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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By : John Heaton
Book Image

Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By: John Heaton

Overview of this book

Oracle Database 11g is a comprehensive database platform for data warehousing and business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply-integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality all in a single platform running on a reliable, low-cost grid infrastructure. This book steps through the lifecycle of building a data warehouse with key tips and techniques along the way. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology outlines the key ways to effectively use Oracle technology to deliver your business intelligence solution. This is a practical guide starting with key recipes for project management then moving onto project delivery. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology is a practical guide for performing key steps and functions on your project. This book starts with setting the foundation for a highly repeatable efficient project management approach by assessing your current methodology to see how suitable it is for a business intelligence program. We also learn to set up the project delivery phases to consistently estimate the effort for a project. Along the way we learn to create blueprints for the business intelligence solution that help to connect and map out the destination of the solution. We then move on to analyze requirements, sources, and data. Finally we learn to secure the data as it is an important asset within the organization and needs to be secured efficiently and effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Configuring OBIEE privileges


Privileges control access to certain functionality within the OBIEE. They can be configured and controlled.

Getting ready

OBIEE has a lot of privileges; each privilege performs a specific function. These can be customized to suit your specific needs. Open a web browser and navigate to the main home page for OBIEE.

How to do it...

OBIEE privileges allow the user to perform specific tasks and functions within OBIEE. These privileges grant access to standard content and functionality. For example, Access to Answers:

  1. 1. Log in as the administrator (weblogic), and click on Administration:

  2. 2. Under Security, select Manage Privileges:

  3. 3. Navigate to the necessary privileges and add or remove roles by clicking on the highlighted role adjacent to the privilege:

How it works...

By understanding the privileges you can roll out the functionality to some or all users; for example, Access to Answers. By creating specific application roles in the previous recipe, you can now assign...