New features of OBIEE 12c

So, you have the install done, and that went pretty well. Didn’t it?

You can now start to play with the new toy.

This week we look at the new things you play with. My favorite is the command line stuff – feels like we are back in the good old days when we could write a (simple) script to upload a new rpd.

Other cool things to try are:

Blogs of the week

Enabling R and the relevant Analytics functions on OBIEE 12c

Boris Dahav writes, ”

One of the great new features of OBIEE 12c is the ability to have advanced analytic functions based on R. “R is a widely used environment for statistical computing and graphics and can be used with many different datasources including external files or databases.“

This post will only deal with enabling this functionality on the server.”

2. OBIEE 12c new command line utilities

This blog states, “Oracle Business intelligence 12c introduced a new set of command line utilities that will make it easier for BI System administrator to manage the OBIEE service instance ; release 12c has shifted the process control operations that used to be performed from the web applications such as Enterprise Manager Fusion Manager to command line scripting utilities.”

Examples of operations that can be performed are:

create/delete new service instance
Check BI service instance overall health, components health, dependencies health
Export BAR file
perform operations on the RPD such as those we listed under the new commands (upload/download RPD etc.) , getrepositories (list of RPD from the BI Server)

3. OBIEE 12c remote repository download/upload

Andrew of BISoftDiary writes, “One of the most interesting features of OBIEE 12c is an ability to download/upload with command-line utility without using OEM and the best part of all: without restarting of an Analytics server!”

He then explores two issues that arise when uploading a repository from his developer workstation to a server. Read the full blog for more.

4. OBIEE 12C – NEW FEATURES IN OBIEE 12.2.1.0.0

This blog lists new features as:

Easy to upgrade
Faster
Friendlier
More Visual
More Advanced
More Mobile
Bigger Data
Higher ROI, Lower TCO

5. The Best Thing That Ever Happened to OBIEE 12c: BICS

Jeremy Harms writes about the following features:

Proving Ground
Look and Feel Interface
Data Mashups
Visual Analyzer
Better Architecture and Administration

6. Much waited OBIEE 12c is released – All new features, Improvements

Shiva Molabanti’s highlights are listed as

New Features in Presentation Services

Visual analyzer
Views enhancement
New Heat Matrix view
New Data Format properties “Scale for % (x 100)”

New Features in BI Server

Logical Level Sequence Numbers for Time Dimensions
DISPLAY, SORTKEY Syntax Supported in the SQL ORDER BY Expression
Oracle Database FAN & Connection Failover Supported by Oracle BI Server
Generate Fragmented Aggregates in Aggregate Persistence

New Features in Administration

Installation
No more OPMN
Migrating from 11g to 12C
BAR (BI Archive File)

New Features in Security

BISystemUser and BISystem Removed
User GUIDs Removed
Database Security Store
Easier SSL Configuration

7. OBIEE 12c released

Gerd names the new features for BI users as:

Visual Analyzer
Mashup data using Visual Analyzer and Analysis editor
New view type named heat matrix
Ability to sort graph, heat matrix, pivot table, table, treemap, and trellis views by using a context menu (right-click)
Specify whether to multiply data by a 100 to display it as a percentage in an analysis
Add data from an external source to an analysis
Style and customize KPI Watchlists and every watchlist that appears in a scorecard
Set advanced dashboard page properties to specify incoming navigation parameters

Download Oracle Business Intelligence 12c here

Documents can be found here

This week on Twitter

Vasu Murthy tweeted BI 12c BVT (Base Validation Tool) brief demo