10GAS Building Corporate KPIs - 101

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AGENDA Show Me How!

Deployment Architecture Create EULADMIN ( KPI Repository ) Create BA ( Build Meaningful Data Relationships ) Create Discoverer Plus Report ( Your KPIS ) Create Discoverer and 10gAS interface Create Portal Page ( Your Dashboard ) Add Discoverer report Show a client Portal site

EUL
The Discoverer End User Layer (EUL) is a server based, low maintenance, powerful metadata repository and query management engine for data warehouses and on-line transaction processing (OLTP) systems. The EUL engine also automatically performs query redirection to summaries. The EUL is centrally stored in the RDBMS for scalability and ease of maintenance.

Business Areas
The most visible function of the End User Layer (EUL) is to manage information describing relational data in business terms, facilitating end user ad hoc query and reporting.
Discoverer provides this by storing multiple 'Business Areas' within each EUL. Business areas can represent one or more subject areas, simplifying tables and columns into easy to understand folders and items of data.

Decision Points For Architecture Choice

Are we 24*7 or 8*6 shop? How many level of DMZs you need to secure your data? How much Availability, Scalability, Response time are we looking at.

8-6 Shops With Reasonable Load

Choose Two node Architecture Scale your Middle tiers as user load increases for Middle Tier component usage Scale your customer database using RAC Always scale horizontally, add more as you grow.

24 * 7 Shops
Use multiple load balanced Middle tiers that will take care of your server crashes Cluster your instances ( processes spawned from same ORACLE_HOME software ) To cluster all instances must be configured identically Database can be protected using RAC or ACTIVE-PASSIVE failover database architecture

Typical Oracle Architecture

Clients
Network

Application Servers Middle Tier Database Tier

Shared Cache
Clustered Database Server Nodes are connected via a high speed, low latency Interconnect

Shared Disk Database

Architecture Details 10gAS

Client Breakdown 1
mod_oc4j sits within Oracle HTTP Server and (i) identifies the requests it needs to act on, (ii) determines which OC4J to route those requests to, and (iii) communicates with that process. Mod_oc4j analyzes the response from OC4J and takes appropriate actions - ex. If a single sign on redirect is required. Single Sign-On user accounts - A Single Sign-On user account accesses applications (including OracleAS Portal) with a single user name and password.

Once a user has entered his or her Single Sign-On user name and password for one application, he or she can access other applications without having to log in again.

Client Breakdown 2
You Login AS
http://portalprd4.imcglobal.com:7777/pls/portal ( middle tier )

You Login request is passed to SSO delegated service AS to Infrastructure Server

http://hrsprd1.imcglobal.com:7778/sso/jsp/login.jsp?site2pst....

10gAS Middle Tier Breakdown 1

Discoverer
Forms
home HTTP_Server OC4J_BI_Forms

OC4J_Portal Reports Server Web Cache

Management

10gAS Database Tier Breakdown 1

HTTP_Server OC4J_SECURITY OID Single Sign-On:orasso Management

Breakdown OverView For KPIs - 1

Computers Running OracleAS Middle Tiers (add more computers as necessory)

Computer 2 Warehouse or Some KPI database: - Oracle EULADMIN user - Oracle Schema with dataset - Oracle Discoverer Plus Reports - Ability to get to this Server via SQL*NET from middle tier

Computer 3 BC4J componets SQL*NET

EULADMIN KPI Reports

Security Services

Product Metadata Computer 1 Identity Management Services: - Oracle Internet Directory - Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning - Oracle Delegated Administration Services - OracleAS Single Sign-On - OracleAS Certificate Authority

OracleAS Metadata Repository

Security Metadata Management Metadata

Deployment Architecture Overview

Internet DMZ Intranet

Internet Oracle DB

SSO FW
Clients

OiD FW

X X X X X

Web Cac he Web Cac he

LB

OC4J OC4J

Identify Data Layer 1

This is the custom database, one or more as shown in the diagrams above Identify you dataset to be part of KPIs, Existing data-marts is a great start. The dataset can be centralized or decentralized. In centralized model you have one EULADMIN which is public. In decentralized you have multiple EULs with one public and all other private. Once database and EULs where KPIs are stored are identified you are ready to connect to your discoverer reports

Cogitate on Application Layer, 2

Web Enabled Discoverer

OracleAS Discoverer Plus - End users use this Java based component to create workbooks and store them in the Discoverer repository (EUL).
OracleAS Discoverer Viewer - End users use this HTML based component to execute your workbooks created using Discoverer Plus or Desktop. OracleAS Discoverer Portlet Provider - The Discoverer Portlet Provider is the content delivery mechanism end users use to publish Discoverer workbooks to OracleAS Portal.

Client Server Discoverer

Oracle Discoverer Administrator - Business and information technology (IT) administrators use this component to create, maintain, and administer meta data and user access privileges. Oracle Discoverer Desktop - End users use this client/server based component to create workbooks and store them in the Discoverer repository (EUL). Integration - Key integration points with the Oracle Database, Oracle9i Application Server and Oracle E-Business Suite.

Role of Discover Application Layer in KPIs

Decide if you want to graph your data. If you do then you CANNOT use desktop edition tool to build your charts. Use PLUS PLUS stores reports and graphs using Java Graphs. Desktop used C++ based graphs which cannot be pulled from portal viewer.

Presentation Layer, 10g Portal Pages

10gAS portal pages are build using portal page technology We start plugging in Portlets on those pages For Discoverer KPIs oracle has discoverer Portlet interface For each report and a graph you will have to add this portlet Once you run the page oracle 10gAS will launch the Discover Viewer for drilldown and data display

Summary of KPI flow

Locate your source data. Locate your KPI dataset, data-marts. Build EULADMIN, BA, Plus reports. From 10gAS middle tier make sure to set TNSNAMES.ora to all EULADMINS where Plus reports are stored. Set general connection in EM console to these EULADMINs Use these connections to interface Plus reports to Discoverer Portlet, various connection list will be shown at this point.