Oracle Business Intelligence and Essbase Solutions Guide

This book highlights the practical aspects of using Oracle Essbase and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) as a comprehensive BI solution. It explains the key steps involved in Oracle Essbase and OBIEE implementations. Using case studies, the book covers Oracle Essbase for analytical BI and data integration, using OBIEE for operational BI including presentation services and BI Publisher for real-time reporting services, Self-service BI– in terms of VLDB, scalability, high performance, stability, long-lasting and ease of use that saves time, effort, and costs, while maximizing ROI.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Why Oracle Essbase Now
Chapter 3 Oracle Essbase and Oracle BI: Successful Players and Products
Chapter 4 Analysis, Evaluation, and Selection
Chapter 5 Data Integration, Implementation, and Customization Using Essbase
Chapter 6 Using Essbase for Analytical BI
Chapter 7 Using OBIEE for Operational BI
Chapter 8 Using OBIEE for Self-Service BI
Chapter 9 Best Practices for Solution Implementation and Customization
Chapter 10 Use Case Scenarios
Chapter 11 The Prize for the Price: A Win–Win or Not
Appendix A: Oracle Big Data and the Cloud for Analytics
Appendix B: Slides from Data Warehouse Architectures
Appendix C: Oracle® Data Sheets