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ORAClE BUSINESS INTEllIGENCE ENTERPRISE EDITION 11g and ORAClE FUSION MIDDlEWARE MAPVIEWER
Putting Business Intelligence on the Map
Map geographies and business information together to see results.
Subject Areas M panel on the left-hand
ost business intelligence applications
a store icon colored either red, amber, or
side of the screen, choose the following graphic, data—with sales and performance
include an element of spatial, or geo-
green, depending on how well the store
columns for your analysis: data often analyzed in terms of dimensions
is performing. Prior to creating this map,
you will need to configure Oracle Business
such as customer location, geography, and
Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g to work
Dim Stores.Metro City
sales territory. Oracle Database, Enterprise
with MapViewer and associate the maps
Dim Stores.Latitude
Edition 11g Release 2, with the included
and layers within your maps with subject
Dim Stores.Longitude
Oracle Locator feature and the Oracle Spatial
area columns in your data set. The sample
Fact Sales.Revenue
database option, can store spatial data such
data download provided with this column
as maps and points of interest along with
contains instructions on how to perform
3. Move your cursor over the Dim Stores
.MetroCity column in the Selected Middleware MapViewer feature can render
your data for analysis, and the Oracle Fusion
this configuration, and the configuration is
Columns area on the right-hand side this spatial data in the form of Web-based
also described in Oracle Fusion Middleware
of the screen, and select Filter from the interactive maps.
System Administrator’s Guide for Oracle
menu. Use the New Filter dialog box to Oracle Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g
create the following filter: Enterprise Edition 11g, part of Oracle
Release 1 (11.1.1) .
To create the first map view, do the
Fusion Middleware, is preintegrated with
Metro City is equal to/is in MapViewer and gives you the ability to
following:
1. From the common header menu on the
SAN FRANCISCO
create business intelligence analyses and
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
dashboards that include maps. This article
Then switch to the Results tab and looks at how to create map views and
Edition 11g home page, select New ->
confirm that a list of store locations combine them with other data visualiza-
Analysis .
in San Francisco, along with revenue tions by using Oracle Business Intelligence
2. When prompted, select the Sales – Fact
figures, is displayed. Enterprise Edition 11g. If you would like to try out the examples in this column, you can download the sample data and installation instructions from oracle.com/technetwork/issue- archive/2011/11-may/o31bi-323440.zip. Download the sample spatial data and maps used by the examples separately from Oracle Technology Network at download .oracle.com/technology/products/bi/files/ SampleApp_Navteq_dmp.zip.
Sales subject area, and then from the
CREATING A CUSTOM POINT LAYER MAP
In the first example, you are analyzing retail data for stores in your organiza- tion. Most of your stores are in the San Francisco Bay Area, and you will now create
a map view that places each store in its correct location, along with a legend and
Figure 1: The store icons on this map view of San Francisco reflect performance data.
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4. Now you can create your map: locate the Views panel at the bottom left of the screen, and select New View -> Map. When the map view is displayed, select OBIEE_SF_MAP1 from the list of maps shown at the top of the view.
5. The new map view is now ready for editing. A panel on the right-hand side enables you to define map formats. Click the Delete button next to the default OBIEE_CITY map layer to remove it from the list of formats, because you will create your own format in the following steps. Then click the Add New Map Formats button to add an image map format, using a custom point layer. This will enable you to place icons on the map, based on latitude and longitude coordinates.
6. In the Image (Custom Point Layer) dialog
Figure 2: This dashboard page displays pie charts and detail-level analyses.
box that appears, enter the following set- tings to place the stores in your sample
to the Map Formats panel and delete the data set on the map:
next example, you will display a larger-scale
map of the continental U.S. and place pie
default map format. Click the Add New
charts over the states in which the company
Map Formats button, but this time select
X (e.g. Longitude) Longitude : operates, with the charts showing the break-
Pie Graph from the list of formats. Then,
when prompted, select OBIEE_STATE Tooltips : Longitude,
Y (e.g. Latitude) : Latitude down of sales across product categories.
from the list of map layers available. Latitude,
To create this map, do the following:
1. Select New -> Analysis from the Oracle
5. In the Pie Graph dialog box that appears,
Revenue Business Intelligence menu at the top of
set the following for the pie charts:
Vary Image By : Revenue the screen, and select Sales – Fact Sales
Bin Type : Percentile
as the subject area.
Tooltips : Country and
Binning 2. From the Subject Areas panel on the
State Code;
Bins : 3 left-hand side of the screen, choose the
Revenue
Slice Size : Revenue In the Select Image dialog box, select
following columns to add them to the
Graph Size 15 : the Red, Yellow, and then Green circles
Selected Columns area:
Slices : Product Category (traffic lights) for the 0-33%, 33%-66%,
Dim Stores.Country and State Code
and 66%-100% bins, respectively.
Dim Products.Product Category
Click OK to save the settings, and then
7. Click OK to finish this map definition. Fact Sales.Revenue with the map view displayed, use the pan Then use the pan and zoom buttons on
and zoom buttons to display the U.S. the left-hand side of the map to locate
West Coast. Locate Oregon on the map, downtown San Francisco, as shown in
Because you will be mapping stores
place your cursor over the pie chart, and Figure 1.
located in all of the company’s U.S. territo-
then click the legend. Note that the state You have now created your first map view.
ries, you do not need to apply a filter to the
name and the product categories are all Once you have viewed the map, click the
selection criteria.
hyperlinks—you can use these to pass filter Home link at the top of the common header
Switch to the Results tab and confirm
values to other analyses, as you will see in a menu to return to the Oracle Business
that a list of states, together with product
moment. For now, though, save this map to Intelligence Enterprise Edition home page.
categories and revenue amounts, is shown.
3. To create the map, locate the Views panel
the Presentation Server catalog, using the
and click the New View button. Select
name Country and State Map .
CREATING THEMATIC MAPS
Map from the list of views, and select the
Your first map, OBIEE_SF_MAP1, used x and
OBIEE_WORLD_MAP as the map to be
USING MASTER-DETAIL ACTIONS
y coordinates to plot the location of your
Because map views are fully integrated into stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this
displayed within the map view.
4. As with the previous map view, navigate
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
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Edition 11g, you can use links displayed in
Dashboard -> My Dashboard from the map legends to pass parameters to other
you saved the Country and State Map.
common header menu and use the dash- views. By doing this, you can make selec-
Then, with the analysis open for editing,
board editor to add the three analyses to tions by using the map view and use these
select the Criteria tab to show the list of
a new dashboard page, with the map dis- to change the values displayed in associ-
columns used in the analysis.