Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

Over 80 quick and advanced recipes that focus on real-world techniques and solutions to manage, design, and build data warehouse and business intelligence projects.
Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real time examples to perform key steps and functions on your project
Practical ways to estimate the effort of a data warehouse solution based on a standard work breakdown structure.
Learn to effectively turn the project from development to a live solution
Best practices to create a blueprint for the business intelligence solution

In Detail

Oracle Database 11g is a comprehensive database platform for data warehousing and business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply-integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality all in a single platform running on a reliable, low-cost grid infrastructure. This book steps through the lifecycle of building a data warehouse with key tips and techniques along the way.

Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology outlines the key ways to effectively use Oracle technology to deliver your business intelligence solution. This is a practical guide starting with key recipes for project management then moving onto project delivery.


Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology is a practical guide for performing key steps and functions on your project.

This book starts with setting the foundation for a highly repeatable efficient project management approach by assessing your current methodology to see how suitable it is for a business intelligence program. We also learn to set up the project delivery phases to consistently estimate the effort for a project. Along the way we learn to create blueprints for the business intelligence solution that help to connect and map out the destination of the solution. We then move on to analyze requirements, sources, and data. Finally we learn to secure the data as it is an important asset within the organization and needs to be secured efficiently and effectively.

What you will learn from this book

• Master some of the key techniques and components to enable you to visualise and interrogate information effectively
• Understand additional and advanced techniques to enhance your ETL/ELT solution
• Learn to build the data model using Oracle SQL Data Modeller and the Oracle Database to build your logical and physical data model and OBIEE to build the presentation data model.
• Develop data discovery scripts to uncover data issues and gaps
• Learn to reverse engineer source data models and map data sources to business requirements using Oracle SQL Data Modeller.
• Get to grips with mapping information into semantic definitions
• Understand the ways to define a security model

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Oracle BI Publisher 11g A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting

Create and deliver improved snapshots in time of your Enterprise data using Oracle BI Publisher 11g with this hands-on book and eBook guide

• A practical tutorial for improving your Enterprise reporting skills with Oracle BI Publisher 11g
• Master report migration, template design, and E-Business Suite integration
• A practical guide brimming with tips about all the new features of the 11g release

In Detail

Oracle BI Publisher 11g (formerly XML Publisher) enables the creation, management and delivery of various reports, making it a desirable tool for any company to achieve the best image of your resources. This book offers practical application of BIP functionality for improving your ability to design and deliver quality reports just when they are needed.

"Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting" is an applicable guide for using Oracle BIP from the perspective of a report developer, helping you to utilize the tool from simple to complex report design. You can take advantage of both the existing functionality of BIP 10g, as well as a special emphasis on the new 11g features.

This guide will take you on a tour of Oracle BI Publisher 11g, beginning with a description of the new 11g functionality. You'll continue by learning from a range of step-by-step procedures for building Data Models, Layout Templates and report configurations, packed with screenshots to help you along. Finally, you'll tackle themes like integration with Oracle EBS, Oracle report migration, and report translations.

By the end of "Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting", you'll be equipped with all you need to know to produce complex reports detailing your company's data.

What you will learn from this book

• Jump start your learning by understanding what Business Intelligence really means
• Migrate Oracle reports to Oracle BI Publisher 11g
• Get to grips with designing Data Models for reports in Oracle BIP 11g
• Master the management of multiple data sources
• Gain the skills to design the layout of reports and build BI Publisher templates
• Build RTF templates using Template Builder for MSWord
• Go further with Oracle BIP by integrating with E-Business Suite and dealing with report translations
• Learn how to build a report from beginning to end, including configuration

Approach

This is a practical guide with step-by step instructions for enhancing your application of Oracle BI Publisher 11g for enterprise reporting.

Oracle BI Publisher 11g A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting

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Oracle JRockit The Definitive Guide

Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide
 

What you will learn from this book

Get to grips with the fundamental building blocks of a JVM: the code generator, the garbage collector, and the implementation of threads and synchronization. Learn the design philosophy behind the JRockit JVM in these areas.
Become a better Java programmer through enhanced understanding of the Java runtime.
Learn how program execution works in an adaptive environment.
Create relevant benchmarks and accurately measure the performance of your Java application.
Learn the most important command-line flags that control JRockit subsystems and their use for performance tuning.
Get to know what JRockit Mission Control is, how to set it up, and how to trouble-shoot it.
Use the JRockit Management Console to monitor and manage a running JRockit instance.
Profile your JRockit JVM and Java application with near zero overhead using the JRockit Runtime Analyzer and the JRockit Flight Recorder.
Detect and resolve Java memory leaks using the JRockit Memory Leak Detector tool.
Learn how JRockit Virtual Edition works and why it outperforms other Java solutions in traditional virtualized environments.

Oracle JRockit The Definitive Guide

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D70800GC10 BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 Develop Enterprise Portals Ed 1

This course trains experienced Web application developers to create sophisticated enterprise portals using the full capabilities of BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1. BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 is the development environment. This training prepares you to create real-world interactive, portal solutions that integrate with back end applications such as a content management system. You will become more productive designing and developing a highly interactive portal and maintaining real time information flow. This course features BEA Ed.Lab, a revolutionary learning environment offered exclusively by BEA. BEA Ed.Lab eliminates the gap between technical training and real-world implementation.

Learn to:

• Build highly interactive portal applications
• Develop personalization rules and user profiles to create a sophisticated user Web experience
• Incorporate business processes, Web services and content from other Web sites into an enterprise portal

 D70800GC10 BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 Develop Enterprise Portals Ed 1

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EJB 3.0 Database Persistence with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Packt-EJB 3.0 Database Persistence with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Aug 2010

EJB 3.0 Database Persistence with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

What you will learn from this book

Explore the new features in the EJB 3.0 specification
Convert an EJB 2.0 entity bean to EJB 3.0 in JDeveloper
Create EJB 3.0 entity beans from database tables automatically in JDeveloper
Implement EJB 3.0 database persistence with JDeveloper, WebLogic Server, and Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
Wrap an entity bean with a session bean
Build a client for an EJB 3.0 entity bean application
Develop an ADF Faces user interface (UI) for entity beans
Create EJB 3.0 entity relationships
Design JSF UIs for EJB 3.0 entity relationships
Integrate EJB 3.0 database persistence with an AJAX user interface (UI)
Build EJB 3.0 Web Services from entity beans

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Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns

Examine the key building blocks of Enterprise 2.0 architectures and then outline important integration considerations.
Align IT with business processes that benefit from process-driven SOA development
Create a unified platform for fast, flexible data analysis by integrating relational and multi-dimensional data.
Combine SOA and BI to build intelligent processes with insight-driven agility.
Inject high performance into data services by using data-tier caching for SOA performance.
Bring about change without developing code for application extensions and integrations.
Provide next generation integrated real-time intelligence using Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Coherence, and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring.
Build an automated reporting platform with SOA and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.
Govern business demands and requirements by building agile applications using Fusion Development and Oracle Enterprise Architecture Principles.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns

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