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This lesson describes the following architecture components and their relationships:
‡ Clients
‡ Oracle BI Presentation Services
‡ Oracle BI Server
‡ Oracle BI repository
‡ Data sources



Provide access to business intelligence information
‡ Oracle BI Answers
± Is a set of graphical tools used to build, view, and modify
Oracle BI requests
‡ Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards
± Display the results of Answers requests and other items
‡ Oracle BI Administration Tool
± Is used to build an Oracle BI repository

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‡ Provides the processing to visualize the information for client consumption
‡ Is implemented as an extension to a Web server
‡ Uses a catalog to store saved content
‡ Receives data from Oracle BI Server and provides it to the client that requested it

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‡ Is the core server behind Oracle Business Intelligence
‡ Provides efficient processing to access physical data sources and structure information
intelligently
± Uses metadata to direct processing
± Generates dynamic SQL to query data in the physical data sources
± Connects natively or through ODBC to the RDBMS
± Structures results to satisfy requests
± Provides BI data to Oracle BI Presentation Services

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‡ Stores the metadata used by Oracle BI Server
‡ Is accessed and configured using the Oracle BI
Administration Tool, which you use to:
± Import metadata from databases and other data sources
± Simplify and reorganize the metadata into business models
± Structure the business model for presentation to users who request information



 
‡ Contain the business data that users want to analyze
‡ Are accessed by Oracle BI Server
‡ Can be in any format, such as:
± Relational databases
± Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases
± Flat files
± Spreadsheets
± XML for Analysis (XMLA)

 



Contains objects representing the physical data sources to which Oracle BI Server submits
queries
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Is where physical schemas are simplified and reorganized to form the basis of the users¶ view of
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Contains presentation objects that provide a customized view of a business model to users

Exposes only the data meaningful to the users

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‡ Are the facts that a business uses to evaluate its
performance
‡ Can be calculations that define measurable quantities
‡ Are created on logical columns in the fact table
‡ Have a defined aggregation rule

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Repository files can be opened for editing in offline or online
mode.
‡ Offline
± Repository is not loaded into Oracle BI Server memory.
‡ Online:
± Repository is loaded into Oracle BI Server memory.
± Administrators can perform tasks not available in offline mode:
² Manage scheduled jobs
² Manage user sessions
² Manage the query cache
² Manage clustered servers
² Stop Oracle BI Server
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-QSConfig.ini is a configuration file read by Oracle BI Server to determine which repository to

load into memory.
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