article-31_integration of essbase cube with obiee 11g
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Essbase Cubes (11.1.2.1) as a source for OBIEE (11.1.1.5)
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Objective: Import the Essbase Cube Data from Essbase Administration services
console (EAS) to OBIEE and generate the dashboards with the presumption that the
reader having basic understanding on Hyperion and OBIEE Tools
1. Overview of Essbase and OBIEE Integration
2. Create a Essbase Datasource into Repository
3. Create Business Model and Presentation for the Essbase Cubes
4. Generate Reports in OBIEE Analytics Tool
Overview of Essbase and OBIEE Integration
Hyperion Essbase is MOLAP where as OBIEE is ROLAP- MOLAP as we store the cubedata, analysis is much faster than ROLAP.
Many users work with Essbase data using as their interface an add-in for Microsoft Excel.
Hyperion places the entire cube in front of you in excel and you can drill down, add or remove
dimensions, apply filters, pivot data, slice and dice and much more and also the write back
capability which makes it the first choice for budgeting and forecasting applications. With Essbase
as a middle layer, OBIEE is very easy for End users to generate reports and design dashboards in
less span of time.
From OBIEE 10g, Essbase can also be one of the Datasources for OBIEE Repository as well asOracle BI Repository can be a Datasources for Newly Emerging Essbase Studio Tool(11.x).
Supported Versions of Essbase Cubes: 9.x, 11.x
When Essbase is used as an OBIEE data source, you have the capability to combine Essbase sources
with other OBIEE Server supported data sources, and present relevant information to your users in
one place, from multiple sources. OBIEE is a relational Query tool so it makes Essbase behave that
way too.
Pre-Requisites:
The Essbase Metadata import and its related queries require installation of the Essbase Client
API on BI Server for OBIEE 10g.However I observed that for 11g it’s not mandatory. Let’s try
to import Sample. Basic cube which comes with Essbase 11.x installation into OBIEE
Repository.
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Essbase Cubes (11.1.2.1) as a source for OBIEE (11.1.1.5)
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Integration Architecture:
Also Ensure that all the Hyperion services are up and running fine along with OBIEE services .
Steps that needs to be followed:
1. Importing Multidimensional Essbase Datasource into OBIEE Repository
Click on BI Administration to create a new rpd in repository
Start -> All Programs ->Oracle Business Intelligence-> BI Administration
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Essbase as Data Sources Importing Multi-
Generating Cubes
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Essbase Cubes (11.1.2.1) as a source for OBIEE (11.1.1.5)
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Before precede further, need to define some user-defined options.
Since Essbase Cube Gen1 names contains only Dimension names, we can skip that levels before
importing the cube as follows
Go to Tools-> Options and select the required checkbox
Click on file-> New Repository to create a repository
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Provide the user-defined name and repository password
Path:
C:\OBIEE\instances\instance4\bifoundation\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\repository
It’s the default location where OBIEE Repository will store. Click Next
Select the connection type as “Essbase”, Provide Valid Server name, Username and password.
In this scenario, it’s my local system hence the Essbase Server is “local host”.
Best practice is using System name or IP address while Essbase Installation to make the Servername unique.
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Essbase Cubes (11.1.2.1) as a source for OBIEE (11.1.1.5)
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Once you click on Next, It will displays the Essbase Cubes under the server
Click on the Sample Application and click on “Imported Selected” button on the middle pane
window to import the Essbase Cube to OBIEE Repository as following image
2. Changes that will perform in Physical Layer
Once the cube got imported, Dimensions and facts appears as follows in the physical layer
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To display all the Measures or facts in Essbase Cube.
Right Click Database [Basic] of Sample Application -> “Convert Measure dimension to flatmeasures”;
Once more advantage here is no need to create again star schema, OBIEE will brings all join
relationships along with tables (This is where I impressed and of course lot of re-work got
reduced for developers)
As you can see from the screenshot below, the Market physical dimension has three UDAs
associated with it; Major Market, Small Market and New Market.
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Another good point, Even the hierarchy is ragged or Skipped, Essbase+OBIEE can handle it.
We can also observed here it will display the Introdate, Caffeinated attribute dimensions as
hierarchies
3. Now Drag the Sample Cube from Physical to BMM layer
Double Click on Essbase Cube Symbol and uncheck the disabled button to display in Subject
area of OBIEE Analytics tool
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Essbase Cubes (11.1.2.1) as a source for OBIEE (11.1.1.5)
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presentation layer
Now click on “Check global Consistency” for verification of warnings or errors
If there are no errors, it will display as rpd building is successful as follow
5. Before Upload Ensure that OBIEE Services are up and running fine. This can be verified in
Enterprise Manager link
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Logon with valid credentials
Here is the path where we can observe the OBIEE services status
Now upload the repository to BI Server
From the left window, Click on
Farm_bifoundation_domain->Business Intelligence-> Coreapplication
In the middle window, Click on “Deployment tab”.
Click on “Lock and Edit Configuration”
Then it displays the message as follows
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Now click on “Browse” button to upload the repository
Path:
C:\OBIEE\instances\instance4\bifoundation\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\r
epository
Provide the repository password and click on “Activate changes”
Now click on “Restart to apply recent changes” to upload rpd
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For any rpd changes, we need to restart the services to make rpd from offline to online mode
Automatically it will take you to the “Overview” tab and click on “Restart” button and say “Yes”
It will take for a while for services to be up and working fine
Once the services started, Open the Analytics link to generate the reports
Link: http://servername:7001/analytics/
Give the valid credentials
Click on New-> Analysis
Select the SA as “Sample”
With this we can create reports and dashboards
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