CON2659_Rittman-Deploying OBIEE in the Cloud (1).pdf

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Deploying OBIEE in the Cloud:

Getting Started, Deployment Scenariosand Best PracticesMark Rittman, CTO, Rittman MeadOracle Openworld 2014, San Francisco


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About Rittman Mead

Oracle BI and DW Gold partner

Winner of five UKOUG Partner of the Year awards in 2013 - including BI

World leading specialist partner for technical excellence,solutions delivery and innovation in Oracle BI

Approximately 80 consultants worldwide

All expert in Oracle BI and DW

Offices in US (Atlanta), Europe, Australia and India

Skills in broad range of supporting Oracle tools:

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OBIEE, OBIA"ODIEE

"Essbase, Oracle OLAP

"GoldenGate

"Endeca


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Deploying OBIEE in the Cloud

Many OBIEE customers are considering deploying their BIinfrastructure in the cloud

Push and Pull factors in-play"Perceived benefits in reducing amount of on-premise servers,software installs, upfront-license costs

"May also be prompted by migration of rest of IT infrastructureto the cloud

"To enable business agility - deploy the system now

-And potentially reduce dependency on IT department


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Enabling Business Agility - Rapid Development in t

Example cloud use of OBIEE - accelerating the BI development process

"Combines agile development (ExtremeBI) with OBIEE deployed into Amaz

"Cloud element allows development to start now"Options for repatriating on-premise afterwards

Based on Amazon AWS (EC2, S3) and Oracle BI

More details athttp://www.rittmanmead.com/cloudbi/
http://www.rittmanmead.com/cloudbi/


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Options for Deploying OBIEE in the Cloud

Deploy it yourself into a public cloud (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Racksp

Buy it as a service (Oracle On-Demand, multi-tenant SaaS app)

Or!

- Oracle BI Cloud Service"OBIEE 11g built for the cloud

"Part of Oracle Public Cloud, comes withOracle Cloud DB

"Thin-client data modeller

"Tools for managing users, roles etc


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Oracle Cloud Business Intelligence

Generally Available (GA) September 2014

Part of the wider PaaS (platform-as-a-service)

offering including database, Java, documents etcAimed at a very specific set of use-cases initially

"Adding BI and analytics to cloud-based apps

"Departmental sandbox-type analysis


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Self-Service, Consumer-Style Experience


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Oracle BI Cloud Service v1 Functionality


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Oracle Cloud Business Intelligence - How it Works

Runs in Oracles public cloud environment (http://cloud.oracle.com)

No upfront license cost

"Pay monthly as OpExUses new thin-client RPD modelling tool

Only reports against a single Oracle databaseschema (Oracle Cloud Schema-as-a-Service)

Standard OBIEE - but will possibly preview newfunctionality before on-premise versions

Patched automatically by Oracle

"Customer able to be max one version behind?

Comes with two instances - pre-prod and prod

"Code promotion through BI Archive export/import

Admin accessover HTTP

Oracle BI-as-a-Service
http://cloud.oracle.com/


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Logging In and Providing Identity Domain

Login separate to oracle.com login; provided during Cloud service provisionin

Identity Domain is the tenant ID; all users of same service use same domain I
http://oracle.com/


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Oracle Cloud : My Services Dashboard

Oracle BICS bundle includes Oracle Database Cloud Service (Schema-as-a-S

Provides data store for OBIEE data, with ApEX front-end and data upload

View status of servicesClick on link to launch required service

"Database

"Business Intelligence

Click to launchBICS Service Dashboard


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Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service : Dashb

View basic metrics on system usage(users, author count over period)

Subscription details; Company name etc"Click on Service Instance URLto launch OBIEE Presentation Services


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BI Cloud Service Home Page and Dashboards

Answers and Dashboards (with new Oracle Cloud look-and-feel)

But with tools to upload data, build the RPD, administer users, manage system


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Creating Analyses and Dashboards

Standard UI for creating analyses, dashboards etc (but limited to subset of fea

Each tenant has a single RPD, all users report against that (but can add secu

Helpers when user first connects to guide through key features


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Standard Dashboard and Analysis Editor Experienc

Regular Presentation Services interface - Dashboard, Analysis Editor, Catalog

Uses new Skyros theme from Fusion Apps


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Dashboard and Analysis Limitations in v1

Can create analyses, dashboards, use filters, selection steps, calculations etc

Can create dashboard prompts, filters, use repository and session variables e

No access to Agents, Scorecards, BI Publisher (anything that uses NQ_ tableNo Essbase, SOA / EBS integration etc

No export ofcatalog objects


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Oracle BI Cloud Services v.1Uploading data to Database Cloud Service


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Oracle Database Cloud Service

Each instance of BICS comes with Oracle Database Cloud Service (Schema-

ApEx environment with 10GB storage attached

Able to run PL/SQL packages (with 5m timeout)Either create tables, views etc from ApEX,or use data uploader in BICS


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ApEx Development Environment

Full ApEx environment for application building, table creation, SQL queries

Can be used to build supporting applications, administration screens for OBIE

Make use of PL/SQL functionality"Data cleansing

"Call Web Service REST APIs

"More complex processingand calculations

DB Cloud Service dashboard has toolsfor data and application exports


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Options for Uploading Data to BI Cloud Service (DB

Use ApEx front-end and tools within it (data upload, data modeller etc)

Use SQL*Developer and SFTP data upload facility

Use BI Cloud Service Data Uploader


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SQL*Developer for Database Cloud Access / Uploa

SQL*Developer 4+ can view, query and upload data to Database Cloud

Uses DB Cloud REST API to access database

Create carts of data to uploadUses SFTP to bulk-uploaddata imports to cloud


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Data Uploader in ApEx

Upload spreadsheet, XML data, text (delimited or fixed width)

Store as a table in Database Cloud Service

Create keys, joins, views etc


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BI Cloud Services Data Uploader

Custom ApEx application shipped with DB Cloud Service for BICS

Upload CSV, text, xls and xlsx files to Database Cloud

Paste data from clipboard and uploadLimited data re-formatting features

Preferred method for uploading data

Click to launchData Uploader


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BICS Data Uploader Step 1 : Select File to Upload

Press Upload to upload txt, csv, xlsx or xls file to application

Contents of file then appear inPreview window

Or just paste data from clipboardinto same preview window

Option to ignore headers line

Option to select delimiter char


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BICS Data Uploader Step 2 : Select Target or New T

Either select existing table to upload to, or enter details for new table

Incoming columns in file mapped to table columns

Ability to change column case, strip spaces, format as number


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BICS Data Uploader Step 3 : Preview Content, and

Preview file contents with transformations and final column names

Upload file to Database Cloud Service - is the used to load a regular DB table

Review table and check for loading errors


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Oracle BI Cloud Services v.1Creating the repository

Thi Cli D M d ll


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Thin-Client Data Modeller

New thin-client data modeller, works with RPD online

Single repository per tenant

Regular RPD, but modeller only supportssubset of BI Administration features

Single LTS per logical table

No Alias, have to create DB views

Single business model

Only logical calculations

But otherwise - an RPD

Click to launchData Modeller

D t M d ll R it C ti W kfl


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Data Modeller Repository Creation Workflow

1. Add tables to Database Cloud Service via data uploader

2. Lock Model (RPD)

3. Add joins if not automatically introspected

4. Select either a dimension or fact to create

5. Select table to base fact or dimension on

6. Format logical column names, values

7. Add calculations, aggregations

8. Add hierarchies

9. Publish model and unlock

L i l F t T bl F t


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Logical Fact Table Features

Joins to dimensions automatically introspected when tables selected for mode

Add default aggregation for logical columns

Define logical calculations(post-aggregation calcs only)

Add data filters againstapplication roles

Set access permissions forapplication roles

L i l Di i T bl F t


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Logical Dimension Table Features

Alter and rename default logical column names

Add new logical columns using logical SQL expressions

Add one or more level-based hierarchies

Variables


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Variables

Can create static and dynamic repository variables

Also create session variables, including access to system session variables

"Access to :USER etc system session variables


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Oracle BI Cloud Services v.1Administration and Maintenance


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Snapshots (BI Archives)


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Snapshots (BI Archives)

Entire system (RPD, catalog) can be snapshotted with versions stored online

Download and upload snapshots

"Test to production migration

"Restore snapshots for versioning

Note - overwrites entire RPD, catalog

"Does not include DB Cloud elements,need to be archived separately


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Oracle BI Cloud Services v.1Example Application : Cloud CRM Reporting

Example Application #1 : Cloud CRM Reporting - Sc


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Example Application #1 : Cloud CRM Reporting - Sc

Many customers use SaaS applications for CRM, sales automation, talent ma

Often silos of information, and hard to report against

"Access via REST APIs rather than SQL / ETL

BI Tools needed, but prefer if SaaS deployed too

Solution : Oracle BI Cloud Services,but how to access SaaS data sources?

SaaS Data Access Solution : DB Cloud PL/SQL RES


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SaaS Data Access Solution : DB Cloud PL/SQL RES

Database Cloud Service supports PL/SQL packages, procedures

ApEx has APEX_WEB_SERVICE API, supports RESTful and SOAP web serv

Salesforce.com provides REST API for retrieving objects, data

"PL/SQL package retrievesSalesforce instance data

"Stages into Database CloudSchema for OBIEE access

Need to work around5 min timeout for PL/SQL prods

"DB Cloud limitation"Break retrieval intosmall steps, 'POST' , p_body => XMLData := XMLType(l_clob);

FOR r IN

( SELECTExtractValue(Value(p),'/OAuth/instance_url/text()') AS r_ExtractValue(Value(p),'/OAuth/access_token/text()') AS r_

FROMTABLE(XMLSequence(Extract(XMLData,'/OAuth'))) p

)LOOP

Build Repository Against Database Tables


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Build Repository Against Database Tables

PL/SQL Package calling Salesforce.com REST API populates Oracle tables

Oracle Tables then mapped into BI repository

Facts and dimensions created

Variables defined

Users added into roles

Supporting SaaS Security Models


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Supporting SaaS Security Models

Full import of SaaS dataset presents the problem - how do we then respect ap

"Users will connect into OBIEE as themselves, no online access to SaaS sec

Solution : download user > account security objects,join those to facts to perform row-level filtering

"Needs knowledge of underlyingSaaS row-level security setup

"Join security access table to modelto apply data restrictions

"But then allows BICS app to work

disconnected from SaaS application,but still apply correct security rules

Example Dashboard using Salesforce.com Dataset


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Example Dashboard using Salesforce.com Dataset

New graph type:Example of visualisationappearing first on BICS

Thank You for Attending!


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