OBIEE Training Syllabus ACTE

1) Introduction to DWH Concepts

 OLTP Vs OLAP

 Data warehouse Architecture

 Data warehouse Vs Data Mart

 ETL

 Masures, Fact, Dimensions

 Schema

 Star Schema and

 Snowflake Schema

 Dimension Hierarchy

 Aggregates

 Aggregation Strategy, Compression Ratio

 Indexing Strategy

 Slowly Changing Dimension

 Type 1

 Type 2

 Type 3

 Performance Tuning

2. Oracle Business Intelligence – Repository

 Repository Basics

 Oracle BI architecture components

 Using the OracleBI Administration Tool

 Creating a repository

 Loading a repository into Oracle BI Server memory

 Building the Physical Layer of a Repository

 Importing data sources

 Setting up connection pool properties

 Defining keys and joins

 Examining physical layer object properties

 Creating alias and select tables

 Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer of a Repository

 Building a business model

 Building logical tables, columns, and sources

 Defining logical joins

 Building measures

 Examining business model object properties

 Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository

 Exploring Presentation layer objects

 Creating Presentation layer objects

 Modifying Presentation layer objects

 Examining Presentation layer object properties

 Testing and Validating a Repository

 Checking repository consistency

 Turning on logging

 Defining a repository in the initialization file

 Inspecting the query log

 Adding Multiple Logical Table Sources

 Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table

 Specifying logical content

 Adding Calculations to a Fact Table

 Creating new calculation measures based on existing logical columns

 Creating new calculation measures based on physical columns

 Creating Dimension Hierarchies and Level-Based Measures

 Creating dimension hierarchies

 Creating level-based measures

 Using Aggregates

 Purpose of aggregate tables in dimensional modeling

 Modeling aggregate tables to improve query performance

 Testing aggregate navigation

 Using Partitions and Fragments

 Purpose for segmenting data into partitions and fragments

 Modeling Time Series Data

 Using time comparisons in business analysis

 Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data

 Creating Repositories Using Multidimensional Data Sources

 Adding a multidimensional data source an Oracle BI repository

 Displaying data from multidimensional sources in Oracle BI Answers requests and Oracle
BI

 Interactive Dashboards
 3. Oracle Business Intelligence – Repository Part-2

 Working with Oracle Business Intelligence Answers

 Introduction to Oracle BI Answers

 Working with requests in Oracle BI Answers

 Using advanced formatting

 Filtering Requests in Oracle Business Intelligence Answers

 Introduction to filters in Answers

 Adding filter prompts to requests

 Using saved requests as filters

 Oracle Business Intelligence Answers: Advanced Features

 Combining request criteria using set operations

 Executing direct database requests

 Building Views and Charts in Requests

 Introduction to Answers views and charts

 Creating and editing charts

 Performing common view tasks

 Showing Results with Gauge Views

 Introduction to Gauge views

 Working with Gauge views

 Showing Results with Pivot Tables

 Introduction to pivot tables

 Formatting pivot tables

 Setting aggregation rules and building formulas

 Creating Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards

 Introduction to Interactive Dashboards and pages

 Composing dashboard elements

 Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards

 Types of dashboard content

 Embedding content in Interactive Dashboards

 Using bookmark links to distribute and save Interactive Dashboards

 Dynamic Filter in Dashboard

 Using Prompts

 Scope of the Prompt

 Presentation Variable and Uses

 Request Variable

 Combine Request

 Direct Database Request

 Customizing the Oracle Business Intelligence User Interface

 Making configuration changes using the instanceconfig file

 Configuring Guided Navigation Links

 Building guided navigation with static links

 Building guided navigation with conditional links and sections

 Administering the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Catalog

 Maintaining the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog

 Managing security

 Understanding security inheritance

 Describing the Presentation Catalog structure

 Permission types

 Setting permissions using the Manage Catalog screen

 Introduction to Oracle BI Delivers

 Configuring delivery devices

 Adding delivery profiles

 Building alerts

 Introduction to Oracle BI Scheduler

 Using BI Deliver

 Configuration of Scheduler Service

 Creating & scheduling iBots

 Using Repository Variables

 Session variables

 Repository variables

 Initialization blocks

 Using the Variable Manager

 Using dynamic repository variables as filters

 Security

 Creating users and groups

 Setting permissions for users and groups

 Authenticating using a external database

 Authenticating using database authentication

 Setting query limits and timing restrictions

 Setting filters to personalize information

 Cache Management

 Restricting tables as non-cacheable

 Using Cache Manager

 Purging cache entries

 Modifying cache parameters and options

 Seeding the cache