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Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
(OBIEE)
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Agenda
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4 Interactive Dashboards
1 OBIEE and OBIA Overview
2 Oracle BI Answers
View and Charts in Oracle BI
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Ibot Using BI Delivers
Lab
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OBIEE
Oracle Business IntelligenceAnswers
Engine that provides core business intelligence and analytics capabilities
Platform to model data so that users can understand it
Simple to use, highly interactive, Web-based analysis tool and the abilityto pre-construct dynamic reports and alerts.
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Business Processes in OBIEE
Oracle Business IntelligenceAnswers
Summary data can be used to generate reports at a higher level ofaggregation to monitor performance at the upper levels of the businessorganization. Analysts needing more detailed information can drill down tolower-level snapshot or detail data.
Detail data provides insights into the specifics of the business. Forexample, such analyses can lead businesses to maximize productstrategies or cut marketing costs.
Snapshot data shows a view of the business data at a given time.
Snapshot data can be used to understand trends and to monitor businessperformance. Product profitability, customer segmentation,
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One Platform Oracle Business Intelligence EE(OBIEE)
Integrated Security, User Management, Personalization
Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine
Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services
Data WarehouseData Mart
SAP, Oracle
PeopleSoft, Siebel,
Custom Apps
Files ExcelXML
Common Enterprise Information Model
DataIntegration
Ad-hocAnalysis
InteractiveDashboards
Essbase Reporting &Publishing
ProactiveDetectionand Alerts
Disconnected& MobileAnalytics
MS Office& OutlookIntegration
OLTP & ODSSystems
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Oracle BI Applications: Built with OBIEE
Integrated Security, User Management, Personalization
Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine
Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services
Common Enterprise Information Model
DataIntegration
Ad-hocAnalysis
InteractiveDashboards
Essbase Reporting &Publishing
ProactiveDetectionand Alerts
Disconnected& MobileAnalytics
MS Office& OutlookIntegration
PackagedETL Maps
UniversalAdapters
HyperionMS ExcelOther Data Sources
BAW Schema
Oracle BI Applications
Sales
Service &
Contact
Center
Marketing
Order
Management
& Fulfillment
Procure
& SpendFinancials
Human
Resources
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ORACLE BI ANSWERS
Oracle Business IntelligenceAnswers
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Oracle Business Intelligence Answers:Overview
Self-service access to personalized & actionableinformation
Enables you to query an organizations data
Provides a set of graphical tools to create and executerequests for information
Provides the building blocks of Oracle BusinessIntelligence Interactive Dashboards
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How to Get into Oracle Business IntelligenceAnswers ?
http://erptest2.sorouh.com:8020/
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Click on Answers
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Oracle Business Intelligence Answers:Start Page
This page appears after you click the Answers link.
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Answers Selection Pane
Accesses savedrequests anddashboards
Shows columns and
filters to constructrequests
Organizes content intopresentation folders,
tables, and columns
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Key Terms
Special kind of filter that restricts the result set returned by a request;can be used to populate variables
Prompt
Underlying SQL issued to the Oracle BI Server for the specified request
Stores content created with Answers and Interactive DashboardsOracle BIPresentation Catalog
Query
Filter object that filters all content on a dashboard page and can be used topopulate variables
Dashboard Prompt
Page in a Business Intelligence application that displays contentDashboard
Logical object that organizes and presents data about a businessSubject Area
Output returned from Oracle BI Server for specified requestResults
Set of columns and filters that are specified for a requestCriteria
Mechanism that restricts the result set returned by a requestFilter
Object that indicates the data that a request returnsColumn
Answers a query against an organizations dataRequest
DefinitionTerm
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Request
column
Subject
Area
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Subject Areas
Contain information about the areas of yourorganizations business Have names that correspond to the type of information
they containSelect a subject area to create a new request.
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Working with Requestsin Oracle Business Intelligence Answers
1. Selecting a subject area
2. Constructing a request
3. Modifying request criteria
4. Changing column order5. Displaying request results
6. Modifying the results layout
7. Saving a request
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1. Selecting a Subject Area
After logging in, select a subject area to navigate to theOracle Business Intelligence Answers workspace.
Select subject area.
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2. Constructing a Request
Select columns from subject area virtual tables in the
selection pane to create request criteria.
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3. Modifying Request Criteria
Use buttons to modify request criteria:
Column Properties
Edit column properties to control appearance and layout
Edit Formula
Add a new function (such as ranking or moving averages)
Add Filter
Limit data that appears in a column
Remove Column
Remove a column from the request criteria Order By
Determine sort order (ascending or descending)
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3. Modifying Request Criteria: Sorting Columns
Use the Order By button for the desired column toselect the order
Click the button to set the sort order:
Ascending
Descending
Secondary column sort
This column sort occursafter
the primary sort.
This column sort occurs after
the secondary sort and indescending sequence.
Primary ascendingcolumn sort
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3. Modifying Request Criteria: Style
Provides the ability to override defaults for:
Font
Cell (including alignment)
Border Style sheets
Click the FormatColumn button.
Point to customstyle sheets.
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Provides the ability to override defaults for: Column visibility
Headings
Data duplication
Interaction
3. Modifying Request Criteria: Column Format
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3. Modifying Request Criteria: Conditional Format
Directs attention to a data element if it meets a certaincondition
Click Add Conditionfor each condition.
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3. Modifying Request Criteria: Formulas
Provide the ability to use complex formulas in yourrequests:
Operators
Functions
Filters
Variables
Click the Edit Formulabutton.
CalculationBuilder
Select a function to addit to column formula.
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4. Changing Column Order
Drag columns to change column order.
Drag a column to anotherlocation to reorder the
columns.
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5. Displaying Request Results
Click the Results tab to see the results of a request.
A request can be displayed in many formats.
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5. Displaying Request Results
Data is automatically sorted by the first column andthen sorted by the second column.
Sorting can be specified by the user.
Repeating values are suppressed.
By default, the values can be changed by the user. Click the button to see the next group or row.
Click the button to see all rows.
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6. Modifying the Results Layout
Change views to control the appearance of the results.
Choose aresult view.
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7. Saving a Request
Use the Save Request page to save a request in a personalor shared folder.
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to use OracleBusiness Intelligence Answers to construct, modify, andsave requests.
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Practice 1: Overview
This practice covers the following topics:
Creating a request
Formatting the request
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Filtering Requests
in Oracle Business Intelligence Answers
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Using Filters in Requests
Filters limit the results that appear when a request is run.
Answers shows only those results that match filtercriteria.
Example: Limit the results of a request to list thecustomers and sales reps in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago,and favorite-city variable only.
This filter limits theresults to customers
and sales reps inthese cities.
Filters canbe saved.
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Creating and Editing Filters
Use the Create/Edit Filter dialog box to create and edit
filters.
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Drilling and Filters
Drilling in the Results tab automatically filters results.
The drill path corresponds to hierarchies that aredefined in the metadata.
Drill on the results page to
filter on the drilled value.The filter is automatically
added to criteria.
Results include the nextlevel in the sales hierarchy.
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Column Filter Prompt
Provides general filtering of a column in a request
Presents all choices or constrained choices for acolumn
Can be combined with other column filter prompts
Example: A request filtered on region contains aconstraint for a specific state (IL: Illinois).
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
Improve your ability to design and build filters in OracleBusiness Intelligence requests
Add a column filter prompt to a request
Add an image filter prompt to a request
Use a saved request as a filter
Edit the SQL for a column filter in a request
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Practice 2: Overview
This practice covers the following topics:
Adding filters to a request
Adding a column filter prompt to a request
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Building Views and Charts in Requests
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
Add additional views of the data returned by therequest
Create and edit charts
Create column selectors Display data in different ways
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Oracle Business Intelligence Views
Have a many-to-one relationship with requests
Use Oracle Business Intelligence presentationcapabilities to help users look at results in meaningfulways
Help to identify trends and relationships in data whenusing multiple views
Are available for selection on the Results tab in OracleBusiness Intelligence Answers
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Descriptions of Business Intelligence Views
Show the logical SQL that is generated for a requestLogical SQL
Explanatory text if request does not return any resultsNo Results
Show results in a variety of chart formatsChart
Document meaning of special formatting used in resultsLegend
Show request results as a ticker or marquee (similar to stock markettickers)
Ticker
Show results as one or more paragraphs of textNarrative
Enable users to dynamically change the columns that appear in the resultsColumn Selector
Show the filters that are in effect for a requestFilters
Show results as dial, bar, and bulb style gaugesGauge
Swap row, column, and section headings to obtain different perspectivesPivot Table
Show results in a standard row and column tableTable
Add a title, subtitle, logo, link to help page, and time stampTitle
Assemble different views for display on dashboardsCompound Layout
DescriptionView Name
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Compound Layout View
Is the default view
Includes Title and Tableviews
Enables the display of
request results in multipleformats
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Working with Viewsin the Compound Layout View
Use the View drop-down list to select another view.
Add a view to the Compound Layout by using the AddView buttons.
Edit or drag views as necessary.
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Add View buttonsPrint Options, formatting
import, and refresh
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Totals
Can be calculated in arequest with hierarchicalresults
Examples:
Show sales volume by
region, state, and city Request subtotals by
region and state
Are created on the Resultstab (Table view)
Are also available in Pivotview
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Totals
Click the Break Total button on the column to create
subtotals at a mid-level. Click the Grand Total button to create a grand total for
the request.
Break Totalbutton
Grand Total button
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Measure Totals
The default aggregation is Sum (set in repository).
Set the aggregation type for measures to affect grandtotals.
DefaultAggregation Rule
is Sum.
Edit Formula
Measures
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Chart User Interface
Chart view has its own user interface:
Preview results
Chartcolumns
Chartoptions
Scalechart size
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Chart Options
Types of graphs include:
Area
Horizontal bar
Bubble
Vertical bar Line
Line bar combo
Pareto
Pie
Radar
Scatter Step
Funnel chart
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Chart Options
Edit the defaults for the chart by clicking the appropriatebutton.
Format ChartData
AdditionalCharting Options
Axis Scaling
Axis Titlesand Labels
General ChartProperties
AdvancedProperties
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Chart Columns
Choose which columns in the request are graphed.
Columns onhorizontal (x) axis
Columns on thevertical (y) axis
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Chart Scale
Change the size of the graph by using the scale bars on
the vertical and horizontal axes.
Visibility of the items may change depending on thescale setting.
Slide to change,and then click
Redraw.
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Formatting Charts
Set the color and formatting of chart elements.
Options depend on the chart type.
Select chartcomponent.
Availableoptions dependon chart type.
Set color.ClickFormatChart
button.
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Conditional Formatting in Charts
You can direct attention to a data element if it meets acertain condition.
Set color for elementsmeeting the condition.Select Add
Condition.
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Charting: Best Practices
Use simple charts where possible.
Two-dimensional charts can be easier to interpret thanthree-dimensional charts.
Example: Use a bar graph rather than a pie chart if it
conveys the information that you want to communicate.
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Showing Results with Pivot Tables
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
Create pivot tables
Use multiple page drop-down lists in pivot tables
Override default aggregation rules in pivot tables
Format pivot tables
Show an items relative value in a pivot table
Use calculations in pivot tables
Display running sums in pivot tables
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Pivot Table Views
Provide the ability to rotate rows, columns, and sectionheadings to obtain different perspectives of the samedata
Are interactive
Navigable and drillable
Useful for trend reports
Provide the ability to couple tables with charts andgraphs
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Pivot Table
Pages
Section
Totals
Measure Label
Rows
Measures
Columns
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Creating a Pivot Table
1. Create a request on the Criteria tab.
2. Click the Results tab, and then select Pivot Table view.
3. Rearrange elements as necessary.
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1. Create a request on the Criteria tab.
Create a request, using columns from a subject area justlike any other request.
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2. Click the Results tab, and then selectPivot Table view.
The Pivot Table view is accessed from the Viewdrop-down list.
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3. Rearrange elements as necessary.
The columns included in the request appear as elements in
the pivot table template.
Drag elements
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Showing Results in Pivot Tables
Using Multiple Page Drop-Down Lists
Overriding Default Aggregation Rules
Using Totals
Adding Formatting
Showing an Items Relative Value Adding a Graph
Using Calculations
Displaying Running Sums
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Using Multiple Page Drop-Down Lists
Provides the ability to manipulate a drop-down list for each
attribute placed in the pages section
Multiple attributes in
the Pages section . . .
. . . areconcatenatedin a singledrop-down list.
Select More Options > StartNew Page Drop Down . . .
. . . to create separatedrop-down lists foreach attribute.
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Overriding Default Aggregation Rules
Use More Options to override the default aggregation rule
for a measure specified in the Business Intelligencerepository or by the original author of a request.
Defaultaggregation ruleis SUM.
Select MoreOptions >Aggregation Ruleto override thedefault.
New aggregationrule is applied.
Using Totals
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Using Totals
Totals aggregate data on elements other than measures:
Pages
Sections
Columns
Rows
LabelTotals for each
sales district
Adding Formatting Overall Appearance
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Adding Formatting: Overall Appearance
You can customize the overall appearance of a pivot tableby applying green-bar styling and formatting.
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Adding Formatting: Pivot Table Positions
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Adding Formatting: Pivot Table Positions
You can customize the formatting and appearance ofsections, rows, columns, measures, and the content thatthey contain.
Use the Properties
buttons to customizesections and sectioncontent.
Use the More Optionsbuttons to customizepages, columns,rows, and measures.
Adding Formatting: Section Options
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Adding Formatting: Section Options
Set column headingdisplay.
Insert page breaks inprinted pivot tables.
Show blank rows.
Default: Suppress topreserve space in results.
Set how the columnheading appears.
Set page breaksbetween section
elements when thepivot table prints.
Select to show blankrows as white spacein results.
Adding Formatting: Showing a Section Once
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Adding Formatting: Showing a Section Once
It eliminates duplication of section information andhelps to constrain sections in other sections.
Select More Options > Hide repeated values.
Regionsection bydefault.
Regionsection set toshow once.
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Showing an Item s Relative Value
Relative valueMeasure Duplicate measureSection
ShowinganItemsRelativeValue
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Showing an Item s Relative Value
You can dynamically convert a stored or calculatedmeasure into a percentage or index:
Displays relative value of item compared to total
Relative values: percentageof total for the section
Brown sugar sales toRice Bowl = $1732.06
Percentage of brown sugar sales to Rice Bowlrelative to MidWest district = 10.5%
Relative Value Options
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Relative Value Options
Shows percentage of the page, or index value, that this value representsPage
Shows percentage of the column parent, or index value, that this valuerepresents
Column Parent
Shows percentage of the section, or index value, that this value representsSection
Shows percentage of the row, or index value, that this value representsRow
Shows percentage of the column, or index value, that this value representsColumn
ResultPercent Ofor Index Of
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Showing an Item s Relative Value
1. Duplicate the measure.
2. Rename the duplicate measure.
3. Select the Show Data As option.
4. View the results.
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1. Duplicate the measure.
This is an optional step that provides ability to displayboth the total for the measure and its relative value.
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2. Rename the duplicate measure.
Rename the duplicate measure to distinguish it from theoriginal measure.
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3. Select the Show Data As option.
Select the Show Data As option, and then select Percent of or Index of and the appropriate submenu item.
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4. View the results.
Total measures and relative values are displayed in a pivottable.
Brown sugar accounted for46.5% of sugar sold in theMidWest.
Relative values
Chicago Dog Express bought1.4% of Powdered Sugar in theMidWest.
Rice Bowl bought18.7% of all sugar inthe MidWest.
Adding a Graph
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Adding a Graph
Chart controls are the same as in the Chart view.
Select to add a chart.
Chart controls
Displaying Running Sums in Pivot Tables
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Displaying Running Sums in Pivot Tables
A consecutive cell for a measure displays total of all
previous cells for that measure: Display feature only, with no effect on actual pivot table
results
Typically displayed for duplicated columns ormeasures showing data as a percentage
Select More Options >Display as Running Sum.
Duplicated column Results appear as running sum.
Summary
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
Create pivot tables
Use multiple page drop-down lists in pivot tables
Override default aggregation rules in pivot tables
Format pivot tables Show an items relative value in a pivot table
Use calculations in pivot tables
Display running sums in pivot tables
Practice 4: Overview
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Practice 4: Overview
This practice covers the following topics:
Showing results with pivot tables
Displaying running sums in pivot tables
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Creating Interactive Dashboards
Objectives
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
Construct an Interactive Dashboard
Use Interactive Dashboard objects to create anInteractive Dashboard
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Interactive Dashboards
Dashboards are the standard interface for the majorityof users
It allows multiple reports to be displayed in a tabbed
Interface
The reports are interactive they can be clicked on to Interact with the data
Ideally highly summarized and graphical
Interactive Dashboards
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Interactive Dashboards
Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards: Display the results of Business Intelligence requests to
users Provide two types of views of corporate and external
information:
Personalized views My Dashboard for each user
Preconfigured views Shared dashboards can be saved by users with
administrative privileges.
Personalized viewMy Dashboard
Shared dashboards
Interactive Dashboard
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BusinessIntelligence requestwith Title, Chart, andTable views
Embedded Web content in asecond dashboard column
Dashboardcolumn
Creating a New Interactive Dashboard
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Users with appropriate permissions and responsibilities
can create a new dashboard.
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Appear as tabs across the top of the dashboard Display anything that you can access or open with your
Web browser: saved requests, alerts from Delivers,images, charts, tables, text, links to Web sites anddocuments, and so on
Dashboard pages
Click to edit dashboard.
Dashboard Editor
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Enables you to add, modify, or delete content
Add Page
Use the drop-downlist to navigate pages.
DashboardProperties
Dashboard Styles
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Styles control how dashboards and results are formattedfor display: Administrator may create styles from which to choose. A default style is used if no styles are selected.
Click the DashboardProperties button inthe Dashboard Editor.
Style drop-down list
Page controls
Dashboard Page Controls
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You can do the following: Rename
Delete
Reorder
Hide
Rename Delete
Adding Objects to Dashboards
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Add content to a dashboard by dragging any saved objectsfrom the selection pane to the Dashboard layout screen.
Drag saved objectsto the dashboard.
Dashboard Columns
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Dashboard columns are used to align content on a
dashboard. Not the same as columns in a request
Create as many columns as you need.
Every new dashboard page automatically contains oneempty column with one empty section.
Add Column button
Additional column
Click the Properties buttonto set column properties.
Dashboard Sections
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Appear in columns in the dashboard layout Hold the content dragged from the selection pane
Organize content in a column
Click and drag objects to build
dashboard pages.
Dashboard Print Controls
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Print pagesby using:
Adobe AcrobatPDF
The browsers
Print command Print settings are
independent foreach dashboardpage.
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Dashboard Prompts
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Filter the results of embedded requests to show onlythose results that match the prompt criteria
Filter all requests embedded in a dashboard or only therequests on certain dashboard pages
Set or update variables
Presentation variables are populated by prompts.
Repository and session variables can be overwritten byprompts.
Prompts are created in Answers.
New DashboardPrompt button
Building Dashboard Prompts
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1. Set the scope of the prompt.2. Select the column and operator.
3. Set the control and constraints.
4. Set defaults.
5. Set variables.6. Create a label.
7. Save the prompt.
8. Add to a dashboard.
9. Test the results.
1. Set the scope of the prompt.
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The scope determines whether the Dashboard promptfilters a page or the entire dashboard.
2. Select the column and operator.
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To add a column, click columns in the selection pane. Use the Edit Column Formula window to add functions,
filters, variables, and other expressions.
Select the filter operator for the prompt.
Edit Formulabutton
Select the filteroperator.
3. Set the control and constraints.
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The control specifies the way the user enters theprompted value.
Select the Constrain option to constrain valuesavailable for selection based on a previous prompt.
Constrained byRegion.
User enters textinto prompt.
User selects valuefrom a list includingall column values.
4. Set defaults.
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Optionally, you can set a default prompt value to reportdefaults, a specific value, a variable, or the results of aSQL query.
Values areselected fromRegions column.
6. Create a label.
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Optionally, you can enter a label for each prompt. Thedefault behavior is to display the column name.
Prompt populates thePresentation variable
7. Save the prompt.
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Save the prompt to the OracleBI Presentation Catalog.
8. Add to a dashboard.
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Edit the dashboard to add the prompt.
Add the prompt from theselection pane in theDashboard Editor.
9. Test the results.
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Navigate to the dashboard and test the prompt.The myFavoriteRegionPresentation variable ispopulated by the Regiondashboard prompt.
The
RegionpromptdefaultstoCentral.
The District promptis constrained todistricts in theCentral region.
Saved Selections
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Saving selections enables users to view dashboard pagesthat are preselected by frequency or by favorite filters andprompts.
Eliminates need to choose prompts and filtersmanually
Saves preferred values for Presentation variables
Provides ability to:
Save multiple view selections with different combinationsof choices (for personal use or use by others)
Switch between saved selections Specify a saved selection as the default view
Creating a Personal Saved Selection
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Users with appropriate permissions can create and saveselections for personal use.
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Users with appropriate permissions can create and saveselections for others.
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Click the Page Options button to apply saved selections.
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Editing Saved Selections
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Users with appropriate permissions can edit savedselections and defaults.
Change
defaults
Rename
Set permissions
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Summary
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In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Construct an Interactive Dashboard
Use Interactive Dashboard objects to create anInteractive Dashboard
Practice 5: Overview
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This practice covers the following topics: Creating a dashboard page
Adding content to the page
Creating a prompt and adding it to the dashboard
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Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers
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Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers
Automates Business Intelligence
Creates alerts based on Business Intelligence results
Detects specific results and immediately notifies theappropriate person or group through Web, wireless,mobile, and voice communications channels
O l B i I t lli D li
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Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers
Delivery Devices
Delivery Profiles
iBots
Alerts
Delivery Devices
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Business Intelligence content can be delivered to avariety of devices:
Web browser
E-mail
Pager Digital cell phone
Wireless PDA
Any other device capable of handling standards-basedcommunication
iBots
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Are software-based engines that execute requests andgenerate responses to the right people and devices
Contain the following elements:
Priority and visibility
Conditional request
Schedule
Recipients
Delivery content
Destination
Can also execute scripts
Business Intelligence Alerts
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Alerts are triggered when conditions that areconfigured in iBots are met.
If an Alert is generated, the Alerts! link appears at thetop of the Interactive Dashboard page.
A specific Alerts section can be added to anydashboard page, and an Alerts section then appearsautomatically on the first page of My Dashboard.
Accessing Delivers
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To access Oracle BI Delivers, select More Products >Delivers.
Delivers Start Page
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From the Delivers window, you can create a new iBot,edit your account, review shared iBots, and so on.
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1. Configure the General tab.2. Configure the Conditional Request tab (optional).
3. Configure the Schedule tab.
4. Configure the Recipients tab.
5. Configure the Delivery Content tab.6. Configure the Destinations tab.
7. Configure the Advanced tab (if necessary).
8. Save the iBot.
1. Configure the General tab.
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Configure three settings:
Priority: High, Normal, Low
Data Visibility: Personalized or Not personalized
Run As: If you select Not personalized, you can specify the user ID that is used to run the data (in other
words, mimic that user ID).
2. Configure the ConditionalRequest tab (optional).
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Request tab (optional).
Select the request that triggers the iBot. The iBot is considered triggered if the request returns
one or more rows.
Click to add
request.
3. Configure the Schedule tab.
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There are three parts to aniBot schedule:
Start date and time
Recurrence
End date and time
The Time reference is fortheOracle BI Schedulerserver, not the localmachine.
Start
Recurrence
End
4. Configure the Recipients tab.
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Recipients Yourself (not
required)
Others
Subscription
options Select whether
or not to publishthe iBot and whosubscribes to the
published iBot. Recipients can bedetermined conditionally bythe results of a request.
5. Configure the Delivery Content tab.
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a. Select which request isdelivered.
Does not have to be theConditional request thattriggers the iBot
b. Enter a headline.
Minimize lengthfor e-mail
c. Select message format.
d. Add additional messagecontent as necessary.
6. Configure the Destinations tab.
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Destinations
Dashboard
Delivery profile
Devices
Selecting devices here overrides the users delivery profile.
6. Configure the Destinations tab.
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Services: BI administrators can create Oracle BI Server cache for
individual users.
A cache seeding operation allows administrators to runrequests on dashboard pages or those stored in the
Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, and create an Oracle BIServer cache.
Cache seeding speeds up response time for userswhen they actually run the requests on the dashboards.
If data already exists in the cache for a given query, thedata is deleted and refreshed when the iBot runs.
7. Configure the Advanced tab (if necessary).
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Specify one or more actions to execute when this iBotcompletes:
Another iBot (often referred to as iBot chaining)
Custom script
8. Save the iBot.
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a. Click the Save button.b. Name the iBot.
c. Click OK.
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