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AGENDA

About Oracle BI EE
Components of Oracle BI EE
Answers
Interactive Dashboard

Introduction To Oracle BI EE

Business intelligence is a group of processes and technologies that

transform the transactional data into valuable knowledge.
Enables business users to make correct decisions.
Improves the productivity of their enterprises, especially in the markets
where there is huge competition.
In past days, business intelligence was related to only historical data.
But now, real-time reporting is one of the most important requirements.
Before, there were many reporting tools that were part of transactional
applications. They were used to generate operational reports. But now, as
you will imagine, there are many applications that are based on different
technologies in an enterprise and a unified reporting solution is an
important requirement.

Introduction To Oracle BI EE

Analytical tool used to help users to

view and analyze data.
Provide metrics to measure the state of
the data
Presents Key indicators of changes in
the market trends etc.

Advantages of Oracle BI EE

Simple User Manipulation.

No deep Technical skills required.

Robust Customizations.
Multilanguage reports can be created
with
data.

Architecture of Oracle BI EE
Oracl
e

Repository
SAP

Client

Presentation
Services

BI Server

Siebel

OO

BI Scheduler
Data Source

Data
Sourc
e

Oracle BI Components
Oracle BI Client:
Web based User Interface.
Allows the users to create Answers or reports and
view them.
Allows the users to add the reports to the dashboard.
Oracle BI Presentation Services:
Business intelligence data to the clients through web
browsers.
Communicates with the BI server component
directly and consists of query clients such as Analysis
Editor and
dashboards.
End users will be able to create and modify analyses or
just

Oracle BI Components
Oracle BI Server:

Oracle BI Server is the main component in the suite.

Query engine that converts the logical requests to a physical SQL
statement in order to execute it in the data sources.
Optimized queries are generated based on the business rules that are
defined in the BI server repository.
Show me sales through today for
my highest value customers.
Assure sufficient inventory to fulfill
orders.
Oracle BI Server
Intelligent Request
Generation

Data
Warehouse

Historical
sales (through
yesterday)

Operational

Todays sales

Inventory
System

Current
inventory

Repository
NQSConfig.ini
NQServer.ini
NQquery.log

Oracle BI Components cont

Oracle BI repository: Is built and managed by the
Oracle Administration tool and provides information and
measures to clients used to create the reports.

Presentati
on
layer

Business
layer

Physical
layer

Oracle BI Components cont

NQSconfig.ini: This file is used for enabling and

disabling the
cache and defining the repository to load.

NQServer.log : Record the OBI server messages.

NQquery.log : Records the messages of a query.

Oracle BI Components cont

Oracle BI Answers:
Guided experience leads user from insight to
action.

Personalized, function-specific and role-based.

Allow the users to generate alerts.

Oracle Interactive Dashboards:

Ad-hoc data exploration.

True business user self sufficiency.
Create , modify and author analysis, pivots and
dashboards.

Oracle BI Publisher:

Schedule and distribute enterprise-class reports.

Oracle BI Answers

Oracle BI Answers
Provides end users ad-hoc query and analysis
capabilities.
Users interact with the logical view of
information.
Requests that you create are saved Oracle BI
presentation catalog.

Answers Workspace
Subject
Area
Selection

Add criteria to answers

Add
Criteria in
report

Filters

Presentati
on
Columns

Display results in answers

Report parameters
Mandator
y

Add
Criteria in
report

Report
Paramete
rs

Interactive
Dashboards

OBI Interactive dashboard

Users default dashboard is typically the first
page that
appears.
Flexible information containers.
Personalized to automatically display data
based on the
users identity or role.

Dashboard Objects
Pages : Contains one or more columns and are
used to align contents on the dashboard.
Sections: Within columns hold actual data. Can
contain results, dashboard prompts, links,
images, embedded content, text, folder, guide
navigation link etc.

Dashboard Builder

Adding catalog object into DB

How it works..

OBIEE best practices

Instead of creating the Physical layer objects
manually, use the Import option from the File menu.
Circular joins shouldn't be used in the repository.
Create aliases for each physical table to avoid the
circular joins.
You may create more than one alias for a single
physical table.

Thank
you!!!