This presentation shows the different ways to integrate Oracle BI with Oracle BPM and BAM

1. Integrating Oracle BI, BPM and BAM 11g:
The complete cycle of information
Edelweiss Kammermann
Rittman Mead BI Forum – Brighton May 2013

2. About Me
• Computer engineer, BI and BPM specialist with over 17 years of
consulting and project management experience in Oracle
technology.
• Oracle University Instructor of many courses, included OBI,
BPM, Warehouse Builder and ODI.
• Co-founder and Vice President of Uruguayan Oracle User
Group (UYOUG)
• Co-founder of AWEN Consulting.
• Email: edelweiss@awen.com.uy
• Twitter: @EdelweissK

3. Uruguay

4. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

5. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

6. What is OBIEE?
Oracle BIEE is a complete BI Platfom that provides a wide range
of capabilities like:
• Interactive Dashboards
• Ad hoc Analysis and Interactive Reporting
• Enterprise Reporting.
• Proactive detection and alerts
• Actionable Intelligence.
• Spatial Intelligence via Map-based Visualizations
• Scorecard and Strategy Management
• Mobile

7. What is OBIEE?

8. What is BPM?
• Oracle Business Process Management is a complete set of
tools for creating, executing, and optimizing business
processes.

9. What is BAM?
• Oracle BAM gives business executives the ability to monitor
their business services and processes in the enterprise, and
to change business processes quickly or to take corrective
action if the business environment changes.

10. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

11. Integration between BI and BPM
From BI
• A BPM process can be exposed as a Web Service so BI can call
it from
• Analyses
• Dashboard
• Agents
• BPM provides views over its STAR Schema (Process Cubes) to
monitor the process and evaluate the performance of
completed and in-flight processes.

12. Expose BPM Process as a Web Service
1) Change the start activity for a Start Message Activity.
2) Change Implementation Property as “Define Interface” or
choose one in the Business Catalog
3) Define input arguments
4) In the Advance Section, choose synchronous service
5) Map the incoming message to process data objects.
6) Do the same with the End Activity (End Message)
7) Save all and Deploy the project
8) In EM , click on the Service Endpoint and WSDL button and
copy the WSDL url

13. Expose BPM Process as a Web Service

14. Expose BPM Process as a Web Service

15. Expose BPM Process as a Web Service

16. Expose BPM Process as a Web Service

17. Expose BPM Process as a Web Service

18. Calling a BPM Process from
BI Analysis

19. Calling a BPM Process from
BI Analysis

20. Calling a BPM Process from
BI Analysis

21. Calling a BPM Process from
BI Analysis

22. Calling a BPM Process from
BI Dashboard

23. Calling a BPM Process from
BI Agent

24. Integration between BI and BPM
Using Process Cubes
• BPM provides views over its STAR Schema (Process Cubes) to monitor the
process and evaluate the performance of completed and in-flight
processes.

25. Integration between BI and BPM
Using Process Cubes
Facts Views
Dimensions Views

26. Integration between BI and BPM
Using Process Cubes
In BPM Studio, enable BPM process cubes for a Project.

27. Integration between BI and BPM
Using Process Cubes
Options in BI:
1. Include this Star Schema as part of the OBI Metadata
2. Use it directly in BI Publisher
3. Load the information to another schema.
• Better for performance
• Data in the process star schema is not permanent.

28. Integration between BI and BPM
Using Process Cubes

29. Integration between BI and BPM
Using Process Cubes

30. Integration between BI and BPM
Using Process Cubes

31. Integration between BI and BPM
Using Process Cubes

32. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

33. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM
BI offers different WebServices in order to be used for third-
party Web services clients:
• ExecuteAgent
• ExecuteAnalysis
• EvaluateCondition
Web Services for SOA provide WSIL documents to allow you to
browse for and select agents, analyses, and conditions stored in
the catalog.
WSIL URL: http://localhost:7001/biservices/inspection?wsil

34. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM
1) In EM, create a key entry called wsil.browsing in the
oracle.bi.enterprise map folder.
2) Restart BI Services

35. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM
Options to call a Web Service in BPM:
• Send/ Receive Tasks

36. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM
Options to call a Web Service in BPM:
• Message Throw/Catch Tasks

37. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM
Options to call a Web Service in BPM:
• Service Task

38. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM
1) Create a service in the Business Catalog referencing the BI
Service

39. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM

40. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM
2) Create a Service Task to call the BI Service

41. Integration between BI and BPM
From BPM
Uses:
1 – Need additional information from BI.
2 – Use BI to provide data at decision points. (routing)
3 – Call BI alert from the Business Process to alert for a specific
case.

42. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

43. Configuration of BPM and BAM
Configurations needed for BPM and BAM to manage process
analytics:
1) Configure BAM Adapter in Web Logic Console
2) Configure BPM Engine in EM
3) Enable BAM at Project Level
4) Change settings at Process and Activity Level (optional)

44. Configuration of BPM and BAM
1) Configure BAM Adapter in Web Logic Console

45. Configuration of BPM and BAM
1) Configure BAM Adapter in Web Logic Console

46. Configuration of BPM and BAM
1) Configure BAM Adapter in Web Logic Console

47. Configuration of BPM and BAM
2) Configure BPM Engine in EM

48. Configuration of BPM and BAM
3) Enable BAM at Project Level

49. Configuration of BPM and BAM
4) Change settings at Process and Activity Level (optional)

50. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

51. Integration between BI and BAM
From BI
Integrate OBIEE Dashboards with BAM
All BAM dashboards and reports can be viewed directly as web
pages without ActiveViewer:
1. In Active Studio select a report (in My Reports page or the
Shared Reports page)
2. In the Actions list, click Copy Shortcut
3. Copy the URL showed in the window dialog.
4. Include it in OBIEE Dashboards

52. Integration between BI and BAM
From BI
Integrate Publisher with BAM
Using BAM Web Services, create data models in BI Publisher:
1) Create a new data model using data set based in web service.
2) Use the method GET only available in
DataObjectOperationsByName web service.

53. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

54. Integration between BI and BAM
From BAM
1) Create an External Data Source (EDS) against OBIEE to have
access to the catalog
2) Create Data Objects for Tables in the catalog

55. Integration between BI and BAM
From BAM
1) Create an External Data Source (EDS) against OBIEE:
• Copy the bijdbc.jar to BAM home (or to a directory that is in the
WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH). Example:
C:middlewareOracle_SOA1bam
• Edit WLS_HOME/wlserver 10.3/common/bin/commEnv.cmd
• Add ${CLASSPATHSEP}/<BAM_HOME>/bijdbc.jar at the end of
WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH entry.
• Restart Weblogic and BAM Server

56. Integration between BI and BAM
From BAM
1) Create an External Data Source (EDS) against OBIEE:

57. Integration between BI and BAM
From BAM
1) Create an External Data Source (EDS) against OBIEE:
Driver: oracle.bi.jdbc.AnaJdbcDriver
Login: OBIEE Username
Password: OBIEE Password
Connection String/URL: jdbc:oraclebi://host_name:port_number/
For example: jdbc:oraclebi:// ek-bi11g :9703/

58. Integration between BI and BAM
From BAM
2) Create Data Objects for Tables in the catalog

59. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

60. Other Integrations
BPM dashboards and Task Forms are ADF pages.
Options to integrate BI in ADF pages:
•Embedding BI Objects
•BI Composer
•BI Logical SQL View Object

61. Agenda
• What is OBIEE?
• What is Oracle BPM?
• What is Oracle BAM?
• Integration between BI and BPM
– From BI
– From BPM
• Configuration of BPM and BAM
• Integration between BI and BAM
– From BI
– From BAM
• Other integrations
• Conclusions

62. Conclusions
The integration of BI, BPM and BAM:
• Allows users to work in the same framework .
• Provides more insight about the business, giving to users
the access to all the information: historical and real time
information and take actions based on it.
• Allows automation between these tools, so they can
interact with each other without human participation.

63. Additional Information
• BI documentation:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-
enterprise-edition/documentation/bi-ee-087853.html
• BPM documentation:
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bpm/d
ocumentation/index.html
• BAM documentation:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bam/d
ocumentation/index.html

64. Additional Information
Books:
• Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Developers Guide by
Mark Rittman
• Oracle BAM 11gR1 by Pete Wang
• Getting Started with Oracle BPM 11g Suite by Heidi
Buelow, Manoj Das, Manas Deb and Prasen Palvanka
• Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Handbook
by Manoj Das, Manas Deb and Mark Wilkins

65. Q&A

66. Thank you!
Email: edelweiss@awen.com.uy