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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By: Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes. We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence. This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system. This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Installing Oracle BI 12c on *Nix


One of the obvious options for installing Oracle BI 12c is the choice of operating system. Chapter 3, Installing on Web Server 2012 did a nice job of showing the Oracle BI 12c installation on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. However, on a *Nix (that is,: Unix or Linux) operating system there are few, if any, differences mainly because the same GUI is available for all operating systems. As the person conducting the installation on a *Nix environment, you may or may not have the option to directly remote or log on to the server allocated for the Oracle BI environment. In which case the *Nix administrator must provide Secure Shell (SSH) access with display/xhosts options or VNCServer access. This will enable one to use a tool such as Putty or TightVNC to access the GUI Oracle BI 12c installation wizard.

A Linux-based virtual machine (VM) image was produced by the Oracle BI Product Management Development team with the release of Oracle BI 12c. It is referred to...