Using Oracle Project Analytics within Engineering and Construction Firms – Part 1
By Robert D. Anderson, CPA
On June 22, 2010 I will be delivering an encore of my OAUG Collaborate 10 Presentation titled Using Oracle Project Analytics within Engineering and Construction Firms. You can register to attend the webinar here.
The webinar is packed with information, and you’ll get more out of the session if you do a little pre-reading first. Therefore, I will cover some of the introductory material via blog articles published over the next two weeks.
Defining OBIEE
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is a data ware house solution made up of a comprehensive suite of enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) products which deliver a full range of BI capabilities. These include interactive dashboards, full ad hoc, proactive intelligence and alerts, enterprise level reporting, real-time predictive and actionable intelligence, disconnected analytics and much more.
There are nine items that comprise the core of the OBIEE solution, as shown in the following graphic.
These tools deliver all the dashboards, reports, drill down features, printing, sharing, downloading, ad hoc analysis tools, publishing tools, and data presentation schemes from tables to bubble charts and much more.
This functionality resides in multiple applications residing across three primary levels of the Tech Stack. These areas are, from bottom to top:
- Physical Layer
- Semantic Object Layer
- Presentation Layer
The architecture layers and components are shown in the following graphic.
We will address the changes needed to the various levels when adding new data metrics, updating reports and dashboards. This structure supports all the analytic models and the changes discussed in this whitepaper apply to the other analytic models as well.
Analytics
The primary analytic packages are shown in the following image.
Focus
Our webinar will focus on the first column in the above chart: Projects.





