Saturday, August 31, 2013

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11.1.1.7.x Architecture


1. Oracle BI Applications Architecture

The figure below shows the Oracle BI Applications architecture in detail.

This graphic is described in the surrounding text.

 

Weblogic Domain Components

Components Deployed Into Weblogic Oracle BI domain, Manager Server "bi_server1"

  • Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager - This component is a Web application that enables you to perform system setups, functionally configure your BI Applications, and define, generate, run, and monitor load plans.

  • Functional Setup Manager - (FSM) This component is a Web application used by Configuration Manager for sequenced task implementation and task dependency management.

  • Load Plan Generator - This component is a set of jar files used to create load plans in the ODI Repository.

  • ATGLite - This component is a J2EE component used by Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager and Functional Setup Manager.

Components Deployed Into Managed Server "odi_server1"

  • ODI Console - This component enables you to control and monitor ETL.

  • ODI Agent - This component is a Java EE Agent, which handles schedules and orchestrates sessions.

Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse Repository

  • Business Analytics Warehouse - The Business Analytics Warehouse is a unified data repository for all customer-centric data, which supports the analytical requirements of the supported source systems. The Business Analytics Warehouse is supported only on Oracle Database.

Oracle BI Applications Repositories

  • Business Intelligence Applications Components Repository (BIACOMP) - This is the repository for Configuration Manager and Functional Setup Manager. It contains load plan definitions as well as BI Applications product hierarchy, setup objects, such as parameters and domain mappings, and a list of functional tasks. This repository is supported only on Oracle Database.

  • Business Intelligence Applications I/O Schema - This schema is a mirror schema and is used by all other components to read the BIACOMP schema. It supports read/write of configuration and functional setup data through ETL processes.

  • ODI Repository for BI Applications - This repository contains the BI Applications-specific prebuilt ETL logic.

Client Tier

The client host machine hosts the Configuration Manager and ODI Console, which users access through Web browsers. This tier also includes the Load Plan Generator Plug-in, a client version of the Load Plan Generator, which is deployed into ODI Studio and enables you to manage load plans from ODI Studio. The Load Plan Generator Plug-in requires ODI SDK to be installed.