Migrating from OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud · February 20-22, 2018 | Westin Westminster Hotel | Westminster, CO Migrating from OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud John Liette –MindStream

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Migrating from OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud

John Liette – MindStream Analytics


Who Am I?

• Product Architect, Business Intelligence

11 Years of BI ExperienceOBIEE AdministratorBusiness AnalystRPD DeveloperReport and Dashboard DeveloperOAC Architect


About MindStream


Migrating from OBIEE to OAC

• What is Analytics Cloud?• Who is best suited to migrate from OBIEE to OAC?• Debunking some misconceptions about the cloud• What does it mean to migrate to the cloud?• What is involved in the migration?


What is Oracle Analytics Cloud?– A suite of analytics tools that has two primary versions:

•Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS)

•A fast, lightweight option to get smart, clear visualizations from a variety of sources without building a complex data model

•Mobile friendly, comparable to Tableau in function

•Data Visualization Desktop for 50 Users

•A local version of DVCS, allowing you to utilize it offline if the data is stored locally

•Oracle Smartview

•An add in for Microsoft Word that allows you to connect to a variety of sources, including Oracle Essbase

•Oracle Essbase in the Cloud

•Analytics leveraging Multi Dimensional cubes to summarize metrics by a specific set of dimensions

Standard Edition (OACS)

•Everything listed for Standard Edition

•Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS)

•Oracle Essbase Enterprise in the Cloud

•Day by Day

Enterprise Edition (OACEE)



Debunking Some Myths About OAC(And “The Cloud” in General)


Debunking Some Myths About OAC

Misconception: “I’m not ready to go to the cloud because we leverage MSAD for authentication and I don’t want to redo all of our security to use Oracle Cloud accounts.”

Truth: OAC features the ability to connect to external LDAP providers, like MSAD, enabling users to login to OAC using their existing network credentials.


Debunking Some Myths About OACMisconception: “We can’t use OAC because we just don’t have the bandwidth to move our data warehouse to an Oracle Cloud DB and rework all of our ETL and downstream processes.”

Truth: Oracle supports configuring a VPN connection between the OAC Cloud Compute Server and your data center. Therefore, OAC can deliver all of its benefits while allowing you to leave your data processes as is.


Debunking Some Myths About OACMisconception: “My data model is way too complex to re-build and maintain within the web data modeler included in OAC.”

Truth: OAC allows you to “Lift and Shift” your RPD file to OAC and continue using the same models and objects you are using today. OAC includes a specific version of the BI Administration Tool used to build and maintain (and, for those adventurous types, even work in online mode with) the RPD file.


Who is best suited to migrate from OBIEE to OAC?

• My old line: “Anyone with new, simple data models looking for a low overhead opportunity to perform analytics.”• Based on the (outdated and incorrect) notions that BICS was limited by the web

based data modeler, lack of enterprise options, and not being able to cleanly connect to internal/on premise applications

• My new line: “Anyone.”



• OAC delivers the ability to drop your existing RPD from on prem to the cloud• (Or to build a new RPD file if starting in the Cloud)

• OAC provides operating system level access for administrators to configure options for enterprise level implementations

• VPN options are supported by Oracle to allow your OAC instance to connect to on premise applications• Hybrid solutions are possible, breaking down the barriers between what

we view as “on prem” and “the cloud.”



• What is likely the biggest factor determining if OAC is a good strategic fit?

Finances


Additional Considerations & DifferencesOAC has gained ground towards parity with OBIEE 12c since general release, but it is still missing the following:

• Delivers• Only basic scheduling is available in OAC today, setting analyses to run on

certain days, to be delivered via email, etc• Still lacks robust scheduling found in OBIEE 12c (no Agents)

• Marketing Lists, Segments, etc• KPIs & Scorecards• BI Publisher

• (A fully operational BI Publisher Cloud was released in December 2017 and is available with any OAC Enterprise Subscription)


What does it mean to migrate to the cloud?

For most enterprise implementations, migrating to the cloud means creating a hybrid cloud/on premise solution.

Cloud• Analytics• Oracle Cloud DB• Planning, SCM,

HCM, etc

On Premise• LDAP• Real Time Data

Sources• Data Warehouse


Ok, I’m on board… What does it take?

Establish the Infrastructure

• VPN Connections• LDAP/Identity Providers

Create your instances

• Cloud Compute• Cloud DB• Cloud Storage• Analytics


Migrating from OBIEE 12c

Import Your Bar File

In OBIEE 12c, Oracle introduced the concept of the BAR file. This is part of a feature that allows you to export the complete contents of your web catalog, security model (including users, roles, and groups) and your RPD into a single file for each export/import.

OAC supports uploading this as a “Snapshot” to the environment to bring all of the exported objects into OAC.


Migrating from OBIEE 11gUsers Migrating from OBIEE 11g have a slightly different path, but largely still consists of export/importing objects.

In summary, an administrator will:

• Generate a migration script from OAC via a command line process• Place the tool in the 11g environment• Run the tool to capture the RPD, Web Catalog, and Users and Applications Roles

from the 11g implementation• Place the resulting export file on the OAC server• Run an import script that would deploy these objects into OAC


Migrating from OBIEE Final Steps(12c or 11g)

Validate Your Objects and Data Sources

With the heavy lifting complete, you then will need to validate your objects have all migrated as expected and all of the connections to data sources remain in tact (primarily a concern if you are also migrating data to new sources).

You will also want to validate your users, roles, and groups are correct as well.


Questions?


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Migrating from OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud · February 20-22, 2018 | Westin Westminster Hotel | Westminster, CO Migrating from OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud John Liette –MindStream