Engineered Systems for Business Intelligence and Information Discovery

Hear Toyota Motor Sales discuss the business benefits of deploying Oracle Business Intelligence and Endeca Information Discovery on Exalytics.

Don’t miss this chance to learn about Oracle’s engineered approach to Analytics and Information Discovery – and the only solution that covers all aspects of the analytics lifecycle – from data acquisition & discovery to real-time analysis, planning, prediction and action anywhere, anytime.

Join us for this informative event on the power of the first in-memory engineered system for analytics that spans relational, multi-dimensional, and unstructured analysis, combined with financial & operational planning. You’ll hear from Oracle, Ascentt, and Discussion topics will include how to:Toyota Motor Sales on how recent advances in analytics such as big data, mobility, and in-memory processing could fundamentally change your business.

• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership of your Business Intelligence & Information Discovery applications
• Support exponentially growing data volumes and user populations
• Deliver information faster than ever before
• Enable business users to discover new insights via advanced visualization
• Discover and uncover more efficiently, and at greater levels of detail
• Enable mobile intelligence across your organization

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• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership of your Performance Management applications while increasing user adoption
• Support exponentially growing data volumes and user populations
• Run performance management and business intelligence faster than ever before
• Enable business users to interact with data and discover new insights via advanced visualization
• Forecast and plan more efficiently, and at greater levels of detail
• Enable mobile intelligence across your organization

You will also learn how Exalytics enables faster financial close, operational planning and increased transparency and accountability.

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To learn more about State of the art enterprise intelligence using
OBIEE, EPM and Endeca Information Discovery on Exalytics

Visit Moscone South, Booth# 1933

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Ascentt is now offering Exalytics proof of concepts to its customers. Ascentt customers can test and firsthand experience the performance of their OBIEE solutions on Exalytics machine.

Ascentt is able to offer this unique capability to it’s customers, since we have invested in the Exalytics infrastructure and made it available in our data center so customers don’t have to invest for their evaluations. We can help you experience the performance improvement in your solutions with Exalytics. Contact our dedicated Exalytics solution experts at exalytics@ascentt.com to discuss your solution and test drive “Speed of thought analytics”.

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The Los Angeles office will cater services to southern California and Arizona region. Ascentt will offer all of its services and solutions from Los Angles office.

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Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine is engineered specifically to deliver high performance analysis, modeling and planning. With unmatched speed, intelligence, simplicity and manageability Exalytics solution provides a true speed of thought analysis to end users. By deploying Exalytics BI appliance, customers can also achieve fastest performance for relational and MOLAP business intelligence applications, EPM applications, and large-scale mobile deployments.

Ascentt is now offering a proof of concept service to its customers. Ascentt consultants can analyze the existing business intelligence solutions or business requirements and demonstrate the performance improvements on Exalytics.

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Combination of Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Endeca Inforamtion Discovery provides agile architecture to extend the traditional BI infrastructure. It enables customers to make effective real time decisions while discovering information from multitude sources.

Ascentt provides a comprehensive business intelligence solution to its customers. The solution brings together information from structured and unstructured data sources.

Ascentt customers now leverage our end to end service offering on Oracle Business Intelligence, Data Integration and Data Discovery solutions.

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• With the latest release of OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.5), Oracle Business Intelligence Technology Foundation become best in class in SMB as well as Enterprise organization
• Some new key features that will benefit OBIEE guys in pursuing for OBIEE 11g Upgrade
• Upgrade of an existing OBIEE 10g system to OBIEE 11g requires careful planning, preparation, setup and testing.
  • Upgrade of RPD (Repository/Business Model Metadata)
  • Upgrade of Webcat (User Interface Metadata)
  • Upgrade of BI Pub (BI Publisher)
  • Upgrade of BI Security
  • Upgrade of BI Delivers (iBots/Agents)

Steps for OBIEE 11g Upgrade

• OBIEE 11g Upgrade in non-invasive to the current production setup, as it does not overwrite the existing 10g architecture
• OBIEE 11g will be installed a-fresh on Dev/QA and Production instances
  • Pre-requisites checklist
  • Installation architecture – decisions
  • Production architecture – decisions
  • Installation of OBIEE 11g on Dev/QA Environment
  • Upgrading the OBIEE Metadata Repository and Web Catalog
  • Importing Security Credentials (Users/Groups) Setup
  • Modifying Security Set Up as per 11g Architecture
  • Testing the installation set up and all components
  • Testing the OBIEE Metadata repository consistency
  • Validating ‘select’ OBIEE 10g reports for any errors
  • Validating Security Setup and Users/Groups Mapping
  • Installation of OBIEE 11g on Production System
  • Code Migration to Production
  • Smoke Testing on Production System
  • Availability of OBIEE 11g on Production

Analyze Existing 10g For Upgrade

• Analyze existing 10g System on following key things
  • Hardware including Sizing
  • Operating System
  • Security data model
  • RPD Size
  • Web Catalog Size
  • Reports – Majority views used (Ex: Pivot, Charts etc)
  • Custom UI configuration (Style Sheets / Logos / Messages / Web Templates)
  • iBots if any
  • Total number of users and Concurrent users of the Application
  • External Systems involved for Security of BPEL
  • Warehouse Database Schema and Scheduler Schema
  • Configuration Files (instanceconfig.xml, NQSConfig.INI, etc)
• Compare existing 10g Environment with System Requirements and Certification documentation of 11g
• Custom Date formats

Pre-Upgrade Steps

• Install and Configure OBIEE 11g System
  • System Requirements and Supported Platforms
  • Sizing Considerations based on Expert recommendations
  • Configure and Setup Out of the Box OBIEE 11g System with Sample Application Repository and Web Catalog
  • Validate the Application after installation
• Configure specific parameters (OPMN.xml) for the data sources (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata etc)
• Configure specific parameters for BI Publisher (xmlp-server-config.xml)
• Configure 11g specific tags in instanceconfig.xml
• Separate Connection Pools for Queries and Init Blocks in Physical Layer of the OBIEE RPD
• Invalid Objects are deleted

Optimize Existing 10g For Upgrade

• Identify Superfluous, redundant and unused content
  • Web Catalog Objects:
    • Reports
    • Dashboards & Dashboard Prompts
    • Shared Folders & User Folders
    • Web Groups
  • RPD Objects:
    • Physical Layer Objects
    • BMM Layer Objects
    • Presentation Layer Objects
    • Initialization Blocks
    • Variables
    • Users
    • Security Groups
• Consistency Check before Upgrade
• Leading/Trailing Spaces on Column Names in OBIEE Repository Not Supported in 11g

Test Plan for Upgrade

• Perform a test upgrade – On a smaller Catalog with few selected critical Reports/Dashboards
  • Identifying unknown issues during Actual Upgrade
  • How does the new system look like after upgrade
• Define different phases/stages for upgrade process
  • Upgrade Schemas (Scheduler)
  • Configure Connections
  • Upgrade Repository
  • Upgrade Web Catalog
  • Upgrade BI Publisher Catalog
  • Upgrade BI Publisher Scheduler
• Perform testing and validate results at the start and end of each stage
  • Validate iBots/Agents on new Schema – Fix issues manually if any
  • Check TNS Entries for Oracle, opmn.xml for Teradata, Correct version of Essbase client
  • Fix all Consistency Errors, Configure Connection Pools
  • Manually fix reports/dashboards for known issues
  • Configure the parameters in xmlp-server-config.xml
  • Validate the Scheduler reports

Post Upgrade Considerations

• Implement New and Enhanced 11g Functionalities
  • Support for additional data sources (Ex: Essbase, Oracle TimesTen, Hyperion Financial Management, ADF, SAP BW Native, OBI Metadata Web Service etc)
  • Hierarchy Objects in Presentation Layer (Analysis)
  • Support Unbalanced Hierarchies (Ragged & Skipped)
  • Support Parent-Child Hierarchies
  • Delta Code Migration as against full RPD migration after initial go-live
  • Multi-Currency Support
• Logical Source determination is no longer Random
• Upgrade MUD Repositories Manually (Use ONLY Command line upgrade utility – “obieerpdmigrateutil”)
• Use ONLY Upgrade Assistant to perform the upgrade of Production Repository and Web Catalog
• Configure Essbase specific database features corresponding to Environment Variables
• Fix Localized Text for Users “My Folder” objects
• Siebel Workflow actions are not upgraded – Perform this task manually
• RPD & Web Catalog deployments now controlled using FMW Control
• Security
  • Doesn’t allow Blank Repository Password
  • Groups in 10g transform to Application Roles in 11g
  • Users/Application Roles are not managed Externally
• Default Cluster Configuration even in Single Server Environment
• Pivot table Calculated Items needs to be fixed manually
• Custom Styles and Skins are not upgraded, Have to be implemented manually again in 11g

And here you are good to go with your OBIEE 11g.

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Using the OBI Administrator to connecting to the BI Server running on Linux always opens the repository in Read-Only mode and does not allow real-time changes. It is confirmed that the the configuration setting ‘Disallow Online RPD Updates‘ – has been de-selected / un-checked in Fusion Middleware Control

This causes mainly because of ODBC DSN on the machine where the BI Administrator tool is installed was not configured properly for a clustered DSN.

There can be several causes for this symptom, the following is a high-level check list to resolve the issue.

1. Confirm that the the configuration setting ‘Disallow Online RPD Updates‘ – has been de-selected / un-checked in Fusion Middleware Control.
2. If using a clustered ODBC DSN., then configure the Oracle BI Server ODBC DSN used by the Administration Tool to point to the Cluster Controllers rather than to a particular Oracle BI Server. Ensure the hostnames and ports are correct.

     3.       Conversely, if not using a clustered ODBC DSN, then make sure you are connecting directly to the BI Server and the hostname is correct.

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On the BIEE10g, the following tag (customization) added to the
instanceconfig.xml file, it works ok. But on BIEE11G, if add these tag to the

<Dashboard>
<EnableBookmarkURL>False</EnableBookmarkURL>
<EnablePromptedURL>False</EnablePromptedURL>
<BookmarkExpirationDays>0</BookmarkExpirationDays>
</Dashboard>
<PivotView>
<MaxVisibleColumns>5000</MaxVisibleColumns>
<MaxVisiblePages>2500</MaxVisiblePages>
<MaxVisibleRows>500000</MaxVisibleRows>
<MaxVisibleSections>5000</MaxVisibleSections>
<CubeMaxRecords>100000</CubeMaxRecords>
<CubeMaxPopulatedCells>10000000</CubeMaxPopulatedCells>
<MaxCells>500000</MaxCells>
</PivotView>
<Auth>
<ParamList>
<Param name=”NQ_SESSION.STATIONVALUE”
source=”url”
nameInSource=”RoleValue”/>
</ParamList>
</Auth>

What should have happened?
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Expecting BIEE 11g should support above customization tags.

What actually did happen?
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Access BIEE via URL errors out.

So just faced this issue, still working on it….i’ll post the solution as soon as I get the solution….

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