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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

Ancillary application integration awareness


Oracle BI 11g is marketed as a product which can be connected and configured with several enterprise products such as Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) to view existing financial reporting and Oracle MapViewer to incorporate geographical spatial analytics into reports and dashboards. Although these are great concepts and ideal for many organizations, they are not set up by default. They are not considered as out-of-the-box integrations where you may flip a single switch to introduce them into your Oracle BI 11g implementation. Some of these integration points such as EPM, require configuration of the Oracle BI Action Framework (discussed in Chapter 11, Agents and the Action Framework) which requires additional modification to a physical configuration file on the server and a credential key configuration via the WebLogic Server Administration Console. Other consoles require configuring a separate application and potentially a database...