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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

Where to administer BI Publisher


Security is always a good starting point when learning a new tool. Without it, you have no control on the application. As mentioned before, BI Publisher could stand alone as its own FMW application. In a standalone BI Publisher deployment, security can be configured using FMW security or several other authentication and authorization types. In either case, the BI Publisher Administration page can be located by accessing the following URL, http://<server_name>:9704/xmlpserver/ servlet/admin. During the default Oracle BI installation configuration, BI Publisher is automatically configured to be embedded within OBIEE. This means that the BI Publisher Administration page can also be accessed by clicking on the Manage BI Publisher link in the OBIEE Administration page: http://<server_name>:9704/ analytics/saw.dll?Admin. Both administration pages require you to log in with user credentials having administration (BI Administrator role) privileges, such...