Settings

Adminstration - allows administrators to

manage the Web application
My Account - displays information about the
present user session

A report can be added to a section in the new

column, by first creating a new page column,
then drag and drop the report to the section.
Click Save. Dashboard displays the saved
Dashboard.

Security
Click on Settings Administration, allows
Object-level permissions to be set on Web
Catalog objects such as Folders, Filters,
Dashboards etc.

Properties button of a Report presents several

Report Display Options, such as a link to the
report instead of results, a link option with the
report to appear in a new window etc.
Report Links provide user options to appear
below a given report. Modify Request option
opens Answers page to edit the report.

Creating BI Interactive Dashboards

Dashboards are simply containers for reports
and other content. It allows multiple reports to be
displayed in a tabbed interface. It is ideally used
to provide highly summarized and graphical
content.
Dashboards are first created via the
Administrator Console, and are empty upon
creation without any content. One can click on
the edit link or choose Page Options Edit
Dashboard.
A report is added to a dashboard by dragging
and dropping into the appropriate section.
Multiple reports can be dragged per section.
Page Editing Controls

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1. Dashboard Properties Allows renaming or

deleting of pages
2. Select a page to edit
3. Add a page
4. PDF / Print Controls
5. Add a vertical column to the page

Guided Navigation allows a link between two or

more reports, with the navigation to reports
down the link, dependent on pre-defined
conditions and results of the top report.

Oracle Business Intelligence

Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE)
Answers and Interactive Dashboards

OBIEE Pre-Packaged Content

Fusion Intelligence Applications OBIEE
Repository for Fusion Intelligence Applications
such as Financials Intelligence, Supply Chain
Intelligence, HR Intelligence etc. includes predelivered Answers and Dashboards.
Business Intelligence Applications Prepackaged Business Analytics Warehouse (StarSchema) Data Warehouse content and OBIEE
repository for Oracle E-Business Suite Release
11i (11.5.8 and above)/Release12, Siebel,
PeopleSoft, SAP etc. Comes with Informatica
PowerCenter ETL Server and Client ETL tool.
Documentation and Related Sites
Documentation site for OBIEE
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/b
i_ee.html
Tutorial covering the functionality of OBIEE
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe_bi/bi_e
e_1013/index.html
Oracle BI Applications
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/b
i_apps.html
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OBIEE Plus is a comprehensive BI platform that
provides the best foundation for building
enterprise BI solutions. It includes a full range of
easy-to-use and intuitive end-user tools such as
Interactive Dashboards, advanced reporting and
publishing, full ad-hoc analysis over the Web,
proactive detection and alerts, mobile analytics,
Microsoft Office integration, Web Services and
business process integration, and more. Oracle
BIEE Plus also bundles key Hyperion reporting
products for integrated reporting with Hyperion
financial applications.
Reporting UI major Components
Oracle BI Server - Data access and
handling environment for the end user
products and other SQL-based tools
Oracle BI Answers - Adhoc query and
reporting
Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards - Highly
interactive dashboards for accessing
business intelligence and applications
content

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The pre-populated Subject Area appears on the

upper right-hand portion of the window. Subject
area is a simplified representation of data
elements for end-users, and is part of Metadata
Repository, which can be found in
$BI_HOME/server/repository/*.rpd on the
Server. It is designed and managed via OBIEE
Administrator tool. Select a Subject Area to
analyze. This takes us to the Criteria tab.
Expand the column picker in the left pane to
view columns available for use in the report.
Click on a column, it appears in the workspace
section of the page.

It contains 3 main sections, 1) Answers Web

Catalog for storage of reports, dashboards,
filters 2) BIS Presentation Layer for queries to
the BIS Server 3) Applications and
Administration Links.

Results tab - shows the output. Several types of

Views are available.
Prompts tab - allows User to enter parameters
before a report is run (similar to Filters).
Advanced tab - offers the following key features:
Create static HTML links to saved reports
Download Microsoft Excel Query file (IQY),
and when executed, it will pull the results
directly into Excel
Modify report definition
Retrieve/analyze/modify Logical SQL sent to
the BI Analytics Server
Alternative way to view SQL
Click on Settings
Administration
Manage
Sessions to monitor system usage, view Logical
and Physical SQL. Long running queries can
also be canceled. The same can be viewed in
NQQuery.log file on the Server under
$BI_HOME/server/log directory.

Using BI Answers
Oracle BI Answers was derived from Seibel
Answers and is the only report-building interface
for OBIEE. It is used for the construction of both
Queries (the data) and Reports (the
presentation).
BI Answers
Navigate to the OBIEE Home page. Click the
Answers link in the upper right-hand corner. The
Answers start page will display.

Column Properties
Conditional Formatting Tab

Add Condition

Columns can be dragged to either side. Column

properties, format, formula, filters, deletes and
order can be edited from the icons below the
column name.

Dashboards
Takes us to the Dashboarding environment.
More Products
Delivers - allows delivery of critical
information via email, mobile devices,
dashboards and workflow functionality
BI Publisher - is integrated into the suite to
provide for Pixel perfect report formatting
Marketing - for the Marketing segment
Disconnected - for Offline, Mobile Analytics

Conditional Formatting such as color-coding

based on a certain condition can be set via
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