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Oracle Business Intelligence

Foundation Suite
Technical Architecture

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 Agenda

• Technical Architecture

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 Oracle BI EE 11g introduces many changes:

• The new architecture is consistent with the Oracle Fusion

Middleware product set
• Installation and Management processes are the same on all OS
platforms
• Easier to scale out (horizontally or vertically)
• Single portal for System Management
• Improved security model
• Much easier to implement advanced security options such as
SSO / SSL
• Remote management capabilities
• Better facilities for Lifecycle Management (installs, patches,
upgrades, migration)

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 Most Integrated.
Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
Data Scorecards Interactive Reporting & Ad-hoc Office Search Detect Collaborate Mobile Embedded
Integration Dashboards Publishing Analysis Integration & Alert

Common Enterprise Information Model

• Common Metadata Foundation across all Data Sources
• Common Security, Access Control, Authorization, Auditing
• Common Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services
• Common Clustering, Workload Management, & Deployment
• Common Systems & Operational Lifecycle Management

OLTP & ODS Data Warehouse Exadata OLAP Packaged Unstructured Excel Business
Systems Data Mart Sources Applications & Semi- XML/Office Process
(Oracle, SAP, Others) Structured

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Oracle BI Enterprise Edition

Interactive Reporting & Ad-hoc Proactive Disconnected MS Office

Analysis Plug-in
Dashboards Publishing Detection Analytics
and Alerts

Simplified Business Model and Abstraction Layer

Oracle Intelligent Caching Services

BI Server Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine

Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services

OLTP & ODS Data Warehouse SAP, Oracle Files Business

Systems Data Mart PeopleSoft, Siebel, Excel Process
Custom Apps XML

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OBIEE 11g Technical Architecture

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 Oracle BI 11.1.1.5.0 and Oracle Essbase
11.1.2.1
Enhanced Integration
• Single-Click configuration of BI
Server and EPM SSO
• Connection pool setting
• No need for manual configuration of
EPM registry
• Essbase Studio – BI Server
Business Model Support
• Provides Studio the ability to read and
re-use BI Server dimensions and
hierarchies for Cube construction
• Extended BI Server support for
Essbase versions
• 11.1.2.1, 11.1.1.3.5

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 New Oracle BI Server 11.1.1.5 Data Sources

• Support added for Oracle OLAP, SAP BW, and MS

Analysis Services, Oracle TimesTen, Oracle
RetekRPAS
• Oracle BI EE natively understands hierarchies,
dimensions, metrics, etc. for additional
multidimensional data sources
• Dramatically improved metadata import and
development experience compared to 10g
• Incremental update of metadata supported
• Substantially improved UI experience—
multidimensional style look and feel with in-place
hierarchy drilling, custom groups, etc.
• For SAP BW: Introducing new BAPI adapter for
Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bit

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Oracle BI 11.1.1.5 Native Oracle OLAP
Integration
• “Better Together” with Oracle BI,
Oracle OLAP, and Exadata
• Oracle BI utilizes OLAP aware
SQL and function shipping
• Simple cube metadata import
• Oracle BI understands cube
structure

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 Installation and Upgrade

• Greater flexibility and improved

installation experience
• Optimized Simple install with
lower memory footprint
• Integration with My Oracle
Support for updates as part of
installation
• Support for existing Metadata
Services Schema (MDS)
• Extend an existing
WLS Domain
• In-place upgrade from
11.1.1.3 to 11.1.1.5

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 BI Server 11.1.1.5.0 – Administration Tool
Simplification and Ease of Use
• BI Server metadata web service
• Remote read/write of BI Server metadata
• SOAP, WSDL, SAML standards
• Utilizes the XUDML language (BI Server XML API)
• Data model diagrams revamped
• True ERD-style presentation and interaction
• Auto-layout
• Consistency checker enhanced
• Ensures more reliable merges and queries
• Upgrade guide for fixing errors no longer allowed
• Command-line utility for automation
• 64-bit Admin Tool
• Supports larger BI models
• Client installer
• 32-bit Admin Tool, 32- or 64-bit Windows
• Smaller stack footprint (Simple Install)
• Unit test sandbox fits on 32-bit machine

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 Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.5.0 Server OS Support

• Win-32 (Windows Server 2003 & 2008)

• Native Win-64 (Windows Server 2003, 2008, & 2008 R2)
• Linux-32 (RH4, RH5, OEL4, OEL5, SUSE10, SUSE11)
• Native Linux-64 (RH4, RH5, OEL4, OEL5, SUSE10, SUSE11)
• ExaLogic X2-2 - Oracle Linux 5
• Solaris SPARC (Solaris 10)
• AIX 7.1
• IBM WebSphere is planned for a subsequent release, NOT 11.1.1.5
• No 32-bit on 64-bit compatibility

• All Server OS platforms in subsequent 11.1.1.5 drops

• HP 11.31 For illustration only. Please refer to the
• Solaris x64 (Solaris 10) current, official platform matrix on OTN

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Oracle BI Platform 11.1.1.5.0 Support
Expansion
• All Languages • RCU database
• Browsers • Oracle 10g & 11g, SQL Server 2005 & 2008,
• IE7, and IE8 DB2 9.7
• BI Publisher in IE8 standards mode and not BIDI • Application Servers
support for IE7
• WebLogic Apps Server 10.3.5 only
• Firefox 3.5+
• Safari 4.x and 5.x • Portals
• Windows Client tools ( on 32-bit XP, 2003, • WebCenter
– WebCenter 11.1.1.4+ and JDeveloper 11.1.1.4+
Vista, 2008, Win7)
• 32 bit BI Client Developer Tool for client access
• Security via FMW
– Admin Tool, Catalog Manager, BIP Office Plug-ins, BI Office • Active Directory 2003 & 2008
Plug-in
• CA SiteMinder 6
• BI Server Data Sources • OpenLDAP 2.3.37
• Oracle 10g & 11g • Sun Java System Directory Service 6.3
• Teradata 12 & 13/13.10 • Novell eDirectory 8.8
• SQL Server 2005 & 2008 • Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
• DB2 9.1, 9.5 & 9.7 11.1.1.3+
• Essbase 9.3.3 & 11.1.2+
• Mobile Support
• HFM 9.x, 11.1.1.x, & 11.1.2
• Mobile Application Support (iOS 4.2.1+)
• Fusion ADF BCs
• Oracle OLAP
• Office Support
• Oracle TimesTen • Microsoft Office 2010
• SAP B/W 7
For illustration only. Please refer to the
• Microsoft SSAS 2005 & 2008 current, official platform matrix on OTN
• Oracle RetekRPAS

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Oracle BI Foundation Suite

http://www.oracle.com/bi
-> Business Intelligence -> White Papers
-> Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (PDF)

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