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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By : John Heaton
Book Image

Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By: John Heaton

Overview of this book

Oracle Database 11g is a comprehensive database platform for data warehousing and business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply-integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality all in a single platform running on a reliable, low-cost grid infrastructure. This book steps through the lifecycle of building a data warehouse with key tips and techniques along the way. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology outlines the key ways to effectively use Oracle technology to deliver your business intelligence solution. This is a practical guide starting with key recipes for project management then moving onto project delivery. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology is a practical guide for performing key steps and functions on your project. This book starts with setting the foundation for a highly repeatable efficient project management approach by assessing your current methodology to see how suitable it is for a business intelligence program. We also learn to set up the project delivery phases to consistently estimate the effort for a project. Along the way we learn to create blueprints for the business intelligence solution that help to connect and map out the destination of the solution. We then move on to analyze requirements, sources, and data. Finally we learn to secure the data as it is an important asset within the organization and needs to be secured efficiently and effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Defining the APEX Upload application


APEX is installed within an Oracle database. The development environment and runtime environment are accessible through a web browser.

Getting ready

When APEX was installed, you should have had an APEX workspace created. Also, your administrator would have created a username with a password for you. You will need these before you begin. In addition to the username and password, your application schema will need to be associated with your workspace. If you do not have access to an environment, you can use an Oracle-hosted environment, and request for a workspace at http://apex.oracle.com. Note that this should not be used for a production environment, but can be used as a training or limited development environment.

How to do it...

Before starting, ensure you have the correct URLs for your web browser to connect to the APEX development environment. Open a compatible web browser and navigate to the URL for Oracle Application Express. For example, http://machine_name...