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October 23, 2011

Integrating OBI-EE with EssbaseNEOAUG

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Agenda

• Essbase and OBIEE

• Integration Notes

• Essbase‐Aware Features

• Current Limitations

• Other OBIEE Integration

• Integration Process

• Demo

• Questions

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Essbase and OBIEE

• Essbase• Multidimensional database storage system

• For complex business modeling

• Part of the Hyperion suite of tools

• OBIEE• Sophisticated reporting engine

• Ad hoc analysis, dashboards, reports

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Integration Notes

• Essbase 9.3.3+, 11.1.1.3.500, 11.1.2.1+

• HFM 9.3.3, 11.1.1.3, 11.1.2+

• OBIEE 11g

• Converts MOLAP to a relational view

• Federation with relational data

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Essbase‐Aware Features

• BSO and ASO Cubes

• Accounts hierarchy

• Ragged hierarchies

• Parent‐child (value‐based) hierarchies

• Alias tables

• UDAs (for filtering)

• Maintains hierarchy changes

• Attribute dimensions

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Other OBIEE / EPM Integration

• BI Apps Foundation Suite• Includes OBIEE, Essbase, Scorecard

• HFM Analytics

• Oracle Exalytics In‐Memory Machine

• Open OBIEE in EPM Workspace

• Essbase Studio to create Cubes from OBIEE (business and presentation layers and the DW)

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Integration Process

• Install Essbase libraries on the OBIEE server

• Import Essbase using the Admin Tool Import Metadata Wizard

• Convert to parent‐child value‐based hierarchies

• Add alias columns

• Create Business Models and Catalogs in the Admin tool

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Abdul Hafeez Shaik

• Senior BI/DW Architect

• Over 7 years of industry experience

• Over 7 years of experience with ERP, DW, BI and reports

• More than dozen implementations of OBI / BI Apps

• Key Member to build and Develop the BI Practice at Apps Associates

• Team member of OOT which is Responsible for all technologies (not just BI) for the company and strategy for the clients

• Done more than 15 presentations on OBI‐EE at various Oracle Conferences

About Speaker

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Jonathan A Cohen

• Practice Manager – BI Practice

• Managing the development of the EPM Practice at Apps Associates

• Over 20 years technology experience

• MBA – Northeastern High Tech MBA Program

• 5 years of BI / EPM / DW Experience in many industries

• Hyperion Certified Developer

• Developer, architect, and project manager for numerous OBIEE and Hyperion reporting and planning projects

• Experience develop reporting solutions with Cognos and T1

About Speaker

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ESSBASE – Hands On

• Creating new RPD

• Importing the ESSBASE cube into OBIEE

• Deploy RPD into the OBIEE

• Create a sample Report

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• Start‐>Oracle Business Intelligence ‐> BI Administration to open the BI Administration tool.


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• Click on File

• And Click on the New Repository


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Enter the following information

1. Name

• NEOAUG_ESSBASE_Demo

2. Repository Password

• Welcome1234

3. Retype Password

• Welcome1234


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• Click the Connection Types list

• Select the Essbase Option from list


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Enter the following Details

1. Essbase Server:• Demodrive

2. User name• Demoadmin

3. Password • Demoadmin

Then Click Next


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• Click the “+” button be side demodrive to show the list of application inside the demodrive Essbase.


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• Scroll down all the way down and select the application “OBI_Demo” and OBI_Demo cube.

• Click on the “>”button as highlighted below

• Click Finish Button


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• Then you will have Essbase application imported the Essbase Physical Layer or RPD

• Open the demo drive connection by clicking the + symbols


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• Click on the “+” symbol beside OBI_Demo cube to show the details


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• Open the Accounts Dimension

• Right click on the detail view as show below and select the properties


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• Click on the Hierarchy Type

• And select the option Value

• Repeat the same step for following dimension too• Department

• Divisions

• Organizations


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• After the changes Physical layer looks as show in the picture


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• Select the “OBI_Demo” cube from the physical layer and drop into the logical layer

• Then the logical layer looks as below


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• Open the “OBI_Demo” in the logical layer by clicking on ‘+’symbols.

• All the hierarchies and calculations from cubes will be migrated automatically

• Minimize all By Clicking “‐”


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• After minimizing everything

• Drag and drop the “OBI_Demo” logical layer folder on the physical layer

• Once you done you will see RPD as below


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• Go to File ‐> Click on Save

• You will see the following window and click “Yes”

• Then you will get 2 more alert one after other select “Yes”and “Ok” sequentially

• With this we have created and saved the RPD with ESSBASE cube in it.


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• Open the “Firefox” web browser.

• Enter the following url

• http://demodrive:8001/em

• Enter the following details

• User name : weblogic

• Password : password1


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• Once you login from the left frame of the browser click the “+”symbol and open the “Business Intelligence” link

• Click on the core application link highlighted in the above picture.


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• You will find the following view on right side frame once you select the core application link

• Select the “Deployment”

• Select the “Repository” as show in the above picture

• Click on the “Lock and Edit Configuration”


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• Click on the Browse button from “Upload BI Repository” Section

• Go to the following path to select the RPD

• D:\ORCL\MW_BI\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\repository

• Select the “NEOAUG_ESSBASE_Demo.rpd” which we created


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• Enter the Repository password and Confirm Password as “Welcome1234”

• Then click on “Apply” Button


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• Click on the “Activate Changes”

• Wait till the below message disappears

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• Click on the “Restart to apply recent changes”


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• Click on the “Restart” Button

• Click “Yes” for the following alert

• Wait for this processing to complete


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• Login into the OBI‐EE

• Open Firefox Web browser

• Go to http://demodrive:8001/analytics

• Enter the following details• User name : weblogic

• Password : password1


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• Click on the “New” to create the Report

• Select the Analysis from the option


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• Click on the “OBI_Demo”

• Drag and drop the following columns from subject area

• Period ‐> Gen3,Period

• Accounts‐>Accounts

• OBI_Demo#1 ‐> OBI_demo‐measure


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• Click on the filter symbol highlighted below

• Select the more columns option


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• Select the Scenario‐>Gen2,Scenario

• And select the value as “Actual”


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• Again select the filter symbol, “more columns option”

• Select the years‐>Gen2,Years

• Select the value as “Fy2007”


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• End of the filter selection you have to see the following view in the filter section

• Click on the Results tab


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• Click on the Highlighted pencil symbol to edit the pivot table.

• Drag the Gen3,Period from rows to Columns section


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• Start drill the accounts and open up the details as show below

• Click done button on the left corner window


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• Click the save button

• Enter the name as P&L Report

• Click “Ok”


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Abdul Hafeez Shaik

Senior BI Solution Architect

[email protected]

Jonathan CohenPractice [email protected]

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