Siebel: Oracle BI Server Administrator 10g : Build Repositories R1

Course Overview

This course provides step-by-step procedures for building and verifying the three layers of an Oracle BI repository: the Physical layer, the Business Model and Mapping layer, and the Presentation layer. Begin by using the Oracle BI Server Administration Tool to construct a simple repository to address a fictitious company's business requirements. Learn to import schemas, design and build logical business models, and expose business models to users in Oracle BI Answers. In the process of constructing the repository, learn how to build physical and logical joins, simple measures, and calculation measures. Students also learn how to validate their work by building queries and verifying query results using Oracle BI Answers and the query log.

Extend the initial repository and build expertise in modeling more complex business requirements, such as dimension hierarchies, multiple logical sources, aggregate tables, partitions, and time series data. Gain skills in implementing Oracle BI Server security, managing Oracle BI Server cache, setting up a multi-user development environment, and using Administration Tool wizards and utilities to manage, maintain, and enhance repositories.

• Use the Oracle BI Administration Tool to build, manage, and maintain an Oracle BI repository
• Use the Oracle BI Adminstration Tool to administer Oracle BI Server
• Build a dimensional business model to address business intelligence requirements
• Use Oracle BI Answers to build and execute queries to test and verify a dimensional business model

Audience

• Application Developers
• Business Analysts
• Business Intelligence Developer
• Data Modelers
• Data Warehouse Administrator
• Data Warehouse Analyst
• Data Warehouse Developer
• Portal Developer

Prerequisites

• Oracle BI Presentation Services 10g: Create Reports/Dashboards
• Dimensional modeling
• Oracle BI 10g: Analytics Overview - Online Course
• Basic SQL
• Data warehouse design
• Database design
• Oracle BI Presentation Services 10g: Create Reports/DashboardsNEW

Skills Gained

• Build the Physical, Business Model and Mapping, and Presentation layers of a repository
• Use Answers to run queries to test and validate a repository
• Build simple and calculated measures for a fact table
• Create dimension hierarchies and level-based measures
• Model aggregate tables to speed query processing
• Model partitions and fragments to improve application performance and usability
• Use variables to streamline administrative tasks and modify metadata content dynamically
• Use time series functions to support historical time comparison analyses
• Set up security to authenticate users and assign appropriate permissions and privileges
• Apply cache management techniques to maintain and enhance query performance
• Set up query logging for testing and debugging
• Set up a multi-user development environment
• Use Administration Tool wizards and utilities to manage, maintain, and enhance repositories

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Repository Basics

• Oracle BI architecture components
• Repository structure, features, and functions
• Using the Oracle BI Administration Tool
• Creating a repository
• Loading a repository into Oracle BI Server memory

Lesson 2: Building the Physical Layer of a Repository

• Importing data sources
• Setting up connection pool properties
• Defining keys and joins
• Examining physical layer object properties
• Creating alias and select tables

Lesson 3: Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer of a Repository

• Building a business model
• Building logical tables, columns, and sources
• Defining logical joins
• Building measures
• Examining business model object properties

Lesson 4: Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository

• Exploring Presentation layer objects
• Creating Presentation layer objects
• Modifying Presentation layer objects
• Examining Presentation layer object properties

Lesson 5: Testing and Validating a Repository

• Checking repository consistency
• Turning on logging
• Defining a repository in the initialization file
• Testing a repository using Oracle BI Answers
• Inspecting the query log

Lesson 6: Adding Multiple Logical Table Sources

• Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table
• Specifying logical content

Lesson 7: Adding Calculations to a Fact Table

• Creating new calculation measures based on existing logical columns
• Creating new calculation measures based on physical columns
• Creating new calculation measures using the Calculation Wizard

Lesson 8: Creating Dimension Hierarchies and Level-Based Measures

• Creating dimension hierarchies
• Creating level-based measures
• Creating share measures
• Creating rank measures

Lesson 9: Modeling Aggregates

• Purpose of aggregate tables in dimensional modeling
• Modeling aggregate tables to improve query performance
• Testing aggregate navigation
• Using the aggregate persistence wizard

Lesson 10: Using Partitions and Fragments

• • Purpose for segmenting data into partitions and fragments
  • Partition types
• Modeling partitions in an Oracle BI repository

Lesson 11: Repository Variables

• Session variables
• Repository variables
• Initialization blocks
• Using the Variable Manager
• Using dynamic repository variables as filters

Lesson 12: Modeling Time Series Data

• Using time comparisons in business analysis
• Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data

Lesson 13: Security

• Creating users and groups
• Setting permissions for users and groups
• Authenticating using a external database
• Authenticating using database authentication
• Setting query limits and timing restrictions
• Setting filters to personalize information

Lesson 14: Cache Management

• Restricting tables as non-cacheable
• Using Cache Manager
• Inspecting cache reports
• Purging cache entries
• Seeding the cache
• Modifying cache parameters and options

Lesson 15: Multi-user Development

• Setting up a multi-user development environment
• Developing a repository using multiple developers
• Tracking development project history

Lesson 16: Using Administration Tool Utilities

• Using Administration Tool wizards and utilities to manage, maintain, and enhance repositories

Follow On Courses

• Analytics: Advanced Server Architect
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