Oracle BI Apps (OBIA) Online Training

Course Description: 

This OBIEE 11g and OBIA training course teaches you step-by-step procedures to build and verify the three layers of an Oracle BI repository. You'll begin by using the Oracle BI Administration Tool to construct a simple repository to address a fictitious company's business requirements. It provides step-by-step instructions for creating Oracle BI analyses and dashboards in business intelligence applications. You'll begin by building basic analyses to include in dashboards, with more complexity as the course progresses.

Trainer Profile: Oracle Certified with Real Time experience

Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge on SQL. PLSQL will be added advantage

Course Topics:

 

• Data warehouse concepts
• SQL Concepts
• OBIEE 
• Active Directory Authentication
• Migration of Objects from Dev to PROD
• OBIA
• Informatica
• DAC
• Interview questions and Resume Modelling

1. Data Warehouse Concepts

ü  OLTP Vs OLAP 

ü  Data warehouse Architecture 

ü  Data warehouse Vs Data Mart 

ü  ETL 

ü  Measures, Fact, Dimensions 

ü  Schema 

ü  Star Schema and 

ü  Snowflake Schema 

ü  Dimension Hierarchy 

ü  Aggregates 

ü  Aggregation Strategy, Compression Ratio 

ü  Indexing Strategy 

ü  Slowly Changing Dimension 

ü  Type 1 

ü  Type 2 

ü  Type 3 

ü  Performance Tuning

1. 2.    SQL Concepts

ü  Basic concepts of SQL

ü  Joins

ü  Complex joins

ü  Sub queries

ü  Performance tuning

1. 3.    OBIEE

ü  Installation of OBIEE ü Issues while installing ü How to resolve?

ü  Exploring Oracle BI architecture components

ü  Exploring a repository's structure, features, and functions

ü  Using the Oracle BI Administration Tool

ü  Creating a repository

ü  Loading a repository into Oracle BI Server memory

Building the Physical Layer of a Repository

ü  Importing data sources

ü  Setting up connection pool properties

ü  Defining keys and joins

ü  Examining physical layer object properties ü Creating alias tables

Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer of a Repository

ü  Building a business model

ü  Building logical tables, columns, and sources

ü  Defining logical joins

ü  Building measures

Examining business model object properties

Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository

ü  Exploring Presentation layer objects

ü  Creating Presentation layer objects

ü  Modifying Presentation layer objects

ü  Examining Presentation layer object properties

Testing and Validating a Repository

ü  Checking repository consistency

ü  Turning on logging

ü  Defining a repository in the initialization file

ü  Executing analyses to test a repository ü Inspecting the query log

Managing Logical Table Sources

ü  Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table ü Specifying logical content

Adding Calculations to a Fact

ü  Creating new calculation measures based on existing logical columns

ü  Creating new calculation measures based on physical columns

ü  Creating new calculation measures using the Calculation Wizard

ü  Creating measures using functions

Working with Logical Dimensions

ü  Creating logical dimension hierarchies

ü  Creating level-based measures

ü  Creating share measures

ü  Creating dimension-specific aggregation rules

ü  Creating presentation hierarchies

ü  Creating parent-child hierarchies

ü  Using calculated members

Using Aggregates

ü  Modeling aggregate tables to improve query performance

ü  Setting the number of elements in a hierarchy

ü  Testing aggregate navigation

ü  Using the Aggregate Persistence Wizard

Using Repository Variables

ü  Creating session variables

ü  Creating repository variables

ü  Creating initialization blocks

ü  Using the Variable Manager

ü  Using dynamic repository variables as filters

Modeling Time Series Data

ü  Using time comparisons in business analysis

ü  Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data

Setting an Implicit Fact Column

ü  Adding fact columns automatically to dimension-only queries

ü  Ensuring the expected results for dimension-only queries

ü  Selecting a predetermined fact table source

ü  Specifying a default join path between dimension tables

Security

ü  Exploring Oracle BI default security settings

ü  Creating users and groups

ü  Creating application roles

ü  Setting up object permissions

ü  Setting row-level security (data filters)

ü  Setting query limits and timing restrictions

Cache Management

ü  Restricting tables as non-cacheable

ü  Using Cache Manager

ü  Inspecting cache reports

ü  Purging cache entries

ü  Modifying cache parameters and options

ü  Seeding the cache

Enabling Usage Tracking

ü  Setting up the sample usage tracking repository

ü  Tracking and storing Oracle BI Server usage at the detailed query level

ü  Using usage tracking statistics to optimize query performance and aggregation strategies

Analyzing usage results using Oracle BI Answers and other reporting tools

Multiuser Development

ü  Setting up a multiuser development environment

ü  Developing a repository using multiple developers ü Tracking development project history

Working with Oracle Business Intelligence Analyses

ü  Introduction to Oracle BI Analysis Editor

ü  Oracle BI column types

ü  Working with analyses in Oracle BI ü Using advanced formatting

Administering the Presentation Catalog

ü  Oracle BI and catalog security overview

ü  Managing security using roles

ü  Understanding security inheritance

ü  Setting object permissions

ü  Setting system privileges ü Archiving catalog items

Limiting and Grouping Data in Analyses

ü  Introduction to filters and selections

ü  Creating, editing, and grouping filters

ü  Adding prompts to analyses

ü  Dynamic filtering

ü  Using saved analyses as filters

ü  Creating groups

ü  Creating calculated items

ü  Creating selection steps

Oracle Business Intelligence Analyses: Advanced Features

ü  Setting analysis properties

ü  Combining analysis criteria by using set operations

ü  Executing direct database analyses

ü  Editing logical SQL generated by an analysis

ü  Creating a link to a saved analysis ü Creating an Excel Web Query file

Working with Views and Graphs in Analyses

ü  Introduction to views, graphs, and editors

ü  Working with views in Compound Layouts

ü  Creating and editing graphs

ü  Linking master-detail views

ü  Performing common view tasks

Showing Results with Pivot Tables

ü  Creating, arranging, and formatting a pivot table

ü  Using hierarchical columns

ü  Sorting in pivot tables

ü  Setting aggregation and using totals

ü  Showing an item's relative value

ü  Building calculations and displaying running sums

Creating Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboards

ü  Creating and editing dashboards

ü  Using the Dashboard Builder

ü  Exploring dashboard object properties and options

ü  Publishing dashboard pages

ü  Creating personal customizations and using other page options

Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboards

ü  Exploring types of dashboard content

ü  Embedding content in dashboards

Creating Dashboard Prompts and Variables

ü  Understanding variables

ü  Adding a named dashboard prompt to a dashboard

ü  Adding a hidden named dashboard prompt to a dashboard

ü  Creating additional prompt page and setting page preferences

ü  Adding variable prompts to a dashboard

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers

ü  Configuring delivery devices and adding delivery profiles

ü  Adding an Alert Section to a dashboard

ü  Configuring an Agent

ü  Using Analysis and KPI conditions to deliver content with Agents Subscribing to an Agent

1. 4.    Active Directory

ü  How to configure Active Directory

ü  Issues

ü  Resolution

1. 5.    Migration

ü  Migration of objects across environments

ü  Important steps

ü  Issues

 

1. 6.    OBIA

ü  Introduction

ü  Installation

ü  Main Components of OBIA

ü  Configuration and Implementation

 

1. 7.    Informatica

ü  Introduction

ü  Installation (Server & Client)

ü  Configuration

ü  Creating Mapping ü Creating Workflow

ü  Monitor the load

ü  Errors and Fixes

1. 8.    DAC

ü  Introduction

ü  Installation (Server & Client)

ü  Configuration

ü  Importing metadata

ü  Creating Tasks

ü  Creating Task Groups

ü  Creating Subject areas

ü  Creating execution plans

ü  Scheduling

ü  Full Load & Incremental Load

ü  Errors & Fixes

 9.    Resume Modelling