Oracle BI 11g: Upgrade and New Features

This course provides BI Developers and Architects with essential knowledge and hands-on experience with the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11g(11.1.1.5). Students gain a complete understanding of the new OBI EE 11g installation, architecture and system management functions. Students will complete a wide range of “hands-on” tutorials that will guide them through the many exciting new features that the product has to offer

Learn To:

• Create analysis with charts and interactions
• Configure Master Detail linking in analyses
• Create Dashboards and Dashboard Prompts
• Implement Action Links
• Migrate to OBI EE 11g

A Live Virtual Class (LVC) is exclusively for registered students; unregistered individuals may not view an LVC at any time. Registered students must view the class from the country listed in the registration form. Unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of LVC content may not be made.

Audience

• Administrator
• Architect
• Business Intelligence Developer

Course Topics Architecture

• High-Level 11g Architecture
• Sizing

Installation

• Running the RCU Utility
• Running the Installer
• File System Structure

System Management

• WebLogic Console
• Enterprise Manager
• Enterprise Manager – Monitoring
• Enterprise Manager – Capacity Management
• Enterprise Manager – Diagnostics and Security
• Enterprise Manager – Deployment
• Oracle Process Manager and Notification server (OPMN)
• Starting / Stopping Oracle BI System

Security

• The 11g Security Model
• Understanding Global Unique Identifiers (GUIDs)
• Configuring Identity Providers
• Upgrading Security

Upgrade Assistant

• Running the Upgrade Assistant

BI Server

• Supported Data Sources
• Data-Model Editor
• Admin Tool Usability
• Time Series and XUDML
• Hierarchies
• Lookup Functions and Double Columns
• Essbase
• Oracle OLAP

User Interface

• Creating New Objects in Home Page
• Opening Existing Objects in Home page
• Searching and Browsing the Catalog

Answers

• Creating a New Analysis
• Using Criteria Tab and Results tab
• Understanding Table and Pivot Table Interactions
• Understanding Charts and Views
• Using Time Series Functions
• Understanding Master-Detail Linking
• Using Hierarchical Columns and Maps
• Understanding Selections, Groups and Calculated Items

Interactive Dashboards

• Viewing Dashboards and Dashboards Options
• Creating Dashboard using Dashboard Editor
• Creating Dashboard Prompts

Action Framework

• Creating Actions
• Configuring Action Links
• Creating Conditions

BI Publisher

• Understanding BI Publisher Components and BI Publisher 11g Integration
• Creating Data Models
• Creating a report using Web Template Builder

KPI’s

• Creating KPIs
• Creating KPI Watchlists

Balanced Scorecards

• Enabling Scorecard Features
• Creating Scorecards using Balanced Scorecard Editor
• Defining an Objective
• Defining Initiatives
• Understanding Other Scorecard Documents

Course Objectives

• Learn Installation steps for Oracle BI EE 11 g
• Learn OBI EE 11g Architecture
• Learn OBI EE 11g Security Model
• Use upgrade assistant to migrate to OBI EE 11g
• Learn Enhancements to BI Server, Answers and Interactive Dashboards
• Learn New Features in BI Server, Answers and Interactive Dashboards
• Learn to initiate actions using Action Framework
• Learn Enhancements and New Features of BI Publisher
• Create KPIs and KPI Watch lists
• Create Balanced Scorecards