Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Developers Guide

This Oracle Press guide explains how to build BI applications using Oracle Business Intelligence 11 g. Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Developers Guideoffers complete coverage of this integrated, scalable suite of business intelligence products. The book explains how to develop repositories, dashboards, analyses, KPIs, and scorecards and integrate with Oracle Fusion Middleware security, Oracle WebLogic Server, and web services. Aimed at developers creating BI solutions using Oracle's platform, this book also covers the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, a hardware appliance that combines Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Times Ten, an in-memory database, for "speed of thought" analytics. Written by an Oracle ACE Director in the area of BI & DW The best end-to-end holistic look at Oracle Business Intelligence 11 g 100% of the content is on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, with a chapter on Oracle Exalytics BI Machine Puts the tools in context and offers real-world advice on the most appropriate approach to take for typical BI deployments Uses a consistent, sample dataset that you can download and follow on your own Comprehensive coverage Product Architecture; Installations and Upgrades; Creating Repositories from Relational Sources; Creating Repositories from Oracle Essbase and Other OLAP Data Sources; Configuring and Maintaining the BI Server; Creating Reports Using Answers and Dashboards; Actionable Intelligence; KPIs and Scorecards; Creating Published Reports; Systems Management; High Availability, Clustering, and Backup & Recovery; Managing Change, Versioning and Promotion Between Environments; Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine

1. Overview and Product Architecture
2. Installations and Upgrades, for the Oracle BI Developers Handbook
3. Creating Repositories from Relational Sources
4. Creating Repositories from Oracle Essbase and Other OLAP Data Sources
5. Configuring and Maintaining the BI Server
6. Creating Reports Using Answers and Dashboards
7. Actionable Intelligence
8. KPIs and Scorecards
9. Creating Published Reports (BI Publisher)
10. Systems Management
11. High Availability, Clustering and Backup & Recovery
12. Managing Change, Versioning and Promotion Between Environments
13. Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine