This course provides instructions for creating analyses and dashboards for business intelligence applications. You will learn how to administer the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog and build an Oracle BI dashboard, including basic analyses and more advanced features, such as pivot tables, maps, graphs, gauges, navigation links, prompts, embedded content, and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) on the dashboards. You will also use Oracle BI Delivers to send personalized, real-time alerts to dashboards and subscribers. You will learn the basics of using Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile to access BI content on mobile devices. In addition, you will be introduced to Oracle BI for Microsoft Office, integrating Oracle BI data and views in Microsoft Office presentations and spreadsheets. You will create KPIs and add them to the dashboard, as well as use Oracle ZI Briefing Books.
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Jul 10 2012 |
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Course ID: OBI401
Duration: 4 days
Audience: Business Analysts
End Users
Technical Consultants
Functional Implementers
Business Intelligence Developers
Application Developers
Developers
Technical Administrators
Prerequisites: None
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Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
- Introduction to Oracle BI
- Architecture overview
Working with Oracle Business Intelligence Analyses
- Introduction to Oracle BI Analysis Editor
- Oracle BI column types
- Working with analyses in Oracle BI
- Using advanced formatting
Administering the Presentation Catalog
- Maintaining the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog in the Catalog page
- Oracle BI and catalog security overview
- Managing security using roles
- Understanding security inheritance
- Setting object permissions
- Setting system privileges
- Archiving catalog items
Limiting and Grouping Data in Analyses
- Introduction to filters and selections
- Creating, editing, and grouping filters
- Adding prompts to analyses
- Dynamic filtering
- Using saved analyses as filters
- Creating groups
- Creating calculated items
- Creating selection steps
Oracle Business Intelligence Analyses: Advanced Features
- Setting analysis properties
- Combining analysis criteria by using set operations
- Executing direct database analyses
- Editing logical SQL generated by an analysis
- Creating a link to a saved analysis
- Creating an Excel Web Query file
Working with Views and Graphs in Analyses
- Introduction to views, graphs, and editors
- Working with views in Compound Layouts
- Creating and editing graphs
- Linking master-detail views
- Performing common view tasks
Visualizing Data: Gauges, Maps, and Mobile
- Introduction to Gauge views
- Working with Gauge views
- Introduction to Map views and their components
- Creating and editing Map views
- Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile
- Working with and searching content in BI Mobile
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Measuring Results with Key Performance Indicators
- Introduction to KPIs
- Creating KPIs, setting trending, dimensionality, and thresholds
- Introduction to KPI Watchlists
- Creating a KPI Watchlist
- Changing Dimensionality for a KPI Watchlist event
Showing Results With Pivot Tables
- Introduction to pivot tables
- Creating, arranging, and formatting a pivot table
- Using hierarchical columns
- Sorting in pivot tables
- Setting aggregation and using totals
- Showing an item's relative value
- Building calculations and displaying running sums
Creating Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboards
- Introduction to dashboards and dashboard pages
- Creating and editing dashboards
- Using the Dashboard Builder
- Exploring dashboard oject properies and options
- Publishing dashboard pages
- Creating personal customizations and using other page options
- Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboards
- Types of dashboard content
- Embedding content in dashboards
Creating Dashboard Prompts and Variables
- Overview of variables
- Introduction to dashboard prompts and prompt types
- Adding a named dashboard prompt to a dashboard
- Adding a hidden named dashboard prompt to a dashboard
- Creating additional prompt page and setting page preferences
- Variables and prompts
- Adding variable prompts to a dashboard
- Wiring dashboard prompts
- Using Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers
Introduction to Oracle BI Delivers
- Configuring delivery devices and adding delivery profiles
- Introduction to alerts
- Adding an Alert Section to a dashboard
- Overview of Agents
- Configuring an Agent
- Using Analysis and KPI conditions to deliver content with Agents
- Subscribing to an Agent
Integrating Analyses with MS Office
- Introduction to Oracle BI Office Add-in
- Working with Oracle BI content in Microsoft Office applications
- Working with Oracle Business Intelligence Briefing Books
Introduction to Oracle BI Briefing Books
- Adding content to Briefing Books
- Editing Briefing Books
- Downloading and viewing Briefing Books
- Adding a list of Briefing Books to a dashboard
- Using Briefing Books with Oracle BI Delivers
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