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Introduction


Introduction

Data Sources

Endeca


? How does Endeca fit in with current infrastructure?

Endeca

Data Warehouse

BI Publisher

Business Intelligence


? How does Endeca scale to meet Enterprise Needs?


Current release of Endeca (3.0) – is it different?

Weblogic Endeca 3.0

Fully Hosted


Endeca 3 Topology

Weblogic Server

Endeca Portal Domain Endeca Server Domain

Endeca Provisioning Server Domain

Endeca Integrator Server Domain

Client

Integrator

Data Sources BI Server Portal Repository


Endeca, A collaboration of software

Endeca Integrator

Text Enrichment

Endeca Server MDEX

Endeca Studio


Endea 3, components

Data Source

Integrator

Development

Integrator Server

Endeca Server Production

Endeca Portal

Endeca Provisioning Service


Installation Directories

fmw

Endeca Server Domain

Endeca Portal Domain

Provision Service Domain

Integrator Server Domain

user projects

Domains

wl_server

Also used as default Endeca Portal Home

EndecaServer

/Oracle/Endeca/Discovery (Suggested) /u01/app/oracle/product

Integrator Client

(suggested) EndecaPortal


Hardening the Install

• Change Endeca portal home by altering the portal-ext.properties ‣ Currently goes into the fwm/user_projects/domains

• Change Document Root from http://localhost:port/ to /company/ • Change the Endeca portal database from the default hypersonic to oracle/mysql • Enable SSL throughout


Some Changes in Endeca 3

Endeca Server

Data Domain1 Data Domain2

Data Domain3 Data Domain4

Endeca Portal

Application1 Application2

Application3 Application4


Advanced features


New ‘Getting Started’ with detailed configuration

Group Name Group Display Name

Attribute Name

Attribute Key Display Name

Type Profile Format

Profile Select Type

Ranking Type Show Record Counts Is Value Searchable

Is Record Searchable Snippet Size

Is Unique Is Single Assign

Is Dimension Format

Available Aggregations

Default Aggregation Description

Format Settings


Integrator Server

1) Create Sandbox

2) Export Project

3) Schedule


Endeca Integrator Server Demo


Row Level Security

User

Group

Role

Data Filter Mapping { "dataDomainName": "twitter", "name": "twitter", "port": "7001", "server": "localhost“ "inheritSecurity": "true", "rolePermissions": { "df_amazon": ["AMAZON"], "df_ibm": ["IBM"] … }, "rolePermissionsMultiOr": "true", "securityEnabled": "true", "securityFilters": { "AMAZON": { "class": "com.endeca.portal.data.functions.DataSourceFilter", "filterString": "FINANCIAL_SYMBOL='AMAZON'" }, "IBM": { "class": "com.endeca.portal.data.functions.DataSourceFilter", "filterString": "'FINANCIAL_SYMBOL'='IBM'" } … } }


Mapping

Mapping in Endeca requires a few configurations: • Column type in the configuration to be mdex:geocode • Column format to be longitude latitude (##.##### ##.#####) with a space separating them. • Custom value in the Edge of mdexType=mdex:geocode


Mapping


Endeca Front End Demo and Provisioning Service


OBIEE and Endeca Integration


OBIEE as a Data Source using Integrator

• New in Endeca 2.4 and 3.0 • Prerequisites ‣ Running BI Server ‣ Single Semantic Model ‣  To Understand Data Volume

• Caveats ‣ Does not support Logical Calculations ‣ Custom Fields using non-XML Standards do not import ‣ Does support Physical Expressions

• Create a New Project instead of sharing


OBIEE as a Data Source for Endeca


BI Publisher Configuration

Configuration for BI Publisher and Endeca requires the following details: • Server Protocol (HTTP, HTTPS) • Server Version • Server (hostname or IP) • Port (2.4 default is 7770) • URL Suffix (ws) • Session Timeout

Restart OPMN Components


BI Publisher Data Model Integration

• The Data Model page will now have Oracle Endeca Query as an option in the New Data Set dropdown.

• Allows for selection of Data Stores running in Endeca

• Security options not available in current release


BI Publisher Data Model Using Endeca


Endeca Server Catalog Search


This is how endeca fits into current infrastructure

Endeca

Data Warehouse

BI Publisher



Where is endeca going?

Endeca

Data Warehouse

BI Publisher


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