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Who is Red Pill Analytics?
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Red Pill Analytics: Ownership
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Stewart Bryson
Oracle ACE Director
Previously From:
Rittman Mead
Informix Software
Data Warehousing &
Business Intelligence
since 1996
Kevin McGinley
Oracle ACE Director
Previously From:
Accenture
BI Consulting Group
Data Warehousing &
Business Intelligence
since 1997
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CAPACITY
ANALYTICS
SINGLE
DOSESCHECKMATE
WHAT WE DO
BI Development as a Service
Agile Development
Cloud Enabled
Continuous Integration
Support
Check-in & Automate
True Multi-User Development
Full Source Control
Continuous Integration
Hosted or On-Premise
Strategy & Roadmap
Architecture
Prototyping
Infrastructure
Training
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Red Pill Analytics Sessions at UTOUG Training Days 2016
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Regression Testing with Ease: The Baseline Validation Tool
Stewart Bryson
Tuesday 9:45 - 10:45 am in MFEC 223
Performance Analytics: Visualizing the Power of the AWR Warehouse
Stewart Bryson
Tuesday 1:30 - 2:30 pm in MFEC 223
What’s New With OBIEE 12c and BICS
Michelle Kolbe
Tuesday 3:00 - 4:00 pm in MPDC 105
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Front-End Enhancements
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Data Visualization And Mashups
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Oracle Data Visualization (Visual Analyzer)
•Separately licensed
add-on to OBIEE
•Designed for true ad-
hoc analysis, data
exploration, data
discovery
•Uses curated subject
areas and/or uploaded
spreadsheets as data
sources
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Oracle Data Visualization (Visual Analyzer)
•Separately licensed
add-on to OBIEE
•Designed for true ad-
hoc analysis, data
exploration, data
discovery
•Uses curated subject
areas and/or uploaded
spreadsheets as data
sources
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Mashups
•Requires ODV license
•Upload spreadsheets and join
to subject areas in ODV
•Extend facts and dimensions
•Once uploaded and joins
defined in ODV, Answers users
can benefit from using the files
as XSA’s
•Data can be refreshed
manually in ODV
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Command Line
•New utilities:
• Upload Repository
• Download Repository
• List Repository Variables
• Update Repository Variables
• List Connection Pool
• Update Connection Pool
• Rename Users
• Delete Users
• Rename Application Role
• Delete Application Role
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Installation, Configuration and Architecture
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Eating Their Own Dog Food
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Installation Overview And Changes
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Step Change from 11g to 12c
Download Software Fewer files, smaller download, RCU is included
Run BIFoundation Installer Install only; configuration done separately
Create database repository
Can run RCU 11g-style, or generate scripts to be run
by DBA later
Configure BI Domain
Full offline configuration results in faster creation of
the domain
Scale out (optional) Command line scripts to clone domain
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Singleton Data Directory With High Availability
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Oracle BI Domain - Server 1 Oracle BI Domain - Server 2
Shared Storage (e.g. NFS)
Config Config
Singleton Data Directory
NodeManager
Admin Server Managed Server
BI System Components
NodeManager
Admin Server Managed Server
BI System Components
bi-environment.xml bi-environment.xml
Service Instance
Singleton Data Directory contains the
Service Instance BI Content for the
cluster
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Other Architecture Changes
•Separation of Environment Metadata and Configuration
• Single source of truth for both – no environment info in RCU DB
schemas
• Reduced dependency on hardwired server names in configuration
• One place to edit environment and/or configuration
• Most files can be edited directly by customer using any tool including
Chef / Puppet
•Removal of OPMN process control
• Nodemanager used throughout to control components
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BISystemUser
Security GUIDs
Complicated SSL Configuration
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Validate Upgrade
•Install new OBIEE 12c instance
•Upgrade from 11.1.1.7 (latest patch) or 11.1.1.9
•12c Upgrade Utility
• Copy bi-migration-tool.jar file from 12c to 11g machine
• Run utility to generate an upgrade bundle
• Move upgrade bundle to 12c machine and import using bi-migration-
tool.sh
•Run Baseline Validation Tool
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Upgrade Process
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OBIEE 11g
Production
Migration
Tool Utility
BI
Application
Archive
(BAR)
OBIEE 12c
Baseline
report with
Validation
12c
report with
Validation
Tool
Compare
Output & Fix
Discrepancies
12c Production
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See into Your Upgrade Future
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Baseline Validation Tool (BVT)
•Free tool provided separately
by Oracle
•Runs a set of tests against two
compatible systems
• Within and between 11g/12c
•Multiple layers of comparison
•Produces output reports with
test results
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BVT In Action
• Compare some or all:
• Data results (Reports &
Dashboards)
• Logical query results
• Catalog contents
• Visual output
• Run tests for:
• Major upgrades
• Minor patches
• Migrate new content to prod
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Run tests against current system to
create a baseline
Upgrade, apply patch, or migrate
content to new system
Run same tests on the new system
and compare to baseline
Apply fixes as needed
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System and Lifecycle Enhancements
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BI Application Archive (BAR)
• Contains OBIEE content in a
single file (RPD, Catalog,
Security Roles)
• Also manages
dependencies between
other BI Modules (future)
• Does not contain database
objects nor data
• Used for:
• Backup/Restore
• Environment Migration
• Upgrades
• Cloning Service Instances
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Other StuffJAZN Data / RolesCatalogRPD
BI Application Archive
(BAR)
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Pluggable Architecture
Individual Service
Instances provide
customization “stripes”
to Modules
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Oracle BI
Enterprise Edition 12c
Service Instance 1
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 3
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 2
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Metadata Modules (Optional)
Metadata Modules
designed to be static
(OBIA for instance)
Start with a single
instance of OBIEE
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Pluggable Architecture
Individual Service
Instances provide
customization “stripes”
to Modules
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Oracle BI
Enterprise Edition 12c
Service Instance 1
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 3
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 2
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Metadata Modules (Optional)
Metadata Modules
designed to be static
(OBIA for instance)
Start with a single
instance of OBIEE
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Non-Pluggable Architecture (so far in 12.2.1)
Singleton Service
Instance (SSI) with
Metadata, Content and
Authorization
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Oracle BI
Enterprise Edition 12c
Singleton Service
Instance (SSI)
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 3
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Service Instance 2
Metadata Layer
Catalog Content
Authorization
Metadata Modules (Optional)
Metadata Modules
designed to be static
(OBIA for instance)
Start with a single
instance of OBIEE
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Data Sources and BI Server
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External Subject Areas (XSA)
•Subject Area defined outside of
the RPD
•Can be joined to an RPD
Subject Area, much like a
federated BI Server query
•Can be persisted to a database
cache
•Used in new Advanced Analytics
capabilities, Oracle Data
Visualization, and Answers*
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*Can’t be defined in Answers - only consumed
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Big Data Sources
Cloudera Impala
• Native MPP Query Engine
• Built for low latency queries
•DataDirect Connect ODBC
driver required/provided
•OBIEE generates Impala
specific optimized SQL queries
•Also made available in 11.1.1.9
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Apache Spark
• Native Spark SQL connectivity
to report and to analyze Big
Data in Apache Spark
• Alternate Option to persist
results in XSA Cache for future
queries
• Not available in 12.2.1; coming
in future 12c update
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Advanced Analytics Setup (Basic)
•Install R on OBIEE Server
• Oracle_Home/bi/bifoundation/advanced_analytics
• Uncompress r-installer.tar.gz, r-installer.tar
• Edit proxy.txt if necessary
• sudo ./RInstaller.sh install
•Install R packages
• sudo ./RInstaller installpackages
•Edit NQSConfig.ini
• Advanced Analytics Script Section
• R_EXECUTABLE_PATH = “/usr/bin/R”; (or other install location)
•Other steps/prerequisites required for Solaris/Windows
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Custom R Functions Using EVALUATE_SCRIPT
•R scripts stored on the server can
be called using
EVALUATE_SCRIPT
•Scripts are stored on the server in
a directory defined in
NQSConfig.ini
•Scripts contain parameters, output
definition, and options for
execution
•Built-in functions are implemented
in the same way, but stored in a
different place
•R generates a csv file that the BI
Server treats like an XSA
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In-Memory Enhancements To BI Server
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Feature Benefit
Native XSA Cache Better performance for mashup data
Default sortsize 4mb to 64mb Faster OBIEE query performance
Reduced memory usage for variable length data More efficient deployment, more memory for data
Compression of temporary work data More efficient deployment, more memory for data
Smaller and faster sort for aggregates and group by
handling
Faster query performance
Single pass totals and subtotals for Pivots Faster query performance