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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) is a comprehensive set of enterprise business intelligence tools and infrastructure, including a scalable and efficient query and analysis server, an ad-hoc query and analysis tool, interactive dashboards, proactive intelligence and alerts, real-time predictive intelligence, and an enterprise reporting engine. Oracle Business Intelligence is designed to bring greater business visibility and insight to a wide variety of users.

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (sometimes simply referred to as Oracle Business Intelligence) provides a full range of business intelligence capabilities that allow you to:

• Collect up-to-date data from your organization
• Present the data in easy-to-understand formats (such as tables and graphs)
• Deliver data in a timely fashion to the employees in your organization

These capabilities enable your organization to make better decisions, take informed actions, and implement more-efficient business processes.

OBIEE course outline:

DATAWAREHOUSING CONCEPTS

Introduction and Definition
Sources, Transformations and Targets( Architecture )
Data Extraction, Data Transformations and Data Loading( Data Acquisition Process)
Data Warehousing Approaches
Staging Area, Metadata, Repository and Data Mart
Differences between OLTP and OLAP( DSS ) Systems
Operational Data Store( ODS )
Business Intelligence
Star Schema Design & Confirmed Dimension, Fact less Fact Table, Types of Facts
Slowly Changing Dimensions( SCD )

OBI Overview - NEW FEATURES OF OBI

OBI ARCHITECTURE

Clients
OBI Presentation Services
OBI Server
OBI Repository (.rpd)
Data Sources

OBI COMPONENTS

OBI Administration Tool
OBI Answers
Intelligence dashboards

REPOSITORY BASICS

Oracle Business Analysis Warehouse
DAC and Informatica Server
Informatica Server ETL
Sample Request Processing
Using the OracleBI Administration Tool
Repository Directory
Repository Files ( Initialization files and log files)
Informatica Server ETLLoading a repository into Oracle BI Server memory
Creating a repository
Connection Pool
Repository Modes ( ONLINE and OFFLINE )
Physical Layer
Business Model & Mapping Layer
Presentation Layer
Presentation Catalogs, Folders and Columns
Error Messages

BUILDING THE PHYSICAL LAYER OF A REPOSITORY

Defining an ODBC System DSN
Setting up connection pool properties
Importing data sources ( Physical Schema )
Verifying the import
Defining physical keys and joins
Creating alias and select tables

BUILDING THE BUSINESS MODEL AND MAPPING LAYER OF A REPOSITORY

Creating the logical business model
Creating the logical tables, columns, and sources
Defining logical joins
Adding Calculation to a Fact Table
Building measures

BUILDING THE PRESENTATION LAYER OF A REPOSITORY

Creating a new Presentation Catalog
Modifying Presentation layer objects
Rename tables
Reorder Table

TESTING AND VALIDATING A REPOSITORY

Checking repository consistency
Defining a repository in the initialization file
Testing a repository using Oracle BI Answers
Message Severity
iewing Server Logs

BUILDING THE PHYSICAL LAYER OF A REPOSITORY

Defining an ODBC System DSN
Setting up connection pool properties
Importing data sources ( Physical Schema )
Verifying the import
Defining physical keys and joins
Creating alias and select tables

BUILDING THE BUSINESS MODEL AND MAPPING LAYER OF A REPOSITORY

Creating the logical business model
Creating the logical tables, columns, and sources
Defining logical joins
Adding Calculation to a Fact Table
Building measures

BUILDING THE PRESENTATION LAYER OF A REPOSITORY

Creating a new Presentation Catalog
Modifying Presentation layer objects
Rename tables
Reorder Table

TESTING AND VALIDATING A REPOSITORY

Checking repository consistency
Defining a repository in the initialization file
Adding Multiple Logical Table Sources
Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table
Specifying logical content

ADDING MULTIPLE LOGICAL TABLE SOURCES

Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table
Specifying logical content

ADDING CALCULATIONS TO A FACT TABLE

Creating new calculation measures based on existing logical columns
Creating new calculation measures based on physical columns
Creating new calculation measures using the Calculation Wizard

CREATING DIMENSION HIERARCHIES AND LEVEL-BASED MEASURES

Creating dimension hierarchies
Creating level-based measures

CREATING & USING AGGREGATES

Purpose of aggregate tables in dimensional modeling
Modeling aggregate tables to improve query performance
Testing aggregate navigation

Using Initialization Blocks Repository Variables
CREATING DYNAMIC REPOSITORY VARIABLES
EXECUTE DIRECT DATABASE REQUESTS

Accessing database directly

CREATING TIME SERIES MEASURES

Using time comparisons in business analysis
Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data

CREATING DIMENSION HIERARCHIES AND LEVEL-BASED MEASURES

Creating dimension hierarchies
Creating level-based measures

Providing Security for Groups & Users
ANSWERS (REPORTS)
WORKING WITH ORACLE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANSWERS

Introduction to Oracle BI Answers
Working with requests in Oracle BI Answers
Using advanced formatting
Creating report Level Hierarchy

FILTERING REQUESTS IN ORACLE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANSWERS

Introduction to filters in Answers
Adding filter prompts to requests
Using saved requests as filters

BUILDING VIEWS AND CHARTS IN REQUESTS

Introduction to Answers views and charts
Creating and editing charts
Performing common view tasks
Creating a Narrative View
Creating a column Selector

SHOWING RESULTS WITH PIVOT TABLES

Introduction to pivot tables
Formatting pivot tables
Setting aggregation rules and building formulas

CREATING ORACLE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE INTERACTIVE DASHBOARDS

Introduction to Interactive Dashboards and pages
Adding Objects to Dashboard
Creating Dashboard prompts
Embedding content in an Interactive Dashboard