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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

Analyzing usage


Now that we are getting data into the tables and have set up the BI repository to access the data, we can start creating analyses to see what is going on. Typical analyses that I would create are:

  • Top 10 slowest dashboards

  • Top 10 slowest analyses

  • User activity over time

  • Non-users

  • Dashboard usage analysis

  • Error reports

Usage measures

Before using some of the measures, you need to understand what each one does and how they are relevant. The following describes each field in the main usage tracking table:

  • TOTAL_TIME_SEC: The time (in seconds) that the Oracle BI Server spent working on the query while the client waited for responses to its query requests. This setting is the same as the response time in the NQQuery.log file. Usually it is the difference between the start time and the end time. The same results are returned from the following function:

        ROUND((CAST(END_TS as DATE)-CAST(START_TS as DATE))*86400)
  • COMPILE_TIME_SEC: The time (in seconds) required to compile the query...