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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

What is poor performance?


If a dashboard loads in 20 seconds, is that good or bad performance? We tend to answer this question in terms of user expectations and technical capability. User expectations are what we manage every day on a project and sometimes these are really easy to meet, other times totally impossible! We recently had a client who was switching from a very slow reporting system (which will remain nameless) where a report would take 45 minutes to run. When we replaced the report with a dashboard that took 20 seconds, they were delighted. A similar dashboard, at another recent investment-banking client, was deemed to be far too slow at 20 seconds, as they required information in less than 3 seconds per dashboard page. Because the first client was happy with a 20-second wait, there was no further performance work undertaken, even though I knew that we could get the report down to less than 3 seconds. The banking client demanded better performance so we spent hundreds of man...