accounts definition
In external source
Roles
-> Groups
Authentication
LDAP Authentication
Database Authentication
Row
Level Security
Migration Approach
1st
step:
Convert EUL to OBIEE Information Model
2nd
step:
Workbook conversion
3th
step:
Security (users & roles)
4th
step:
Favour the new features
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advantage of new
Answers and Dashboard features
Add
Disconnected
Write
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capabilities for
conditionally format results:
Icons in tables
Extra
visualization options in BI EE
Drag
Interactive Dashboards
New Features
Local
New
time display
Content Types
Link or Image
Embedded content
BI Publisher Report
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Summary
Migrating
Benefits
Interactive Dashboards
Hot Pluggable
Thank You
mgerova@technologica.com
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