1. Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
Putting Business Intelligence on the map
with Oracle Mapviewer
Ashley Beauman
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16th August 2011
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2. Agenda
• A little History
• 11g Mapping and Location Intelligence
• Spatial & Oracle Locator
• Map Data Management
• Themes & Styles
• Weblogic Administration
• Integrated Architecture.
• Understanding your own Map
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3. Flashback – Siebel Analytics and OBIEE 10g
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4. Flashback – OBIEE 10g with NAVTEQ
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5. 11g Mapping and Location Intelligence
• OBIEE 11gR1 ships with Oracle MapViewer 11g
• Use in conjunction with Oracle RDBMS and spatial datasets to add map views
• Good way to help visualize geographic/location element of BI dataset
• New in 11.1.1.5 : Integrated Google Maps and Bing Maps
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6. OBIEE – 11g Mapviewer
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7. Mapviewer Interaction
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8. Mapviewer Interaction
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9. Google Maps
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10. Spatial and Oracle Locator
Spatial
• .Oracle Spatial is an Oracle Enterprise Edition option providing advanced spatial
features to support high-end GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and LBS (Location
Based Services) solutions. (Licence Required)
• 400+ Spatial functions such as centroids and aggregate functions (e.g. unions
and user defined aggregates)
• 3-dimensional data type support for terrain and city models and virtual worlds,
support for (Light Detection and Ranging) LIDAR-based map production.
Locator
• Provides core features and services available in Oracle Spatial eg (Functions for joining
and filtering spatial data)
• Free with Oracle Databases (Standard & Enterprise)
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11. SDO_GEOMETRY Types
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12. Oracle Mapviewer Administration
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13. Oracle Mapviewer Administration
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14. Organization of Spatial Layers
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15. Creating a Map: Link Maps to Dataset Columns
• Administration task, a one-off at system configuration stage!
• Import maps from Oracle MapViewer and associate themes keys with subject area
columns
• Columns then need to be included in the request criteria when map created
• Note - basic (state/county/global) data available on OTN, more detailed
data needs to be licensed from NAVTEC
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16. Creating a Map: Link Maps to Dataset Columns
• Graphs and other visualizations can be added for individual layers in the view
• Pie charts, bar charts, variable size bubbles, icon selection…etc
• Shade polygons based on measure binning/value ranges
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17. Creating a Map: Link Maps to Dataset Columns
Zoom Levels
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18. Creating a Map: Link Maps to Dataset Columns
• Embed map in dashboard, use as any other view
• Link to dashboard prompts, Master-Detail links….
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19. Map View Formats
Bubble Pie Chart
Variable
Bar Graph Image
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20. Plotting
• Custom Point Layers” place
an indicator on the physical
location based on the
longitude and latitude.
Useful for plotting the location
of: customers, branches or
divisions.
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21. Colour Fill
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22. Building a Map in OBIEE
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23. Mapviewer Architecture
MASHUP
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24. Oracle Mapviewer - Administration
http://HOSTNAME:9704/mapviewer
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25. Oracle Mapviewer - Administration
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26. Oracle Mapviewer - Administration
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27. Oracle Mapviewer - Administration
External Map providers such as
Bing and Google now support as
a Map Tile.
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28. Oracle Mapviewer - Administration
Google Map Layer Imported into OBIEE:
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29. Understanding you own Map
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30. Understanding your own Map
Data Warehouse Tables
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31. Understanding your own Map
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32. Understanding your own Map
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33. Creating your own Map
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