Oracle Business
Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c Released - OBIEE 12.2.1.0.0
OBIEE 12c Released
The new version Oracle
Business Intelligence 12c (12.2.1.0.0) is now available for download on Oracle
OTN for Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX and UX. It needs JDK 8
to install.
System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Oracle Fusion Middleware
12c (12.2.1) is here. Refer: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/fusion-middleware/documentation/fmw-1221certmatrix-2739738.xlsx
Oracle Data
Visualization
The most interesting
feature that has been added in this release is new Data Visualization
capability in OBIEE 12c, something that has been available on Oracle’s BI Cloud
Service [Oracle BICS]. This is a completely new powerful visualization
application introduced in OBIEE12C.
Visual Analyzer is the
primary data visualization tool in Oracle Data Visualization.
1] New
Features for Oracle BI Users
·
Enhancements to Graphs
·
Enhancements to Views
·
Enhancements to Analyses
·
Enhancement to Scorecards
·
Enhancements to Dashboards
Detail Level:
·
Ability to sort graph
views by using a context menu (right-click). Mashup data using Visual Analyzer
·
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
2] New
Features for Oracle BI Metadata Repository
·
Logical Level Sequence
Numbers for Time Dimensions
·
DISPLAY | SORTKEY
Syntax Supported in the SQL ORDER BY Expression
·
Oracle Database Fast
Application Notification and Fast Connection Failover Supported by Oracle BI Server
·
Generate Fragmented
Aggregates in Aggregate Persistence
·
New Command Line
Utilities:
a.
Download Repository
Command
b.
Upload Repository
Command
c.
List Connection Pool
Command
d.
Update Connection Pool
Command
e.
Rename Application
Role Command
f.
Delete Application
Role Command
g.
Rename Users Command
h.
Delete Users Command
i.
List Repository
Variables Command
j.
Update Repository
Variables Command
3] New
Features for Oracle BI System Administrators
·
Invoking WLST From a
Single Location
·
Oracle Home Location
Redefined and No Middleware Home
·
OPMN is No Longer Used
in Fusion Middleware
·
Oracle Web Cache Not
Part of Fusion Middleware
·
Moving From Test To
Production is Carried Out in a Different Way
·
New Commands For
Process Control
·
Managing Metadata In
Business Intelligence Archive Files
·
Single Enterprise
Install
·
Changes to Scaling Out
·
Simplified
Configuration
·
Managing System
Component Instances Using Commands
·
Collecting Diagnostic
Bundles
4] New
Features in Oracle BI Security
·
BISystemUser and
BISystem Removed
·
User GUIDs Removed
·
Database Security
Store
·
Easier SSL Configuration
·
Migrating Catalog
Groups to Application Roles
Detail Level:
·
To simplify
administration and configuration, no longer requires a real user called
BISystemUser for internal communication. The application role BISystem is also
no longer present in the Policy Store, and will be removed from any upgraded
11g environment.
·
GUIDs are
replaced with user names. There is no longer any need to refresh GUIDs as part
of lifecycle operations. Your administrator is now responsible for ensuring
that users leaving the system are cleaned up from Oracle Business Intelligence.
·
Security Store (Policy
and Credential Stores) is configured in a relational database rather than in a
file. The database is the same as used by RCU. This change makes scaling
easier, and makes clusters more reliable.
·
In this release
configuring SSL end to end is now less complex and uses offline commands.
·
In this release a new
process enables you to migrate Catalog groups to application roles.
5] New
Features for Oracle BI Publisher 12c
·
Generate Explain Plan
from SQL Data Set
·
Best Practices
Information
New Features for Oracle BI Publisher 12c Users
Look
and feel of the user interface is refreshed. You will notice new icons and some
changes to the presentation of features on the Home page.
New features and upgrade considerations. It contains the following topics:
1)
New Service :
3)
New Methods:
7] Other Features:
·
“Forecast” a new time-series function added in OBIEE12c
·
“migration-tool.sh” script to migrate metadata from OBIEE 11g to
OBIEE 12c
·
TRENDLINE SQL function
