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Course Introduction
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Lesson Agenda
This lesson provides an introduction to the:
• Instructor and class participants
• Training site information
• Course:
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Audience
Prerequisites
Goal
Objectives
Methodology
Materials
Agenda
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Instructor and Class Participants
• Who are you?
– Name
– Company
– Role
• What is your prior experience?
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Business intelligence
Data warehouse design
Database design
Oracle BI applications
• How do you expect to benefit from this course?
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Training Site Information
• Bathrooms
• Class duration and
breaks
• Telephones
• Meals and
refreshments
• Fire exits
• Questions?
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Course Audience
This course is intended for:
• Application developers
• Business intelligence developers
• Business analysts
• Data modelers
• Database designers
• Data warehouse analysts
• Technical consultants
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Course Prerequisites
Required Oracle University courses:
• Oracle BI 10g: Analytics Overview
Recommended Oracle University courses:
• Oracle BI Suite EE 10gR3: Create Reports and Dashboards
Recommended experience:
• Business intelligence
• Data warehouse design
• Data modeling
• Database design
• Basic SQL
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Course Goal
To enable students to build and deploy an Oracle Business
Intelligence repository.
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Course Objectives
• Build the Physical, Business Model and Mapping, and
Presentation layers of a repository.
• Set up query logging for testing and debugging.
• Use Oracle BI Answers to run queries to test and validate a
repository.
• Add multiple sources to business model objects.
• Build simple and calculated measures for a fact table.
• Create dimension hierarchies and level-based measures.
• Model aggregate tables to speed up processing.
• Model partitions and fragments to improve application
performance and usability.
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Course Objectives
• Use variables to streamline administrative tasks and
dynamically modify metadata content.
• Use time series functions to support historical time
comparison analyses.
• Use bridge tables to resolve many-to-many relationships
between dimension and fact tables.
• Use helper tables to maintain team-based hierarchical
relationships in a dimension table.
• Configure Oracle BI to support multilingual environments.
• Use implicit fact columns to select fact tables for dimensiononly queries.
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Course Objectives
• Create a repository using a multidimensional data source.
• Set up security to authenticate users and assign appropriate
permissions and privileges.
• Apply cache management techniques to maintain and
enhance query performance.
• Enable usage tracking to track queries and database usage,
and improve query performance.
• Set up and use a multi-user development environment.
• Use Administration Tool utilities and wizards to perform
administrative tasks.
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Course Objectives
• Identify best practices for optimizing end-user query
performance when implementing Oracle BI Enterprise
Edition.
• Identify and apply repository design principles and best
practices.
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Course Methodology
The subject matter is delivered through:
• Lectures and slide presentations
• Software demonstrations
• Class discussions
• Hands-on practices
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Course Materials
Student Guide
• All slides presented during lectures
Practice Guide
• Hands-on practices and solutions
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Course Agenda
Day One:
• Lesson I: Course Introduction
• Lesson 1: Repository Basics
• Lesson 2: Building the Physical Layer of a Repository
• Lesson 3: Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer
of a Repository
• Lesson 4: Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository
• Lesson 5: Testing and Validating a Repository
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Course Agenda
Day Two:
• Lesson 6: Adding Multiple Logical Table Sources
• Lesson 7: Adding Calculations to a Fact
• Lesson 8: Creating Dimension Hierarchies and
Level-Based Measures
• Lesson 9: Using Aggregates
• Lesson 10: Using Partitions and Fragments
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Course Agenda
Day Three:
• Lesson 11: Using Repository Variables
• Lesson 12: Modeling Time Series Data
• Lesson 13: Modeling Many-to-Many Relationships
• Lesson 14: Localizing Oracle BI Metadata
• Lesson 15: Localizing Oracle BI Data
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Course Agenda
Day Four:
• Lesson 16: Setting an Implicit Fact Column
• Lesson 17: Integrating Third-Party Reporting Tools
• Lesson 18: Creating Repositories from Multidimensional
Data Sources
• Lesson 19: Security
• Lesson 20: Cache Management
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Course Agenda
Day Five:
• Lesson 21: Enabling Usage Tracking
• Lesson 22: Multi-User Development
• Lesson 23: Using Administration Tool Utilities
• Lesson 24: Optimizing Query Performance
• Lesson 25: Oracle BI Repository Design Principles
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Summary
This lesson provided an introduction to the:
• Instructor and class participants
• Training site information
• Course:
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Audience
Prerequisites
Goal
Objectives
Methodology
Materials
Agenda
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