Business users are frustrated with the pace and schedule at which their requirements are fulfilled in OBIEE environments. IT, on the other hand, is unable to keep pace with fast changing BI requirements leading to ever growing backlog of requests. Both Business Users and IT are looking for Self-Service capabilities where business users can model and visualize their transient BI requirements while IT can focus on the core, stable BI requirements. Business users love Tableau's self-service capabilities. But, can you combine Tableau with OBIEE to empower business users with Self-Service BI?

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Enabling
Self Service BI
for OBIEE
using Tableau
February 23, 2016
Shankar Radhakrishnan

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Top 4 Drivers for Self-Service BI
Constantly
changing business
needs
IT’s inability to
satisfy new
requirements
Need to be
analytics-driven
organization
Immediate
access to
information
Source: TDWI Survey

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Where are we today?
Source: Gartner
Information Consumers Power Users
Centralized/ Controlled Decentralized/Autonomous
Static
Reports
Interactive
Reports
Ad Hoc
Query/OLAP
Data
Discovery
Data Dump in
Excel/Access
The Dull side Self-Service BI The Dark Side

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Rise of Self service BI
“End users designing and developing their own reports and analysis within
an approved and supported architecture and tools portfolio”
Easy to access
Data sources
Easy to use Tools
Fast to deploy and
easy to manage
Easy to produce,
share, collaborate
and consume
Results
Courtesy: BI Research and Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
Self
Service BI
Complimentary to traditional BI
80/20 rule for requirements
Need for “Governed Self-Service”

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What are the Self-service Challenges in
OBIEE?

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First, Let us look at OBIEE’s Strengths
Metadata Repository aka RPD
Robust Semantic Layer

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Enterprise Class Scale and Performance
Complex data model
Join hundreds of tables
Hundreds of columns in tables
Complex business logic built-in

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Well Defined Security Model

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Good for enterprise
dashboards
• standardized dimensions,
filters, and metrics
• Well suited for a significant
portion of enterprise data
Other Advantages

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Weeks or months to add
dashboards or data
sources
OBIEE’s Weakness: Speed of Change
IT centered

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Lack of Blending
New
Insights
Blend
OBIEE
SQL
BIG DATA
Not possible
Not possible with
OBIEE 11g
Limited with OBIEE 12c,
only with Excel
Requires additional
license

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Other OBIEE Challenges
Dated
visualization
Super complex to
use for end users
Data in silos of
subject areas

13. What are business users doing today?

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On The Edge of Dark Side
Export
SQL
ETL
Mash-ups
Visualization
Sharing and
collaborationOBIEE
STAGING
DATABASE

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Problems with this approach
Data Silos
No Single Version of Truth
Laborious and cumbersome
Security models are broken

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What is the Ideal Solution?
Connect from
Tableau to
OBIEE.
Reuse OBIEE data
model, connect live to it
and build Tableau
visualizations on top of it.
Blend external
data with
OBIEE data.
Reuse
OBIEE
security
rules.
Repurpose huge
investment in
OBIEE + Benefits
of Tableau.
Enable a true
governed
self-service BI

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Introducing BI Connector
OBIEE
Subject Area
and Reports
as Data
Sources
Secured by OBIEE
security model
Reuse OBIEE
business logic, No
Changes to OBIEE
à Cost and Time
savings
Easy Installation
Information Consistency
Best of
Tableau +
OBIEE
= Governed
Self-
Service BI
OBIEE TABLEAU

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How BI Connector enables Governed Self-Service
• Access OBIEE data in live or extract methods
• Access via browser or Tableau Desktop
• Visualize, mash-up, publish, consume
• Create “Governed” OBIEE data source for
Tableau
• No changes in OBIEE
• No coding required
• Works with 10g, 11g, 12c
Business Users IT

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BI Connector Live Demo
Visualize OBIEE Subject
Area
Publish to Tableau Server
Visualize OBIEE Reports
(Preview of Reports Add-on)

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Governed Self Service Environment
IT built logical data model (semantic layer)Data model -
OBIEE
IT
BI Connector connecting to
OBIEE Subject Area Certified OBIEE Reports
Certified Content –
OBIEE
Super
User/Power
User
Consumption
Layer - Tableau
Certified content +Ad-hoc + mashup using data from
traditional BI and local/third party data
End User
Transactional Systems –
Oracle EBS, SAP, Siebel,
Salesforce etc
IT built Data marts
IT Built ETLData sources –
Databases
IT
BI Connector connecting to
OBIEE Reports

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Win-Win for Business and IT
Business users love
• Tableau visualization
for OBIEE
• Mash-ups
• Speed of change
• Time savings
• Ease of use
• Less BI backlogs
• No OBIEE changes
• No data migration
• Easy to deploy
• Works with
10g,11g and 12c
OBIEE
• Eliminate Excel
exports from OBIEE
• Avoid end user SQL
access to critical data
• Secure access to
OBIEE
Reuse OBIEE investment
while supporting business
need for Self-Service BI
à GOVERNED
SELF-SERVICE BI
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Summary
Recognize that you need two kinds of BI
Tools
• OBIEE – Driven by IT
• stable requirements
• large data models
• security
• Tableau – Business user friendly
• data discovery
• visualization
• mash-ups
• transient data
• speed of change
Combine OBIEE
with Tableau
• 80-20 rule
• Governed Self-
Service BI
• Win-win for both
Business and IT.
BI Connector
can help you
achieve
Governed Self-
Service BI
efficiently and
effectively.
Download free trial at
www.biconnector.com

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