Module Owb Basics

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OWB Basics

Applicability, Architecture, Client/Server, Product Installation


Instructor

Nicholas A. GoodmanPrincipal BI Consultant and Founder of bayon

technologies, inc.Certified Business Intelligence ProfessionalOracle Certified Professional

“Expert” OWB consultant


introductions

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Format

Scheduled Times Off-line Discussion

Pick my brain Don’t just apply

generally, but specifically to current project needs!

Exercise/Lecture mix


Administration/Operations

OWB is a developer tool Substance and robustness is

Rapid DevelopmentBuilding solutions

Not 5-DAY Oracle University Course 80/20 Split

80% Development, 20% Administration


Administration/Operations

Expand portions covered little in OU Focus on the day to day operations and

administrationTier II and Tier III support staff


OWB Basics

Briefly coverNeed for a DWApplicability in practice

OWBArchitectureProduct Packaging/InstallationClient/Server


Businesses Need:

Integrated Subject Oriented Information Spanning LOB To … cont


MAKE DECISIONS

Based on “good information” Quickly Make “better” decisions Improve things


Why isn’t data integrated?

Application Proliferation Heterogeneous Systems Distributed Data


Application Proliferation

Human Resources Accounting Procurement Warehousing Fulfillment POS

PeopleSoft Oracle SAP Microsoft Retek Custom Built

Development Staff


Heterogeneous Systems

Data Models Relationships Dictionaries

Protocols Data Types Vendors


Distributed

Mainframes SOAP Service Vendors EDS

How many DB schemas exist here? Oracle DB2 SQLServer Progress Ingres ….


OWB is Oracle’s tool to

Collect distributed data in various formats and applications, integrate, and transform it into information suitable for making decisions.

a.k.a. Extract/Transform/Load (ETL)


Why an ETL tool?

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ETL Architecture

Engine Interpreted (think PERL) Informatica, Ascential, etc. Server based Moves Data to Process

Embedded Generated code (think C) OWB/Sunopsis Runs inside a DB Moves Process to Data


ETL Engine Architecture


Embedded/OWB Architecture


Review

Need to collect, integrate, and improve data

Data Warehouse built with ETL (read OWB) is the way to accomplish this

OWB is an ETL code generator (embedded) not an engine


Product Packaging

Client and Server ComponentsOriginally distinction between client/serverOne installation

Client = GUI Server = Repositories, RT Service, Name

and Address, etc. Installation = “wicked easy”


Product Installation

Simple steps Only inputs are:

What directory to install to?

Which Oracle HOME?

Client and Server ALWAYS INTO A

SEPARATE ORACLE HOME


Server Post Installation

Hundreds of MB of Oracle installed into owb10g

Some platform specific code Ultimate goal to get it

into the DB as a pure DB application

edw.company.com

ORADB10G

OWB10G

/oracle/product/oradb10g

/oracle/product/owb10g


Client Post Installation


Ongoing Use

Client X

Client Y

Client Z

OWBDEVELOPMENT

OWBTESTING


Questions for Discussion

During product installation on *nix servers, who should be present?

How many ORACLE HOMES should be present on a server installation?

True/False Main OWB GUI can connect to multiple OWB servers

simultaneously OWB servers can handle multiple client connections

concurrently

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