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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

Creating OBIEE code artifacts


Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition currently has minimal support for lifecycle or release management. This limited support makes moving code from environment to environment challenging.

Getting ready

OBIEE is easier to migrate and manage as an entire code base. There are several files that you need, depending on your implementation. Before you start, you will need to know the answers to a few questions, as follows:

  1. 1. Have we used or are we planning to use the multi-language capabilities of OBIEE?

  2. 2. Do we require column headings to change depending on certain criteria or language?

  3. 3. Are we planning to externalise the column names and store them in the database?

  4. 4. Have we configured security to integrate into a provider other than the default?

How to do it...

OBIEE is mainly file-based. It is important to check the files you require in Subversion. The folder structure of OBIEE is very deep. A configuration file is a good idea to identify where files...