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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Advanced Modelling

Welcome

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Agenda

Course Objectives

Agenda

Introductions

Training Environment

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Course Objectives

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Course Objectives

Learn the “advanced” techniques for modelling the OBIEE 11g “BI Repository” (RPD)

Become able to model just about any physical data-structure

Improve delivery quality of your OBIEE 11g implementations, leveraging the best practices recommended by Oracle

Deliver sophisticated Proof-of-Concepts, with rapid turnaround-times

Become “project-ready” for BI Server development

Share knowledge of BI Server and BI Apps best practices

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Oracle’s BI&W Universe

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OLTP & ODS Systems

Data Warehouse Data Mart

Packaged Applications (Oracle, SAP, Others)

Excel XML/Office

Business Process

OLAP Sources

Exadata Unstructured & Semi-Structured

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11g

Common Enterprise Information Model

Common Enterprise Information Model

• Common Metadata Foundation across all Data Sources • Common Security, Access Control, Authorization, Auditing

• Common Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services

• Common Clustering, Workload Management, & Deployment

• Common Systems & Operational Lifecycle Management

Interactive Dashboards

Reporting & Publishing

Ad-hoc Analysis

Detect & Alert

Office Integration

Search Embedded Data Integration

Mobile Scorecards Collaborate

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Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11g

High-Level 11g Architecture

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Agenda

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Introductions

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Agenda

1. Welcome

2. Modelling Overview and Concepts

3. Modelling a Flat Structure

4. Modelling a Star-Schema

5. Dimension Hierarchies

6. Physical Calculations

7. Aggregation & Denormalization

8. Conforming Dimensions

9. Logical Calculations

10. Variables

11. Security

12. Modelling 3NF

13. Hierarchical Columns

14. Outer-Joins

15. Cross-Database Joins

16. Non-Conformed Dimensions

17. Fragmentation

18. BI Server Caching

19. Usage Tracking

20. 20 Golden Rules for RPD Design

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Training Environment

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Client Workstations

Each Delegate workstation / laptop will require the following setup (the trainer will provide the software if required):

Adobe AIR runtime environment

The training material provided by Peak Indicators runs as an Adobe AIR application

Adobe AIR allows HTML/Javascript applications to be run on the client Desktop rather than via a Web-Browser

Adobe Flash v10

Oracle BI EE 11g will not show charts with earlier Flash versions

Adobe PDF Reader v9+

Mozilla or IE

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Once the training material has been installed, it can be accessed by running the following application on your desktop:

Start > Peak Indicators > OBIEE 11g Advanced Modelling Bootcamp

NOTE: All the training material is yours to keep, but for personal use only

Training Material

Links to all the Lab Session “cue-cards”

Links to all the training presentations slides

containing information, demonstrations and

annotated screenshots

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Lab Session “Cue-Cards”

All the lab sessions are delivered using a special system involving “cue-cards”

Small “always-on-top” desktop application containing step-by-step lab instructions

Avoids the need for switching constantly between Oracle BI and Word/Powerpoint

Avoids the need for printing hand-outs to complete the labs

More experienced Delegates can benefit from more higher-level instructions

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Lab Session “Cue-Cards”

Progressing through the lab session is easy:

When you want to move on to the next instruction, simply click on the arrow or enter the slide number to jump to a specific slide

Navigating

Enter a number here and press [Return] to jump to a slide

Back and Forward buttons

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In case you need more information, or would like to see a screenshot that is relevant to the step you are performing, click and hold down the camera button and a help window will appear!

The help window will disappear when you release the mouse button

Lab Session “Cue-Cards”

Help Window

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At any point you can click on the printer button and a PDF document will open which you can print out – it will contain all the cue-cards and help windows:

Lab Session “Cue-Cards”

Printing the Lab Session

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Note also that it is possible to copy text directly off the cue-cards:

Lab Session “Cue-Cards”

Copying Text

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