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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

Migrating FMW Security to other environments


In previous versions of Oracle BI, migrating all components of security and other Oracle BI artifacts took place simply by moving the RPD and/or Web Catalog from the source to target server until Fusion Middleware was introduced. Oracle BI is much broader in scope and does not come with such a luxury. This section takes a glance at the files that comprise FMW Security within the System Management tools, leveraging the WebLogic security import/export utility to aid in simplifying security migration.

Please note that this section mainly discussed the users and groups in the WLS Embedded LDAP security provider. Application Roles are migrated mainly by the BAR file concept you learned earlier.

FMW Core Security files and OPSS

In order for Oracle BI 12c to store system-specific metadata and security information that requires some level of encryption to communicate between the many interoperable areas of Fusion Middleware, it uses (OPSSOracle Platform...