OracleBIEE+–统一的商务智能基础平台学案.ppt

* Cisco Systems is an example of a company that is well-known and respected as a leader in the use of information technology to drive improvements in its business. Cisco has been a very large adopter of Oracle BI EE. They started with an application developed for their Top 500 executives that provides a real-time, global view of key financial performance indicators from data across regions and sales channels, showing key metrics like bookings, billings, and order backlog. Based on this initial success, Cisco has continued to expand the use of BI EE across departments, including Marketing, HR, Sales, and Engineering. Today, they have well over 20,000 users, and in some areas saw the use of BIEE increase employee productivity by 30%. * * * The heart of Oracle BI EE is the Oracle BI Server. The BI Server is able to semantically integrate information from a variety of different sources into a single, simplified, enterprise-wide view of information. Through a combination of a distributed query engine and a logical, semantic model of the data, the BI Server enables you to represent multiple physical data sources as a single, simplified data structure to end user tools. This simplified view can then be queried by all end user tools through a simple SQL-based interface. So to end users the BI server looks like just another SQL data source. With the BI Server, organizations can simultaneously access and derive insight from across multiple heterogeneous data sources, including: Historical data sources in data warehouses Real-time data stored in operational data sources and OLTP systems Data stored in multi-dimensional sources such as SAP BW and the Oracle OLAP Option Data stored in Files, Excel, XML The BI Server also includes it’s own advanced calculation engine, so regardless of the calculation capabilities of the underlying data sources, organizations can get the intelligence they need. And calculations can be defined in the metadata that cut across data from mu