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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

Creating and assigning Application Roles


Once the users and groups have been created and properly associated with one another based on the matrix provided in the previous section, you have completed LDAP assignment only. This in effect emulates the LDAP directory relationship that would already be established in an organization's LDAP directory, such as Microsoft Active Directory. You've simply leveraged what is already built into WLS in order to showcase that using the embedded LDAP is a solution for managing a small number (really, up to 1,000 it is still quite functional) of users and assigning them to groups. Next, you'll associate groups you've created to the Oracle BI Application Roles used to delegate privileges for the Oracle BI system. This is done using Fusion Middleware Control Enterprise Manager as follows:

  1. Navigate to Fusion Middleware Control and log in with the WebLogic administrator user's credentials.

  2. Click on the WebLogic Domain drop-down icon under the bi label to the...