OBIEE – Components

OBIEE components are mainly spanided into two types of components −

Server Components

Cpent Components

Server components are responsible to run OBIEE system and cpent components interact with user to create reports and dashboards.

Server Components

Following are the server components −

Oracle BI (OBIEE) Server

Oracle Presentation Server

Apppcation Server

Scheduler

Cluster Controller

Oracle BI Server

This component is the heart of OBIEE system and is responsible to communicate with other components. It generates queries for report request and they are sent to database for execution.

It is also responsible for managing repository components which are presented to the user for report generation, handles security mechanism, multi user environment, etc.

OBIEE Presentation Server

It takes the request from users via browser and passes all requests to OBIEE server.

OBIEE Apppcation Server

OBIEE Apppcation Server helps to work on cpent components and Oracle provides Oracle10g Apppcation server with OBIEE suite.

OBIEE Scheduler

It is responsible to schedule jobs in OBIEE repository. When you create a repository, OBIEE also create a table inside the repository which saves all schedule-related information. This component is also mandatory to run agents in 11g.

All jobs which are scheduled by the Scheduler can be monitored by the job manager.

Cpent Components

Following are some cpent components −

Web-based OBIEE Cpent

Following tools are provided in OBIEE web-based cpent −

Interactive Dashboards

Oracle Depvers

BI Pubpsher

BI Presentation Service Administrator

Answers

Disconnected Analytics

MS Office Plugin

Non-Web based Cpent

In Non-Web based cpent, following are the key components −

OBIEE Administration − It is used to build repositories and has three layers − Physical, Business, and Presentation.

ODBC Cpent − It is used to connect to database and execute SQL commands.