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Mark Rittman, Technical Director, Rittman Mead

Author of the Oracle Press book Oracle BI Developers Guide

Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence
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Mark Rittman

Mark Rittman, Co-Founder of Rittman Mead

Oracle ACE Director, specialising in Oracle BI&DW

15 Years Experience with Oracle Technology

Oracle BI since 1998 (Discoverer, Designer etc)

OBIEE since 2007 (OBIEE 10g+) Oracle OLAP/Express since 2000

OWB, ODI, Oracle RBDMS (OCP) etc

Regular columnist for Oracle Magazine

Author of two Oracle Press Oracle BI books

Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide

Oracle Exalytics Revealed Email : [email protected]

Twitter : @markrittman
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Regular Speaker at OOW, Blogger, Writer for Oracle Magazine

Presenter on Oracle BI at the

last 5 Oracle Open Worlds

Columnist for Oracle Magazine (Oracle BI)

Writer for OTN

Past board member for ODTUG,

chair of UKOUG BIRT SIG

Oracle ACE Director

Blogger for Rittman Mead blog

Tweeting at @markrittman


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About Rittman Mead

Oracle BI and DW gold partner

World leading specialist partner for technical excellence, solutions delivery and

innovation in Oracle BI

Approximately 30 consultants worldwide

All expert in Oracle BI and DW UK based

Offices in US, Europe (Belgium) and India

Skills in broad range of supporting Oracle tools:

OBIEE

OBIA

ODIEEEssbase, Oracle OLAP

GoldenGate

Exadata


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Rittman Mead in the Developer/User Community


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Oracle BI Developers Guide : Oracle Press, 2012

End-to-end development guide for OBIEE 11g (covers up to 11.1.1.6)

From installation and architecture, through to dashboards, integration and team development

Based on 6yrs+ of OBIEE experience, beta program participation, implementation etc

Technical focus, step-by-step instructions along with concepts and product history

Participation by the Oracle BI development team,including technical editing by

Mike Durran, forward by

Balaji Yelamanchili


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Oracle BI Developers Guide : Oracle Press, 2012

Chapter 1 : Oracle Business Intelligence Overview and Architecture

Chapter 2 : Installation and Upgrading of Oracle Business Intelligence

Chapter 3 : Modeling Repositories using Relational, File and XML Data Sources

Chapter 4 : Creating Repositories from Oracle Essbase and Other OLAP Sources

Chapter 5 : Configuring and Maintaining the Oracle BI Server

Chapter 6 : Creating Analyses, Dashboards, KPIs and Scorecards

Chapter 7 : Actionable Intelligence

Chapter 8 : Security

Chapter 9 : Creating Published Reports

Chapter 10 : Systems Management

Chapter 11 : Managing Change Chapter 12 : Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine


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Oracle Exalytics Revealed, Oracle Press (ebook), 2012

Special-edition e-book that took the Exalytics chapter and updated for 11.1.1.6.2

Additional content on ILOM, testing, aggregate building,11.1.1.6.2 BP1 visuals (trellis charts etc)

Nowhere will you find a more

comprehensive look at

Oracle Exalytics from start to finish

than in this book extremelythorough and easy to follow

and I find this narrative

incredibly useful to explore

the product.

The book delivers what it

promises on its title, a thorough

review on the most important aspectsof this engineered system created

by Oracle Corporation


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What is Oracle Business Intelligence?

Oracle BI provides a set of web-based tools for reporting and analyzing data

Based around dashboards, built around graphs, tables, pivots etc

Multiple server architecture that splits data access / presentation elements

Based on Siebel Analytics technology

Connects to multiple data sourcesOracle DB & Exadata

SQL Server, DB/2, Teradata

Essbase, Oracle OLAP, MSAS

ADF View Objects etc

Integral part of Oracle Fusion Middleware


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Some Cool Things About Oracle Business Intelligence 11g

The Oracle BI Repository (semantic business model)

Interactive dashboard analytics

Integrating BI with business processes, rich web applications, and mobile applications


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Example 1: An Enterprise-Wide Business Analytics Semantic Model

All reporting tools within Oracle BI take their data from a shared metadata layer

Defined as dimensional model, embeds common calculations and drill paths

Subject-area and row-level security

Three-layer design to provide

abstraction from underlying

complicated source systems

Can source data from

Oracle DB + other RBDMSs

Oracle Essbase, OLAP

Oracle ADF, web services

Hadoop

Oracle TimesTen

etc

Simplificationof the Data Model

Integrationof Disparate DataSources

Addition of Business Logicand Calculations


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The Enterprise Semantic ModelDemonstration


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Example 2 : Rich Interactive Dashboards, No Programming Needed

Users access information and analytics through rich, analytic role-based dashboards

Can also publish reports to PDF, distribute, or access through MS Office


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Creating dashboards and analyzing dataDemonstration


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Example 3 : Integration Across Oracle Fusion Middleware

BI content can be embedded in ADF and WebCenter applications, share common

look-and-feel, security, event handling model, tooling

Basis of the Oracle Fusion Applications


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Oracle BI Integration with Oracle Fusion MiddlewareDemonstration


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Mark Rittman, Technical Director, Rittman Mead

Author of the Oracle Press book Oracle BI Developers Guide

Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence

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