Practical Tips for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g Implementations

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Practical Tips for Oracle Business Intelligence  
Applications 11g Implementations

Introduction
• Michael Rainey

- Principal Consultant

- Oracle Data Integration expert

‣ GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator
- Blogger, instructor, speaker

- Oracle ACE
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@mRainey

About Rittman Mead
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- World leading specialist partner for technical excellence, solutions
delivery and innovation in Oracle BI

- Provide consulting, training, managed services for customers worldwide

• 100+ consultants including 1 Oracle ACE Director and 4 Oracle ACEs

- All experts in Oracle BI, DW, EPM and Analytics tech

- Skills in broad range of supporting Oracle tools: OBIEE, OBIA, ODIEE,
Essbase, Oracle OLAP, GoldenGate, Exadata, Endeca

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What are we going to discuss today?
• Practical Tips…

- Installation and configuration

- LDAP integration

- High Availability

- Disaster Recovery

- Data Extracts
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Why?
• Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.7+

- Still “new” on the market for BI Apps customers

- Oracle Data Integrator (and GoldenGate) integration
introduces new concepts

- The 7.9.6.xx version will no longer be enhanced

• We can all learn from past experiences
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Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g
• Complete, prebuilt BI solutions

- Pre-packaged data models, ETL, reports and dashboards, built
using OBIEE and Oracle Data Integrator 11g

- Data sources include Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards,
Siebel, and SAP

- Modules such as Human Resources Analytics, Financial
Analytics, Project Analytics, and Student Information Analytics
can be purchased

• Conformed dimensions allow the use of data across modules
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Oracle BI Applications Architecture
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Installation and configuration
• Run through the GUI once, then script…script…and
script!
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Tip: Script it!

Why script?
• Create a repeatable process

- Simplifies subsequent environment builds

- Sandbox, Development, Test, Production, etc will follow
the same build process

- Build upon previous scripts as patches are installed or
new requirements are discovered

• Documentation writes itself… well, sort of
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Why run the GUI installer first?
• Work through the parameters,
order of steps, etc

• Generate a response file or
build a script
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Response file
• Pre-filled parameters in a text (.rsp) file

• Standard approach to “silent” installations

• Can be created for most install or configuration processes
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Configuration
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Tip: Boost performance

Configure the ODI Agent JVM
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Increase Connection Pools & Database Processes
• Each session in ODI is a new connection to the
repository and data warehouse

- Ensure the concurrent  
database processes are set  
to allow plenty of connections

- Up the connection pool  
max capacity
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ODI Agent Sessions
• Default is 10! That’s not gonna fly…

• Update in ODI Studio or Console and set to a value that
will meet performance needs
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LDAP configuration
• WebLogic Server embedded
LDAP - setup out of the box

• External LDAP can then be
integrated during configuration
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Tip: External LDAP gotchas

LDAP configuration
• OBIEE
- Uses Oracle Virtual Directory

- Embedded LDAP users (“biadmin”) and external LDAP
users can both access the same resources

• ODI
- Only one “type” of external authentication can be used at
a time

- Creates challenges when using the embedded LDAP users
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LDAP configuration
• Amazingly, the ODI Agent can still connect using
either an embedded LDAP or external LDAP user
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External Authentication with Oracle Data Integrator
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If ODI Supervisor user is…
• …an embedded LDAP account (as is default), you
must add external user via the ODI repository DB
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If ODI Supervisor user is…
• …an external LDAP account, you must change
credential mapping in WebLogic
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High Availability
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Tip: Do it

High Availability - ODI Agents
• Active-active High Availability

- Load balancer handles HTTP
web request to the agent

• One node acts as scheduler

- Coherence handles schedule
failover

- New sessions begin on new
node, but previous in-process
iterations will not continue
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Data Extract
Three ways to extract source data

• JDBC mode

• Database link mode

• SDS mode

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Tip: Choose wisely

Data Extract
• JDBC mode
- Default method for data extraction

- Streams records through the ODI agent for datatype conversion

- Useful for heterogeneous source/target

• Database link mode
- Use the database link native functionality in Oracle database

• SDS mode
- GoldenGate data replication extracts transactions and loads into target Source
Dependent Data Store (SDS) schema

- Useful if network latency is high or volume of transactions high
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GoldenGate - Data Replication - SDS Mode
• Oracle GoldenGate

- High-performance data replication

- Minimal impact on source and target systems

• Why use GoldenGate?

- High transaction rate

- Network latency an issue

- Need ability to delete from target
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Oracle GoldenGate
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Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle BI Applications 11g
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Disaster Recovery
If the reporting and analytics generated by BI Apps is critical
to your business, make sure it’s available!
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Tip: DR can be simple

Disaster Recovery Architecture
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Disaster Recovery Failover and Switchover Simplified
• Update Global CNAMEs

• Switch primary database via DataGuard

• Update the Web Catalog and Application Role assignments

• Start NodeManager, OHS, WebLogic AdminServer

• Update Embedded LDAP User GUID in ODI (if necessary)

• Start BI and ODI Managed Servers

• Update and Deploy the RPD

• Start the BI Services
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Reviewing the Tips
• Practical Tips…

- Installation and configuration

‣ Script everything!
‣ Increase sessions and JVM settings for performance improvements
- LDAP integration

‣ Watch out for those “gotchas” around the ODI agent user
- High Availability

‣ Just do it…but also, understand how it works
- Data Extracts

‣ Pick your type based on source-to-target latency and volume of transactions
- Disaster Recovery

‣ Simplify with DataGuard and CNAMEs
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Questions?
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Questions?
• Blogs:

- www.rittmanmead.com/category/biapps

- blogs.oracle.com/biapps/

• Contact:

- info@rittmanmead.com

- michael.rainey@rittmanmead.com

• Twitter

- @rittmanmead

- @mRainey
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