Oracle Business Intelligence 11g

Advanced Modelling

Welcome

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Course Objectives
Agenda
Introductions
Training Environment

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 Course Objectives

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Course Objectives

Learn the advanced techniques for modelling the OBIEE 11g BI

Repository (RPD)

Become able to model just about any physical data-structure

Improve delivery quality of your OBIEE 11g implementations, leveraging the

best practices recommended by Oracle

Deliver sophisticated Proof-of-Concepts, with rapid turnaround-times

Become project-ready for BI Server development

Share knowledge of BI Server and BI Apps best practices

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Oracles BI&W Universe

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Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11g

Common Enterprise Information Model

Data
Scorecards Interactive
Reporting &
Integration
Dashboards Publishing

Ad-hoc
Analysis

Office
Integration

Search

Detect
& Alert

Collaborate Mobile

Embedded

Common Enterprise Information Model

OLTP & ODS

Systems

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

Data Warehouse
Data Mart

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Exadata

OLAP
Sources

Packaged
Unstructured &
Applications
Semi-Structured
(Oracle, SAP, Others)

Excel
XML/Office

Business
Process

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11g

High-Level 11g Architecture

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 Introductions

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Welcome
Modelling Overview and Concepts
Modelling a Flat Structure
Modelling a Star-Schema
Dimension Hierarchies
Physical Calculations
Aggregation & Denormalization
Conforming Dimensions
Logical Calculations
Variables

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Security
Modelling 3NF
Hierarchical Columns
Outer-Joins
Cross-Database Joins
Non-Conformed Dimensions
Fragmentation
BI Server Caching
Usage Tracking
20 Golden Rules for RPD Design

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 Training Environment

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Client Workstations

Each Delegate workstation / laptop will require the following setup (the
trainer will provide the software if required):

Adobe AIR runtime environment

The training material provided by Peak Indicators runs as an Adobe AIR application
Adobe AIR allows HTML/Javascript applications to be run on the client Desktop
rather than via a Web-Browser

Adobe Flash v10

Oracle BI EE 11g will not show charts with earlier Flash versions

Adobe PDF Reader v9+

Mozilla or IE

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Training Material

Once the training material has been installed, it can be accessed by running the following
application on your desktop:

Start > Peak Indicators > OBIEE 11g Advanced Modelling Bootcamp

Links to all the training

presentations slides
containing information,
demonstrations and
annotated screenshots

Links to all the Lab

Session cue-cards

NOTE: All the training material is yours to keep, but for personal use only
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Lab Session Cue-Cards

All the lab sessions are delivered using a special system involving cue-cards
Small always-on-top desktop application containing step-by-step lab instructions
Avoids the need for switching constantly between Oracle BI and Word/Powerpoint
Avoids the need for printing hand-outs to complete the labs
More experienced Delegates can benefit from more higher-level instructions

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Lab Session Cue-Cards

Navigating

Progressing through the lab session is easy:

When you want to move on to the next instruction, simply click on the arrow
or enter the slide number to jump to a specific slide

Back and Forward buttons

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Enter a number here and press

[Return] to jump to a slide

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Lab Session Cue-Cards

Help Window

In case you need more information, or would like to see a screenshot that
is relevant to the step you are performing, click and hold down the camera
button
and a help window will appear!

The help window will disappear when you release the mouse button

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Lab Session Cue-Cards

Printing the Lab Session

At any point you can click on the printer button

and a PDF document
will open which you can print out it will contain all the cue-cards and
help windows:

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Lab Session Cue-Cards

Copying Text

Note also that it is possible to copy text directly off the cue-cards:

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Helping Your Business Intelligence Journey

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