Part I: OBIEE 11G Introduction

What is Business Intelligence ?

What is Business Intelligence software

A set of concepts and methods to improve business decision making by using factbased support systems. BI is sometimes used interchangeably with briefing books, report and query tools and executive information systems. Business Intelligence systems are data-driven DSS (decision support services).

Why we need BI ?

Run Your Institution Based on the Measures that Matter to you

Make Decisions Based on the Data You Can Trust Provide Employees with Information, based on their Organizational Role Always Have Access to the Latest Data Create Your Own Reports & DashboardsQ`

The Value of Business Intelligence

Visibility, Transparency Compliance Profitability Customer differentiation

Business Intelligence Challenges

Large and changing data volumes Differing requirements Ineffective tools

Large and Changing Data Volumes

Large amounts of data need to be accessed to provide meaningful results. Data may reside in multiple systems. Results may require accessing millions of records from those multiple data sources. Data volumes are ever-increasing. Data requires changes based on business requirements. Data organization may make access difficult ,time-consuming, and resource intensive.

Differing Requirements
Based on the role of the user, different questions need to be answered. Level of data detail required varies. Summarized data is appropriate for executives, but details are required at lower levels.

Ineffective Tools
Analysis tools are often difficult to master, hard to use, and specialized. They:

May require detailed knowledge of the data layout and special syntax May require manual consolidation of results from multiple sources Are often complex and single-purpose: query versus analysis Reporting tools are often static or fixed and do not allow for interactivity: --Questions may be asked, but cannot be answered. --Drill down is often impossible, making causes difficult to determine.

Key Stakeholders in BI Domain

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition

Is a next-generation business intelligence platform: Provides optimized intelligence to take advantage of relational database technologies Accesses data regardless of its organization or layout Leverages and extends common industry techniques Data warehousing Dimensional modeling

History

Tools Features

Tools Features

Tools Features

OBI Layers

OBI Layers

OBIEE Architecture
Architecture made up of three areas 1. WebLogic Admin server and FMW Control (EM) 2. System components managed by OPMN 3. WebLogic Managed server with Java components; Node Manager used for start/stop managed servers

System components are C/C++ executables controlled by OPMN managed by FMW Control Java components are J2EE apps installed in managed server controlled by FMW Control

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Java components J2EE applications running on WLS Admin Console UI for managing WebLogic, J2EE components FMC UI used to manage the BI domain JMX MBeans Used to access BI domain programmatically BI Plugin Routes HTTP and SOAP requests to BI Presentation services BI Security Integrates BIEE server and Fusion middleware security BI Action services Provides dedicated web services required by AF Oracle BI Office Integration between Oracle BI and MS Office products BIP and RTD Reporting and Real-Time decisions using data mining 2) System components Processes and services written in C/C++, J2SE Oracle BI Server Provides query and data access capabilities using an enterprise semantic model Oracle BI Presentation services Provides framework and interface to present BI data to clients using a BI Presentation catalog Oracle BI Scheduler Provides scheduling capabilities for analysis Oracle BI JavaHost Provides capabilities such as graph generation Oracle BI Cluster Controller Distributes requests to BI server, ensuring requests are load-balanced across all BI server instances in the BI domain

OBIEE Architecture

OBIEE Architecture

1) 2)

OBIEE components can be located under \WebLogic domain\Business Intelligence\coreapplication Can be individually or collectively restarted

OBIEE Architecture
During Simple installation a 1 node cluster is created

Logs created in Instances\instance1\diagnostics\logs folder

OBIEE 11 G Vs 10G
1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) Main difference is in wrapping components in WebLogic Server platform, and management of components in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Oracle Fusion Middleware Control Unified logging, Management of configuration files using Oracle EM Same individual servers, components such as Presentation server, BI Server, BI Publisher etc., Configuration data still held in text files Single default RPD per BI server and RPD is a binary file Web Catalog is a file system directory System components need to be restarted after configuration changes

OBIEE 11G File System

BI Oracle Home contains binaries BI Instance Home contains configuration files (RPD, Webcat, Config files, diagnostics) WebLogic server binaries in WL Home WebLogic domain files in Domain Home

BI Publisher
BI Publisher originated as a Java application called "XML Publisher" (hence the "xmlp" naming convention) embedded within Oracle's E-Business Suite as a means to deliver highly refined PDF-formatted output of raw transactional data, primarily for hard-copy printing. BI publisher does the following: transforms raw data from various sources (JDBC, Webservices, OBIEE, etc) according to a layout designed using native functionality of best-of-breed layout tools (Word, Excel, Acrobat, etc) into various file formats (HTML, PDF, Flash, CSV, XML, XLS, etc) and delivers them via various mechanisms (Email, FTP, HTTP, WebDAV, Fax, etc) either on demand or according to a user-defined schedule

Overview of Answers and Dashboards

Oracle Answers is the only report building interface that OBIEE Plus provides It is used for the construction of both Queries (the data) and Reports (the presentation) Dashboards are simply containers for reports and other content Native connectivity for sources such as Oracle, DB2, Teradata, SQL Server etc. Uses ODBC for MS Access, Excel Allows a dashboard or report data to be exported to PDF, HTML, Excel, or CSV formats

OBIEE Administration Tool Overview

Administrator tool is the interface to create and manage repository and the logical star-schemas Metadata Repository (semantic layer) file contains the Business logic, connections, security configurations etc. Uses ODBC connectivity to connect to data sources OBIEE uses Ralph Kimballs Star-Schema methodology

OBIEE 11G Security

OBIEE 11g implements the common security architecture as the rest of Fusion Middle ware tech stack. A embedded LDAP Identity Store stores users and groups A Policy Store file stores Application Roles and Grants A Credential Store files stores users and system credentials Authentication Launch Weblogic console as http://machinename:port/console. On the left pane select Security realms. On the right pane, click the myrealm Switch to Users and Groups tab. Click New to add a new user obieeuser and provide a password. Click OK. Click on obieeuser. Switch to the Groups tab and add the groups BIAdministrator, BIAuthors, BIConsumers. Click Save. Launch Presentation Services URL and connect as obieeuser. Logout of presentation services and login as weblogic. Authorization Authorization assigns privileges to users and this section demonstrates how Analysis can be secured

Basic Login process of OBIEE

Technical Pre-requisites
It requires a suitable personal system (Desktop / Laptop) to load the OBI 11g software for the training see below for minimum specification. Note that if the system does not meet this minimum specification then system performance will degrade.

Minimum 4GB RAM. 25GB free disk space Internet Explorer 7 VirtualBox (the latest version) Downloadable from http://www.virtualbox.org WINRAR or 7zip Downloadable from http://www.win-rar.com/download.html Downloadable from http://www.7zip.com/

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