Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition: Overview and Architecture

1. Define and describe business analytics and business intelligence

1. Identify the analytical business challenge and the solution provided by Oracle BI products

1. Define and describe data warehousing and data modeling

1. Identify the major components that make up the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition architecture

1. Describe the role of key components in the architecture

1. Describe the relationships among the components

Repository Basics and Building the Physical Layer of a Repository

1. Repository structure, features, and functions

1. Using the OracleBI Administration Tool

1. Creating a repository

1. Loading a repository into Oracle BI Server memory

1. Importing data sources

1. Setting up connection pool properties

1. Defining keys and joins

1. Creating alias and select tables

Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer of a Repository

1. Building a business model

1. Building logical tables, columns, and sources

1. Defining logical joins

1. Building measures

1. Examining business model object properties

Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository

1. Exploring Presentation layer objects

1. Creating Presentation layer objects

1. Modifying Presentation layer objects

1. Examining Presentation layer object properties

Testing and Validating a Repository

1. Checking repository consistency

1. Turning on logging

1. Defining a repository in the initialization file

1. Testing a repository using Oracle BI Answers

1. Inspecting the query log

Adding Multiple Logical Table Sources and Calculations to a Fact Table

1. Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table

1. Creating new calculation measures based on existing logical columns

1. Creating new calculation measures based on physical columns

1. Creating new calculation measures using the Calculation Wizard

Creating Dimension Hierarchies and Level-Based Measures

1. Creating dimension hierarchies

1. Creating level-based measures

1. Creating share measures

1. Creating rank measures

Using Aggregates, Partitions, Fragments and Repository Variables

1. Modeling aggregate tables to improve query performance

1. Testing aggregate navigation and Using the Aggregate Persistence Wizard

1. Purpose for segmenting data into partitions and fragments

1. Partition types and Modeling partitions in an Oracle BI repository

1. Session variables and Repository variables

1. Initialization blocks

1. Using the Variable Manager

1. Using dynamic repository variables as filters

Modeling Time Series Data

1. Using time comparisons in business analysis

1. Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data

Security and Cache Management

1. Creating users and groups

1. Setting permissions for users and groups

1. Authenticating using a external database and database authentication

1. Setting query limits and timing restrictions

1. Restricting tables as non-cacheable

1. Using Cache Manager, Inspecting cache reports and Purging cache entries

1. Modifying cache parameters and options

1. Seeding the cache

Multi-user Development

1. Setting up a multi-user development environment

1. Developing a repository using multiple developers

1. Tracking development project history

Filtering Requests in Oracle Business Intelligence Answers

1. Introduction to filters in Answers

1. Adding filter prompts to requests

1. Using saved requests as filters

Building Views and Charts in Requests

1. Introduction to Answers views and charts

1. Creating and editing charts

1. Performing common view tasks

Showing Results with Pivot Tables

1. Introduction to pivot tables

1. Formatting pivot tables

1. Setting aggregation rules and building formulas

Creating and Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards

1. Introduction to Interactive Dashboards and pages

1. Dashboard Editor UI elements

1. Composing dashboard elements

1. Types of dashboard content

1. Embedding content in Interactive Dashboards

1. Using bookmark links to distribute and save Interactive Dashboards

Customizing the Oracle Business Intelligence User Interface

1. Modifying cascading style sheets

1. Modifying XML message files

1. Making configuration changes using the instanceconfig file

Administering the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Catalog

1. Maintaining the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog

1. Managing security

1. Understanding security inheritance

1. Describing the Presentation Catalog structure

1. Permission types

1. Setting permissions using the Manage Catalog screen

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers

1. Introduction to Oracle BI Delivers

1. Configuring delivery devices

1. Adding delivery profiles

1. Building alerts

1. Introduction to Oracle BI Schedule