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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

Chapter 2. Installing the Prerequisite Software

This chapter will cover the steps to install the software needed before we can install the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) software. OBIEE can be installed on a variety of operating systems, either directly or on a virtual machine (VM) (see the Oracle site for details on all supported operating systems).

We will install a Java Development Kit (JDK), which underpins the server software and is actually used to install the software. We will then install the Application Server - Oracle Fusion Middleware.

We have already installed a SQL Server database that will host the metadata tables. We used a trial version of SQL Server 2016, but you can use MySQL if you prefer (MySQL is free to use). Oracle XE is not supported for the metadata.

The final task is to install some schemas in the SQL Server database that will be used by the OBIEE system.

Before we begin, though, make sure you have suitable tools on your machine to undertake...