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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c

You're reading from   Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c Build your organization's Business Intelligence system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464712
Length 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Adrian Ward Adrian Ward
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Haroun Khan Haroun Khan
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Preface 1. Oracle BI 12c Architecture FREE CHAPTER 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

Problems with multiple developers

As in any IT project, source and version control are points of concern. In OBIEE, there are a couple of issues specifically associated with multiple developers working on an RPD.

Unlike other forms of development, all of our metadata is contained in a single file, that is, the RPD. If we are using a form of revision control, such as CVS software, we are restricted to saving a version of the whole RPD file, even if it contains many projects/business areas. This does not help us if we want to work independently on subsets of the RPD. It also makes it difficult to record what changes individual developers are making and on what objects. All of these challenges increase the difficulty of having developers work on multiple development paths with an aim to consolidate them into one RPD at the end, as would commonly be the case in large projects.

As we cannot use third-party tools for version control, Oracle has provided us with tools for merging separate RPD development...

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