Preliminary research for Oracle BI installation

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EdStevens - 29 Sep 2007 21:04 GMT

I have been asked to put together a list of requirements to stand up
an Oracle Business Intelligence installation. After poking around
MetaLink I find I'm just spinning my wheels trying to determine which
of various editions of BI we would want, and what database options are
required to support it. Having been strictly a relational database
DBA, I don't even have a good grasp of what I've been reading.

At this point, I think the questions I need answers for are:

1) How do I determine which edition of BI (Enterprise Edition Plus,
Standard Edition One, or Standard Edition) would be appropriate?

2) For a given edition of BI, what options need to be installed on the
source OLTP database? The data warehouse data base?

Thanks.

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Maxim Demenko - 29 Sep 2007 21:43 GMT

EdStevens schrieb:

> I have been asked to put together a list of requirements to stand up
> an Oracle Business Intelligence installation. After poking around
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>
> Thanks.

Ed, i'm not by far BI expert, only had a small touch with some products,
so maybe (very likely) somebody more knowledgeable points me wrong, but
i'll try my best ;-)
1) There are a lot of BI information sources available, some are very
good as for my taste (of course, Oracle related ;-))
http://www.rittmanmead.com/
http://oraclebi.blogspot.com/
http://oraclesponge.blogspot.com/
Mark Rittman has a dedicated forum, where you can register and ask the
same question, he is definitely an Expert, so you probably get a very
detailed explanation.
Regarding the products, EE is a very comprehesive suite, but shortly
taken - the core is formerly known Siebel Analytics (has nothing to do
with Siebel OLTP) - very powerful reporting engine, if i am not wrong,
Informatica (OEM) is included as ETL tool and on top BI Publisher (
former XML Publisher - very slick reporting tool). From what i read -
they are the flagships of BI tools, having corresponding price as well.
Standard Edition One is based on old good Oracle Discoverer and
Reporting Services, OWB covers the ETL part. I think, the Discoverer is
very popular by certain user layer and can cover a lot of BI
requirements. Not to mention, Oracle is doing very intensive work to
integrate all its BI tools together (like OWB and Discoverer, Oracle
Publisher and Discoverer and so on), so if this is only a start, i
personally would go the SE route and later upgrade to EE only if
business requirements can not be covered - lastly it is mostly the
question of money ( and, of course , qualified staff). That means, you
have to clarify first, what are the requirements for BI suite, who is
supposed to work with, how familiar are people with tools and what is
supposed budget. Regarding intrusion into OLTP - to my knowledge, no of
bi tools require something like this - the usual setup ( as well very
simplified ) - you deploy a Datawarehouse, etl tool to move your oltp
data, a database as repository for reporting engine (like Discoverer or
Siebel Analytics) - nothing gets installed directly into OLTP.

Best regards

Maxim

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pamela fluente - 30 Sep 2007 00:16 GMT

> I have been asked to put together a list of requirements to stand up
> an Oracle Business Intelligence installation. After poking around
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> Thanks.

For reporting/dashboards take a look here:

http://www.datatime.eu/download.aspx

For Questions, bug reports, feature requests:
http://groups.google.it/group/DataTime

-P

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