Oracle BI Suite EE 10g R3: Build Repositories

This course provides step-by-step procedures for building and verifying the three layers of an Oracle BI repository. Students begin by using the Oracle BI Server Administration Tool to construct a simple repository to address a fictitious company's business requirements. Students 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, students 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.

Students then extend the initial repository and learn how to model more complex business requirements, such as dimension hierarchies, multiple logical table sources, aggregate tables, partitions, and time series data. Students also learn how to implement OracleBI Server security, manage OracleBI Server cache, set up a multi-user development environment, and use Administration Tool wizards and utilities to manage, maintain, and enhance repositories. Finally, students are exposed to more advanced topics, such as implicit fact columns, bridge and helper tables, usage tracking, optimizing query performance, and multilingual environments.

Learn To:

• Build, manage and maintain Oracle BI Administration Tool
• Build a dimensional business model to address business intelligence requirements
• Build and execute queries in Oracle BI Answers to test and verify a dimensional model
• Administer Oracle BI Server using Oracle BI Administration tool

Audience:

• Data Warehouse Beheerder
• Data Warehouse Analist  

Course Objectives:

• Maintain and Enhance query performance by applying cache management techniques
• Build simple and calculated measures for a fact table
• Build the Physical, Business Model and Mapping, and Presentation layers of a repository
• Configure Oracle BI to support multilingual environments
• Connect third-party reporting tools to Oracle BI Server
• Create dimension hierarchies and level-based measures
• Enable usage tracking to track queries and database usage, and improve query performance
• Model aggregate tables to speed query processing
• Model partitions and fragments to improve application performance and usability
• Set up a multi-user development environment
• Set up query logging for testing and debugging
• Set up security to authenticate users and assign appropriate permissions and privileges
• Manage, Maintain and enhance repositories using administration tool wizards and utilities
• Run queries in BI Answers to test and validate a repository
• Create time series functions to support historical time comparison analysis
• Create variables to streamline administrative tasks and modify metadata content dynamically

Prerequisites:

• Dimensional modeling
• Basic SQL
• Data warehouse design
• Database design
• Oracle BI Suite EE 10g R3: Create Reports and Dashboards