Obiee12c-What Is New

Whats New With Oracle
Business Intelligence 12c

Michelle Kolbe
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Who is Red Pill Analytics?

Red Pill Analytics: Ownership
Kevin McGinley Stewart Bryson
Oracle ACE Director Oracle ACE Director
Previously From: Previously From:

Accenture Rittman Mead
BI Consulting Group Informix Software
Data Warehousing & Data Warehousing &

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence
since 1997 since 1996

WHAT WE DO
CAPACITY SINGLE
ANALYTICS CHECKMATE DOSES
BI Development as a Service Check-in & Automate Strategy & Roadmap
Agile Development True Multi-User Development Architecture
Cloud Enabled Full Source Control Prototyping
Continuous Integration Continuous Integration Infrastructure
Support Hosted or On-Premise Training
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Red Pill Analytics Sessions at UTOUG Training Days 2016
Regression Testing with Ease: The Baseline Validation Tool

Stewart Bryson
Tuesday 9:45 - 10:45 am in MFEC 223
Performance Analytics: Visualizing the Power of the AWR Warehouse

Stewart Bryson
Tuesday 1:30 - 2:30 pm in MFEC 223
Whats New With OBIEE 12c and BICS

Michelle Kolbe
Tuesday 3:00 - 4:00 pm in MPDC 105

12c Enhancements, Changes, New Features
Installation, Configuration, Architecture

Upgrade
System And Lifecycle Management
Data Sources And BI Server
Front-End Enhancements
Data Visualization And Mashups

Front-End Enhancements
Alta UI
Dashboards Answers

Home Page Refinements
Classic Home Page New Home Page

Search
Search for content Search for data

Enhanced Sorting For Graphs / Pivot Tables

Heat Matrix View
Percentile Binning Continuous Color Fill Result

View Properties Access In Compound Layout
You no longer need to edit view to tweak properties!

Data Visualization And Mashups

Oracle Data Visualization (Visual Analyzer)
Separately licensed
add-on to OBIEE
Designed for true ad-
hoc analysis, data
exploration, data
discovery
Uses curated subject
areas and/or uploaded
spreadsheets as data
sources

Oracle Data Visualization (Visual Analyzer)
Separately licensed
add-on to OBIEE
Designed for true ad-
hoc analysis, data
exploration, data
discovery
Uses curated subject
areas and/or uploaded
spreadsheets as data
sources

Mashups
Requires ODV license
Upload spreadsheets and join
to subject areas in ODV
Extend facts and dimensions
Once uploaded and joins
defined in ODV, Answers users
can benefit from using the files
as XSAs
Data can be refreshed
manually in ODV

Repository
Filtering on Aggregate Persistence
Allows for Fragmented Aggregates

Can add WHERE clause to aggregate build
Useful for Popular data sets like Current Year

Changes to Time Dimensions
Can assign a sequence number to Time Dimensions

Improves performance of time series calculations

Command Line
New utilities:
Upload Repository
Download Repository
List Repository Variables
Update Repository Variables
List Connection Pool
Update Connection Pool
Rename Users
Delete Users
Rename Application Role
Delete Application Role

Installation, Configuration and Architecture

Eating Their Own Dog Food

Installation Overview And Changes
Step Change from 11g to 12c
Download Software Fewer files, smaller download, RCU is included
Run BIFoundation Installer Install only; configuration done separately
Can run RCU 11g-style, or generate scripts to be run

Create database repository
by DBA later
Full offline configuration results in faster creation of
Configure BI Domain
the domain
Scale out (optional) Command line scripts to clone domain

Singleton Data Directory With High Availability
Oracle BI Domain - Server 1 Oracle BI Domain - Server 2
Admin Server Managed Server Admin Server Managed Server

Node Manager
Node Manager
BI System Components BI System Components
Config Config
bi-environment.xml bi-environment.xml
Shared Storage (e.g. NFS) Singleton Data Directory
Service Instance
Singleton Data Directory contains the

Service Instance BI Content for the
cluster
File System Changes
No more instances folder

No more Oracle_BI1 folder
user_projects contains most of
what youre looking for

Other Architecture Changes
Separation of Environment Metadata and Configuration

Single source of truth for both no environment info in RCU DB
schemas
Reduced dependency on hardwired server names in configuration
One place to edit environment and/or configuration
Most files can be edited directly by customer using any tool including
Chef / Puppet
Removal of OPMN process control
Nodemanager used throughout to control components

Goodbye, Old Friend

BISystemUser
Security GUIDs
Complicated SSL Configuration
Upgrades
Validate Upgrade
Install new OBIEE 12c instance

Upgrade from 11.1.1.7 (latest patch) or 11.1.1.9
12c Upgrade Utility
Copy bi-migration-tool.jar file from 12c to 11g machine
Run utility to generate an upgrade bundle
Move upgrade bundle to 12c machine and import using bi-migration-
tool.sh
Run Baseline Validation Tool

Upgrade Process
12c
OBIEE 12c report with
Validation
Tool
BI
Compare 12c Production
Migration Application
Output & Fix
Tool Utility Archive
Discrepancies
(BAR)
OBIEE 11g Baseline

report with
Production
Validation

See into Your Upgrade Future

Baseline Validation Tool (BVT)
Free tool provided separately

by Oracle
Runs a set of tests against two
compatible systems
Within and between 11g/12c
Multiple layers of comparison
Produces output reports with
test results

BVT In Action
Compare some or all:
Run tests against current system to
create a baseline Data results (Reports &
Dashboards)
Upgrade, apply patch, or migrate Logical query results
content to new system Catalog contents
Visual output
Run same tests on the new system
and compare to baseline Run tests for:
Major upgrades
Apply fixes as needed Minor patches
Migrate new content to prod

System and Lifecycle Enhancements

Enterprise Manager - FMW 12c
No deployments
tab!

BI Application Archive (BAR)
Contains OBIEE content in a
single file (RPD, Catalog,
RPD Catalog JAZN Data / Roles Other Stuff
Security Roles)
Also manages
dependencies between
other BI Modules (future)
Does not contain database
objects nor data
Used for:
BI Application Archive
(BAR) Backup/Restore
Environment Migration
Upgrades
Cloning Service Instances

Pluggable Architecture
Start with a single Oracle BI

Enterprise Edition 12c
instance of OBIEE

Metadata Modules
designed to be static Metadata Modules (Optional)
(OBIA for instance)

instance of OBIEE

Service Instance 1 Service Instance 2 Service Instance 3

Individual Service
Instances provide Metadata Layer Metadata Layer Metadata Layer
customization stripes Catalog Content Catalog Content Catalog Content
to Modules Authorization Authorization Authorization
Metadata Modules
(OBIA for instance)

instance of OBIEE

Service Instance 1 Service Instance 2 Service Instance 3

Individual Service
Instances provide Metadata Layer Metadata Layer Metadata Layer
customization stripes Catalog Content Catalog Content Catalog Content
to Modules Authorization Authorization Authorization
Metadata Modules
(OBIA for instance)

instance of OBIEE

Non-Pluggable Architecture (so far in 12.2.1)
Singleton Service
Service Instance 2 Service Instance 3
Singleton Service Instance (SSI)
Instance (SSI) with Metadata Layer

Metadata Layer Metadata Layer
Metadata, Content and Catalog Content

Catalog Content Catalog Content
Authorization Authorization
Authorization Authorization
Metadata Modules
(OBIA for instance)

instance of OBIEE

Deployments
Recommended: use BAR functionality

Alternatively:
data-model-cmd.sh / data-model-cmd.cmd
Params:
uploadrpd
downloadrpd
updateconnectionpool
updaterpdvariables

Data Sources and BI Server

External Subject Areas (XSA)
Subject Area defined outside of

the RPD
Can be joined to an RPD
Subject Area, much like a
federated BI Server query
Can be persisted to a database
cache
Used in new Advanced Analytics
capabilities, Oracle Data
Visualization, and Answers*
*Cant be defined in Answers - only consumed

Big Data Sources
Cloudera Impala Apache Spark
Native MPP Query Engine Native Spark SQL connectivity
Built for low latency queries to report and to analyze Big
DataDirect Connect ODBC Data in Apache Spark
driver required/provided Alternate Option to persist
OBIEE generates Impala results in XSA Cache for future
specific optimized SQL queries queries
Also made available in 11.1.1.9 Not available in 12.2.1; coming
in future 12c update

Advanced Analytics: Built-in Functions Using R

Advanced Analytics Setup (Basic)
Install R on OBIEE Server
Oracle_Home/bi/bifoundation/advanced_analytics
Uncompress r-installer.tar.gz, r-installer.tar
Edit proxy.txt if necessary
sudo ./RInstaller.sh install
Install R packages
sudo ./RInstaller installpackages
Edit NQSConfig.ini
Advanced Analytics Script Section
R_EXECUTABLE_PATH = /usr/bin/R; (or other install location)
Other steps/prerequisites required for Solaris/Windows

Custom R Functions Using EVALUATE_SCRIPT
R scripts stored on the server can
be called using
EVALUATE_SCRIPT
Scripts are stored on the server in
a directory defined in
NQSConfig.ini
Scripts contain parameters, output
definition, and options for
execution
Built-in functions are implemented
in the same way, but stored in a
different place
R generates a csv file that the BI
Server treats like an XSA

In-Memory Enhancements To BI Server
Feature Benefit
Native XSA Cache Better performance for mashup data
Default sortsize 4mb to 64mb Faster OBIEE query performance
Reduced memory usage for variable length data More efficient deployment, more memory for data
Compression of temporary work data More efficient deployment, more memory for data
Smaller and faster sort for aggregates and group by

Faster query performance
handling
Single pass totals and subtotals for Pivots Faster query performance

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Business Intelligence 12c

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Who is Red Pill Analytics?

Kevin McGinley Stewart Bryson

Oracle ACE Director Oracle ACE Director

Previously From: Previously From:

Data Warehousing & Data Warehousing &

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Agile Development True Multi-User Development Architecture

Cloud Enabled Full Source Control Prototyping

Continuous Integration Continuous Integration Infrastructure

Support Hosted or On-Premise Training

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Regression Testing with Ease: The Baseline Validation Tool

Performance Analytics: Visualizing the Power of the AWR Warehouse

Whats New With OBIEE 12c and BICS

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Installation, Configuration, Architecture

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Data Visualization And Mashups

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Allows for Fragmented Aggregates

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Can assign a sequence number to Time Dimensions

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Installation, Configuration and Architecture

Eating Their Own Dog Food

Step Change from 11g to 12c

Download Software Fewer files, smaller download, RCU is included

Run BIFoundation Installer Install only; configuration done separately

Can run RCU 11g-style, or generate scripts to be run

Scale out (optional) Command line scripts to clone domain

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Admin Server Managed Server Admin Server Managed Server

Shared Storage (e.g. NFS) Singleton Data Directory

Singleton Data Directory contains the

No more instances folder

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Separation of Environment Metadata and Configuration

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Goodbye, Old Friend

Install new OBIEE 12c instance

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OBIEE 11g Baseline

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See into Your Upgrade Future

Free tool provided separately

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System and Lifecycle Enhancements

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Start with a single Oracle BI