Why upgrade to Oracle’s OBIEE 12gc?
- OBIEE 12c is vastly superior to OBIEE 10g+
- Aligned with Oracle’s vision for BI and EPM
- Fully integrated with Oracle’s Fusion middleware
- Significant new functionality (Hierarchy management, Security enhancements, scalability and performance)
- Support for additional data sources (Essbase, Visual Analytics, OLAP, Hyperion etc.)
- Built for cloud applications
- OBIEE 10g+ premium support sunset
Why GoLiveSystems?
- GoLiveSystems has extensive knowledge of both 10g and 11g platforms including product architecture
- During the migration process we include continual knowledge transfer and training, ensuring your team is comfortable and understands OBIEE 11g and provide the following;
- Architectural understanding
- Day to Day management
- System life-cycle procedures
GoLiveSystems’ provides a comprehensive service to ensure your successful transition to OBIEE 12c Further Enhancements:
- We create a custom “Approach” document detailing at a high level the implementation steps
- Also identify and develop:
- Current-state assessment template
- Detailed customer resource requirements (e.g. Security/Web/DBA)
Objectives:
- Migrate current 10g functionality to OBIEE 12c
- Ensure that upgraded platform is configured the system architecture to satisfy your long term needs
- Upgrade in a timely manner not to impact your day to day operations
- Introduce your team to the latest features and benefits of OBIEE 12c
Deliverables: Assessment Phase:
- Typically 3-5 days, GoLive Senior BI consultant will assess your current OBIEE environment:
- Number of environments, dashboards, subject areas, extent of customization, security model and usage etc.
- Provide you with a clear picture on what to expect:
- Optimized utilization of existing hardware.
- Any new system requirements, licensing requirements, training, and technical skill requirements.
- Work with your team and recommend an effective System Architecture for OBIEE 12c platform
- Map out an upgrade path and action plan including Timelines and Resourcing.
Upgrade Phase:
- Install OBIEE 12c in a test environment.
- Upgrade 10g/11g to 12c with correct patches and customizations applied.
- Adopt the new OBI role based security
- Work with your security administrator to Integrate OBIEE 12c into your security framework.
- Assist your team in regression test plan development and execution.
- Scale-up, Scale-out as necessary to provide properly scaled, load balanced, highly available environment for your UAT and Production.
- Adoption of new features and configure the out-of-box parameters to support anticipated workload.
- Assist your team in acceptance testing and production deployment.
- Joint sessions with your team on following aspects of OBIEE 12c platform:
- Architectural overview
- New features and it’s applicability in your environment
- Guidance on routine systems management procedures
- Guidance on application deployment and life-cycle management
Optional:
- Assist in your migration efforts
- Moving to different platform architecture.
- E.g. Migrating Windows 32-bit platform to Linux 64-bit platform architecture