Obiee 11g - Overview of Mapping Capability

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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Overview of Mapping Capability

Antony Heljula

Technical Architect

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Agenda

Overview of Mapping Capability

Spatial Interactions

Oracle Spatial Architecture

NAVTEQ Digital Maps

Administering Maps in OBIEE



The ability to embed maps in to Oracle BI Dashboards is an exciting new development for OBIEE 11g

Report developers have the power to build colourful and interactive maps within their BI Dashboards.no coding or technical know-how required!



Oracle MapViewer is a java application used to render maps on behalf of other applications

Oracle MapViewer is installed as part of the standard OBIEE 11g installation

It is deployed onto WebLogic. Default URL http://[biserver]:9704/mapviewer

No extra licenses required for OBIEE customers to render maps

Oracle MapViewer



Create an Analysis within Answers as you normally would

Then just add a Map view to the Analysis

You just need to make sure at least one of the columns can be rendered on a map!

In this example, each Organization Name corresponds to a geographical country and this has been configured for display on a Map by the OBIEE administrator

Creating Maps is Easy!



Types of Layer

Colour Fill Bar Graph Pie Graph

Bubble Variable Shape Image



The user can choose which layers to display on the map

Enabling/Disabling Layers

Turn off a layer simply by

unchecking the corresponding

check-box



Custom Point Layers are where the co-ordinates are taken from the Analysis itself

Mapping coordinates can come from any type of data source!

Longitude/Latitude co-ordinates can be provided in a single column or separate columns

Supported with Bubble, Variable Shape and Image layers

Custom Point Layers



It is possible to interact with Maps just like you can with other any other OBIEE chart

Just click on the area that is of interest

Interaction

Action Link to open up a different analysis

Drill-Down to a lower hierarchy level



OBIEE 11g does support download and print options for Maps:

Printing and Downloading

Powerpoint PDF



One of the key benefits that comes with OBIEE 11gs mapping capability is the ability to interact with the maps just like they were standard Table/Chart views



When you click on the map, an info window will appear displaying information about the polygon/point you just clicked on

you can configure this info window to display extra columns

Info Window



By default, you will get the same default Drill-Down interactions as you get with any other Table/Chart

If you click on Business Group then you will drill-down just as if you clicked on the Business Group column heading on the table underneath the map

You should see all Organizations being returned

Drill-Downs : Heading



By clicking on the Business Group link we get a new map showing data by all the child Organizations

Note how the Table underneath the map has also changed to list data for all Organizations

Drill-Downs : Heading



Now this time we shall instead click on Vision Nordics

We should drill-down just as if had clicked on the Vision Nordics value in the table underneath the map

You should see all Organizations being returned for Vision Nordics

Drill-Downs : Value



And heres the result! We get a new map showing just the Organizations for Vision Nordics

NOTE:

The map zoomed in automatically!

Drill-Downs : Value



Master-Detail linking works even from maps as well!

Master-Detail Linking

Clicking on the map will initiate a Master-Detail

event to change the data displayed in the Graph



It is also possible to set up Action Links for your maps for navigation between dashboards/analyses:

Action Links



An Oracle Spatial Architecture will typically consist of the following components: Oracle Database

Stores the definitions of spatial objects (using special geometry data types)

Locator database option for querying, filtering, joining spatial data

Spatial database option for manipulating and aggregating spatial data

Oracle MapViewer A J2EE application used for rendering interactive map images and features-of-

interest (FOI)

Invoked via a series of XML, Java, PL/SQL and Javascript APIs

Provides a layer of caching

Oracle MapBuilder The development tool for MapViewer

A graphical Map builder tool that enables you to define the content and structure of maps and their rendering rules


Oracle Spatial Architecture with OBIEE

Base Map + Layer

IMPORTANT NOTE: With OBIEE 11g (release 11.1.1.5) the External Map Provider can source external base maps from Oracle eLocation, Web Map Services, Google Maps and Bing Maps



The Management screens allow you to perform administrative tasks such as :

Configure MapViewer server

Configure Map Tiles

Configure data sources

Clear geometry caches

MapViewer



MapBuilder



Each schema on the database has a set of system views to contain the 4 areas of metadata used by MapBuilder/MapViewer:

USER_SDO_STYLES

USER_SDO_THEMES

USER_SDO_MAPS

USER_SDO_CACHED_MAPS

Metadata


NAVTEQ Digial Maps


NAVTEQ Digital Maps

One method of rendering maps within OBIEE 11g is to have all your spatial data stored in an Oracle Database

Spatial data is stored in the Oracle Database using a special spatial data type called SDO_GEOMETRY As an example, If you want to render Country boundaries you will have a table that

stores the geometries for each Country

This map will consist of many different sets of geometries all layered on top of each other: Country Boundaries

Ocean Boundaries

City Locations

Highways

State Boundaries

Lakes

etc


Maps

NAVTEQ Sample Maps

NAVTEQ sample map data is available for download (with install instructions) from OTN:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/mapviewer/index.html

Data provided goes down to postcode level in 3 locations: London

San Francisco

Sydney

Maps covering further detail can be purchased directly from NAVTEQ

Digital map data is approx 300MB in size



The OBIEE 11g Administration screen contains a new option that allows you to configure your map data:

Manage Map Data



First of all, you define one or more Layers that can be rendered on top of a map. Layers can be either:

Points

Polygons

In order to use maps with OBIEE, you must have at least one Layer

Layers

Import / Delete / Edit Layer options



When you choose to import a new Layer, OBIEE will obtain the Layers that exist within the data source you choose

The Layers listed correspond to the Themes you defined in MapBuilder which are stored in the table USER_SDO_THEMES

Importing Layers



Once the Layer is imported, you can edit configure it for use with OBIEE:

Specify Geometry Type (Either Point or Polygon)

Specify which Subject Area columns can be used for this layer (i.e. which columns can be used to join to the spatial data)

Edit Layer

In this example, the Layer is keyed on ORGANIZATION.

This means we can

link it to the Organization Name

column in three Subject Areas:

Sales Forecast Sales Orders

Service Incidents



Once your Layers have been defined, you can import Background Maps and then configure which Layers can use them:

Background Maps

Import / Delete / Edit Background Maps



When you choose to import a new Background Map, OBIEE will obtain the Map Tile Layers that exist within the data source you choose

The maps listed correspond to the same Map Tiles which are defined in MapViewer, and are stored in the database table USER_SDO_CACHED_MAPS

Importing Background Maps



Once the Background Maps is imported, you can edit configure it for use with OBIEE:

Specify which Layers can use the map, and at which zoom levels

Configure the order in which the Layers appear on top of each other on a map

Edit Background Maps

This Background Map has 3 Layers, with OBIEE_CUSTOMERS displayed

on top of the others



You can import your own custom Images for use on your maps

When you choose to import an image, the images listed correspond to the images defined within MapBuilder and are stored in the database table USER_SDO_STYLES

Images

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