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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

WebLogic Server is its own application


Working with WLS in the context of Oracle BI for the first time, it is easy to miss the fact that WLS is its own Oracle product. In the case of Oracle BI 12c integration, it is WebLogic Server 12c. To exemplify WLS's ability to act as a standalone product, a company may license WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition solely to service their internally developed application (typically, Java/JEE) deployment needs. Here are a few items that often get overlooked:

  • As mentioned previously, after the default Oracle BI installation, a default set of users and groups is created in the WLS-embedded LDAP. The users and groups established by default here are a mix of users and groups for Oracle BI and the WebLogic Server application itself. Looking at the list of groups within the groups table, you see a group named Administrators, but also a group named BIAdministrators.

  • The Administrators group is specific to the WLS application. That is to say that a WLS user belonging...