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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

You're reading from Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

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Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786464712

Pages 578 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Business Intelligence

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Adrian Ward

Christian Screen

Haroun Khan

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - second Edition

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Preface

1. Oracle BI 12c Architecture

2. Installing the Prerequisite Software

3. Installing on Windows Server 2012

4. Reviewing the Features of the Reporting Repository

5. Installing and Configuring Client Tools

6. Understanding the Systems Management Tools

7. Developing the BI Server Repository

8. Creating Dashboards and Analyses

9. Agents and Action Framework

10. Developing Reports Using BI Publisher

11. Usage Tracking

12. Improving Performance

13. Using the BI Admin Change Management Utilities

14. Ancillary Installation Options

15. Reporting Databases

16. Customizing the Style of Dashboards

17. Upgrading to 12c

Configuring a connection to the database

As you will see in the following chapter, one of the tasks that we set is to create a set of tables in the repository that mirror the tables in your database. This is best done when you can connect your client to the database you are modeling.

Creating a connection to your database is simple if you have the client software already installed on your workstation. For example, if you are connecting to Oracle, you will need the Oracle drivers on your machine.

We are connecting to the AdventureWorks database on SQL Server, which is on our local machine where the OBIEE client is installed; this means the software is already in place. In your installation, you may have to download the driver. Search Microsoft.com for an ODBC driver that matches your Windows version and database version, and install that first.

When the software is in place, create a new DSN using the SQL Server driver and you are ready to go.

At this point, you can move on to the next chapter...

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Authors (3)

Adrian Ward

Adrian Ward is an Oracle ACE Associate who started working in Siebel Analytics back in 2001 and quickly realized the potential in the technology. He formed the UK's first independent consultancy focusing purely on OBIEE (nee Siebel Analytics) and Oracle BI Applications. He has led many large successful OBIEE implementations in a wide range of business sectors, from investment banking to military operations. His deep technical OBIEE and BI Applications knowledge has been applied on dozens of projects throughout the globe, including HR, Sales, Service, Pharma, and Custom Analytics, which is enabling hundreds of thousands of users in their day-to-day roles. He was also one of the first bloggers on Oracle BIEE at http://www.obiee.info and today runs the Addidici OBIEE consultancy, which has operations in the UK, Europe, and South Africa. Adrian runs one of the largest Oracle BI networking groups on LinkedIn -- Oracle Business Intelligence, is an active tweeter (@Addidici), is a speaker at Oracle conferences, and helps others learn. In his spare time, he loves sailing at Hayling Island, skiing, enjoying life with his family, and learning new technologies.

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Christian Screen

Christian Screen (@christianscreen) is an Oracle ACE, technologist, and Business Intelligence evangelist with over 20 years of experience in technology ranging from low-level programming, e-commerce, Data Warehousing, Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management, product management, IoT, and of course, analytics. Founder of Art of BI Software and Consulting Group, one of Oracles top Oracle Analytics partners in North America, his company was acquired by Datavail (@datavail) Corporation in 2016. In his spare time, he enjoys writing technical articles, learning new technologies, inventing new products, writing software, spending time with his family, trying to change the world, and running his blog and podcast which are read and heard all across the globe.

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Haroun Khan

Haroun Khan is one of Europe's leading OBIEE consultants. A computer science graduate of Imperial College, London, he has been involved with OBIEE from its early days as an acquisition from nQuire by Siebel, and subsequently as part of the Oracle family. Haroun worked as a consultant on projects worldwide for Siebel and as a Principal Consultant for Oracle over a period of 10 years. He has specialized in BI and data warehousing over a longer period including time working at MicroStrategy. Haroun is also an entrepreneur, successfully founding and currently running the online travel site https://www.jrpass.com/. His experience in e-commerce has given him new insight into how analytics is vital to the running of any business nowadays. He engages with cohort analysis, clickstream analytics, and conversion tracking. He still freelances in leading and designing projects in the traditional BI and data warehousing space. In his downtime, Haroun likes to climb, is an avid squash player, and can sometimes be found prone, deep in despair, as he tries his hands at writing a novel.

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