OBIEE:History, Architecture, Components with an Example

What is OBIEE?

OBIEE stands for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. It’s a platform for Oracle BI applications.

How OBIEE originated?

Hyperion Interactive Reporting (Brio) à OBIEE

Interactive Reporting was first developed by Brio Software and was known by various names like Brio Query, Explorer, Insight and finally Intelligence.

The earlier version of Hyperion Performance Suite was very basic. The Brio software added an intuitive user interface that supports query, reporting and alerting capabilities.

 

Following Figure explains how Brio Architectures was transformed to OBIEE.

What are the various functions of OBIEE?

 

1.      Dashboards

2.      BI Server

3.      OLAP Server

4.      Ad hoc query

5.      Alerting

6.      Pixel-Perfect reporting

7.      Office

8.      Balanced Scorecard

9.      Print Quality Financial Report

OBIEE components can be seen in following figure:

Each of the component seen above can be used to meet some specific requirement.

 

For Example:

                                        

Publisher: We will discuss this component in more detail as below:

 

Question: What if we need to send the daily report in the same format to senior management, updated with the latest data?

 

Answer: We can use BI Publisher to create report and use Delivers (one more Component seen in above figure) to send it by email.

 

This is a simple example of one of the features of OBIEE. We can do a lot more with each of the components.

We will learn more about OBIEE and its usage in next blog. Stay tuned!

References:

http://www.kpipartners.com/blog/bid/146263/Converting-Hyperion-IR-Brio-to-OBIEE

http://www.ealliancebusinessintelligence.com/oraclebusinessintelligenceprimer.php

http://siebelbipblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/what-is-oracle-bi-publisher-brief.html