Agenda

Overview of OBI Apps Installation & Configuration Testing

Siva Kumar Budagam

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Siva Kumar Budagam

shiva.budagam@gmail.com

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are complete, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-based

intelligence throughout an organization.

These solutions enable organizations to gain more insight and greater value from a range of data sources and applications including Oracle E Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and third party systems such as SAP.

Oracle BI Applications are built on the Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, a comprehensive and market leading BI platform.

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OBIA is used to build completely custom BI applications, all on one common BI architecture. Oracle BI Applications includes the following: Oracle Financial Analytics Oracle Human Resources Analytics Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics Oracle Project Analytics Oracle Sales Analytics Oracle Service Analytics Oracle Contact Center Telephony Analytics Oracle Marketing Analytics Oracle Loyalty Analytics Oracle Partner Analytics and more
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Installation

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OBI Apps Installation Its a package that contains

OBIEE(Reporting)11g Informatica (ETL) 9.0.1 with hotfix2 Data Warehousing Administration Console-DAC(Scheduling Tool)

Other

Oracle database. JDK

Siva Kumar Budagam

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Siva Kumar Budagam

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Step 1:

The initial step is to identify the system requirements and acquire the necessary details for installation of different software. We need to make sure the database is in place and the necessary supporting software are installed.

We would start with the installation OBIEE 11g. The OBIA package needs OBIEE to be installed and ready for the whole component installation. We select the necessary areas to be installed and proceed with the installation.

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Step 2 Next step is to run the OBI Apps Package. We get the metadata for the following areas per installation.

Service Analytics Fusion edition Contact Center Telephony Analytics Fusion edition Marketing Analytics Fusion edition UCM

The RPD contains metadata and connectivity details for the tool to communicate with the database and query the same for providing us with answers.

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The RPD generated would look something like this.

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Step 3: Once all of the OBIEE and OBIA installation along with relevant database accounts have been created we can start installing the ETL tool(Informatica).

Informatica being part of the BI Applications, it comes with a Client and Server architecture.

Once the installation is completed we would restore the OOTB mappings to the Informatica server. The mappings would contain metadata for processing the transformation and loading of data from the source.

In this case the source being Siebel CRM we have to identify the changes to the tables available from the source side and edit the mappings in accordance with the same.
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Siva Kumar Budagam

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Step 5: Once we make sure Informatica is up and running in a stable fashion, the next thing is to configure the DAC(Data warehouse Administration Console) tool. Run the DAC Installation file.

At the completion of the install, configure the client by creating connections to the DAC schema as we created earlier on in the Oracle database. It offers to create the (empty) DAC metadata tables within the schema

These can co-exist with the Informatica repository tables in the same database schema.

The source and target connections are then established. We identify a particular subject area or tables for particular OOTB dashboards and run a load on them. This tool runs the Informatica mappings and loads data into the target database for which Informatica servers will be running its ETL routines.

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We then validate the reports in OBIEE 11g answers where the OOTB dashboards would be populated with data from the data warehouse which in turn would have data from the Source system. After the initial load we then identify the mappings for the areas we would intend to use and run full loads on them. This would load the reports in answers with data for us to view.

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Testing Process

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We would be validating the install, data, features etc at each phase and stage. We shall make sure installation and its associated components are stable before moving onto the next piece. OBIEE requires testing of its stability and the necessary metadata and the connection details to the source and target.

ETL requires configuration and validation of the restored OOTB mappings for correct loading of data from source to target. DAC has its stability tested and the connection to the Informatica servers alongside the subject areas that we involve during the load.

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Finally the OOTB reports for each areas need to be tested for their validity of data and presentation. The required target reports need to be addressed and presented in the right manner for easy navigation and perusal.

Testing and validation does not stop with the above mentioned software. It goes from the infrastructure available to the software that have been included in the application. We would also need to test the availability of enhancement patches and other segments while on this process.

Siva Kumar Budagam

shiva.budagam@gmail.com

Siva Kumar Budagam

shiva.budagam@gmail.com

Siva Kumar Budagam

shiva.budagam@gmail.com