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A Look at the Technology Behind Oracle BI Apps. Mark Rittman, Director, Rittman Mead Consulting. Who Am I?. Oracle BI&W Architecture and Development Specialist Co-Founder of Rittman Mead Consulting Oracle BI&W Project Delivery Specialists 10+ years with Discoverer, OWB etc
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A Look at the Technology Behind Oracle BI Apps Mark Rittman, Director, Rittman Mead Consulting
Who Am I? • Oracle BI&W Architecture and Development Specialist • Co-Founder of Rittman Mead Consulting • Oracle BI&W Project Delivery Specialists • 10+ years with Discoverer, OWB etc • Oracle ACE Director, ACE of the Year 2005 • Writer for OTN and Oracle Magazine • Longest-running Oracle blog • http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog • Chair of UKOUG BIRT SIG • Co-Chair of ODTUG BI&DW SIG • Speaker at IOUG and BIWA events T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Rittman Mead Consulting • Oracle BI&DW Project Specialists • Consulting, Training, Support • Works with you to ensure OBIEE andOracle BI Applications project success • Small, focused team • OWB, Oracle BI, DW technical specialists • Clients in the UK, Europe, USA T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Oracle BI Training Days, London October 22nd - 24th 2008 • Three days of intensive BI Developer Training - OBIEE, BI Apps, Essbase, DW • 10% Discount for attendees of this SIG Meeting, ask me for more details T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Oracle Business Intelligence Applications • Packaged set of ETL mappings, dimensional data warehouse and pre-built reports and dashboards • Financial Analytics • HR Analytics • Marketing Analytics • Order Management Analytics • Sales Analytics • Service Analytics • Contact Center Analytics • Supply Chain Analytics T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Oracle BI Applications Core Proposition : Financial Analytics T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Part of Oracle Business Intelligence Technology Stack T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Estimated 5x Development Productivity Boost T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Prebuilt Dashboards and Reports T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Prebuilt OBIEE Repository T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
The Oracle BI Applications Business Model & Mapping Layer • The Business Model and Mapping layercontains the complete, integrated logicaldata model for the OBAW • Divided in to core and application-specificbusiness models • Coverage of the business model is determined by the products selectedat installation time T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Demonstration The OBIEE Repository, and Pre-built Dashboards & Reports
Oracle BI Applications Architecture T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Predefined, Integrated Dimensional Data Warehouse • Integrated, conformed dimensional data warehouse • Allows modular deployment • Lowest grain of information • Prebuilt aggregates • Deployable on Oracle, MS SQL,IBM DB/2 and Teradata • History tracking • Indexing T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
The Oracle BI Applications ETL Process • Oracle BI Applications comes with a set of pre-defined ETL routines • Currently written using Informatica, in future also provided via Oracle DI • Extracts data from Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, Siebel, SAP • Universal Adapter available for non-supported sources • Controlled and orchestrated using the Oracle Data Warehouse Administration Console T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Oracle Data Warehouse Administration Console • Control panel for running the OBAW load process • ETL packaged into Execution Plans • Tight integration with Informatica • Run jobs, monitor progress • The added value on top ofthe OBAW and INFA mappings T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Informatica PowerCenter 8.1.1 • Informatica PowerCenter 8.1.1 is a complete ETL toolkit • Very much like Oracle Warehouse Builder, but applies to all sources and targets • Uses an ETL “hub” to process and distribute data • Server supported on Windows, Unix, Linux • Client is Windows-only • Five Key Informatica Client Tools • Informatica Designer • Informatica Workflow Manager • Informatica Repository Manager • Informatica Workflow Monitor T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Oracle Data Integrator • A future release of the Oracle BI Applications will support ODI as the ETL tool • Initially EBS to Oracle only, future releases will support all sources/targets • Oracle heterogeneous ETL tool • Acquired through Sunopsis Acquisition • ELT approach • Part of Oracle Fusion Middleware • Customers can adopt eitherInformatica or ODI, Informatica willcontinue to be supported T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Customizing the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse • Although the OBAW comes with many star schemas and many ETL routines, you will probably wish to extend and customize it to meet your neds • Include flex-field data • Adding data from a custom source • Adding new facts, dimensions, hierarchies • Data can come from many sources • Sources with adapters and existing load routines you can customize • Sources with adapters but no load routines (source unsupported for subject area) • Unsupported sources (using the Universal Adapter) T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Customization Types • OBAW customizations can be divided in to three categories • Category 1 are where you add an additional column to an existing star schema • Category 2 are where you add a new fact or dimension table • Category 3 are where you addadditional rows to an existingfact or dimension, from anunsupported source T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Customizing and Creating New OBAW ETL Routines • Whichever type of customization you perform,you will be working with two mappings per target fact or dimension • An SDE (Source-Dependent Extract) mapto extract data from the source system • An SIL (Source-Independent Layer) mapto load data into the fact or dimension • Category 1 mappings involve customizingexisting SDE and SIL mappings • Category 2 customizations involve creatingnew SDE and SIL mappings from scratch T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
A Typical Informatica ETL Mapping • Data extracted from sources using “Mapplets”, encapsulated business logic • Data transformed using custom and pre-defined transformations • Standard keys, tags added to data as it passes through ETL process • Standard processes for adding surrogate keys, performing currency conversions etc • Mapping is then run and executed from the DAC Console and repository T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Demonstration The Oracle BI Applications ETL Process
Summary • The Oracle Business Intelligence Applications are a packaged DW + Analytics solution for ERP and other data • The base install of the Oracle BI Apps provides a pre-built set of data warehouse facts and dimensions, ETL routines, RPD metadata and control routines for a number of ERP modules • You can extend and customize these mappings to bring in data not covered by the pre-built routines • More details can be found on our website or in our Oracle BI Apps Developer Course T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
Further Reading • Other Presentations available on our website, http://www.rittmanmead.com • Automating Business Decisions with Oracle Real-Time Decisions • Data Modeling Techniques using Oracle BI Server • Extending and Customizing the Oracle BI Applications Data Warehouse • ODTUG Essbase Symposium Part 3 : Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition • We offer an intensive, three-day developer courseon Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5, ask for more details • Oracle BI Training Days, October 22-24th 2008, London • Contact me at mark.rittman@rittmanmead.com • Thank you for attending, please don’t forget to complete the online evaluation T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com
A Look at the Technology Behind Oracle BI Apps Mark Rittman, Director, Rittman Mead Consulting