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Oracle Business Intelligence 11gAction Framework

Antony Heljula

Technical Architect

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Agenda

Action Framework Overview

Demonstration Scenario: Sales vs Forecast

Implementing Action Framework Navigation

Invoke Web-Service

Integrate with External Web-Site

Security

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Action Framework Overview

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Action Framework

Action Framework is an exciting new feature of OBIEE 11g providing the facility to invoke a wide variety of actions or processes directly within the UI

This is a major enhancement, since OBIEE 10g is great for analysis but has limited capability for taking action once your analysis is complete

OBIEE 11g Action Framework enables you to:

Navigate to related Oracle BI content (Dashboards/Reports)

Navigate to external web-pages

Invoke business processes and web services in external systems

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DemonstrationScenario: Sales vs Forecast

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Actions

There are various things an Action can do!

Types of Action

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Actions

In this example, we will create an Action that will eventually be used on a Dashboard Page to navigate to a “Sales Order Summary” report:

Navigate to BI Content

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Actions

In this example, we will create an Action that will invoke a Web Service to insert a record in to a database table:

Invoke Web Service

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Actions

You can initiate multiple Actions once an Agent has completed:

The Actions can be initiated for every row returned by the Agent!

Delivers Actions

You can map the columns returned by the Agent to each of

the Action’s parameters

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Actions

In this example, we will create an Action that will open up a new Web Browser and perform a Google search for a selected Customer:

Integrate with External Web-Site

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Actions

To search on “ABC”:

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=ABC

Example Google URL

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Action Links

Action Links can be invoked from Charts and Maps as well:

Analyses : Maps

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Recap

OBIEE 11g Action Framework enables you to: Navigate to related Oracle BI content

(Dashboards/Reports)

Navigate to external web-pages

Invoke business processes and web services in external systems

Actions can be invoked from: BI Dashboards

BI Analyses

BI Delivers Agents

KPIs

Balanced Scorecards

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Questions?

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