Business Intelligence
and Analytics
05-Dec-2008
Chitti, OSI Consulting Pvt Ltd
India OAUG Webinar Series 1
Agenda
• OBIEE Architecture &
Components
• OSI Activities
• Implementation/Development
Process
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Architecture
• OBIEE (BI Platform)
–BI Server
–Presentation Services
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•OBIEE – Simplified View
Data Source BI Presentation
Server Service
RDBMS
(Oracle) Users
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•BI Server
Physical Layer Semantic Object Layer Presentation Layer
Mapping to source Definition of simplified logical Definition of what end
data schema business model users see
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•BI Server
Enterprise Semantic Model
Presentation Layer
• Simplified view
• Logical SQL interface
Semantic Object Layer
• Dimensions
• Hierarchies
• Measures
• Calculations
• Aggregation Rules
• Time Series
Physical Layer
• Map Physical Data
• Connections
• Schema
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•Presentation Service
Presentation
Interactive Dashboards – Service
Easy to use dashboard
navigation and construction
BI Answers – Ad hoc
environment for building new
dashboard objects (e.g. charts,
pivots, tables, etc)
IBots – Scheduled BI content
with notification
Users
BI Publisher – Tool for building and
deploying “formatted” reports
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OBIEE – Interactive Innovate Integrate operate
Dashboards
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Innovate Integrate operate
OBIEE – BI Answers
Ad hoc environment for building
new dashboard objects (e.g.
charts, pivots, tables, etc)
New Objects can be saved on
Personal or Shared folder
Wizards to create Filters,
Prompts, Expressions,
Conditional formatting, Pivots, ….
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Innovate Integrate operate
OBIEE – BI Publisher
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•OBIEE – BI Platform
Data Source BI Presentation
Server Service
RDBMS
(Oracle) Users
Presentation
OBIEE Server Service
Administration Administration
-Develop & Maintain - Manage Presentation
Repository Catalog
- Security
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BI Analytics
• BI Analytics (Applications)
–ETL
–Business Data Warehouse
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Innovate Integrate operate
BI Analytical Applications
• Built using BI Platform (OBIEE)
– Pre-Built BI Server Repository
– Pre-Built Dashboards & Reports
• Specific subject Oriented
– Financial, Order Management, Supply Chain,
Service
• Business Analytics Warehouse – pre-modeled, pre-
built star schema warehouse designed for operational
data
• Informatica Power Center – pre-configured workflows,
and Mappings to extract, Transform and load data
into Business Data Warehouse
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•BI Analytics
Business BI Presentatio
Data Warehouse
Server n
Service
Data Source
BDW
(Oracle)
Users
Oracle
(EBS) ETL
Informatica
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•BI Analytics - ETL
Informatica (ETL) Business
Data Warehouse
Data Source
BDW
Extraction Transformation Load (Oracle)
Oracle
(EBS)
Staging
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•Architecture
Ad-hoc Interactive Reporting & Proactive
Analysis Dashboards Publishing Detection
and Alerts
Single Sign On (OID, LDAP, AD …)
BI Foundation Platform (OBIEE +)
- Common Information Model (KPIs, Metrics, Hierarchies & Dimensions)
- Integrated Security
- Common Data Access
Business Data Warehouse
Integration Layer (Data & Application) (ETL, SOA …)
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Other Applications Hyperion External Excel EBS Suite
(HR, Marketing … Data File
OSI OBIEE Activities
• Implement Analytics
– Financial, Order Management, Supply
Chain, Service
– Install all components
– Modify ETL and mapping based on EBS
customization
– Modify Data warehouse schema
– Run ETL & Load Data warehouse
– Creation of Custom Dashboards, reports
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• Implementation Cycle
Architecture
Design
Build
Validation
Go Live
Support
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Implementation
• BI Architecture
– BI Road Map & Strategy
– Information Architecture
• Design
– Capacity & Performance
– Security
– Gap Analysis (BI Analytics)
• Development/Build
– Data Warehouse, ETL, BI repository, Presentation
Catalog extension and modification
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Administration - Tool
• Presentation Catalog (Dashboard & Reports)
• BI Repository
– Metrics, Dimensions, Hierarchies
– Security
• DAC (Data Warehouse Administration Console)
– ETL session execution, Dependency, ETL variables
– Monitoring ETL Sessions
• Data Warehouse
– Capacity and Performance
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Architecture
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Architecture
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Architecture
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Questions ?
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