Oracle Magazine - July/August 2011

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Although Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11 g adopts the Oracle Fusion Middleware security model, your existing initialization blocks, LDAP directory connections, and Web groups will still work with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11 g. You may, however, want to consider upgrading these to use the Oracle Fusion Middleware security framework, to take advantage of the authentication, authorization, and directory integration features provided by Oracle WebLogic Server. Similarly, you may now want to revisit your analyses (the new term for requests), dashboards, and other business intelligence objects to take advantage of the new features and capabilities provided by the Oracle Business Intelligence

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Enterprise Edition 11 g release, such as the pivot table, which uses the new hierarchical columns feature shown in Figure 3.

SUMMARY

Upgrading an Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10g system to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g is a straightforward process when you use the Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Assistant. It automatically upgrades your repository, Web catalog, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher reports, and scheduler schemas. Once the upgrade is complete, you can take advantage of new Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g features, including online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis capabilities, mapping, KPIs, scorecards, and the new systems management framework built around Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Enterprise Manager. T

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