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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

By : Christian Screen, Haroun Khan, Adrian Ward
Book Image

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

By: Christian Screen, Haroun Khan, Adrian Ward

Overview of this book

<p>The Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) suite delivers a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities, coupled with powerful user experience for creating reports, dashboards and more with your business data. "<em>Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial"</em> will have you unleashing that power in no time, helping you to take action and make the right decisions ataglance. <br /><br /><em>"Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial"</em> provides you with valuable insight and the step-by-step know-how you need to take advantage of everything the Oracle BI suite has to offer you, all utilizing real world case studies for a true implementation in action.<br /><br /><em>"Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands- on Tutorial"</em> takes you on a journey right from inception to a full working OBI 11g System. Using a real-world data walkthrough you’ll explore topics like architecture, reporting and leveraging Essbase as a data source, as well as building the Oracle BI 11g metadata repository (RPD), and developing reports and dashboards in the new Fusion Middleware interface. This practical implementation guide equips you with from the coalface advice which will help you achieve a successful working application by journey’s end.</p>
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11: A Hands-On Tutorial
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What is Oracle Fusion Middleware?


Oracle Fusion Middleware is taking on the enterprise challenge of bringing together the Oracle database and Oracle applications stacks. It is the middle-tier between them. Fusion Middleware is Oracle's go-forward foundation for the fusion of products between the database and application stack. Oracle has acquired many companies over the last decade for their technology or market share. This has taken them to a position of having excellent software. Oracle didn't communicate effectively before that. To achieve interoperability, a common layer had to be formed to fuse together the existing technologies, create efficiencies, and provide consistent delivery of software applications. The following image illustrates the main categories of products, making up the current Oracle product stack:

The Fusion Middleware product category contains Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW), which forms the core of Oracle's Application Integration Architecture (AIA). It is the foundation for Oracle's fusion applications and software suites, such as Oracle BI 11g, Oracle Hyperion EPM, and so on.