OBIEE 11g for Administrators

Workshop Description

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is the solution that finally realizes the potential that business intelligence has promised for over a decade.

Traditionally, companies have measured BI projects in terms of months, or even years. You can deploy OBIEE in a matter of weeks, and this workshop gives you the skills you need to ensure that your company maximizes ROI in this breakthrough technology.

During the course you'll take a technical overview of the OBIEE Platform, learn installation procedures for OBIEE, and gain hands-on experience using the Business Intelligence Administration tool's features. You'll also learn how to deploy OBIEE’s various applications. In addition to mastering the fundamentals of OBIEE administration, you'll benefit from studying with instructors who have deployed OBIEE in the field.

These workshops are hands-on. You will conduct all labs on your own BI Server with an OBIEE environment.

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Workshop Overview

By the end of the course you will have:
  • Become acquainted with typical issues that occur when using OBIEE in the field
  • Learned advanced techniques for using BI Answers
  • Structured the OBI Business Model
  • Created and used calculation measures for use in BI Analysis
  • Configured logical and physical table sources in Dimensions and Facts
  • Developed summary tables from Fact data
  • Gained familiarity with time series comparisons

Prerequisite knowledge and skills:
  • A basic understanding of data warehouse concepts and reporting tools

Recommended audience:
  • OBIEE developers
  • OBIEE administrators
  • BI analysts

Course materials:
  • OBIEE for Administrators Student Guide

Workshop Agenda

  DAY 1  

Oracle BI EE Introduction, Architecture
  • An Overview of OBIEE
    • Source
    • Informatica
    • DAC
    • Application layer
    • Presentation layer
  • OBIEE architecture, technology stack components, overview
  • Analytics
  • Administration (levels of abstraction)
    • Physical layer
    • Business Model and Mapping layer
    • Presentation layer
  • Datawarehouse Concepts, Overview
    • Dimensions
    • Facts
    • Measures
  • BI Server design: cache, security, high availability options, steps
  • Installation and Configuration, Options and Steps

Analysis and Dashboards Overview, Demo
  • Analysis, Subject Areas
  • Creating Reports
  • Creating Graphs, etc
  • Populating Dashboards

Oracle BI EE Server Administration - Administering the repository
  • Physical Layer
  • Business Model and Mapping Layer
  • Presentation Layer
  • Validating the repository
  • Using logs to validate sessions

Oracle BI EE Server Administration - Physical layer
  • Calculation measures and logical columns
  • Calculation measures using BI Answers
  • Creating database connections in Administrator
  • Connecting to flat files and other data sources in Administrator
  • Development of Physical meta data layer
  • Adding joins to Physical meta data layer
  • Advanced Administrator techniques
  • Physical Repository Design
  • Metadata Layer Design
  • Importing data sources
  • Setting up connection pool properties
  • Defining keys and joins
  • Creating alias and select tables


Labs - The OBIEE Physical Layer

  • Managing physical joins
  • Managing data sources
  • Working with flat files
  • Connecting to non-Oracle databases

  DAY 2   

Oracle BI EE Server Administration - Business Model and Mapping
  • Aggregates
  • Time Series Data: Creating Ago and ToDate measures
  • Dimension Hierarchies and Level-Based Measures
  • Calculations on Fact Tables
  • Adding measures to an existing repository
  • Delivers Configuration and Interface
  • Developing calculations and Dimensional Hierarchies
  • Joining different data sources
  • Repository Variables

Labs - OBIEE Business Model and Mapping
  • Creating a Business Model
  • Creating Logical Columns, Logical Joins plus creating Logical Tables and adding to dimensions
  • Renaming Business Model Objects
  • Deleting Unnecessary Business Model Objects
  • Building Dimension Hierarchies
  • Working with partitioned data sources
  • Creating and managing aggregate tables
  • Configuring time based keys
  • Defining and using repository variables

Oracle BI EE Server Administration - Presentation Layer
  • Building the Presentation layer
  • Managing the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog
  • Specifying sources for partitioned data
  • Using repository variables
  • Handling data structure anomalies and difficulties
  • Developing Presentation meta data layer
  • Organizing the Presentation layer for maximum utilization

Labs - The Presentation Layer
  • Creating Presentation layer objects
  • Creating a Subject Area
  • Using Administrator Logging

Oracle BI EE Server Administration - Advanced Topics
  • Oracle BI Security Goals
  • Checking repository consistency
  • Cache and Catalog Management
  • Oracle BI Security Goals
  • Scheduler Server
  • Server Shutdown / Startup overview
  • Log file troubleshooting and reviews
  • Customizing the Oracle Business Intelligence User Interface
  • Custom Login screen
  • Style sheets for views and portal
  • Inspecting the query log
  • Usage logging
  • OBIEE Performance Tuning Concepts

Labs - OBIEE Advanced Topics
  • Running and diagnosing Consistency Checks
  • Working with Cache
  • Creating user and group security
  • Configuring Scheduler server and database objects
  • Customizing the login screen
  • Changing OBIEE's look and feel
  • Turning on usage logging

The sessions are being held from 9 am to 5 pm.

Workshop Registration


This workshop is currently being offered on demand. Please contact us at 1-800-675-0032 if you wish to receive more information.

Cost

$750

For Oracle User Groups members

$1,000

For non-members

Members of Oracle User Groups get a 25% discount!

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