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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g R1 Cookbook

By : Cuneyt Yilmaz
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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g R1 Cookbook

By: Cuneyt Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>Extracting meaningful and valuable business information from transactional databases is crucial for any organization. OBIEE 11g is a reporting tool that satisfies all the business requirements regarding complex reporting. It consists of a powerful back-end engine with a repository and a highly customizable graphical web interface.</p> <p>Oracle Business Intelligence 11g R1 Cookbook provides all the key concepts of the product including the architecture of the BI Server. This practical guide shows each and every step of creating analytical reports starting from building a well-designed repository. You will learn how to create analytical reports that will support different business perspectives. <br /><br />This practical guide covers how to implement OBIEE 11g suite in order to enable BI developers to create sophisticated web based reports. All of tasks will be covered step by step in detail. <br /><br />You will explore the architecture of the Oracle Business Intelligence Server and learn how to build the repository (RPD). We will also discuss how to implement the business rules in the repository with real-life scenarios.</p> <p>Best practices of a successful BI implementation are esssential for any BI developer so they are also covered in depth.If you are planning to implement OBIEE 11g suite, this step-by-step guide is a must have resource.All the key tasks are defined in detail and supported with diagrams and screenshots.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence 11g R1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating the scorecards


Scorecard is a strategy management tool that will help you to measure the productivity of the organization. It has four different components to build up a scorecard:

  • Strategy: This is the objective of the organization. There can be multiple objectives in the same organization depending on the divisions.

  • Initiatives: These are the time-specific tasks or projects. You'll use initiatives to support the objectives.

  • Scorecard Documents: These documents will contain supporting information about the strategy management.

  • Perspectives: These are different point of views of the organization. There are four different types of perspectives by default. You can add more depending on the organization requirements. These four perspectives were proposed by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton.

How to do it...

  1. Click on the Scorecard link in the Performance Management section.

  2. The New Scorecard window pops up. Enter a name for the scorecard. If the Use Default Perspectives checkbox is...