Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Developers Guide

by Mark Rittman

Overview

Master Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Reports and Dashboards

Deliver meaningful business information to users anytime, anywhere, on any device, using Oracle Business Intelligence 11g. Written by Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Developers Guide fully covers the latest BI report design and distribution techniques. Find out how to execute effective queries, build accurate models, use scorecards and KPIs, create dynamic reports, set up dashboards, and publish to smartphones and wireless devices. This Oracle Press guide contains comprehensive details on Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the best-in-class, preintegrated BI platform.

• Install or upgrade to Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
• Develop and manage custom Oracle Business Intelligence repositories
• Access relational, file, and multidimensional data sources
• Design print-quality reports with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
• Create web-enabled analyses, dashboards, and visualizations
• Integrate with other applications using Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Action Framework
• Employ authentication, authorization, and row-level security
• Configure and deploy Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071798754
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/22/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1088
File size:	69 MB
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About the Author

Mark Rittman, Oracle ACE Director (Brighton, UK) is Technical Director and co-founder of Rittman Mead, specializing in BI, DW and EPM solutions using Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Database, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Essbase. Mark is a strong supporter of Oracle user groups around the world, was previously an executive board member of ODTUG and speaks regularly at conferences in the UK, Europe, USA and around the world. Mark also writes for the Rittman Mead blog (http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog) and contributes a regular column on business intelligence for Oracle Magazine.

Table of Contents

1. Overview and Product Architecture
2. Installations and Upgrades, for the Oracle BI Developers Handbook
3. Creating Repositories from Relational Sources
4. Creating Repositories from Oracle Essbase and Other OLAP Data Sources
5. Configuring and Maintaining the BI Server
6. Creating Reports Using Answers and Dashboards
7. Actionable Intelligence
8. KPIs and Scorecards
9. Creating Published Reports (BI Publisher)
10. Systems Management
11. High Availability, Clustering and Backup & Recovery
12. Managing Change, Versioning and Promotion Between Environments
13. Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine