Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Overview of Mapping Capability

Antony Heljula Technical Architect

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Overview of Mapping Capability Spatial Interactions Oracle Spatial Architecture NAVTEQ Digital Maps Administering Maps in OBIEE

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Overview of Mapping Capability

The ability to embed maps in to Oracle BI Dashboards is an exciting new development for OBIEE 11g Report developers have the power to build colourful and interactive maps within their BI Dashboards.no coding or technical know-how required!

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Overview of Mapping Capability Oracle MapViewer

Oracle MapViewer is a java application used to render maps on behalf of other applications
Oracle MapViewer is installed as part of the standard OBIEE 11g installation It is deployed onto WebLogic. Default URL http://[biserver]:9704/mapviewer No extra licenses required for OBIEE customers to render maps

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Overview of Mapping Capability Creating Maps is Easy!

Create an Analysis within Answers as you normally would Then just add a Map view to the Analysis You just need to make sure at least one of the columns can be rendered on a map!

In this example, each Organization Name corresponds to a geographical country and this has been configured for display on a Map by the OBIEE administrator

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Overview of Mapping Capability Types of Layer

Colour Fill

Bar Graph

Pie Graph

Bubble
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Variable Shape

Image
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Overview of Mapping Capability Enabling/Disabling Layers

The user can choose which layers to display on the map

Turn off a layer simply by unchecking the corresponding check-box

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Overview of Mapping Capability Custom Point Layers

Custom Point Layers are where the co-ordinates are taken from the Analysis itself
Mapping coordinates can come from any type of data source! Longitude/Latitude co-ordinates can be provided in a single column or separate columns Supported with Bubble, Variable Shape and Image layers

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Overview of Mapping Capability Interaction

It is possible to interact with Maps just like you can with other any other OBIEE chart

Just click on the area that is of interest

Drill-Down to a lower hierarchy level

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Action Link to open up a different analysis

Overview of Mapping Capability Printing and Downloading

OBIEE 11g does support download and print options for Maps:

Powerpoint

PDF

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Spatial Interactions

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Spatial Interactions

One of the key benefits that comes with OBIEE 11gs mapping capability is the ability to interact with the maps just like they were standard Table/Chart views

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Spatial Interactions Info Window

When you click on the map, an info window will appear displaying information about the polygon/point you just clicked on

you can configure this info window to display extra columns

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Spatial Interactions Drill-Downs : Heading

By default, you will get the same default Drill-Down interactions as you get with any other Table/Chart If you click on Business Group then you will drill-down just as if you clicked on the Business Group column heading on the table underneath the map

You should see all Organizations being returned

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Spatial Interactions Drill-Downs : Heading

By clicking on the Business Group link we get a new map showing data by all the child Organizations Note how the Table underneath the map has also changed to list data for all Organizations

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Spatial Interactions Drill-Downs : Value

Now this time we shall instead click on Vision Nordics

We should drill-down just as if had clicked on the Vision Nordics value in the table underneath the map

You should see all Organizations being returned for Vision Nordics

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Spatial Interactions Drill-Downs : Value

And heres the result! We get a new map showing just the Organizations for Vision Nordics NOTE:

The map zoomed in automatically!

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Spatial Interactions Master-Detail Linking

Master-Detail linking works even from maps as well!

Clicking on the map will initiate a Master-Detail event to change the data displayed in the Graph

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Spatial Interactions Action Links

It is also possible to set up Action Links for your maps for navigation between dashboards/analyses:

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Oracle Spatial Architecture

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Oracle Spatial Architecture

An Oracle Spatial Architecture will typically consist of the following components:

Oracle Database
Stores the definitions of spatial objects (using special geometry data types) Locator database option for querying, filtering, joining spatial data Spatial database option for manipulating and aggregating spatial data

Oracle MapViewer
A J2EE application used for rendering interactive map images and features-ofinterest (FOI) Invoked via a series of XML, Java, PL/SQL and Javascript APIs Provides a layer of caching

Oracle MapBuilder
The development tool for MapViewer A graphical Map builder tool that enables you to define the content and structure of maps and their rendering rules

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Oracle Spatial Architecture with OBIEE Base Map + Layer

IMPORTANT NOTE: With OBIEE 11g (release 11.1.1.5) the External Map Provider can source external base maps from Oracle eLocation, Web Map Services, Google Maps and Bing Maps
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Oracle Spatial Architecture MapViewer

The Management screens allow you to perform administrative tasks such as :

Configure MapViewer server Configure Map Tiles Configure data sources Clear geometry caches

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Oracle Spatial Architecture MapBuilder

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Oracle Spatial Architecture Metadata

Each schema on the database has a set of system views to contain the 4 areas of metadata used by MapBuilder/MapViewer:
USER_SDO_STYLES USER_SDO_THEMES USER_SDO_MAPS USER_SDO_CACHED_MAPS

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NAVTEQ Digial Maps

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NAVTEQ Digital Maps

One method of rendering maps within OBIEE 11g is to have all your spatial data stored in an Oracle Database Spatial data is stored in the Oracle Database using a special spatial data type called SDO_GEOMETRY

As an example, If you want to render Country boundaries you will have a table that stores the geometries for each Country

This map will consist of many different sets of geometries all layered on top of each other:

Country Boundaries Ocean Boundaries City Locations Highways State Boundaries Lakes etc

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Maps NAVTEQ Sample Maps

NAVTEQ sample map data is available for download (with install instructions) from OTN:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/mapviewer/index.html

Data provided goes down to postcode level in 3 locations:

London San Francisco Sydney

Maps covering further detail can be purchased directly from NAVTEQ Digital map data is approx 300MB in size

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Administering Maps in OBIEE

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Administering Maps in OBIEE

The OBIEE 11g Administration screen contains a new option that allows you to configure your map data:

Manage Map Data

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Administering Maps in OBIEE Layers

First of all, you define one or more Layers that can be rendered on top of a map. Layers can be either:
Points Polygons

In order to use maps with OBIEE, you must have at least one Layer

Import / Delete / Edit Layer options

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Administering Maps in OBIEE Importing Layers

When you choose to import a new Layer, OBIEE will obtain the Layers that exist within the data source you choose

The Layers listed correspond to the Themes you defined in MapBuilder which are stored in the table USER_SDO_THEMES

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Administering Maps in OBIEE Edit Layer

Once the Layer is imported, you can edit configure it for use with OBIEE:
Specify Geometry Type (Either Point or Polygon) Specify which Subject Area columns can be used for this layer (i.e. which columns can be used to join to the spatial data)

In this example, the Layer is keyed on ORGANIZATION.

This means we can link it to the Organization Name column in three Subject Areas: Sales Forecast Sales Orders Service Incidents

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Administering Maps in OBIEE Background Maps

Once your Layers have been defined, you can import Background Maps and then configure which Layers can use them:

Import / Delete / Edit Background Maps

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Administering Maps in OBIEE Importing Background Maps

When you choose to import a new Background Map, OBIEE will obtain the Map Tile Layers that exist within the data source you choose

The maps listed correspond to the same Map Tiles which are defined in MapViewer, and are stored in the database table USER_SDO_CACHED_MAPS

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Administering Maps in OBIEE Edit Background Maps

Once the Background Maps is imported, you can edit configure it for use with OBIEE:
Specify which Layers can use the map, and at which zoom levels Configure the order in which the Layers appear on top of each other on a map

This Background Map has 3 Layers, with OBIEE_CUSTOMERS displayed on top of the others

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Administering Maps in OBIEE Images

You can import your own custom Images for use on your maps

When you choose to import an image, the images listed correspond to the images defined within MapBuilder and are stored in the database table USER_SDO_STYLES

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Helping Your Business Intelligence Journey

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