Introduction of OBIEE

OBIEE is a product of Oracle Corporation that was acquired from Siebel. OBIEE is a powerful l reporting tool. The former Siebel products were initially marketed by oracle as oracle business intelligence enterprise edition while the plus was added along with the Hyperion tools in 2007.often OBIEE is used interchangeably with oracle business intelligence applications which is a pre built BI and data warehousing solution using OBIEE. OBIEE 10.1.3.4 that is 10g is released in 2009 of April, and OBIEE 11.1.1.5 that is 11g is a new release with more Beautiful and user friendly features...

Benefits:
1) OBIEE is having most powerful features like rich visualization, interactive dashboards, a vast range of animated charting options etc. 2) OBIEE can integrate any kind of data sources like oracle Apps and other front end and analytical tools and databases including IBM DB/2, Teradata , Microsoft SQL Server SAP Business information warehouse, Flat file , XML data and unstructured data.. 3)Using OBIEE the organizations can reduce their cost and increase productivity with a common infrastructure for producing and delivering enterprise reports, dashboards, ad hoc analysis, and OLAP analysis.. 4) OBIEE provides scalability, high availability, and security benefits while making upgrades and systems management effortless.

Architecture of OBIEE: Is made up of five major components: Clients Oracle BI Web Server Oracle BI Server Oracle BI Scheduler Data Sources

Oracle BI Server

Clients

Oracle BI Web server Oracle BI Scheduler

Datasources

Clients:
OBI Dashboards OBI Answers OBI Delivers OBI Web Administration By using any of these client tools user can raise a request to the OBI server.

Oracle Web Server:

OBI web server is a mediator in between clients and OBI Server .It takes the request from the client and forward it to the OBI Server and it receives the data from the Oracle BI Server and provides it to the client that requested it...

Oracle BI Server:
Components of OBI server Repository file(.Rpd) Cache NQS Config.ini DB Features.ini Log files

Repository file:
1) Contains meta data. 2) It created by using Oracle BI Admin tool. 3) It is divided into 3 layers: 1) Physical Layer: represents data sources 2) BMM layer: Models the data sources into facts and dimensions

3) Presentation Layer: Specifies the users view of the model.... Oracle BI Admin tool

Presentation layer
Actual view of the user

BMM layer
we can modify the data. Aggregate navigation, Hierarchies, Create measures.

Physical layer
We can import data sources in End this layer

Cache:
1) Contains results of the query. 2) Is used to eliminate redundant queries to database. 3) Speed up query processing time 4) Cache can be disabled

NQSConfig.ini:
It Is a configuration file used by OBI Server at startup. Contains details about the cache and Repository(.rpd), Security , and Server performance etc.,

DB Features.ini:
Is a configuration file used by the OBI Server Specifies values that control sql generation Defines the features supported by each database.

Log files:
NQ Server .log records OBI server Messages. NQQuery.log records information about query requests..

Oracle BI Scheduler:
Manages and executes jobs requesting data analytics Schedules reports to be delivered to users at specified times. In windows, the scheduler runs as a service.

Data sources:
Contains the business data users want to analyze Are accessed nu the Oracle BI server Can be in any format, Relations databases Online analytical processing databases(olap) Flat files Spreadsheets or other ODBC data sources XML