RPD Lift and Shift

Migrate BI Content to Analytics Cloud

Migrate from Oracle BI Cloud Service
Migrate from Oracle BIEE
Migration from BICS to OAC
You can copy catalog content from one environment to another using the catalog
archive/unarchive options. Archiving saves your content to a .catalog file on your local file
system. Unarchiving uploads content from catalog files to another catalog location.
Archive Catalog off BICS Instance
Unarchive into OAC Catalog
Detailed Process
Snapshot from BICS to OAC for model is directly supported
Requirements for On-Prem RPD Lift and Shift
Upload an OBIEE RPD to OAC that meets these conditions

11.1.1.7 or later On-premise versions

RPD or extract passes consistency check with 11.1.1.7 Admin tool
DBaaS/ADB as the data source
Customer moves data to DBaaS/ADB
RPD Lift and Shift Demo Scenario
Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS/ADW Analytics Cloud Service

DBaaS
DBaaS/ADW Instance
Instance (Metadata)

Configure
Connection Pools

On- RPD OAC

premise Instance
DB OAC Admin tool
Upload RPD
Demonstration of RPD, Webcat Lift And Shift
Summary: RPD Lift and Shift
Ensure RPD or extract is supported
11.1.1.7 or later On-premise versions
RPD or extract passes consistency check with 11.1.1.7 Admintool
Move data to DBaaS/ADB
Change RPD connection pool to point to DBaaS/ADB
Upload RPD to OAC
Benefits of RPD Lift and Shift (IT)
Liberate business users
Freeform, intuitive data exploration
Data blending with external data
Offload data exploration workload from Data Warehouse
Ensure governance of data
Single data model across on-premises and cloud
Full DB access for ETL and data replication
RPD Lift & Shift
Points to remember
You cannot edit manage the RPD in OAC, after RPD lift and shift
You can connect to multiple DBaaS in RPD
There are more RDG connections available thru RPD
WebCat Lift and Shift
 WebCat Lift and Shift – New Feature
New ability to replicate on-premise
developed Answers and
dashboards content to Cloud
Compliments RPD lift and shift
capability
Also supports archive/un-archive
between OAC instance
Provides granular control over
migrating content a compared to the
*.bar file
 WebCat Lift and Shift – Steps
Archive catalog folders from an
existing on-premise OBIEE
environment
Support OBIEE 11.1.1.9
Un-archive to OAC environment
Ignores unsupported catalog objects,
e.g. Scorecards, etc
Inherits permissions from OAC parent
object
Questions?