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Introduction to Oracle Business

Intelligence Enterprise Edition

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

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Explain the goal of Oracle Business Intelligence

Describe Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite
Identify and describe the major components of the Oracle
Business Intelligence architecture
Describe Oracle Exalytics Machine
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BI analyses and dashboards.

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 What Is Business Intelligence?

It provides users with the data and tools to answer

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questions that are important to running the part of the

business for which they are responsible:
Determine whether the business is running as planned.
Identify where things are going wrong.
Take and monitor corrective actions.
Identify trends.
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 Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite

Role-based dashboards
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Proactive alerts
Mobile access
MS Office integration
Logical view of data Common Enterprise Information Model
Query processing and BI Server Essbase
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regardless of where the information is consumed. Users can access and interact with
information in multiple ways, including web-based dashboards, collaboration workspaces,
search bars, mobile devices, and MS Office applications.

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 Oracle BI Architecture Components

Oracle BI architecture components include:

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Presentation Services
Oracle BI Presentation Server and Catalog
Oracle BI Server
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 Presentation Services

Presentation Services includes end-user tools that provide

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access to business intelligence information.

Oracle BI Analysis Editor
Set of graphical tools used to build, view, and modify Oracle
BI analyses
Oracle BI Dashboards
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Oracle BI Dashboards
An Oracle BI dashboard is used to display the results of analyses that are embedded in the
dashboard, and other items, such as links to saved analyses, links to websites, Active-X
objects, HTML text, and links to documents. Dashboards are typically created by users with
administrator permissions. However, dashboards are simple to create via the user-friendly
Oracle BI interface. After dashboards are created, they can be shared by common groups of
users or can be personal (not shared).

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 Oracle BI Presentation Server and Catalog

The Presentation Server provides processing to visualize

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information for end-user consumption.

Uses the Presentation Catalog to store saved content
Receives data from Oracle BI Server and provides it to the
end-user tool that requested it

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It uses the Presentation Catalog to store saved content such as analyses, dashboards,
and other Oracle BI objects.

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 Oracle BI Server

Oracle BI Server is the core server behind Oracle Business

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Intelligence.
Provides efficient processing to access physical data
sources and structure information
Uses metadata to direct processing
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applications as well as third-party tools. Oracle BI Server allows a single information request
to query multiple data sources, providing information access to members of the enterprise
and, in web-based applications, to suppliers, customers, prospects, or any authorized user
with web access.
Oracle BI Server serves as a portal to structured data that resides in one or more data
sources: multiple data marts, the Oracle BI Data Warehouse, an enterprise data warehouse,
an operational data store, transaction system databases, unstructured data (such as data
from Endeca), personal databases, and so on. Transparent to both end users and query tools,
Oracle BI Server functions as the integrating component of a complex decision support
system by acting as a layer of abstraction and unification over the underlying databases. This
offers users a simplified query environment in which they can ask business questions that
span information sources across the enterprise and beyond.

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 Oracle BI Repository

The BI repository stores the metadata used by Oracle BI

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Server.
Accessed and configured using the Oracle BI
Administration Tool, which is used by administrators to:
Import metadata from databases and other data sources
Simplify and reorganize the metadata into business models
Structure the business model for presentation to analysis
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repository metadata, see the Oracle BI 11g R1: Build Repositories course.

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 Data Sources

Data sources contain the business data that users want to

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analyze.
Accessed by Oracle BI Server
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use native drivers or Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).
SQL is generated by Oracle BI Server against the data sources by using the data source
connection, information from the repository, and database-specific features and parameters.
Thus, Oracle BI Server is not just a SQL generator. It determines the best source and the
optimal way to access data. In some cases, Oracle BI Server performs operations more
efficiently than the physical data sources.

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 Sample Analysis Processing

1. User views a dashboard or submits an analysis.

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2. Oracle BI Presentation Server makes a request to Oracle BI

Server to retrieve the requested data.
3. Using the repository file, Oracle BI Server optimizes functions to
request the data from the data sources.
4. Oracle BI Server receives the data from the data sources and
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requests to the sources and combines the results or provides further processing.
The Oracle BI Server then sends the data back to Oracle BI Presentation Server, which
formats the data as appropriate and sends it to the end-user tool for display.

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 Oracle BI EE Sample Application
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problems. These examples include the latest Oracle BI EE features and also Oracle BI EE
core architecture examples (semantic layer modeling, multisource federation, integration with
products such as Essbase, TimesTen, and more).
Note: The SampleApp contents and its code are distributed free for demonstrative purposes
only. It is neither maintained nor supported by Oracle as a licensed product. You can
download sample applications from the Oracle Technology Network here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html
The sample application for Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.7 is a VirtualBox image, which provides a
turnkey virtual environment with the full sample application preconfigured.
You can view video demos of the sample application on the Oracle BI Tech YouTube channel
(http://www.youtube.com/user/OracleBITechDemos).

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 What Is Oracle Exalytics BI Machine?

First engineered system designed to deliver high-

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performance analysis, modeling & planning by collating

Oracle BI software
Industry-standard hardware
In-memory database technology
Provides unmatched speed, visualizations, and scalability
Can be deployed in existing IT environment or by itself
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technology, Oracle Exalytics is an optimized system that delivers answers to all your business
questions with unmatched speed, intelligence, simplicity, and manageability.
Oracle Exalytics provides speed, visualizations, and scalability. It delivers extreme
performance for existing analytical and enterprise performance management applications,
thereby enabling a new class of intelligent applications, such as Yield Management, Revenue
Management, Demand Forecasting, Inventory Management, Pricing Optimization, Profitability
Management, Rolling Forecast, and Virtual Close.
Requiring no application redesign, Oracle Exalytics can be deployed in existing IT
environments by itself or in conjunction with Oracle Exadata and/or Oracle Exalogic (an
integrated and optimized package of hardware, software, servers, and storage designed to
provide a complete platform for a wide range of application types and widely varied
workloads) to enable extreme performance and best-in-class user experience. Based on
proven hardware, software, and in-memory technology, Oracle Exalytics lowers the total cost
of ownership (TCO), reduces operational risk, and provides unprecedented analytical
capability for workgroup, departmental, and enterprise-wide deployments. Multiple Oracle
Exalytics machines can be clustered together to expand available memory capacity and to
provide high availability.
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 Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic, and Oracle Exalytics are three different system-engineered
configurations. These configurations increase business value when applied to the following
applications:
Oracle ExadataData warehousing and database consolidation
Oracle ExalogicCloud computing and application consolidation
Oracle ExalyticsBI, speed-of-thought analysis, and financial and operational planning
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(Note that this configuration is also known as BI Machine or BI Exalytics Machine.)

Watch a demo on YouTube at this link:
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 Oracle Exalytics BI Machine: Overview
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The Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine hardware is a single server that is optimally
configured for in-memory analytics for BI workloads and includes powerful compute capacity,
abundant memory, and fast networking options. Oracle BI Foundation Suite takes advantage
of large memory, processors, concurrency, storage, networking, operating system, kernel, and
system configuration of the Oracle Exalytics hardware. This optimization results in better
query responsiveness, higher user scalability, and markedly lower total cost of ownership
(TCO) compared to stand-alone software. The Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database for
Exalytics is an optimized in-memory analytic database, with features exclusively available on
the Oracle Exalytics platform.
Oracle Exalytics performs the following actions:
Scales to many thousands of business users
Runs BI and enterprise performance management (EPM) applications
Fits with existing data sources and infrastructure

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 Why Use the Oracle Exalytics Machine?

Traditional distributed applications suffer from:

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Heterogeneous and unreliable hardware

Uneven performance and resource utilization
High latency networks
Complex integration solutions
High labor costs for deployment and maintenance
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dominant concern. Even when the latest technologies, open standards, vendors, and
architectural practices, such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), have been employed
pervasively, most enterprises now find themselves with too many platforms, too many
technologies, too many domains of expertise, and too many vendors to coordinate and
manage.
In response, a number of technologies and practices have become staples for large
enterprises, ranging from virtualization and centralized storage to enterprise-wide
standardization of software and hardware. This transformation typically involves adoption of a
more centralized, automated, and elastic infrastructure and regime. Perhaps, most
importantly, these engineered systems must not be monolithic. It must be possible for
enterprises to implement them over time, at a pace determined by real business needs and
investment timelines.

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 Market Drivers and Technology Enablers
Technology
enablers
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Advantages of
In-Memory Technology
Hardware + Software
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BI Adoption
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run faster,
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user an analyst, thus increasing productivity. Decision making (in the context of rapidly
shifting business conditions) is greatly enhanced.
BI initiatives can be extended to incorporate modeling, planning, forecasting, and predictive
analytics, branching beyond reporting and dashboards. Planning applications can be scaled
across the enterprise with faster, more accurate planning cycles.

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 Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine Architecture
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Exalytics Machine

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which schemas that are created with the Repository Creation Utility (RCU) reside.
Exalytics Machine consists of Oracle BI Foundation Suite and two In-Memory Analytic
Engines:
TimesTen for Exalytics
Essbase on Exalytics
Times Ten for Exalytics
TimesTen is a memory-optimized, full-featured relational database with persistence.
TimesTen delivers real-time performance by changing the assumptions around where data
resides at run time. TimesTen stores all of its data in memory-optimized data structures and
supports query algorithms specifically designed for in-memory processing. Using the familiar
SQL programming language interfaces, TimesTen provides real-time data management that
delivers extremely fast response time and very high throughput for a variety of workloads.

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 Based on Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, TimesTen has been specifically enhanced
for analytical processing at in-memory speeds. With lightning fast scan speed of up to 100
million rows/second and enhancements, such as support for analytical functions, and up to
10x columnar compression, TimesTen for in-memory analytics delivers faster reports and
dashboards for departmental as well as enterprise-wide consumption. Oracle TimesTen In-
Memory databases are persistent and recoverable. Durability is achieved through a
combination of transaction logging and database checkpointing to disk.
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Essbase on Exalytics
The Essbase block storage option accomplishes the following tasks:
Indexes and data blocks are stored in memory.
There is better cache coherency.
Index navigation is improved.
Locking is improved.
There is better workload partitioning and distribution across threads.
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analytics for a variety of scenarios at workgroup, departmental, and enterprise scale by using:
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applications provided by Oracle, may be able to fit entirely into memory. In such cases,
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the result cache is treated as a logical table and can satisfy any other queries that
require a subset of the cached data.

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 Signing In to Presentation Services

Signing in to Presentation Services authenticates you as a

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user.

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learn more
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and Administering the Presentation Catalog.

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 Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Home Page
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can apply default searches that return BI objects that belong to you by using the My Analysis,
My Agents, and other similar links. In the Get Started section, you can access download links
for BI desktop tools, for example the BI Office Add-In, as well as access technical
documentation and other related content. The Recent and Most Popular sections contain
recently opened objects, and those that are most popular among you and other users of the
system. Each object includes links to open the object, run it, open it in its respective editor, or
to select more options. Selecting more options allows you to select from a drop-down menu
with access to all available tasks for the object, whichdepending on your privileges and
permissionscan include administering the object (for example), or adding it to a Briefing
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 Global Header

Provides access throughout Presentation Services to all

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objects, dashboards, and the Presentation Catalog

Create new object Open object

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objects.
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any other part of the user interface. It also includes the Catalog link, which allows you to
navigate to the Catalog page, in which you can navigate and work with objects in the
Presentation Catalog. You are introduced to the Catalog page and its tools in the lesson titled
Working with Oracle Business Intelligence Analyses.

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 Administering Objects in the
Presentation Catalog
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provides a centralized place to navigate and administer catalog objects.
Users of the catalog can be classified into three roles: administrators, content designers, and
content consumers. Depending on their roles and the object permissions and system
privileges assigned to users and roles, different options and objects are made available in the
Catalog page. For example, only users with an administrative role can toggle to the
Administrator view, which displays the catalogs root folder and allows access to multiple
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 You can use the tools on the Catalog pages toolbar to search, sort, navigate, and examine
selected folders and catalog objects. In the example in the slide, a folder is selected in the list,
so its name appears in the Tasks pane, where available tasks appropriate to the selected
object appear for selection. Depending on the object selected, other tools are available from
the toolbar, including, for example, printing and export of analyses. Tasks for objects are also
available from the More link beneath each object.
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 Searching the Catalog

Search the catalog in one of two ways:

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1. Click the binoculars button to display the Search pane to search for objects from the
Home page or Catalog page.
2. Use the Global Headers Search field to search for objects.

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 Quiz: Overview

This quiz examines your knowledge of Oracle Business

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Intelligence and its architecture.

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 Quiz

The Analysis Editor is a tool used to save content in the

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Presentation Catalog.
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b. False

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 Quiz

Which of the following stores Oracle BI objects that you create?

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a. Repository
b. Presentation Catalog
c. Oracle BI Server

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 Quiz

From which of the following can you create Oracle BI objects,

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including analyses, filters, and agents?

a. Home page
b. Sign-in page
c. Global Header

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of the Home page.

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 Quiz

Which of the following are the in-memory analytic engines in

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Exalytics?
a. TimesTen
b. Oracle BI Foundation Suite
c. Essbase

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improvements to overall storage layer performance, enhancements to parallel operations,
enhanced MDX syntax and a high performance MDX query engine.

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

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Explain the goal of Oracle Business Intelligence

Describe Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite
Identify and describe the major components of the Oracle
Business Intelligence architecture
Describe Oracle Exalytics Machine
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 Practice 2: Overview

This practice covers exploring Oracle BI Presentation Services.

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