Video description
Overview
OBIEE 11g (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) Reports and Dashboards LiveLessons introduces students to the querying and analytical capabilities of Oracle Analytics using the web interface. This course is primarily for business analysts or programmers utilizing OBIEE for analysis. Students will leave the course being able to produce reports and retrieve information from the Oracle RDBMS using the OBIEE web interface.
Description
In this LiveLessons video course, Oracle Ace Director Dan Hotka covers how to create, modify, run, and refine ad hoc queries. Students will learn to view, chart, and analyze multidimensional data. They will also learn to produce individual ad hoc reports and make these reports and information easy to access (dash boards). The final lesson focuses on using BI Publisher to transform these reports into polished/formatted/quality reports in about any language or format required.
About the Instructor
Dan Hotka is a training specialist and an Oracle ACE director who has more than 37 years in the computer industry and more than 31 years of experience with Oracle products. His experience with the Oracle RDBMS dates back to the Oracle V4.0 days. Dan enjoys sharing his knowledge of the Oracle RDBMS. Dan is well published with 12 Oracle books and more than 200 published articles. He is also the video author of several LiveLessons including Oracle SQL Performance Tuning for Developers LiveLessons and Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Fundamentals to Advanced LiveLessons. He is frequently published in Oracle trade journals, blogs regularly, and speaks at Oracle conferences and user groups around the world. Visit his website at www.DanHotka.com.
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Skill Level
- Beginner
Learn How To
- Use the OBIEE interface
- Retrieve data in a variety of formats
- Use report formatting
- Build dashboards and pass parameters
- Work with the publishing tool that is included in the base product
- Understand a variety of tips and techniques for distributing, saving, downloading various reports and data
Who Should Take This Course
- Business analysts
- Programmers
Course Requirements
- No prior knowledge of OBIEE is required
- A working knowledge of BI tools would be helpful
Table of Contents
Introduction
Lesson 1: OBIEE 11g Reports and Dashboards Course Overview
Learning objectives
1.1 Understand the course pre-requisites
1.2 Understand the course database objects
1.3 Review the OBIEE11g hands-on lab environment options
1.4 Review the OBIEE architecture
1.5 Introduce the OBIEE11g web interface
1.6 Connect to the OBIEE training environment, show the sample database, and illustrate the main features of the home page
Put it all together
Lesson 2: OBIEE Analysis
Learning objectives
2.1 Build the first analysis
2.2 Review the OBIEE fundamentals
Put it all together
Lesson 3: OBIEE Formatting Features
Learning objectives
3.1 Build another analysis using formatting and column properties
3.2 Utilize OBIEE charts and graphs
Put it all together
Lesson 4: OBIEE Pivot Tables and Hierarchical Data Drilling
Learning objectives
4.1 Enhance existing analysis with pivot tables and hierarchical data drilling
4.2 Add pivot tables and illustrate hierarchical data drilling
Put it all together
Lesson 5: OBIEE Column and Dashboard Prompts
Learning objectives
5.1 Understand how OBIEE Prompts are commonly used in analyses and dashboards
5.2 Build and save column and dashboard prompts
Put it all together
Lesson 6: Additional OBIEE Formatting Features
Learning objectives
6.1 Work with bottom filters and conditional formatting
6.2 Add narrative views and custom formulas
6.3 Work with column selectors and graph sliders, graph zooming and map features
Put it all together
Lesson 7: Action Links
Learning objectives
7.1 Introduce action links
7.2 Create action links for existing analysis reports
Put it all together
Lesson 8: Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and Score Cards
Learning objectives
8.1 Work with key performance indicators, score cards, and related features
8.2 Illustrate how to use score cards
Put it all together
Lesson 9: OBIEE Dashboards
Learning objectives
9.1 Explore dashboard tips and best practices
9.2 Work with dashboard layout
Put it all together
Lesson 10: Additional Dashboard Features
Learning objectives
10.1 Enhance dashboards with additional content
10.2 Explore dashboard management
10.3 Workwith dashboards
Put it all together
Lesson 11: Actionable Intelligence
Learning objectives
11.1 Understand alerts and review agents and conditions
11.2 Add alerts to dashboards, set up the agents
Put it all together
Lesson 12: Oracle BI Publisher
Learning objectives
12.1 Work with BI Publisher
12.2 Define data sources and create the data model
12.3 Build a report using the layout editor
12.4 Work with charges and additional formatting options to enhance the BI Publisher report
Summary
About LiveLessons Video Training
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Table of contents
- Introduction
-
Lesson 1: OBIEE 11g Reports and Dashboards Course Overview
- Learning objectives
- 1.1 Understand the course pre-requisites
- 1.2 Understand the course database objects
- 1.3 Review the OBIEE 11g hands-on lab environment options
- 1.4 Review the OBIEE architecture
- 1.5 Introduce the OBIEE 11g web interface
- 1.6 Connect to the OBIEE training environment
- Put it all together
- Lesson 2: OBIEE Analysis
- Lesson 3: OBIEE Formatting Features
- Lesson 4: OBIEE Pivot Tables and Hierarchical Data Drilling
- Lesson 5: OBIEE Column and Dashboard Prompts
-
Lesson 6: Additional OBIEE Formatting Features
- Learning objectives
- 6.1 Work with bottom filters and conditional formatting
- 6.2 Add narrative views and custom formulas
- 6.3 Work with column selectors and graph sliders, graph zooming and map features—Part 1
- 6.4 Work with column selectors and graph sliders, graph zooming and map features—Part 2
- Put it all together
- Lesson 7: Action Links
- Lesson 8: Key Performance Indicators and Scorecards
- Lesson 9: OBIEE Dashboards
- Lesson 10: Additional Dashboard Features
- Lesson 11: Actionable Intelligence
- Lesson 12: Oracle BI Publisher
- Summary
Product information
- Title: OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) 11g Reports and Dashboards
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 0134289293
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