Oracle BI 12c Lifecycle Management
Lifecycle Management (LCM) is a fairly new concept for many administrators and developers of Oracle BI. All core transferable objects in a software application such as Oracle BI are defined as artifacts. Artifacts for Oracle BI 12c are items such as the RPD, Presentation (Web) Catalog, and so on. Since these are a few of the most critical artifacts to the operation of Oracle BI, this section discusses how they are managed in Oracle BI 12c.
LCM includes the many different areas of patching, backup, and recovery, and the general migration of Oracle BI artifacts from one environment to another. In Oracle BI 12c, there has been a concentrated effort to increase the ability to deliver a consistent, manageable Oracle BI application through the use of programmatic capability. In Oracle BI 12c, there are now several options to do so: Application Programming Interface Web Services via SOAP and REST, and Command Line Interfaces (CLI) through the Oracle BI 12c BI...