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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

Security Realms


Management of the over arching system security will take place in the Security Realms area. A Security Realm is basically a configuration area to manage how WLS resources are protected. This is where you configure users, groups, and other security profiles that determine how access to applications deployed on the WLS server and the WLS administration console itself is achieved. More than one Security Realm can exist, but only one can be used as the active realm from which the security configuration for the application server is sourced. Thus, during the Oracle BI installation configuration, only one Security Realm, myrealm, is created. It is within this realm that we will configure and manage authentication providers such as a company's LDAP directory and so on.

Tip

Note that WLS itself contains an Embedded LDAP directory. This is also referred to as the DefaultAuthenticator. It follows the open standard LDAP v3 protocol, and could indeed support custom build directories for...