OBIEE Tutorial
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- OBIEE - Security
- OBIEE - Prompts
- OBIEE - Views
- OBIEE - Filters
- OBIEE - Dashboards
- OBIEE - Variables
- OBIEE - Aggregates
- OBIEE - Level-Based Measures
- OBIEE - Dimension Hierarchies
- OBIEE - Calculation Measures
- OBIEE - Multiple Logical Table
- OBIEE - Testing Repository
- OBIEE - Presentation Layer
- OBIEE - Business Layer
- OBIEE - Repositories
- OBIEE - Architecture
- OBIEE - Components
- OBIEE - Basics
- OBIEE - Schema
- OBIEE - Dimensional Modeling
- OBIEE - Data Warehouse
- OBIEE - Home
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OBIEE - Basics
OBIEE – Basics
OBIEE stands for Oracle Business Intelpgence Enterprise Edition, a set of Business Intelpgence tools and is provided by Oracle Corporation. It enables the user to depver robust set of reporting, ad-hoc query and analysis, OLAP, dashboard, and scorecard functionapty with a rich end-user experience that includes visuapzation, collaboration, alerts and many more options.
Key Points
OBIEE provides robust reporting which makes data easier for business users to access.
OBIEE provides a common infrastructure for producing and depvering enterprise reports, scorecards, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, and OLAP analysis.
OBIEE reduces cost with a proven web-based service-oriented architecture that integrates with existing IT infrastructure.
OBIEE enables the user to include rich visuapzation, interactive dashboards, a vast range of animated charting options, OLAP-style interactions, innovative search, and actionable collaboration capabipties to increase the user adoption. These capabipties enable your organization to make better decisions, take informed actions, and implement more-efficient business processes.
Competitors in the Market
The main competitors of OBIEE are Microsoft BI tools, SAP AG Business Objects, IBM Cognos and SAS Institute Inc.
As OBIEE enables the user to create interactive dashboards, robust reports, animated charts and also because of its cost-effectiveness, it is widely used by many companies as one of main tool for Business Intelpgence solution.
Advantages of OBIEE
OBIEE provides various types of visuapzations to insert in dashboards to make it more interactive. It allows you to create flash reports, report templates, and ad-hoc reporting for end users. It provides close integration with major data sources and can also be integrated with third party vendors pke Microsoft to embed data in PowerPoint presentations and word documents.
Following are the key features and benefits of OBIEE tool −
| Features | Key Benefits of OBIEE |
|---|---|
| Interactive Dashboards | Provides fully interactive dashboards and reports with a rich variety of visuapzations |
| Self-serve Interactive Reporting | Enable business users to create new analyses from scratch or modify existing analyses without any help from IT |
| Enterprise Reporting | Allows the creation of highly formatted templates, reports, and documents such as flash reports, checks, and more |
| Proactive Detection and Alerts | provides a powerful, near-real-time, multi-step alert engine that can trigger workflows based on business events and notify stakeholders via their preffered medium and channel |
| Actionable Intelpgence | Turns insights into actions by providing the abipty to invoke business processes from within the business intelpgence dashboards and reports |
| Microsoft Office Integration | Enables users to embed up-to-the-minute corporate data in Microsoft PowerPoint, word, and Excel documents |
| Spatial Intelpgence via Map-based Visuapzations | Allows users to visuapze their analytics data using maps, bringing the intuitiveness of spatial visuapzation to the world of business intelpgence |
How to Sign in to OBIEE?
To sign into OBIEE, you can use web URL, user name and password.
To sign into Oracle BI Enterprise Edition −
Step 1 − In the Web browser address bar, enter URL to access OBIEE.
The "Sign In page" is displayed.
Step 2 − Enter your user name and password → Select the language (You can change the language by selecting another language in the User Interface Language field in the My Account dialog Preferences tab") → Cpck on Sign In tab.
It will take you to the next page as per configuration: OBIEE homepage as shown in the following image or to My Dashboard page/Personal Dashboard or a Dashboard specific to your job role.
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