1 Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I Course Introduction

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 2 Lesson Agenda This lesson provides an introduction to the: Instructor and class participants Training site information Course: –Audience –Prerequisites –Goal –Objectives –Methodology –Materials –Agenda

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 3 Instructor and Class Participants Who are you? –Name –Company –Role What is your prior experience? –Business intelligence –Data warehouse design –Database design –Oracle BI applications How do you expect to benefit from this course?

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 4 Training Site Information Bathrooms Telephones Fire exits Class duration and breaks Meals and refreshments Questions?

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 5 Course Audience This course is intended for: Application developers Business intelligence developers Business analysts Data modelers Database designers Data warehouse analysts Technical consultants

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 6 Course Prerequisites Required Oracle University courses: Oracle BI 10g: Analytics Overview Recommended Oracle University courses: Oracle BI Suite EE 10gR3: Create Reports and Dashboards Recommended experience: Business intelligence Data warehouse design Data modeling Database design Basic SQL

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 7 Course Goal To enable students to build and deploy an Oracle Business Intelligence repository.

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 8 Course Objectives Build the Physical, Business Model and Mapping, and Presentation layers of a repository. Set up query logging for testing and debugging. Use Oracle BI Answers to run queries to test and validate a repository. Add multiple sources to business model objects. Build simple and calculated measures for a fact table. Create dimension hierarchies and level-based measures. Model aggregate tables to speed up processing. Model partitions and fragments to improve application performance and usability.

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 9 Course Objectives Use variables to streamline administrative tasks and dynamically modify metadata content. Use time series functions to support historical time comparison analyses. Use bridge tables to resolve many-to-many relationships between dimension and fact tables. Use helper tables to maintain team-based hierarchical relationships in a dimension table. Configure Oracle BI to support multilingual environments. Use implicit fact columns to select fact tables for dimension- only queries.

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 10 Course Objectives Create a repository using a multidimensional data source. Set up security to authenticate users and assign appropriate permissions and privileges. Apply cache management techniques to maintain and enhance query performance. Enable usage tracking to track queries and database usage, and improve query performance. Set up and use a multi-user development environment. Use Administration Tool utilities and wizards to perform administrative tasks.

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 11 Course Objectives Identify best practices for optimizing end-user query performance when implementing Oracle BI Enterprise Edition. Identify and apply repository design principles and best practices.

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 12 Course Methodology The subject matter is delivered through: Lectures and slide presentations Software demonstrations Class discussions Hands-on practices

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 13 Course Materials Student Guide All slides presented during lectures Practice Guide Hands-on practices and solutions

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 14 Course Agenda Day One: Lesson I: Course Introduction Lesson 1: Repository Basics Lesson 2: Building the Physical Layer of a Repository Lesson 3: Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer of a Repository Lesson 4: Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository Lesson 5: Testing and Validating a Repository

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 15 Course Agenda Day Two: Lesson 6: Adding Multiple Logical Table Sources Lesson 7: Adding Calculations to a Fact Lesson 8: Creating Dimension Hierarchies and Level-Based Measures Lesson 9: Using Aggregates Lesson 10: Using Partitions and Fragments

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 16 Course Agenda Day Three: Lesson 11: Using Repository Variables Lesson 12: Modeling Time Series Data Lesson 13: Modeling Many-to-Many Relationships Lesson 14: Localizing Oracle BI Metadata Lesson 15: Localizing Oracle BI Data

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 17 Course Agenda Day Four: Lesson 16: Setting an Implicit Fact Column Lesson 17: Integrating Third-Party Reporting Tools Lesson 18: Creating Repositories from Multidimensional Data Sources Lesson 19: Security Lesson 20: Cache Management

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 18 Course Agenda Day Five: Lesson 21: Enabling Usage Tracking Lesson 22: Multi-User Development Lesson 23: Using Administration Tool Utilities Lesson 24: Optimizing Query Performance Lesson 25: Oracle BI Repository Design Principles

Copyright © 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved. I - 19 Summary This lesson provided an introduction to the: Instructor and class participants Training site information Course: –Audience –Prerequisites –Goal –Objectives –Methodology –Materials –Agenda

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