2. Charles Phillips screen
11/23/2017
Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite
Technical Architecture

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4. Agenda Technical Architecture
In today’s session we will be talking about the Technical Architecture

5. Oracle BI EE 11g introduces many changes:
The new architecture is consistent with the Oracle Fusion Middleware product set
Installation and Management processes are the same on all OS platforms
Easier to scale out (horizontally or vertically)
Single portal for System Management
Improved security model
Much easier to implement advanced security options such as SSO / SSL
Remote management capabilities
Better facilities for Lifecycle Management (installs, patches, upgrades, migration)
The new architecture is consistent with the Oracle Fusion Middleware product set
The Installation and Management processes are the same on all OS platforms
It is Easier to scale out (horizontally or vertically)
It has a Single portal for System Management
It has a vastly Improved security model
It is Much easier to implement advanced security options such as SSO / SSL
It has Remote management capabilities and it has Better facilities for Lifecycle Management like installs, patches, upgrades, migration etc.

6. Most Integrated. Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
Data Integration
Scorecards
Interactive Dashboards
Reporting & Publishing
Ad-hoc Analysis
Office Integration
Detect & Alert
Search
Collaborate
Mobile
Embedded
Common Enterprise Information Model
Common Metadata Foundation across all Data Sources
Common Security, Access Control, Authorization, Auditing
Common Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services
Common Clustering, Workload Management, & Deployment
Common Systems & Operational Lifecycle Management
Oracle BI is Complete, offering the widest choice of end user access ranging from interactive dashboards, ad hoc query, pixel-perfect reporting and Office integration, but also proactive alerting and mobile access, collaboration Scorecards, and embedded in business applications. This broad set of choices helps foster delivery of BI insights pervasively across organizations.
Unstructured & Semi-Structured
OLTP & ODS
Systems
Data Warehouse
Data Mart
Exadata
OLAP
Sources
Packaged
Applications
(Oracle, SAP, Others)
Excel
XML/Office
Business
Process

7. Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
BI Server
Proactive
Detection
and Alerts
Disconnected
Analytics
Ad-hoc Analysis
MS Office
Plug-in
Reporting &
Publishing
Interactive
Dashboards
OLTP & ODS
Systems
Data Warehouse
Data Mart
SAP, Oracle
PeopleSoft, Siebel,
Custom Apps
Files
Excel
XML
Business
Process
Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine
Intelligent Caching Services
Simplified Business Model and Abstraction Layer
Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services
Oracle BI Server – Provides Centralized data access and calculation via a logical Common Enterprise Information Model through to the end user products and other SQL based tools

8. OBIEE 11g Technical Architecture
Oracle BI Domain
The Oracle BI Domain consists of the Weblogic Domain, The Oracle BI System Components and the Supporting Database Schemas
The Weblogic Domain consists of the Admin Server, the Managed Server and the Node Manager
A WebLogic Domain consists of one Admin Server.
The Admin Server consists of a J2EE “Admin Console” application which is WebLogic’s UI for providing management functions across the WebLogic domain:
In addition, Oracle Enterprise Manager is also deployed to the Admin Server. EM provides System Management and monitoring capability across the whole Oracle BI Domain:
The Managed Server Contains deployed J2EE application components.
A WebLogic Domain can have multiple Managed Servers, each of which can run on a different machine
The Oracle BI J2EE Components are
Action Service : Which Services “Action Framework” requests
BI Office : provides Integration with Office products via the BI Office plug-in
BI Publisher
Web Service SOA : That Services Web Service requests for OBIEE
BI Plugin : This is the main Oracle BI application component for Analytics
Security : For servicing OBIEE security requests
Node Manager is A daemon process that provides remote start, stop, restart and monitoring capabilities for WebLogic processes. Each machine running WebLogic will have one (and only one) Node Manager process
Lets take a look at the Oracle BI System Components
It has all the same processes as with OBIEE 10g, with an additional “Oracle Process Manager Network” (OPMN) component which is responsible for remote start/stop/ping of System Components. OPMN can be controlled from the command-line or via Enterprise Manager. OPMN is required on every OBIEE machine

9. Oracle BI 11.1.1.5.0 and Oracle Essbase 11.1.2.1 Enhanced Integration
Single-Click configuration of BI Server and EPM SSO
Connection pool setting
No need for manual configuration of EPM registry
Essbase Studio – BI Server Business Model Support
Provides Studio the ability to read and re-use BI Server dimensions and hierarchies for Cube construction
Extended BI Server support for Essbase versions ,
OBIEE and Oracle Essbase has enhanced integration . 9

10. New Oracle BI Server 11.1.1.5 Data Sources
Support added for Oracle OLAP, SAP BW, and MS Analysis Services, Oracle TimesTen, Oracle RetekRPAS
Oracle BI EE natively understands hierarchies, dimensions, metrics, etc. for additional multidimensional data sources
Dramatically improved metadata import and development experience compared to 10g
Incremental update of metadata supported
Substantially improved UI experience—multidimensional style look and feel with in-place hierarchy drilling, custom groups, etc.
For SAP BW: Introducing new BAPI adapter for Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bit
Here are some of the new features built in within the BI Server

11. Oracle BI 11.1.1.5 Native Oracle OLAP Integration
“Better Together” with Oracle BI, Oracle OLAP, and Exadata
Oracle BI utilizes OLAP aware SQL and function shipping
Simple cube metadata import
Oracle BI understands cube structure
Oracle BI has Native Oracle OLAP Integration

12. Installation and Upgrade
Greater flexibility and improved installation experience
Optimized Simple install with lower memory footprint
Integration with My Oracle Support for updates as part of installation
Support for existing Metadata Services Schema (MDS)
Extend an existing WLS Domain
In-place upgrade from to
OBIEE has greater flexibility and improved installation experience

13. BI Server 11.1.1.5.0 – Administration Tool Simplification and Ease of Use
BI Server metadata web service
Remote read/write of BI Server metadata
SOAP, WSDL, SAML standards
Utilizes the XUDML language (BI Server XML API)
Data model diagrams revamped
True ERD-style presentation and interaction
Auto-layout
Consistency checker enhanced
Ensures more reliable merges and queries
Upgrade guide for fixing errors no longer allowed
Command-line utility for automation
64-bit Admin Tool
Supports larger BI models
Client installer
32-bit Admin Tool, 32- or 64-bit Windows
Smaller stack footprint (Simple Install)
Unit test sandbox fits on 32-bit machine
The administration tool is simplified and has more features
The data model diagrams are revamped to show a true ERD style layout.
It supports larger BI Models and ensures more reliable merges

14. Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.5.0 Server OS Support
Win-32 (Windows Server 2003 & 2008)
Native Win-64 (Windows Server 2003, 2008, & 2008 R2)
Linux-32 (RH4, RH5, OEL4, OEL5, SUSE10, SUSE11)
Native Linux-64 (RH4, RH5, OEL4, OEL5, SUSE10, SUSE11)
ExaLogic X2-2 - Oracle Linux 5
Solaris SPARC (Solaris 10)
AIX 7.1
IBM WebSphere is planned for a subsequent release, NOT
No 32-bit on 64-bit compatibility
All Server OS platforms in subsequent drops
HP 11.31
Solaris x64 (Solaris 10)
Here is a list of OS support as of this recording, please refer to the current and updated matrix on OTN
For illustration only. Please refer to the current, official platform matrix on OTN

15. Oracle BI Platform 11.1.1.5.0 Support Expansion
All Languages
Browsers
IE7, and IE8
BI Publisher in IE8 standards mode and not BIDI support for IE7
Firefox 3.5+
Safari 4.x and 5.x
Windows Client tools ( on 32-bit XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Win7)
32 bit BI Client Developer Tool for client access
Admin Tool, Catalog Manager, BIP Office Plug-ins, BI Office Plug-in
BI Server Data Sources
Oracle 10g & 11g
Teradata 12 & 13/13.10
SQL Server 2005 & 2008
DB2 9.1, 9.5 & 9.7
Essbase &
HFM 9.x, x, &
Fusion ADF BCs
Oracle OLAP
Oracle TimesTen
SAP B/W 7
Microsoft SSAS 2005 & 2008
Oracle RetekRPAS
RCU database
Oracle 10g & 11g, SQL Server 2005 & 2008, DB2 9.7
Application Servers
WebLogic Apps Server only
Portals
WebCenter
WebCenter and JDeveloper
Security via FMW
Active Directory 2003 & 2008
CA SiteMinder 6
OpenLDAP
Sun Java System Directory Service 6.3
Novell eDirectory 8.8
Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
Mobile Support
Mobile Application Support (iOS )
Office Support
Microsoft Office 2010
Here is a list of platform support as of this recording, please refer to the current and updated matrix on OTN
For illustration only. Please refer to the current, official platform matrix on OTN

16. Oracle BI Foundation Suite
-> Business Intelligence -> White Papers -> Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (PDF)
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