New in Oracle Analytics May 2021 - vlamis.com

New in Oracle Analytics May 2021

Dan Vlamis, Vlamis Software Solutions

@vlamissoftware, 816-781-2880

www.vlamis.com

[email protected], @dvlamis

Copyright © 2021, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Vlamis Software Solutions

▪ Vlamis Software founded in 1992 in Kansas City, Missouri

▪ Developed 400+ Oracle BI and analytics systems

▪ Specializes in Oracle-based:▪ Enterprise Business Intelligence & Analytics

▪ Analytic Warehousing

▪ Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics

▪ Data Visualization

▪ ETL and data integration

▪Multiple Oracle ACEs, consultants average 15+ years

▪ Creators of the Force Directed Graph Plugin on Oracle Analytics Library

▪ www.vlamis.com (blog, papers, newsletters, services)

▪ Co-authors of book “Data Visualization for OBI 11g”

▪ Co-authors of book “Essbase and Oracle OLAP”

http://www.vlamis.com/force-directed-graph-plugin

https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/library.html

http://www.vlamis.com/


Oracle Analytics New Features Webcasts▪ 11.1.1.3 (August 2010)

▪ Huge release with major new functionality

▪ 11.1.1.5 (May 2011)

▪ BIWA TechCast May 25: Oracle BI 11.1.1.5 - New Features

▪ 11.1.1.6 (February 2012)

▪ BIWA TechCast Feb 29: Oracle BI 11.1.1.6 New Features

▪ 11.1.1.6.2 and 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 (May 2012 and June 2012)

▪ BIWA TechCast Aug 1: Oracle BI 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 New Features

▪ 11.1.1.7 (April 2013)

▪ BIWA TechCast Apr 5 Oracle BI 11.1.1.7 New Features

▪ 11.1.1.9 (May 2015)

▪ BIWA TechCast Jun 4, 2015 Oracle BI 11.1.1.9 New Features

▪ 12.2.1 (October 2015)

▪ BIWA TechCast Nov 19, 2015 Oracle BI 12.2.1 New Features

▪ BICS March 2016 (March 2016)

▪ Webcast Apr 5, 2016 BICS BICS March 2016 New Features

▪ 12.2.1.1 (June 2016)

▪ BIWA TechCast Jul 19, 2016 Oracle BI 12.2.1.1 New Features

▪ 12.2.1.2 and DVD 2.0 (October 2016)

▪ Webcast Nov 22, 2016 DVD 12.2.2 and OBIEE 12.2.1.2. New Features

▪ DVD 3.0 (June 2017)

▪ Webcast Aug 29, 2017 DVD 3.0 New Features

▪ DVD 4 (October 2017)

▪ Webcast Nov 9, 2017 DVD 4 New Features

▪ OAC 4 (December 2017)

▪ Webcast Dec 19, 2017 OAC 4 New Features

▪ Webcast Apr 4, 2018 Migration from OBIEE to OAC Webinar

▪ 12.2.1.4 (June 2018)

▪ Webcast Jun 19, 2018 Oracle BI 12.2.1.4 New Features

▪ OAC 18.3.3 (September 2018)

▪ Webcast Sep 27, 2018 OAC 18.3.3 New Features

▪ OAC 19.1.1 (January 2019)

▪ Webcast Feb 27, 2019 OAC 19.1.1 New Features

▪ Webcast Mar 6, 2019 Intro to OAC Running on ADW

▪ OAC 105.2 (April 2019)

▪ Webcast Apr 23, 2019 OAC 105.2 New Features

▪ OAC 105.3 (June 2019)

▪ Webcast Jul 25, 2019 OAC 105.3 New Features

▪ OAC 105.4 (October 2019)

▪ Webcast Nov 5, 2019 OAC 105.4 New Features

▪ OAC 5.5 (January 2020)

▪ Webcast Mar 5, 2020 OAC 5.5 New Features

▪ OAS 5.5 (January 2020)

▪ Webcast Mar 11, 2020 Migrating OBIEE to OAS 5.5

▪ OAC 5.6 (May 2020) OAC 5.7 (July 2020)

▪ Webcast Aug 5, 2020 OA 5.6 & 5.7 New Features

▪ OAC 5.8 (Sep 2020) and OAC 5.9 (Jan 2020)

▪ Webcast Apr 8, 2021 New in Oracle Analytics Spring 2021

All listed on website at http://www.vlamis.com/oawebinars/

Oracle Analytics May 2021May 18, 2021

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http://www.vlamis.com/presentations-2020#jul29

https://vlamis.com/presentations/oracle-analytics-spring-2021/

http://www.vlamis.com/oawebinars/


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OAC 5.8 and 5.9 New Features OverviewData Sources

1. Enhanced Essbase database connections (5.8)

2. Enrichments for live data sets (5.8)

3. Query data models remotely (5.8)

Visualization

4. Single header on all pages (5.8)

5. Consistent legend properties across visualizations (5.8)

6. Toggle "Use as Filter" on visualization (5.8)

7. Drag filters between the filter bar and visualizations (5.9)

8. Ability to add new WMS/XYZ map backgrounds (5.9)

9. Image backgrounds for heat maps (5.8)

10. Area chart visualization (5.9)

11. Apply no sort to data (5.9)

12. Sort by multiple columns (5.9)

13. Improvements to PDF and PPT export - aspect ratio (5.9)

14. Improved progress bar behavior (5.9)

15. Increased limits on the number of rows displayed and exported (5.9)

General

16. Customized time-zone setting (5.8)

17. Propagate shared folder permissions to associated artifacts (5.8)

18. Support for token-based authentication for embedded Oracle Analytics

content (5.8)

19. Clean Home page experience (5.9)

20. Day by Day information included in snapshots (5.9)

Data Preparation & ML

21. Fix for leading zeros in zipcodes and single-click trim function (5.9)

22. Support for DB Frequent Item Set (Market Basket) in data flows (5.9)

23. Support for database text tokenization in data flows (5.9)

24. Show database model full details in Oracle Analytics Cloud inspectors - Model

Explainability (5.9)

25. Show database model full details in Oracle Analytics Cloud inspectors -

Visualize Database Views (5.9)

Pixel-Perfect Reporting

26. Additional data model validation messages (5.8)

27. XML data pruning (5.8)

28. Bursting for self-service analytics data sets (5.9)

Demoed in New in OA Spring 2021 webinar


5.8 & 5.9 YT Selected New Feature Playlist

• bit.ly/OAC50Features










http://bit.ly/OAC58Features

https://bit.ly/OAC59Features


Data Sources


Remote Data Gateway (RDG) for Essbase connections in RPD (5.8)

OAC can connect to On-PremEssbase Servers via RPD using Remote Data Gateway.


Data-Prep Enrichments on Live Datasets (5.8).

In OAC 5.8, Live datasets are now enabled with automatic enrichments. Performance of data profiling was greatly enhanced as well.

Earlier behavior with large live-datasets


Visualization


Page Header Unification (5.8).

Single Header across all pages in Oracle Analytics

Prepare, Visualize and Narrate center-positioned


Legend Labels, Fonts, and Positions added to several Vizs

Harmonizing Legend Properties Across Vizs (5.8)


Toggle ‘Use as Filter’ on/off on the Viz (5.8)

Mouse hovering over the vizshows the ‘Use as Filter’ icon as grey when not enabled

‘Use as Filter’ can be toggled by clicking on the Icon to enable or disable it


Filters Experience Improvements (5.9)

New Properties added to manage Filters of the Viz – Visualization Filter Bar, Use as Filter and Show Filter Toggle.

Drag and drop Canvas filters to Viz filters and vice versa.


Two new formats supported WMS (Web Map Service) and XYZ Tiled Maps

WMS/XYZ Map service : easily add externally-hosted background maps : ESRI, ArcGIS, etc

Examples

Support for WMS/XYZ Maps (5.9)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/46UJaAbDzWE?start=80


Support Heat-map Layer with Image Backgrounds (5.8)

Custom Image Background now support Heatmap Viz layers, and Lat-Long coordinates systems

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0FdH59SwKWs?start=192


OAC 5.8 OAC 5.9

Previous Viz type Area was broken down into two types : Area and Stacked Area

Upgrading Area and Stacked-Area Vizs (5.9)


Sorting Enhancements (5.9)

Sort option is available on the edges like Size, Tooltip, Detail.

Enhanced Sort Options in Context Menu and an option to clear sorts.

Multi-layer sorting for attributesMetric sorting overrides attributes Attributes Preference

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9JPcsI27wY0?start=98


Multi-sort options (5.9)

Multi-Layer sorting options are available for Pivot and Table in the header


Download limits for OAC Exporting Data increased

OAC 5.8

Export now respects canvas aspect ratio : WYSIWYG

OAC 5.9

Exports Enhancements (5.9)


Improved Browser Content Density (5.9)

OAC 5.8

Sidebar turned into a smaller top bar and a permanent search box is added in the properties pane.

Improved Progress bars while loading the Viz and the data.

OAC 5.9

OAC 5.8

OAC 5.9

OAC 5.8

OAC 5.9


General


Configurable Local Time Zone (5.8)

System Setting to customize Local Time Zone, Time based filters and Date Calculations will take this into account.


Propagate Permissions to Related Artifacts (5.8)

Pop-up Alert when saving a Project on a Shared folders : allows to automatically propagate permission-ing related artifacts (Dataset)

Lists All Artifacts Affected


Token based authentication for Embedded Analytics (5.8)

Create an Application in IDCS for OAC authentication & pass the security token into your own target Application html.

View OAC integrated content directly embedded in your application.

YouTube

https://youtu.be/aNFcLbgsL-A?list=PL6gBNP-Fr8KVtxRuUApnGQwjGBiQrgssB&t=415

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aNFcLbgsL-A?start=415

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aNFcLbgsL-A?start=419


Data-Action Improvements (5.9)

When Data Actions are re-used multiple times with different selections, filters on Target canvas are automatically reset

Override previous actions filters in Target Canvas

Toggling on/of Data Actions when multiple items in the Viz are selected.


Redesigned Users & Roles page under Console

Drill into details of cross relationships between Groups, Application Roles, and Users

Easily list and export direct and indirect hierarchical users coverage of a Group or App Role

New Users & Roles Page (5.8)


Data Prep & ML


Fix missing leading zeroes in Zip codes

Trim function to allow users to trim white space from the data.

Data Prep Enhancements (5.9)


Achieve Simple Market Basket Analysis on your detailed data

Identifies most frequent item-setsof 2,3 or 4 items that exist in each transactions

⚠ Risk of High Perf Impact on DB

New DB Analytics: Frequent Item-sets (5.9)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/e8UOe1IbcSA?start=90


Easily Tokenize text data to identify most commonly occurring words

Join back detailed tokens data with source dataset for complete mashup analysis !

Language specific lexer for multi language support

Frequently occurring tokens identified

New DB Analytics: Text Tokenization (5.9)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/oc8KlwgKEks?start=180


Prediction Set values : what are the other probable outcomes and respective probability

Prediction Details values : for each record, show top 5 attributes & values that lead to the prediction outcome. full explain-ability of results

OML Results Explainability : Additional outputs (5.9)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/PKwjitqOdOc?start=329


OML Results Explainability (5.9)


Details tab shows Model details, Input/Output columns and Model parameters

Related tab shows model views in the DB with data on model metadata, statistics, decision tree structure..

Analysis from model view

Check Blog entry :http://oracledataviz.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-retrieve-valuable-information.html

OML Model Metadata : Related Datasets (5.9)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3W2mGgWNU5A?start=173


Pixel Perfect


BI/OA Publisher Enhancements (5.8)

In Publisher data models, you can include XML data, images, and text in BLOB columns.

XML Data Pruning can be enabled/disabled in Data Model and Scheduling Report job.


OAC 6.0 New Features Overview

Data Preparation

1. Data Profiler and Data Quality Insights

2. Custom Repository Knowledge

Data Sets

1. Multi Table Datasets

2. Blending Multi Table Data Sets

3. Hybrid Data Sets

4. Multi Table Datasets in Dataflows

5. Scheduled Datasets Reload

Data Sources

1. Google Big Query Connector

2. Generic JDBC Connector

Visualization

1. Hierarchical Columns in DV Tables

2. Canvas Auto-Refresh

3. On Canvas Filter Enhancements

4. Viz Interactions Enhancements

5. Waterfall Viz Weighted Averages

6. Disjointed Datasets for Maps

7. Leveraging OML Timeseries

8. Generate Association Rules

9. Shortest Path Graph Function

10.PageRank Graph Function

11.Sub-Network Graph Function

12.Graph Clustering Function

13.OA Publisher use OCI Storage

in blog slide demo


OA Update May 2021 Blog Links Videos

https://vlamis.com/oracle-analytics-update-may-2021/


Data Quality Insights

• Rapidly identify data quality issues• Correct issues within the insights themselves• Immediate re-scoring and recommendations

Quality Insights Feature provides users with instant visualizations of the contents and quality of their datasets

https://youtu.be/sMCiL4pouM8?t=21


Add your own Semantic Types and Enrichment sources to the repository of OAC enrichment engine :Product Info, Demographic, Geographic, Account DetailsOAC Scans these repositories to automatically discover related datasets and enrichments at data ingestion.

Enrichment Custom Knowledge

https://youtu.be/dxS1I9T_w40?t=80


Multi-Table Data Sets

• Simple data modelling capability for Self-Service data users• Join type control• Data from multiple tables from hetero-genous connections, or Schemas.

Multi Table Data Sets can then be blended with other Data Sets

https://youtu.be/AaMR80PXl18?t=48


Schedule option in Dataset Menu to set refresh schedule

Dataset Reload Scheduler

https://youtu.be/BY6snMlZwAs?t=40


Support custom JDBC drivers to be used with RDG to allow OAC to connect to data sources for cached data.

New Data-source Connectors

▪ Allows sourcing from databases outside OAC vanilla connection types

▪ Limitations :

License and usage compliance for the JDBC drivers managed by Customer

Live Query not Supported

New Connector to Google BigQuery

https://youtu.be/fzPyIS1p_pk?t=5


Expandable Hierarchical Columns

Consume Hierarchical Columns directly into Self-Service Analytics visualizations with usual interaction gestures

Hierarchies from Subject Area or Multidimensional uploaded sources (Essb/EPM XSAs)Unbalanced/Ragged/Parent Child Hierarchies Supported

https://youtu.be/IzCRGPVq0tA?t=30


Canvas Auto Refresh

Auto Refresh Disabled

Auto Refresh Enabled but not Active

Auto Refresh Active, waiting

Canvas Refreshing

Enable automatic scheduled refresh of Canvas pages

https://youtu.be/3mZQnaoS2bE?t=21


Filter-Controls Enhancements

Metrics : full range / Top Ns

Dates : Date range / Relative Time

Attributes : Top/Ns

On-Canvas Filters (blended into Canvas Layout) now support all types of filters

https://youtu.be/IncGDTMGUM8?t=30


Custom Sort Dialog

Sort orders in any Visualization can be customized using custom Sort-Order dialog. This can be saved/modified.

https://youtu.be/qhxPkh5s_O0?t=37


Viz Title Tooltip

Freeform custom tooltip can be added to Viz title in Viz properties.



Export in Viz Toolbar

Visualization-level export options are available directly on the Viz’ context menu in Visualize and Narrate tabs.

Also available in embedded visualizations and thus offers direct export of data from embedded OAC content



Waterfall/Bridge Visualization shows weighted average contribution to overall variation

Additive Metric :# of Students

Avg Metric : AvgStudent Score

Contribution to variation properly calculated using weighted Avg

Waterfall Weighted Avg

https://youtu.be/K12r1r7ldnU?t=5


Non-Joined Datasets in a Map Visualization

A single Map visualization can display multiple data layers sourced from dis-jointed datasets in project. Example : Warehouses and Highways geometries.

https://youtu.be/_J7OWfko73k?t=97


Execute Database Time Series Algorithms directly from Oracle Analytics Data-Flows

Time-Series Database Analytics:

https://youtu.be/LuMTLlhq2-M?t=71


In a dataset of events (transactions), easily identify combinations Antecedents that lead to occurrence of a Consequent event

Association Rules Calculation

https://youtu.be/moPrcrJYrLY?t=5


Simple Network Graph Calculations

Execute Database Graph Network calculations directly from Oracle Analytics Data-Flows

https://youtu.be/Q80ERcTMQW8?t=85


Configure OCI Storage as delivery location for Publisher Jobs

OAP Object Storage as Delivery Channel

https://youtu.be/-nKs5-mPYiQ?t=5


Oracle Analytics Library

http://www.oracle.com/goto/OAStore

http://www.oracle.com/goto/OAStore


Resources and Questions?

Vlamis Home www.vlamis.com Blog www.vlamis.com/blog Prior OBIEE releases www.vlamis.com/oawebinars

Blog article with links on Getting Started with Oracle Analytics http://www.vlamis.com/blog/2019/7/11/getting-started-with-oracle-analytics

OAC What’s New Documentation https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/analytics-cloud/acswn/index.html#ACSWN-GUID-CFF90F44-BCEB-49EE-

B40B-8D040F02D476

Oracle Analytics Library with plugins http://bit.ly/OAClibrary and demos http://bit.ly/OACLive

Vlamis blog on OAC 5.8, 5.9, 6.0 new features https://vlamis.com/oracle-analytics-update-may-2021

Oracle blog on OAC 6.0 new features https://blogs.oracle.com/analytics/explore-new-features-in-oracle-analytics-cloud-release-60

YouTube channel Oracle Analytics from SampleApp Team https://www.youtube.com/user/EvolvingBI/videos

YouTube video playlist on OAC 5.8, 5.9. 6.0 new features http://bit.ly/OAC58Features http://bit.ly/OAC59Features http://bit.ly/OAC60Features

Course on Oracle Analytics https://www.udemy.com/course/augmented-analytics/

Dan VlamisEmail: [email protected]: @dvlamis

Phone (816) 781-2880

Vlamis Software SolutionsTwitter: @vlamissoftwareLet us know if you want to know about future webinars!

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http://www.vlamis.com/blog

http://www.vlamis.com/oawebinars

http://www.vlamis.com/blog/2019/7/11/getting-started-with-oracle-analytics

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/analytics-cloud/acswn/index.html#ACSWN-GUID-CFF90F44-BCEB-49EE-B40B-8D040F02D476

http://bit.ly/OAClibrary

http://bit.ly/OACLive

https://vlamis.com/oracle-analytics-update-may-2021

https://blogs.oracle.com/analytics/explore-new-features-in-oracle-analytics-cloud-release-60

https://www.youtube.com/user/EvolvingBI/videos




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