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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

Oracle BI 12c Lifecycle Management


Lifecycle Management (LCM) is a fairly new concept for many administrators and developers of Oracle BI. All core transferable objects in a software application such as Oracle BI are defined as artifacts. Artifacts for Oracle BI 12c are items such as the RPD, Presentation (Web) Catalog, and so on. Since these are a few of the most critical artifacts to the operation of Oracle BI, this section discusses how they are managed in Oracle BI 12c.

LCM includes the many different areas of patching, backup, and recovery, and the general migration of Oracle BI artifacts from one environment to another. In Oracle BI 12c, there has been a concentrated effort to increase the ability to deliver a consistent, manageable Oracle BI application through the use of programmatic capability. In Oracle BI 12c, there are now several options to do so: Application Programming Interface Web Services via SOAP and REST, and Command Line Interfaces (CLI) through the Oracle BI 12c BI...