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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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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