1. Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence
Mark Rittman, Technical Director, Rittman Mead
Author of the Oracle Press book “Oracle BI Developers Guide”
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2. Mark Rittman Mark Rittman, Co-Founder of Rittman Mead
Oracle ACE Director, specialising in Oracle BI&DW
15 Years Experience with Oracle Technology
Oracle BI since 1998 (Discoverer, Designer etc)
OBIEE since 2007 (OBIEE 10g+)
Oracle OLAP/Express since 2000
OWB, ODI, Oracle RBDMS (OCP) etc
Regular columnist for Oracle Magazine
Author of two Oracle Press Oracle BI books
Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide
Oracle Exalytics Revealed
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3. Regular Speaker at OOW, Blogger, Writer for Oracle Magazine
Presenter on Oracle BI at the last 5 Oracle Open Worlds
Columnist for Oracle Magazine (Oracle BI)
Writer for OTN
Past board member for ODTUG, chair of UKOUG BIRT SIG
Oracle ACE Director
Blogger for Rittman Mead blog
Tweeting
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4. About Rittman Mead Oracle BI and DW gold partner
World leading specialist partner for technical excellence, solutions delivery and innovation in Oracle BI
Approximately 30 consultants worldwide
All expert in Oracle BI and DW
UK based
Offices in US, Europe (Belgium) and India
Skills in broad range of supporting Oracle tools:
OBIEE
OBIA
ODIEE
Essbase, Oracle OLAP
GoldenGate
Exadata
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5. Rittman Mead in the Developer/User Community
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6. “Oracle BI Developers Guide” : Oracle Press, 2012
End-to-end development guide for OBIEE 11g (covers up to )
From installation and architecture, through to dashboards, integration and team development
Based on 6yrs+ of OBIEE experience, beta program participation, implementation etc
Technical focus, step-by-step instructions along with concepts and product history
Participation by the Oracle BI development team, including technical editing by Mike Durran, forward by Balaji Yelamanchili
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7. “Oracle BI Developers Guide” : Oracle Press, 2012
Chapter 1 : Oracle Business Intelligence Overview and Architecture
Chapter 2 : Installation and Upgrading of Oracle Business Intelligence
Chapter 3 : Modeling Repositories using Relational, File and XML Data Sources
Chapter 4 : Creating Repositories from Oracle Essbase and Other OLAP Sources
Chapter 5 : Configuring and Maintaining the Oracle BI Server
Chapter 6 : Creating Analyses, Dashboards, KPIs and Scorecards
Chapter 7 : Actionable Intelligence
Chapter 8 : Security
Chapter 9 : Creating Published Reports
Chapter 10 : Systems Management
Chapter 11 : Managing Change
Chapter 12 : Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
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8. “Oracle Exalytics Revealed”, Oracle Press (ebook), 2012
Special-edition e-book that took the Exalytics chapter and updated for
Additional content on ILOM, testing, aggregate building, BP1 visuals (trellis charts etc)
“Nowhere will you find a more comprehensive look at Oracle Exalytics from start to finish than in this book … extremely thorough and easy to follow … and I find this narrative incredibly useful to explore the product.”
“The book … delivers what it promises on its title, a thorough review on the most important aspects of this engineered system created by Oracle Corporation”
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9. What is Oracle Business Intelligence?
Oracle BI provides a set of web-based tools for reporting and analyzing data
Based around dashboards, built around graphs, tables, pivots etc
Multiple server architecture that splits data access / presentation elements
Based on Siebel Analytics technology
Connects to multiple data sources
Oracle DB & Exadata
SQL Server, DB/2, Teradata
Essbase, Oracle OLAP, MSAS
ADF View Objects etc
Integral part of Oracle Fusion Middleware
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10. Some Cool Things About Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
The Oracle BI Repository (“semantic business model”)
Interactive dashboard analytics
Integrating BI with business processes, rich web applications, and mobile applications
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11. Example 1: An Enterprise-Wide Business Analytics Semantic Model
All reporting tools within Oracle BI take their data from a shared metadata layer
Defined as dimensional model, embeds common calculations and drill paths
Subject-area and row-level security
Three-layer design to provide abstraction from underlying complicated source systems
Can source data from
Oracle DB + other RBDMSs
Oracle Essbase, OLAP
Oracle ADF, web services
Hadoop
Oracle TimesTen
etc
Simplification of the Data Model Integration of Disparate DataSources Addition of Business Logic and Calculations
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12. Demonstration The Enterprise Semantic Model
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13. Example 2 : Rich Interactive Dashboards, No Programming Needed
Users access information and analytics through rich, analytic role-based dashboards
Can also publish reports to PDF, distribute, or access through MS Office
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14. Demonstration Creating dashboards and analyzing data
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15. Example 3 : Integration Across Oracle Fusion Middleware
BI content can be embedded in ADF and WebCenter applications, share common look-and-feel, security, event handling model, tooling
Basis of the Oracle Fusion Applications
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17. Demonstration Oracle BI Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware
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18. Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence
Mark Rittman, Technical Director, Rittman Mead
Author of the Oracle Press book “Oracle BI Developers Guide”
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