Oracle Data Integrator 11g Installation - Part I (WebLogic Server)

I’m going to demonstrate how to install Oracle Data Integrator 11g in this article. I divided the installation process into 2 parts. First part will be related with Oracle WebLogic Server. And I’m going to explain the ODI 11g installation in the second part. So here you are:

You can download the latest version of Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.3. Then start the installation:

Then installation wizard will ask you for the Middleware path. So you just specify the installation path. 

Next usual but important question is about your e-mail address for Oracle Support. It’s highly recommended to fill these information in order to receive security updates.

Then it’s going to confirm the installation directories.

You’re going to choose the short cut folders for the installation:

And you’re going to see the “Installation Summary” page and see the details of the installation.  When you click next, installation will start.

You can see the progress of the installation.

After the installation completes, you can trigger the “Configuration Wizard” to create new domain in the WebLogic Server. You don’t have to create a domain in this step. So to skip it, just clear the “Run Quickstart” checkbox.

NEW - Oracle BI 11g Trainings

New Oracle BI 11g trainings are announced. There are 2 trainings that are similar to the previous trainings for 10g. One of them is about creating analyses and creating dashboards. So this one is related with the web interface. Build Repositories is the other training which focuses on creating and modifying the repository. Here are the details:


I - Oracle BI 11g R1: Create Analyses and Dashboards

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 and Graphs in Analyses

• 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 Intelligence Dashboards

• 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 Deliver

II - Oracle BI 11g R1: Build Repositories

Repository Basics

• Exploring Oracle BI architecture components
• Exploring a repository's structure, features, and functions
• Using the Oracle BI Administration Tool
• Creating a repository
• Loading a repository into Oracle BI Server memory

Building the Physical Layer of a Repository

• Importing data sources
• Setting up connection pool properties
• Defining keys and joins
• Examining physical layer object properties
• Creating alias tables

Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer of a Repository

• Building a business model
• Building logical tables, columns, and sources
• Defining logical joins
• Building measures
• Examining business model object properties

Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository

• Exploring Presentation layer objects
• Creating Presentation layer objects
• Modifying Presentation layer objects
• Examining Presentation layer object properties

Testing and Validating a Repository

• Checking repository consistency
• Turning on logging
• Defining a repository in the initialization file
• Executing analyses to test a repository
• Inspecting the query log

Managing Logical Table Sources

• Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table
• Specifying logical content

Adding Calculations to a Fact

• Creating new calculation measures based on existing logical columns
• Creating new calculation measures based on physical columns
• Creating new calculation measures using the Calculation Wizard
• Creating measures using functions

Working with Logical Dimensions

• Creating logical dimension hierarchies
• Creating level-based measures
• Creating share measures
• Creating dimension-specific aggregation rules
• Creating presentation hierarchies
• Creating parent-child hierarchies
• Using calculated members

Using Aggregates

• Modeling aggregate tables to improve query performance
• Setting the number of elements in a hierarchy
• Testing aggregate navigation
• Using the Aggregate Persistence Wizard

Using Partitions and Fragments

• Exploring partition types
• Modeling partitions in an Oracle BI repository
• Using the Calculation Wizard to create derived measures

Using Repository Variables

• Creating session variables
• Creating repository variables
• Creating initialization blocks
• Using the Variable Manager
• Using dynamic repository variables as filters

Modeling Time Series Data

• Using time comparisons in business analysis
• Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data

Modeling Many-to-Many Relationships

• Using bridge tables to resolve many-to-many relationships between dimension tables and fact tables

Localizing Oracle BI Metadata and Data

• Localizing repository metadata
• Localizing Oracle BI data

Setting an Implicit Fact Column

• Adding fact columns automatically to dimension-only queries
• Ensuring the expected results for dimension-only queries
• Selecting a predetermined fact table source
• Specifying a default join path between dimension tables

Importing Metadata from Multidimensional Data Sources

• Importing a multidimensional data source into a repository
• Incorporating horizontal federation into a business model
• Incorporating vertical federation into a business model
• Adding Essbase measures to a relational model
• Displaying data from multidimensional sources in Oracle BI analyses and dashboards

Security

• Exploring Oracle BI default security settings
• Creating users and groups
• Creating application roles
• Setting up object permissions
• Setting row-level security (data filters)
• Setting query limits and timing restrictions

Cache Management

• Restricting tables as non-cacheable
• Using Cache Manager
• Inspecting cache reports
• Purging cache entries
• Modifying cache parameters and options
• Seeding the cache

Enabling Usage Tracking

• Setting up the sample usage tracking repository
• Tracking and storing Oracle BI Server usage at the detailed query level
• Using usage tracking statistics to optimize query performance and aggregation strategies
• Analyzing usage results using Oracle BI Answers and other reporting tools

Multi-user Development

• Setting up a multiuser development environment
• Developing a repository using multiple developers
• Tracking development project history

Configuring Write Back

• Enabling write back in a repository
• Creating a write back template
• Granting write back privileges
• Enabling write back in an analysis

Performing a Patch Merge

• Comparing repositories
• Equalizing objects
• Creating a patch
• Applying a patch
• Making merge decisions