Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

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Agenda
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Data Warehousing Concepts

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Architecture

Security in Oracle BI

Some Good Features of OBIEE

Oracle Business Intelligence Application

DWH Concepts

What is a Data Warehouse ?

Can I see credit report from Accounts, Sales from marketing and open order report from order entry for this customer Data from multiple sources is integrated for a subject

A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, nonvolatile, time-variant collection of data in support of management's decisions. - WH Inmon
Identical queries will give same results at different times. Supports analysis requiring historical data

Data stored for historical period. Data is populated in the data warehouse on daily/weekly basis depending upon the requirement.

Subject-Oriented- Characteristics of a Data Warehouse

Integrated - Characteristics of a Data Warehouse

Non-volatile - Characteristics of a Data Warehouse

insert change

Operational
delete insert load

Data Warehouse
read only access

replace

change

Time Variant - Characteristics of a Data Warehouse

Operational

Data Warehouse
Snapshot data time horizon : 5-10 years key has an element of time data warehouse stores historical data

Current Value data time horizon : 60-90 days key may not have element of time

Transactional Vs Analytical Systems

Transactional System Transaction Processing Time Sensitive Operator View Organized by transactions (Order, Input, Inventory) Relatively smaller database Many concurrent users Volatile Data Stores all data Analytical System Query Processing History Oriented Managerial View Organized by subject (Customer, Product) Large database size Relatively few concurrent users Non Volatile Data Stores relevant data

Warehouse Architecture

EIS /DSS Metadata

Select Extract Transform Integrate Maintain

Query Tools

Data Warehouse

OLAP

Operational Systems/Data
Data Preparation

Web Browsers Middleware/ API Data Mining

Dimensional Modeling
Dimensional Modeling It is a technique for logically organizing business data in a way that helps end users understand it Data is separated into facts and dimensions Users view facts in any combination of the dimensions Every dimensional model is composed of one table with a multipart key, called the fact table, and a set of smaller tables called dimension tables.

Dimensional Modeling ConceptsStar Schema

Single data (fact) table surrounded by multiple descriptive (dimension) tables resulting in a star like framework (structure)

In the example, sales fact table is connected to dimensions location, product, time and organization.

Fact
The fact table is where the numerical measurements of the business are stored Facts Numeric in Nature For Examples: Sales Quantity, Unit Sales Price, Sales Amount etc. Key performance indicators of the business Sales Fact Analyzed across the dimensions
DATE KEY

ITEM KEY
STORE KEY PROMOTION KEY POS TRXN# Sales Quantity Unit Sales Price Sales $ Amount

Dimension
Provide Descriptive Information Represent hierarchical relationships Common Dimensions Date Product Location/Region Customers

ITEM KEY Item Description Item Size Package Type Category

OBIEE Architecture

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Architecture

Oracle BIEE is made up of Oracle BI Presentation Services Oracle BI Server Data Sources

Oracle BI Presentation Services

Oracle BI Presentation Services consists of the following interfaces. Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards - Interactive Access Oracle BI Answers - Interactive Access Oracle BI Delivers - Proactive Alerts

Oracle BI Answers
Oracle BI Answers provides answers to business questions. This interface allows users with the appropriate permissions to build and modify reports that let end users explore and interact with information. Reports created with Oracle BI Answers can be saved in the Oracle BI presentation Catalog and integrated into any dashboard The results of an Oracle BI Answers request can be formatted, saved, organized, and shared with others. A report can be configured to refresh results in real-time.

Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards

Interactive Dashboards provide points of access for analytics information. A dashboard consists of one or more pages, which appear as tabs across the top of the dashboard Pages can display anything that you can access or open with your Web browser, such as saved Oracle BI requests, alerts from Oracle BI Delivers, images, charts, tables, text, and links to Web sites and documents.

Oracle BI Delivers
The interface used to create alerts based on analytics results. To detect specific results and immediately notify the appropriate person or group through Web, wireless, and mobile communications channels. Uses intelligence agents or Bots, called iBots. iBots are software-based agents driven by schedule or events that can access, filter, and perform analytics on data based upon defined criteria

Oracle BI Administration
The Administration Tool is a Windows application that allows the Oracle BI Administrator to create and edit repositories. Physical layer: Represents the physical structure of the data sources to which the Oracle BI Server submits queries. Business Model and Mapping layer: Represents the logical structure of the information in the repository. Presentation layer: Represents the presentation structure of the repository. This layer allows you to present a view different from the Business Model and Mapping layer to users.

Oracle BI Presentation Services

Renders pages Extension to Web Server Uses a catalog folder to store user content Acts as an intermediary, receives data from Oracle BI server and provides it to the client.

Presentation Catalog: Stores the application Dashboards, requests definitions, pages and filters Contains information regarding permissions accessibility of the Dashboards by groups and users Is administered using Oracle BI Catalog Manager

Oracle BI Server
Provides processing to intelligently access the physical data sources and structure the information Uses Metadata to direct processing Generates dynamic SQL to query the data sources Connects natively or through ODBC to the RDBMS Provides data to the Oracle BI Presentation Services Components used by Oracle BI Server: Repository File (.rpd) NQSConfig.ini Cache NQSConfig.ini DBFeatures.ini DBFeatures.ini Log files
Oracle BI Server
Cache

.rpd

NQSServer.log

NQSQuery.log

Oracle BI Administration Tool

Oracle BI Server
NQSConfig.ini Is a configuration file used by the Oracle BI Server at startup Specifies values that control processing, such as: Defining the repository (.rpd) to load Enabling or disabling caching of results DBFeatures.ini Is a configuration file used by the Oracle BI Server Specifies values that control SQL generation Defines the features supported by each database Log Files NQSServer.log records Oracle BI Server messages NQSQuery.log records information about query requests Cache Contains results of queries Is used to eliminate redundant queries to database Speeds up results processing

Oracle BI Scheduler & Data Sources

Oracle BI Scheduler Manages and executes jobs requesting data analytics Schedules reports to be delivered to users at specified times In windows, the scheduler runs as a service Data Sources Contain the business data that users want to analyze Are accessed by the Oracle BI Server Data sources can be: RDBMS OLAP databases Flat files Spreadsheets

Sample Request Processing

User views a Dashboard or submits an Answer request The Oracle BI Presentation Services makes a request to the Oracle BI Server to retrieve the requested data The Oracle BI Server, using the .rpd file, optimizes functions to request the data from the data sources The Oracle BI Server receives the data from the data sources and processes as necessary The Oracle BI Server passes the data to the Oracle BI Presentation Services The Oracle BI Presentation Server formats the data and sends it to the client

Security in Oracle BI

Security in Oracle BI
Oracle BI supports security mechanisms that allow users to access only the data for which they are authorized. Business logic object security: This security mechanism controls access to objects, such as subject areas, tables, and columns. For example, report designers in a particular department can view only the subject areas that belong to their department when using Oracle BI Answers. Presentation Catalog object security: This security mechanism provides security for objects stored in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, such as dashboards, dashboard pages, folders, and reports. Users can view only the objects for which they are authorized. For example, a mid-level manager may not be granted access to a dashboard containing summary information for an entire department.

Security in Oracle BI
Data level security: This security mechanism controls the type and amount of data that is available in a report. When multiple users run the same report, the results that are returned to each user depend on their access rights and roles in the organization. For example, a sales vice president sees results for all regions, while a sales representative for a particular region sees only data for that region.

Some Good Features of OBIEE

Some Good Features of OBIEE

Write back - update or write to the back-end database using the write-back capability. For example, Business users can enter the sales targets for the current quarter in a Sales dashboard. Reports created from any Microsoft application(word document, excel or paint) can be imported to OBIEE using BI Publisher. Developers can customize the reports. Level of customization is 100%

Some Good Features of OBIEE

Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics allows you to view analytics data, Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards, and queries when you cannot connect to the network to access the Oracle Business Intelligence application. Typically, disconnected users connect their personal machines (usually laptops) to a server that runs Oracle Business Intelligence. After downloading an Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics application, they can disconnect their laptops from the network . For example, to travel on a business trip and still view dashboards and queries on their laptop machines

Some Good Features of OBIEE

Time Series feature - in the form of AGO and TODATE. AGO gives you, for example, the value of sales one month ago or one quarter ago, whilst TODATE gives you the total of sales month-to-date, or quarter-to-date, or year-to-date. Various report views like compound Layout, Narrative etc.
Column Selector To permit users to dynamically change which columns appear in results. This allows users to analyze data along Several dimensions. To show the results as one or more paragraphs of text.

Narrative

Some Good Features of OBIEE

Ticker To show the results of the request as a ticker or marquee, similar in style to the stock tickers that run across many financial and news sites on the Internet. To assemble different views for display on a dashboard. To select a specific view of the results from among the saved views. When placed on a dashboard, the view selector appears as a drop-down list from which users can make a selection.

Compound Layout View Selector

Drilling down from different data sources seamlessly. For example I am loading data from SQL Server and Oracle 10g and my report when drilling down to the lower level will use SQL Server data source to a certain point and then use Oracle 10g data source.

Oracle Business Intelligence Application

Oracle BI applications include Extract Transform Load (ETL) routines to extract, transform, and load data into the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse. An Oracle BI application consists of prebuilt, industry-specific Oracle BI interactive dashboards and Oracle BI reports that are built using industry best practices and address key functional areas within an organization.

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