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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

Chapter 4. Reviewing the Features of the Reporting Repository

So far, we have given you an overview of the Oracle OBIEE 12c components and discussed how those objects relate to each other. We have also shown you various configuration options. As we discuss in more detail as the book progresses, you will have installed all the software, readied the requisite database, set up your users, and have a BI server repository ready to go. Then you will be ready to use the reporting part of the system--the Presentation Catalog. The Presentation Catalog is controlled by the Presentation service, which now has a bigger role in managing the Presentation Catalog and the applications that form OBIEE 12c.

This chapter will introduce the new interface of the catalog and the tools that are integrated into the Presentation services. We will also explore the various aspects of the catalog administration. The Oracle 12c BI system has such a large number of features that we need to examine what they are before...