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Oracle BI 11g R1: Create Analyses and Dashboards

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Duration: 4 Days

What you will learn
This course provides step-by-step instructions for creating analyses and dashboards, which compose business intelligence applications. Participants learn how to administer the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog and to build a simple Oracle BI dashboard starting with basic analyses, then adding more complexity as the course progresses. Participants learn to include pivot tables, graphs, gauges, prompts, embedded content, navigation links, and KPIs on the dashboards. Participants also use Oracle BI Delivers to send real-time, personalized alerts to dashboards and for subscribed users. Participants use Oracle BI for Microsoft Office to integrate Oracle BI data and views in Microsoft Office presentations and spreadsheets. Participants create KPIs and add KPIs to a dashboard. Finally, they explore the use of Oracle BI Briefing Books.

Learn To:
Build and use views and charts in analyses
Build analyses
ent in Microsoft Office applications
Create and modify Oracle BI Dashboards
Create and work with KPIs
Configure, schedule, and deliver personalized alerts using Oracle BI Delivers

Audience
Application Developers
Business Analysts
Business Intelligence Developer
Developer
End Users
Functional Implementer
Technical Administrator
Technical Consultant

Course Objectives
Create and modify dashboards
Configure Agents using Delivers to get the results of analyses and deliver them to subscribers
Perform administration tasks related to the development and configuration of dashboards
Use Oracle BI for Microsoft Office to integrate Oracle BI analysis and dashboard content
Create and modify Oracle Business Intelligence analyses
Use hierarchical columns in analyses and views
Combine analysis criteria using set operations and execute direct database requests
Perform pre- and post-aggregate filtering using filters, groups, and selections
Use Key Performance Indicators to meet business objectives
Build and use views and graphs in analyses
Add geographical mapping to analyses

Course Topics

Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Suite 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
Introduction to views, graphs, and editors
Working with views in Compound Layouts
Creating and editing graphs
Linking master-detail views
Performing common view tasks

Showing Results with Gauge Views and Map Views
Introduction to Gauge views
Working with Gauge views
Introduction to Map views and their components
Creating and editing Map views

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
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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