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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Speakers: Greg Vlahos, Aneel Kanuri

Assess and Migrate OBIEE to Oracle Analytic Cloud

Aneel KanuriSenior ConsultantAneel Kanuri is an Oracle BI, DW and EPM infrastructure and security specialist with over 14 years of experience. His experiences include planning, sizing, and performing installation, configuration, migration and administration of BI solutions from small, proof of concept solutions to terabyte data warehouse / BI implementations. He has configured and migrated several Oracle BI on premise solutions to the cloud, including the connection to an on premise data warehouse. His skills include infrastructure performance troubleshooting and roadmap planning. He has experience assisting multiple industries, including higher education, public sector, banking, manufacturing, insurance and retail.

Today’s Presenters

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Greg VlahosGM of BI-EPM PracticeGreg Vlahos brings over 30 years of information technology consulting experience, with a focus on data warehousing and Oracle BI, and leads the Sierra-Cedar BI-EPM Practice. He has helped clients from BI strategic roadmap planning,through dimensional modeling and enterprise implementation. Greg has deep hands on experience with both Oracle BI and Essbase; architecting solutions that leverage both of these technologies, which have now been combined through Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). He provides BI and EPM advisory services for public sector, higher education, healthcare, insurance, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and other commercial industries.

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● Configure, Provision, and Migrate to Oracle Analytics Cloud ServicesThursday, March 15 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

● Design and Administrate Oracle Analytic Cloud Essbase DatabasesThursday, March 22 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

● Migrate Your Essbase Financial Reports, Web Analysis, and Smart View Reports to OAC EssbaseThursday, March 29 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

● Drive Better Insights with Oracle Analytics CloudThursday, April 5 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

● Assess and Migrate On-Premise OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud ServiceThursday, April 12 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

Jump-Start Your Cloud Journey with Sierra-Cedar and Oracle Analytics Cloud

Agenda● Business Case to Migrate Your On-Premise OBIEE to OAC BI● OBIEE Version Migration Paths and Considerations● Sizing an OAC Environment● OAC Migration Steps and Configuration Tasks● OAC Security Options and Demonstration● OAC Administration Demonstration● OAC BI Demonstration● Questions & Answers

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Business Case to Migrate Your On-Premise OBIEE to OAC BI

Business Case Points for Migrating to OAC BI

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More Than OBIEE

• Receives new features first

• Future Oracle direction

• Data Visualization• Mobile BI: Day by

Day Analytics and Synopsis

• This is not BICS rebranded

Reduce Infrastructure Costs

• Less hardware to buy

• Less hardware to maintain

• Upgrade process is streamlined and simplified

• Migrating between environments is simplified

Flexibility and Security

• Immediate availability of hardware

• Scalable platform for future expansion

• Backed by Oracle security to stay on top of new threats

• Oracle guaranteed system availability

Functional Comparison Between OBIEE and OAC BI

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Only with OAC BI- PBCS and Essbase

Cloud as a source- Data Visualization

included- Machine Learning- Data Sync for ETL- Mobile Apps: Day by Day

and Synopsis integration

Only with OBIEE- Scorecard and Strategy

Management- Oracle BI Mobile App- Using BI Delivers to seed

cache for performance

Dashboard Analytics are identical for traditional use: Analysis, BI Pub, and Delivers

OBIEE Support LimitsNote: OBIEE 11g premier support ends December 2018

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End of SupportEnd of Support

End of Support

OAC Offers Far More than the Old BICS Solution

● Oracle Analytics Cloud is the future roadmap of Oracle BI● OAC, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment vs. the

BICS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), provides the following: – Access to underlying Operating System– Ability to change/tune parameters as required– Full set of features that BICS did not, including BI Publisher, BI

Delivers, and Essbase as a source

● OAC directly supports the full metadata model of OBIEE (known as the RPD)

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OBIEE Version Migration Paths and Considerations

OAC Migration Path and Pre-Check● Customers on OBIEE 11.1.1.7.x+ can migrate to Oracle Analytics Cloud

– Pre-check also included validating items such as database compatibility– Earlier versions will require the interim upgrade

● Customers using BICS can also migrate to Oracle Analytics Cloud● A pre-check process should be performed to assess compatibility:

– Identify third-party software, such as a security product, and if it has been certified by Oracle for compatibility with OAC

– Check for OBIEE features not supported in OAC, such as Scorecard● Quantify artifacts to be migrated, and the effort required

– Assess BI Publisher and “iBot” BI Deliver usage– Assess security model and plan approach to replicate

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Sizing an OAC Environment

Defining and Sizing an OAC Instance● OAC Instance:

– A virtual machine running a specific operating system with client-specified CPU and memory resources

– Defined by its shape, where a shape identifies the number of CPUs and RAM available to the instance

● Instance Sizing – requires assessing typical usage parameters:– Number of concurrent users and their activity– Database size for any desired cloud storage– Data volumes for detailed queries that could be run

● OAC Hardware Sizing:– Measured in OCPU (Oracle’s CPU)– One OCPU equals two virtual processors

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OAC Shapes● Shape – a resource profile that specifies OAC Instance allocations:

– Number of OCPUs– Amount of memory– General Purpose and High Memory Shapes available

● OCPU– Defined as the CPU capacity equivalent of one physical core of an Intel

Xeon processor with hyper threading enabled– For Intel Xeon processors, each OCPU corresponds to two hardware

execution threads, known as vCPUs– Can be added in the increments of 1, 2, or 4

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General Purpose vs. High-Memory Shapes

● The smallest General Purpose Shape provides 7.5 GB memory with a single OCPU. Larger shapes provide more OCPUs with correspondingly higher memory.– Small: 1 OCPU with 7.5 GB

– Large: 16 OCPU with 120 (16*7.5) GB

● High Memory Shapes should be selected if we need more memory for OCPU (Memory Intensive applications)– Small: 1 OCPU with 15 GB

– Large: 16 OCPU with 240 (16*15) GB

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On-Demand Flexibility

● Some clients plan to limit their Development OCPU environment up time, such as 16 hours a day and no weekends.

● Clients also have the option to scale up by adding additional storage and OCPUs on demand.

● Clients have the flexibility to use any product on the OAC product catalog; so you could easily perform a quick POC on additional products such as the ODI cloud.

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OAC Migration Steps and Configuration Tasks

OAC Migration Process From OBIEE 11.1.1.7+● Provision OAC Servers: configure Storage, Database, Access Rules, and

Integrations

● Generate BI Migration Utility

● Leverage the BI Migration Utility to export BI Artifacts; this captures Dashboards and Analyses, Data Model (RPD), and Application Roles

● Migrate BI Artifacts – BAR file (12c); JAR file (11g)

● For Hybrid Implementations (data warehouse on-premise) – either install Weblogic with RDC or configure VPN. Open required ports; establish connection.

Note: DBaaS can be used as a cloud data warehouse as well

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Post Migration Configuration Tasks

● Here are some of the post-migration steps:– Migrate Weblogic Security, EM Security, BI & PS Config files,

Logs etc.– Configure the Database to use DataDirect drivers– Configure Usage Tracking– Configure LDAP, SSL, SSO, etc.– Check XMLP and BI JavaHost settings– Edit Database Connections in the RPD

● Test Dashboards and Reports; minor format cleanup may be required

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OAC Security Optionsand Demonstration

OAC Security Options

● Major Security changes in Oracle BI 12c:– BISystemUser and BISystem Application Role removed– GUIDs removed; User ID centric security– Database Security Store– Catalog Groups not supported

● OAC uses IDCS to grant access to cloud resources● OAC comes with default self-signed certificate; can install

paid CA certificate● OAC Delivers now supports SSL option

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OAC Administration Demo

OAC Administration Tasks and Navigation

● Create new user

● Grant application roles

● Take Snapshot (captures RPD, Web Catalog and Application Roles)

● Capture Full Backup, which is stored outside of the instance

● Apply Patch/Upgrade

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Brief OAC BI Demo- OAC BI Dashboard- OAC Mobile BI – Day by Day- Data Visualization over Essbase

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● Configure, Provision, and Migrate to Oracle Analytics Cloud ServicesThursday, March 15 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

● Design and Administrate Oracle Analytic Cloud Essbase DatabasesThursday, March 22 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

● Migrate Your Essbase Financial Reports, Web Analysis, and Smart View Reports to OAC EssbaseThursday, March 29 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

● Drive Better Insights with Oracle Analytics CloudThursday, April 5 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

● Assess and Migrate On-Premise OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud ServiceThursday, April 12 ● 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET

Jump-Start Your Cloud Journey with Sierra-Cedar and Oracle Analytics Cloud

Questions?