Oracle BI Presentation Services 10g: Create Reports/Dashboards

What you will learn

This course provides step-by-step instructions for creating ad-hoc queries in OracleBI Answers and incorporating them into Interactive Dashboards, which compose business intelligence applications. Learn to build a simple OracleBI Interactive Dashboard starting with basic requests created in Answers, then add more complexity to the Dashboard as the course progresses, including pivot tables, charts, prompts, embedded content, and navigation links. Utilize OracleBI Delivers in sending real-time, personalized alerts via intelligence agents (iBots) to Interactive Dashboards for subscribed users.

In addition to building Dashboards, students learn to perform administration tasks related to configuring and maintaining them and how to customize the user interface for Interactive Dashboards using cascading style sheets, dashboard styles, and XML message files. Finally, the course provides an overview of recommended design principles and best practices related to the presentation of information in Interactive Dashboards.

Learn to:
  • Build queries in OracleBI Answers
  • Customize the OracleBI user interface
  • Create and modify OracleBI Interactive Dashboards
  • Use OracleBI Delivers to configure, schedule, and deliver personalized alerts


Audience
 Application Developers
Developer
End Users
Functional Implementer
Technical Administrator
Technical Consultant

Prerequisites
 Oracle BI 10g: Analytics Overview - Online Course
Understanding of transactional application architecture
Understanding of BI applications architecture
Oracle BI 10g: Analytics Overview - Online Course

Course Objectives
 Create and modify Business Intelligence requests using Oracle Business Intelligence Answers
Create and modify Interactive Dashboards
Create guided navigation links within Interactive Dashboards
Use Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers to configure, schedule, and deliver personalized alerts to Interactive Dashboards using iBots
Perform administrative tasks related to the development and configuration of Interactive Dashboards
Customize the OracleBI Presentation user interface
Employ recommended design principles and best practices

Course Topics
Working with Oracle Business Intelligence Answers
 Introduction to OracleBI Answers
Working with requests in OracleBI Answers

Filtering Requests in Oracle Business Intelligence Answers
 Introduction to filters in Answers
Adding filter prompts to requests
Using saved requests as filters

Views and Charts in Requests
 Introduction to Answers views and charts
Creating a column selector view

Showing Results with Pivot tables
 Introduction to pivot tables
Formatting pivot tables
Setting aggregation rules and building formulas

Creating Interactive Dashboards
 Introduction to Dashboards and pages
Dashboard Editor UI elements
Composing Dashboard elements

Configuring Interactive Dashboards
 Types of Dashboard content
Embedding content in Dashboards

Customizing the Oracle Business Intelligence User Interface
 Modifying cascading style sheets
Modifying XML message files

Configuring Guided Navigation Links
 Building guided navigation with static links
Building guided navigation with conditional links and sections

Administering Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Catalog
 Maintaining the OracleBI Presentation Catalog
Maintaining security
Understanding security inheritance

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers
 Building alerts
Building iBots
Introduction to OracleBI Scheduler

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Briefing Books
 Using OracleBI Briefing Books
Creating and editing OracleBI Briefing Books

Interactive Dashboard Design Principles and Best Practices
 Understanding Dashboard design principles

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