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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

Have a backup plan!


It's hard to get out of a chapter about managing a system without discussing backing up and disaster recovery. Again, an entire chapter could be filled with content on this subject, but that would be beyond the scope and intent of this book. Let's first be aware that backing up the FMW (that is, Oracle Home) folder structure and the Oracle BI artifacts is a good thing. The frequency is up to each organization, but once a week at a minimum is a good recommendation. Back up these items daily for high-availability or critical environments. Each application delivered with the Oracle BI Suite has its own backup consideration. Although OBIEE and BI Publisher comprise the main Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition software (don't forget Essbase, RTD, and the other analytics tools such as Interactive Reporting, and so on), they have some common metadata elements and some which are sole references.

If an outage were to occur after your Oracle BI environment has been placed...