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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
Book Image

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

Creating your own look and feel - overview


The steps in the following section take advantage of the Oracle BI 12c skinning and styling customization options. Modifying these options is predominantly manual in nature. The idea of look and feel as it relates to Oracle BI translates into skins, styles, and messages.

Messages are usually the textual elements that are shown in the Oracle BI portal (presentation services) and can be anything from the header logo and text, to the name of each link shown above the dashboard tabs. An example of the latter would be changing the sign out link on the portal dashboard to render Get out of here! instead.

Styles and skins relate to both the color scheme shown in the Oracle BI portal and the visible nature of Oracle BI Analysis Views. An example of modifying a style would be to change the background color of a dashboard from the default white color to a light gray. An example of skinning would be to modify the bar chart's color scheme from its default to...