OBIEE 12c Front End Features

Visual Analyzer:
VA is a very strong web-based tool has new generation Answers capability for
self-service analysis.
VA is quick data exploration and data discovery tool which can build rich
dashboards on-the-fly in very quick turnaround time. Rich analysis possible with
drag and drop configuration
BI Ask:

A search based infrastructure that comes with visual Analyzer

BI Ask allows creation of content based on text interaction

In Android and IOS mobiles user can literally talk the keywords to get specific
results (i.e Revenue by product)
Data Mashups: is the process to connect or relate two or more sources in
OBIEE 12c.
Gives Flexibility to business users to merge their own data with the RPD Subject
Area.
Available in Visual Analyzer as well as in Answers
Heat Matrix graph:
This is basically like a pivot table with automated conditional formatting to provide
a gradient of colors based upon the values inside the cells

percentages: When dealing with percentages, you now have the option to
multiply values by 100
Under 'Column Properties'-->Data Format properties--> “Scale for % (x 100)”
option is added that Specifies whether to multiply data by a 100 to display it as a
percentage when setting the properties of a column
All Views are enhanced in such a way that we can 'right click' on all graphs &
other views to sort, drill, keep the column or remove the column from the view.

New Time series Functions: A new time series function called 'Forecast' has been
added.
 New UI 'R Analytics' Functions:

One of the great advantage of OBIEE12C is availability of new set of functions

related to 'R Analytics' added in the 'edit formula' tab.
'R' is a programming language and software environment for statistical
computing and graphics. The 'R' language is widely used among statisticians and
data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis.
To work with 'R Analytics' functions we have to setup 'R' in the environment.
The 'R Analytics' function set includes
Cluster, Evaluate Script, Outlier, Regr, Trendline functions.

Administration
 No more OPMN! OPMN is no longer used in Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Instead, system components are managed by the WebLogic Management
Framework, which includes WLST, Node Manager and pack and unpack
 stop/start scripts
 Diagnostic Bundles: A new script enables you to collect the diagnostic bundles
needed by Oracle Support or Development to help resolve issues
 Business Intelligence Archive (BAR) files: All Oracle Business Intelligence
metadata, including repository, Presentation Services catalog, and user
authentication is stored in BAR archive files. The BAR file is a mechanism for
managing or moving a self contained set of Oracle BI metadata between
environments
 Zero downtime: All system and application operations should be supported on-
line. No requirement for downtime of end-user functionality

Security
 BISystem and BISystemUser are removed - this is all handled internally now, so
we don't have to worry again about corrupted system credentials etc
 User GUIDs Removed: GUIDs have been removed to make administration
easier, GUIDs are replaced with user names. There is no longer any need to
refresh GUIDs
 The Security Store (Policy and Credential Stores) is configured in a relational
database rather than in a file. The database is the same as used by RCU. This
change makes scaling easier, and makes clusters more reliable (and
presumably easier to backup/recover)