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OBIEE
Provides insight, processing, and pre built solutions
that allow users to seamlessly access critical business
information and achieve optimal results

Act

Assess
Optim
al
Result
s
Identify

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Data Warehousing
Brings together data from many sources
Organizes data for analytical processing
De normalize data: Duplicate and flatten data
structures
Reduce joins: Reduce the number of tables and
relationships
Simplify keys: Use keys such as a sequence number
Employ star schemas: Simplify relationships
between tables

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Star Schema
Organizes data into a central fact table with
surrounding dimension tables
Each dimension row has many associated fact rows
Dimension

Dimension

Fact

Dimension
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Dimension

Fact
Contains business measures or metrics
Data is often numerical
Is the central table in the star
Dimension

Dimension

Fact

Dollars
Units

Dimension

Dimension
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Dimension
Contains attributes or characteristics about the
business
Name
Data is often descriptive (alphanumeric)

Customer
Qualifies the fact data
Addres
s

Product

Sales

Region

Name
Product
Line

Time

Mont
h
Year
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Countr
y
State

User Friendly
Models the way users think about data
Enables data to be understood and analyzed
Dollars, Units,
Shipments by Product

Product

Dollars, Units,
Shipments by Time

Customer

Sales

Dollars, Units,
Shipments by
Customer

Region

Time

Dollars, Units,
Shipments by Region

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Star Schema Example

Sales fact table with dimension tables and
relationships
PRODUCT DIMENSION

CUSTOMER DIMENSION
ROW_WID

CUST_NAME

OTHER

ROW_WID

PROD_NAME

OTHER

17023

A. K. Parker

...

12091

Widget

...

17054

Betta Builders

...

12093

Super Widget

...

17056

CostCutter Stores

...

12095

Lite Widget

...

SALES FACT
ROW_WID

CUST_ID

PER_ID

PROD_ID

QTY_ORDERED

QTY_SHIPPED

AMT

17023

26031

12093

100

17054

26031

12091

15

10

150

17023

26033

12091

50

Fact table
contains
measures to
be analyzed

PERIOD DIMENSION
ROW_WID

DATE

OTHER

26031

1/1/2004

...

26033

2/1/2004

...

26075
3/1/2004
...
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Dimension
tables
contain
characteristi
cs that
qualify the
8
facts

Dimensional Modeling
Is a technique for logically organizing business data in
a way that helps end users understand it
Data is separated into facts and dimensions
Users view facts in any combination of the
dimensions
Allows users to answer Show me X by Y by Z type
questions
Fact Dimension Dimension
Example: Show me
sales by product by month

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Sample Request Processing

1. User views a dashboard or submits an Analysis
request
2. The OBIEE Web Server makes a request to the OBIEE
Server to retrieve the requested data
3. The OBIEE Server using the .rpd file, optimizes
functions to request the data from the data sources
4. The OBIEE Server receives the data from the data
sources and processes as necessary
5. The OBIEE Server passes the data to the Oracle BI
Web Server
6. The OBIEE Web Server formats the data and sends it
to the client

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Sample Request Processing

1
Clients
6

OBIEE
Web
Server

2
5

OBIEE
Server

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Data Sources
4

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OBIEE Components

OBIEE Server
Administration Tool
OBIEE Presentation Server
Dashboard
Analysis

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Dashboards
Web user interface to analytical information

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Analysis
On-demand user interface to analytical information

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OBIEE Administration Tool

Tool to build a metadata model

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