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Oracle BI Applications: Overview

Oracle BI Applications is a complete, prebuilt Business Intelligence solution that both delivers
Intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization, from frontline employees to
Senior management, and enables better decisions, actions, and business processes.

Oracle BI Applications is a complete, end-to-end BI environment that includes the Oracle BI EE

Platform and the prepackaged analytic applications.

The platform includes a server and end-user tools such as dashboards, query and analysis,
Enterprise reporting, and disconnected access to data, all supported by a unified, model-centric
server architecture.

On top of this platform, Oracle BI Applications consumes transactional operational data

sources via packaged extract, transform, and load (ETL) mappings, and metadata, which load a
data warehouse for analysis. Analyzing the data warehouse, Oracle BI Applications delivers

rolebased analysis via prebuilt reports, dashboards, alerts, briefing books, and other channels
provided by the platform.
Oracle BI Applications Components
Oracle BI Applications includes four main components:

1. Prebuilt extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes and tools to configure, customize,
manage, monitor, and maintain the OBAW
Prebuilt Informatica mappings and workflows

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Informatica Integration Services for processing the prebuilt ETL mappings and
workflows

Informatica tools for creating, customizing, extending, and testing the prebuilt
Informatica mappings and workflows
Data Warehouse Administration Console (DAC) server and client with prebuilt

metadata for configuring, running, and monitoring the ETL processes for sourcespecific containers

2. Prebuilt Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse data model with prebuilt star schemas
and conforming dimensions
3. Prebuilt Oracle BI Server repository

Logical business model mapped to physical data sources

Key performance indicators and metrics definitions
Presentation layer that exposes the business model to business users
Administration Tool for building and customizing the repository
Oracle BI Server for query processing

4. Prebuilt Oracle BI Presentation Catalog

Prebuilt Interactive Dashboards and Oracle BI Answers reports

Tools for modifying the prebuilt dashboards and reports Oracle BI

Oracle BI Applications Architecture

The Oracle BI Applications architecture can be divided into four components:

1. Extract, transform, and load (ETL), including the Data Warehouse Administration
Console (DAC), which is used to support extract from packaged and other source
transactional data and load into the OBAW data warehouse.

2. Physical OBAW data warehouse data model for the Oracle Business Analytics
Warehouse, which is designed to support multiple databases and provide an abstracted
data model with conformed dimensions that support cross-domain analysis.

3. Server repository metadata, which provides physical to logical mappings, calculations,

and metrics, as well as security

4. Presentation Catalog contents, including prebuilt role-based Interactive Dashboards,

security, and analytics workflows and guided navigation

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ETL Overview

Three approaches to accessing or loading source data:

Batch ETL (Full or Incremental)
Micro ETL

Direct access to source data from Oracle BI server

ETL Layered architecture for extract, universal staging, and load:
Provides isolation, modularity, and extensibility

Has the ability to support source system version changes quickly

Has the ability to extend with additional adaptors
Architected for performance:

All mappings architected with incremental extractions

Highly optimized and concurrent loads
Bulk Loader enabled for all databases

Data Warehouse Administration Console (DAC):

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Application administration, execution, and monitoring

Data Extraction and Load Process

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The extraction process provides source-specific adaptors (Siebel/Oracle/SAP/PeopleSoft) as well

as universal business adaptors, which are used for legacy or other data sources.

Extract mappings encapsulate the complexity of the source and expose a simplified view of the
business entities, loading data in a universal staging table format into staging tables in the
OBAW.

Data Extraction and Load Process

After the data has been staged from various sources, the load process loads it into the
warehouse, performing calculations and necessary aggregations before loading final

destination tables in the OBAW. The load process manages slowly changing dimensions, which
store historical versions of attribute data, generates and resolves warehouse keys, manages
insert and update strategies, and performs currency conversions. Finally, the load process

manages data consolidation, where by data from multiple sources, with different codes for
similar respective entities, is standardized for common analysis in the OBAW.

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Universal Business Adaptor

1. Universal Business Adaptors are used to extract and load data from nonpackaged
sources.

2. The adaptors conform to the same extraction and load process, but provide generic
sources, specifically flat file source definitions, to which data from legacy or other
sources can be conformed for load during extract into the standardized OBAW staging
tables.

3. Note: MQSeries is an IBM software family whose components are used to tie together
other software applications so that they can work together.

This type of application is often known as business integration software or middleware.

Data Warehouse Administration Console (DAC)
The following are some of the elements to be deployed and managed in a data warehouse.
Data warehouse objects (tables/indices)
ETL code

Seed data
Variety of configurations for ETL
The DAC is used to administer, install, maintain, and monitor ETL runs. It is also used by ETL
administrators in production to monitor and restart jobs.

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Physical Data Model: Overview

1. Is a modular enterprisewide data warehouse data model with conformed dimensions:

Sales, Service, Marketing, Distribution, Finance, Workforce, Operations, and
Procurement

Data integrated from multiple data sources

Code standardization

2. Stores transaction data in the most granular fashion

3. Tracks historical changes

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4. Supports multiple currencies and languages

5. Is implemented and optimized for Oracle, SQL server, IBM UDB/390, and Teradata

Server Repository: Overview

The Oracle BI Application server repository contains metadata for three separate layers:

Physical , logical, and presentation. Data from the physical layer is mapped to the logical layer,
which includes the logical metrics, KPIs, and hierarchies to support analysis and drill paths.

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The repository includes aggregate navigation, which describes the path used by report queries
to access fact data, beginning, where possible, with appropriate aggregate fact tables for

summary data, and then drilling further down to the transactional grain, where necessary, or
for detailed analysis. The different types of fact tables in the OBAW are covered in the lesson
titled Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse Content.

Metrics and Calculations

The applications provide several complex metrics defined logically with an

expression builder:

Share base (for example, percentage share of one product sales overall products sales)
Indices (for example, this divisions performance as a ratio of all divisions)
Cross-subject area metrics (across sales and workforcefor example, revenue per
employee)

Variances (for example, Budget vs. Actual)

Time series metrics:

Month to Date/Year to Date/Running balances/Moving Averages (for

example,

Revenue Change percentage year to date)

Period Ago Metrics (for example, revenue a year ago)

Snapshot at any point of time (for example, number of open service requests)

Presentation Catalog: Overview

Oracle BI Applications delivers role-based Interactive Dashboards supporting organizational

roles spanning from executives to line managers and individual contributors. Included in the
dashboards, which contain tabular as well as graphical interactive elements and reports, are
analytic workflows and guided analytics that help to drive critical business decisions and
insight.
Action Links, as described in the lesson titled Oracle Business Intelligence Application

Overview, can drive the user from analytical reports and dashboards back to the transactional
application in context to take action on the results of their analysis. Alerts and conditional
highlighting provide ways to alert users to business-critical conditions, good and bad, and
drive insight and action.

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Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Platform Architecture

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The diagram in the slide represents the logical relationship between the components of Oracle
BI Enterprise Edition (EE). The physical architecture may vary, but a typical instance is
described in this lesson. This logical architecture does not account for all utilities required to
administer and extend the data warehouse.

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Oracle BI EE is offered in two major architecture options: Oracle Business Intelligence Platform
and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications.

Oracle Business Intelligence Platform provides the following:

An infrastructure to model data so that users can understand it
A server to generate SQL and access, merge, and sort data from multiple sources

A simple, highly interactive, Web-based analysis tool, and the ability to construct dynamic
reports and alerts

Oracle BI Applications Architecture

The diagram in the slide represents the logical relationship between the components of Oracle
BI Applications. The physical architecture may vary, but a typical instance is described in this
module. This logical architecture does not account for all utilities required to administer and
extend the data warehouse.

Oracle BI Applications provides all that the platform does, plus:

Prebuilt Oracle BI repository containing all the mappings, logic, metrics, and KPIs
required for the deployed applications
Prebuilt Presentation catalog with role-based Interactive Dashboards and reports to support
the needs of line managers to chief executive officers

Prebuilt OBAW database designed for analytical processing with prebuilt routines to

extract, load, and transform data from transactional databases, and the DAC components
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and a repository used to configure and execute the ETL process

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