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OBIEE 12c and the Leap Forward in Lifecycle Management

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Red Pill Analytics: Ownership

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Stewart Bryson

Oracle ACE Director

Previously From:

Rittman Mead

Informix Software

Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence

since 1996

Kevin McGinley

Oracle ACE Director

Previously From:

Accenture

BI Consulting Group

Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence

since 1997


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CAPACITYANALYTICS

SINGLE DOSESCHECKMATE

WHAT WE DO

BI Development as a Service

Agile Development

Cloud Enabled

Continuous Integration

Support

Check-in & Automate

True Multi-User Development

Full Source Control

Continuous Integration

Hosted or On-Premise

Strategy & Roadmap

Architecture

Prototyping

Infrastructure

Training


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Prepare Demo


Show status and start commands

Generate a BAR file


Shadow IT Wants Your Soul!


Competing Values in Analytics and BI


One Version of the Truth


Self Service


Users are Trapped in the Middle


Analytics development should embrace change


The OBIEE Metadata Layer

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Simplification of the Data Model Integration of Disparate Data Sources

Addition of Business Logic and Calculations





Love, Hate and Metadata


Inflexible Architecture


Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS)


Eating Their Own Dog Food


Singleton Data Directory With High Availability

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Oracle BI Domain - Server 1 Oracle BI Domain - Server 2

Shared Storage (e.g. NFS)

Config Config

Singleton Data Directory

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BI System Components

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BI System Components

bi-environment.xml bi-environment.xml

Service Instance

Singleton Data Directory contains the Service Instance BI Content for

the cluster





File System Changes

•No more ‘instances’ folder •No more Oracle_BI1 folder •user_projects contains most of what you’re looking for

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Other Architecture Changes

•Separation of Environment Metadata and Configuration • Single source of truth for both – no environment info in RCU DB schemas

• Reduced dependency on hardwired server names in configuration

•One place to edit environment and/or configuration

•Most files can be edited directly by customer using any tool including Chef / Puppet

•Removal of OPMN process control • Nodemanager used throughout to control components

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Goodbye, Old Friend


Goodbye, Old Friend

Security GUIDS


BICS Gave Us the BAR File (“Snapshot”)

Contains OBIEE content in a single file (RPD, Catalog, Roles)

“Point-in-time State”

Similar to a VM snapshot

Does not contain database objects nor data

Downloadable and transferable between environments

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Other StuffJAZN Data /

RolesCatalogRPD

BI Application Archive (BAR)





We Also Need Change On-Premises


Safe Harbor

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The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.





Lifecycle Enhancements


Pluggable Architecture

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Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 12c

Start with a single instance of OBIEE






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Metadata Modules (Optional)

Metadata Modules designed to be static (OBIA for instance)







Individual Service Instances provide customization “stripes” to Modules

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Service Instance 1

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization

Service Instance 3

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization

Service Instance 2

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization









Individual Service Instances provide customization “stripes” to Modules

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Service Instance 1

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization

Service Instance 3

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization

Service Instance 2

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization








Non-Pluggable Architecture (so far in 12.2.1)

Singleton Service Instance (SSI) with Metadata, Content and Authorization

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Singleton Service Instance (SSI)

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization

Service Instance 3

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization

Service Instance 2

Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization








Service Instances

Service Instances can provide complete Metadata, or present as a “Customization Layer” from a Metadata Module

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Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization






Service Instances

Service Instances can provide complete Metadata, or present as a “Customization Layer” from a Metadata Module

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Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization


But a binary RPD file doesn’t work well as a “diff” between the Module and Service Instance





Service Instances

An XML representation of the Metadata layer is a better choice for the Service Instance.

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Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization






Service Instances

An XML representation of the Metadata layer is a better choice for the Service Instance.

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Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization

Metadata Modules (Optional)Did this require a massive rewrite of the BI Server so it could use XML instead of a binary file?




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Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization








Metadata Layer

Catalog Content

Authorization






Starting BI Server

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WLST is used to start Node

Manager, which starts the BI

Server

BI Server initially starts using liverpd.rpd,

which is small and startup is

fast

default_diff.xml is applied using biserverxmlcli, the online XML

“patching” utility





Service Instance and BAR File: Identical


Creating Service Instance from BAR File

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BAR file is a zipped version

of the content in a Service Instance

Refresh the Singleton

Service Instance with a BAR file

(in 12.2.1)

Create new Service

Instances with a BAR file (in the

future)





Service Instances are Lightweight and Portable (in the future)


Demo


Resources


Documentation (A little rough)

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Information Center (Doc ID 2068950.2)

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