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Venkatakrishnan Srinivasan, Principal Consultant, Rittman MeadAIOUG Sangam Conference, Bangalore December 2011

Overview of Creating Analyses and Dashboards in OBIEE 11g


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Introductions

Venkatakrishnan Srinivasan

Principal Consultant, Rittman Mead 12+ Years IT Experience

Experience in BI/DW and CRM

Email: [email protected]


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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE 11g)

Complete Business Intelligence platform from Oracle

Delivers rich analytic and reporting functions for an enterprise by:

a) Collecting up-to-date data from valid sources to ensure single

version of truth,

b) Presenting the collected data in a lucid formats for easyunderstanding, and

c) Delivery of such reports in a timely manner.


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OBIEE Part of Fusion Middleware

Leverages the advantages that Oracle Fusion Middleware offers in terms of

application infrastructure


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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g

Released in July 2010

Current version is 11.1.1.5 Can be downloaded at following link

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bus-intelligence-11g-165436.html


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New Visualization Features in OBIEE 11g

Many new visualization features

Updated user interface that combines all the reporting tools Updated dashboard, catalog, search and home page

Integration with Oracle MapViewer

New KPI and scorecard features

An updated version of BI Publisher


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OBIEE 11g Unified Framework

Single UI for Answers, Dashboards, Delivers, BI Publisher

Common menus, controls, menu buttons One-click access to common functions, catalog areas

Requires IE7+, FF3+


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OBIEE 11g Home Page


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OBIEE 11g Home Page

Common Header

Consistent menus and links Search access to catalog Links to administration, help, log off Menus for New .. And Open

Shortcut to Home Page


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OBIEE 11g Home Page


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OBIEE 11g Home Page

Task-Based Menu

Create/Open catalog objects Browse catalog folders Scoped to user privileges


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OBIEE 11g Home Page


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OBIEE 11g Home Page

Recent and Popular Catalog Objects

Most recently accessed by you

Most popular amongst your groups


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OBIEE 11g Catalog Page

Catalog Folder View

My Folders Shared Folders

Nested view of catalog contents


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Catalog Tasks

Context-SpecificCatalog-wide tasks (Archive etc)

Object-specific tasks (Open, Edit, etc)


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Object Listing

Listing of all objects for selected folder,search, etc

Shortcuts to common actions Optional preview of analysis


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OBIEE 11g Answers - Criteria View


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Subject Area Folder Listing

Listing of one or more subject areas

Presentation Tables Attribute columns

Hierarchical columns Measure columns


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Catalog Folder Listing

Same listing as on Catalog Place My Folders and Shared Folders


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Criteria Listing

List of all selected columns Edit formulas

Edit column properties Add filters Set sort criteria


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Filter Listing

List of filters Save filters


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OBIEE 11g Answers - Results View


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Views Listing

List of all available views Add view to analysis, eidt view Moved from previous location above

compound layout


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Result View

Default to compound layout

Preview of the analysis Edit View Add totals, Change layout, etc


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OBIEE 11g Dashboard Editor


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Dashboard Objects Listing

Columns, Sections Alert Section Action Link, Action Link Menu

Link or Image, Embedded Content Text Catalog folder view


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Dashboard Editor

Add and move sections, columns Edit section and column properties Edit analysis Change report links etc


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New Answers and Dashboards Features in OBIEE11g

Improved support for OLAP-style reporting

Hierarchical columns

Support for ragged and skip-level hierarchies

Dynamic re-arrangement of pivot tables in the dashboard

New visualizations and dashboard controls

New gauge types and graphics


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Hierarchical Columns

OBIEE 11g supports concept of "hierarchical columns"

In-column drilling up and down a hierarchy

Regular columns are renamed "attribute columns"

Supports level-based and ragged (parent-child) hierarchies

Works with both relational and

OLAP (Essbase, Oracle OLAP, etc) data sources


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Master-Detail Linking

Columns can be enabled for Master-Detail Linking

Selecting a column causes master-detail messages to be sent to other views


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Analyses and Dashboard

Demonstration


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Key Performance Indicators

KPIs can be defined in the web catalog

Requires measures for actual and target

Thresholds for good, bad etc performance can be set


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KPI Watchlists

Users can define watchlists, to monitor their KPIs

Supports collaboration with KPI owner


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KPI Scorecards

Arrange KPIs into hierarchies, strategies etc

Define strategy trees, cause-and-effect relationships etc


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Mapping and Location Intelligence

OBIEE 11g ships with Oracle MapViewer 11g

Used in conjunction with Oracle RDBMS and spatial datasets to add map views

Good way to help visualize geographic/location element of BI dataset


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Creating a Map View Step 1 : Link Maps to Dataset Columns

Administration task, one-off at system configuration stage

Import maps from Oracle MapViewer and associate theme keys with subject area

columns

Columns then need to be included in the request criteria when map created


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Creating a Map View Step 2 : Add View to Analysis

Select New View > Map from Answers Results tab

Requires setup in advance (integration with MapViewer, Spatial dataset)


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Creating a Map View Step 2 : Add View to Analysis

Select New View > Map from Answers Results tab

Requires setup in advance (integration with MapViewer, Spatial dataset)


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Creating a Map View Step 3 : Select Graphs for Layer Themes

Graphs and other visualizations can be added for individual layers in view

Pie charts, bar charts, variable size bubbles, icon selection etc

Shade polygons based on measure binning/value ranges


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Creating a Map View Step 4 : Embed in Dashboard, Pan & Zoom

Embed map in dashboard, use as any other view

Link to dashboard prompts, Master-Detail links etc


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Map Views

Demonstration


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Summary

OBIEE 11g comes with significant improvements in reporting

Updated version of Answers has better support for OLAP analysis

New task-based UI integrates reporting across product areas

KPIs, Scorecards, Map Views add further functionality to OBIEE

Read more about OBIEE 11g at http://www.rittmanmead.com

Write to us at [email protected] for more details

Thank you for attending!


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