Deploying Full Oracle BI Platforms to Oracle Cloud - OOW2015

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Mark Rittman, CTO, Rittman Mead | Oracle OpenWorld 2015
Deploying Full OBIEE Systems to Oracle Cloud
Is it possible? How would you do it … and what are the benefits?
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About the Speaker
• Mark Rittman, Co-Founder of Rittman Mead

- Oracle ACE Director, specialising in Oracle BI&DW

- 14 Years Experience with Oracle Technology

- Regular columnist for Oracle Magazine

• Author of two Oracle Press Oracle BI books

- Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide

- Oracle Exalytics Revealed

- Writer for Rittman Mead Blog : 
http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog

• Email : mark.rittman@rittmanmead.com

• Twitter : @markrittman
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About Rittman Mead
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• World’s leading specialist partner for technical
excellence, solutions delivery and innovation in
Oracle Data Integration, Business Intelligence,
Analytics and Big Data
• Providing our customers targeted expertise; we are a
company that doesn’t try to do everything… only
what we excel at
• 70+ consultants worldwide including 1 Oracle ACE
Director and 3 Oracle ACEs
• Founded on the values of collaboration, learning,
integrity and getting things done
Optimizing your investment in Oracle Business Analytics
• Comprehensive service portfolio designed to
support the full lifecycle of any analytics solution

Rittman Mead Sessions
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No Big Data Hacking—Time for a Complete ETL
Solution with Oracle Data Integrator 12c
[UGF5827]
Jérôme Françoisse | Sunday, Oct 25, 8:00am |
Moscone South 301

Empowering Users: Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition 12c Visual Analyzer [UGF5481]
Edelweiss Kammermann | Sunday, Oct 25, 10:00am
| Moscone West 3011

A Walk Through the Kimball ETL Subsystems
with Oracle Data Integration Solutions [UGF6311]
Michael Rainey | Sunday, Oct 25, 12:00pm |
Moscone South 301
Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service—
Moving Your Complete BI Platform to the Cloud
[UGF4906]
Mark Rittman | Sunday, Oct 25, 2:30pm | Moscone
South 301

Oracle Data Integration Product Family: a
Cornerstone for Big Data [CON9609]
Mark Rittman | Wednesday, Oct 28, 12:15pm |
Moscone West 2022

Developer Best Practices for Oracle Data
Integrator Lifecycle Management [CON9611]
Jérôme Françoisse | Thursday, Oct 29, 2:30 pm |
Moscone West 2022

User Engagement
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Visual Redesign Business User Training
Ongoing SupportEngagement Toolkit
Average user adoption for BI
platforms is below 25%
Rittman Mead’s User Engagement Service can help

Oracle BI Cloud Service - What Is It?
• Oracle Business Intelligence, re-imagined for the cloud

• Runs as part of Oracle Public Cloud, part of wider Oracle Platform-as-a-Service

• Pay monthly, min 10 users, rolling upgrades and new features

• Entirely thin-client, simplified administration

• Aimed at departmental use-cases

- Sharing data from a spreadsheet

- Team reporting

- Development sandboxes
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Create OBIEE Analyses + Dashboards
• Regular Presentation Services interface - Dashboard, Analysis Editor, Catalog

• Re-use existing OBIEE skills, common interface with on-premise OBIEE
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Regular Updates & Previews of On-Premise Functionality
• BICS has had multiple updates since v1 launch, automatically added by Oracle

- Significant real-world benefit for customers - no-more big-bang upgrades

• Adding on-premise functionality missing in v1 (mapping for example)

• Filling out functionality e.g. Data Sync tool

• Early access to on-premise features

- Visual Analyzer

- Data Mashups
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Early Access to Oracle Visual Analyzer
• Tableau-style data analysis tool aimed at
data analysts and self-service users

• Point-and-click exploration and
visualisation of datasets

• Uses BI Repository as data source,
ensuring “single-version-of-the-truth”

- Users can also add their own data, “for data
mashups”

• Coming in next 12 mths with OBIEE12c,  
but available now in BICS
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Early Access to Data Mashups in Answers
• Allows users to upload their own
datasets to join to existing analysis

• Aimed at users who would otherwise
export to Excel

• User-supplied attributes and metrics
clearly marked in catalog

• Enables more self-service, users
doing “last mile” in reporting

• Coming in OBIEE12c,  
but previewed in BICS now
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Thin-Client Data Modeller for Simple RPD Modelling
• New thin-client data modeller, works with RPD online

• Single repository per tenant

• Regular RPD, but modeller only supports  
subset of BI Administration features

- Single LTS per logical table

- No Alias, have to create DB views

- Single business model

- Only logical calculations

- But otherwise - an RPD
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Oracle Database Schema Provided with BICS
•Each instance of BICS comes with Oracle Schema Cloud Service

•ApEx environment with 10GB storage attached

•Able to run PL/SQL packages (with 5m timeout)

•Either create tables, views etc from ApEX, 
or use data uploader in BICS 
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Click to launch  
ApEX Home Page

Oracle BICS Initial Use-Case : Departmental Reporting
• Oracle BI Cloud Service in initial, standalone form aimed at departmental
reporting

- 50GB storage in single schema, limited ETL access

- Single subject area and limited RPD features

• Other common use-cases include

- Development environments

- Spin-off data discovery sandboxes

- Dedicated SaaS reporting applications

• But … part of wider Oracle Cloud platform

- Can we use that to host a whole BI system?
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Wider Oracle Public Cloud PaaS Ecosystem
• Similar to other public cloud services (AWS, Azure etc) at IaaS layer

• But with platform (PaaS) and software (SaaS) layers as differentiator
• Can we use Database, Storage and other layers to host full OBIEE platform?

- And what about ETL, identity management, file storage and so on?
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Hosting Full OBIEE Platforms in Oracle Public Cloud
• Leverages BICS’s new “Upload RPD Data
Models to the Cloud” feature

- Migrate supporting DW to full Oracle DBaaS

- Update on-prem RPD to connect to DBaaS

- Upload RPD to BICS

• Create new Oracle Cloud users for BICS

• ETL can connect via SQL*Net, JDBC etc

• Use for wider use-cases than BICS incl.

- Host full production platform (or test, dev)

- Create development branches, etc
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Oracle BICS
Oracle DBaaS
RPD  
Upload
ETL ToolsBI Administration On-Premise Source DB
Data Uploads 
via SQL*Net

BICS Upload RPD to Cloud Key Steps
1. Make sure on-premise data model is consistent, no errors etc

2. Create DBaas Instance, Upload on-premise database to cloud

3. Update RPD Connection Pool settings to point to DBaaS instance

4. Recreate any user accounts, application roles etc

5. Create new dashboards and reports
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Example Migration : Full OBIEE11g SampleApp v406
• OBIEE11g SampleApp v506 - based on 11.1.1.9 release and delivered on VM

• Comes with Oracle 12c Database with multiple schemas, MVs, partitioning etc

- Also uses Essbase, Hadoop etc but out of scope for this exercise

• Objective is to migrate OBIEE, DW database and security elements

- Verify that ODI can still connect and load DW in Oracle Cloud

- Look at options for additional DB sources,  
Essbase, Hadoop sources etc
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Creating a Full Database Instance in Oracle DBaaS
• Initial step is to create an Oracle Database Cloud Service Instance

• Options for 11g or 12c Release Database, High / Extreme Performance Options

- Determines scope of DB features available (OLAP, partitioning etc)
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Oracle Database Cloud Service Connectivity / Configuration
• Database runs in a VM, has Listener and other processes running

• Database parameters can be altered, but DB Options set by DBaaS version

- OLAP, Partitioning Options not present may affect DB uploads

• Ports blocked by default, need to be opened for SQL*Net etc access
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Managing and Monitoring Database Cloud Service
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Express 12c for DBA tasks

- Features determined by DBaaS edition  
(regular, High or Extreme Performance)

• Virtualised Cloud Hosting monitored by 
Oracle DBaaS Monitor

- RDBMS storage, alerts, processes etc

- OS-level monitoring

- Listener

- Backups etc
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Migrating On-Premise Data to Oracle DBaaS
• This can be the tricky bit - if only because of volumes

• RMAN, DataPump etc available as options, along with ODI, SQL*Developer etc
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New Option : Oracle GoldenGate for Cloud
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Configuring On-Premise RPD to Connect to DBaaS
• Update Connection Pool settings in on-prem RPD before upload to BICS

- Note : DBaaS instance must be in same datacenter as BICS

• Note - No need to change overall DB connection setting in BICS Console
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Steps to Upload RPD to BI Cloud Service
• Backup (snapshot) current BICS environment if required

• Select Snapshots > Replace Data Model
• Use Browse button to select RPD from desktop, then upload to BICS
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Additional BICS Capabilities when using Uploaded RPD
• Allows multiple subject areas vs. single one in standard BICS

• Multiple DBaaS instances can be mapped into RPD for federated queries

• Full access to RPD features - vertical/horizontal federation etc

• Data Mashups also available (but not VA)
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Additional Post Upload Configuration : Mapping
• Mapping is now available in BICS, requires further Administrator configuration

• Single map provider (OracleMaps) with set of associated layers

• As with on-premise, map layers then need to be linked to subject area columns
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Configuring Security and Recreating Users, Roles
• On-premise users need to have corresponding new account created in BICS

- Also creates an Oracle Cloud login for BICS identity domain - separate to OTN login

• BICS licensed per user, min is 10 per pod with test and prod instances

• Application roles also need to be recreated and users added
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Row-level Security Within RPD
• Row-level security works properly within BICS and uploaded RPDs

• Best practice is to base on application roles, recreate matching ones to proceed

• Regular and row-wise session variables then work as expected
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Limitations on BICS with RPD Upload vs On-Premise
• Can only access other DBaaS sources at present

- Presume integration with PBCS, Oracle Big Data Cloud Service, SaaS apps to come

- No ability at present to access Essbase, TT or other acceleration layers

• No further editing of the uploaded RPD - one-way only

• No way to upload the catalog to go with RPD - must recreate in cloud

• Further limitations that may possibly be lifted in the future

- Adding of HTML or Javascript to Analyses is disabled

- Some limitations around alternate sorts and other small issues

- Visual Analyser not available yet (multiple subject area issue?)

- No usage tracking (but see MOS Doc.ID 1965207.1)
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What About ETL and Data Integration?
• How do we continue to keep loading new data into BI platform DBaaS DW?

- BICS can currently only access Oracle DB or schemas running in Oracle Cloud

- Some datasources for BI platform likely to still be on-premise

- Others might migrate from on-prem to Oracle Cloud, or be SaaS apps in cloud

• BICS by default comes with options for loading its DB schema via REST API

- Data Sync for on-prem/cloud table sync

- SFTP and other techniques

• What other options  
does DBaaS give us?

Running ODI On-Premise for On-Prem/Cloud
• ODI12c can continue to load into DW through Oracle DBaaS SQL*Net support

- Connect normally to DBaaS via JDBC, or through SSH tunnel

- Extract from on-premise sources, 
load into DBaaS as normal DB target

- Additional KMs for BICS integration, 
Oracle Storage Cloud Service

- Adapters for Oracle SaaS apps, 
Salesforce etc

- Zero impact on daily ETL tasks, but 
need to consider upload speeds etc
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New Option : Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service
• Oracle Cloud-based Data Preparation Service, aimed at da

• Takes files and other datasets from Oracle Cloud and prepares for analysis

• Split, transform and obfuscate data before loading into Hadoop data platform
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Uses Machine-Learning to Automate Data Recommendations
• Uses Spark MLlib machine learning to
profile data and recognise patterns

• Automates many of the routine data
preparation and profiling work

- Spot credit card, SSN + other sensitive
data, recommends masking

- Suggest appropriate names, datatypes
for columns based on  
format and data patterns

• Allows analyst to focus on key tasks

- Example of cloud app consumerization
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Cloud Datasource Integration & File Upload/Download
• Primary datasource and target is Oracle Storage Cloud Service (like Amazon S3)

- Oracle Big Data Cloud Service, Oracle DBaaS and others

• User can also upload / download files directly into Big Data Prep Service
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Future Option : Direct BDP > BICS Integration
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Orchestrate BDP > BICS Data Loading via ODI12c
• Possible now : Use of ODI to prepare individual files through BDP

• ODI on-premise used to automate file extracts and upload into Storage CS using its
REST APIs

• BDP picks up files available in  
Storage CS and prepares them

• Prepared files are written back  
into Storage CS

• Prepped files downloaded by ODI  
from Storage CS, loaded into BICS

- On roadmap: BDP will be able to  
load prepared data directly into BICS
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So … Why Would I Want to Migrate My BI Platform to Cloud?
• Cost - although Oracle Cloud has costs, TCO can be cheaper than on-prem

- Factor in service management, upgrades, staff costs, managed service contracts etc

- Operational issues taken care of by Oracle, along with security compliance

• Pay for software + hosting monthly/user, out of OpEx

• Gives more agility around creating test, dev branch environments
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Summary and Next Steps
• It’s now possible (mostly…) possible to migrate full OBIEE systems to cloud

• On-premise RPDs uploaded into BI Cloud Service + linked to DBaaS for DW

• ODI can still upload data from on-premise sources into DBaaS, or consider BDP

• Contact us at info@rittmanmead.com for more info, test drives, proof of
concepts - now!
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Mark Rittman, CTO, Rittman Mead | Oracle OpenWorld 2015
Deploying Full OBIEE Systems to Oracle Cloud
Is it possible? How does it work … and what’s the benefit vs. on-premise?
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Deploying Full Oracle BI Platforms to Oracle Cloud - OOW2015

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