OBI 11G: Architecture

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Oracle BI Server Architecture

This lesson provides a high-level overview of Oracle BI Server
architecture and related components.

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Oracle BI Presentation Services

Provides the framework and interface for the presentation

of business intelligence data to Web clients
Is a set of query clients that includes the following
components:
Analysis Editor

Set of graphical tools that enable users to build, view, and

modify analyses that provide analytic information

Dashboards

Display the results of analyses and other items

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Oracle BI Server

Is the core server behind Oracle Business Intelligence

Provides efficient processing to access physical data
sources and structure information intelligently:
Uses metadata to direct processing
Generates dynamic SQL to query data in the physical data
sources
Connects natively or through ODBC to a data source
Structures results to satisfy requests
Provides BI data to Oracle BI Presentation Services

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Data Sources

Contain the business data that users want to analyze

Are accessed by Oracle BI Server
Can be in multiple formats, such as:

Relational databases
Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases
Flat files
Multidimensional data sources

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Oracle BI Repository

Stores the metadata used by Oracle BI Server

Is accessed and configured by using the Oracle BI
Administration Tool, which you use to:
Import metadata from databases and other data sources
Simplify and reorganize the metadata into business models
Structure the business model for presentation to users who
request information

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Oracle BI Administration Tool

Exposes the Oracle BI repository as three separate panes
called layers:
Physical
Business Model and Mapping (BMM)
Presentation

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Physical Layer

Contains objects representing the physical data sources to

which Oracle BI Server submits queries
May contain multiple data sources
Is typically the first layer built in the repository

Data sources

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Business Model and Mapping Layer

Is where physical schemas are simplified and reorganized to
form the basis of the users view of the data

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Business Model Mappings

Business Model and Mapping layer objects map to source

data objects in the Physical layer.
Mappings are typically not one-to-one:
Business models may map to multiple data sources.
Logical tables may map to multiple physical tables.
Logical columns may map to multiple physical columns.

Mappings

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Presentation Layer

Contains presentation objects that provide a customized

view of a business model to users
Simplifies and organizes the business model to make it
easy for users to understand and query
Exposes only the data that is meaningful to the users

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Presentation Layer Mappings

Presentation layer objects map to objects in the Business
Model and Mapping layer.

Subject areas map to

the business model.
Presentation tables may
map to logical tables.

Presentation columns
map to logical columns.

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Presentation Layer Defines the User Interface

Presentation layer objects define the interface that users see to
query data from data sources.

Subject area
Presentation
table

Subject area
Folder
Column

Presentation
column

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Repository Directory
By default, repositories are stored in the repository
subdirectory where Oracle BI software is installed:
ORACLE_INSTANCE\bifoundation\
OracleBIServerComponent\
bi_instance_name_obisn\repository
Default location of
repository files

Oracle BI Repository file

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Repository Modes
Repository files can be opened for editing in offline mode or
online mode.
Offline mode
Repository is not loaded into Oracle BI Server memory.

Online mode
Repository is loaded into Oracle BI Server memory.
Administrators can perform tasks that are not available in
offline mode:

Manage scheduled jobs.

Manage user sessions.
Manage the query cache.
Manage clustered servers.

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Publishing a Repository
Use Fusion Middleware Control to publish a repository and
make it available for queries.
Click here first.

Current installed repository

Click to apply
changes.

Browse to upload
new repository.

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Using FMW Control to Manage OBI Components

Use the Overview

page to manage all
OBI components.

Use the Capacity

Management >
Availability page to
manage individual OBI
components.

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Reloading Server Metadata

Click the Reload Server Metadata link to refresh the view of
Oracle BI metadata.

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