BI deployment from OWB 10.2 (Paris)

Question

Hi all,
I'm curious what success or lack thereof you have had in deploying dimensions and cubes relationally to Discoverer with OWB 10.2.
Do you deploy item folders for dimensions and cubes seperately?
Do you create item folders for every level of your dimensions?
Do you create "complex" item folders instead having the dimensions and cubes prejoined?
I'm working on our BI deployment and would love to know some of your experiences with either method. Also, are you able to fully manage your EULs with OWB or do you have to use Discoverer Administrator post-deployment?
Thanks in Advance,
Mike

Answer 1

Hi Mike.
Do you create item folders for every level of your dimensions?You must create item folders for all information you want to show to end-euser or you need to add to a calculation, hierarchy, join, etc. It depends on how you have imported the folder in discoverer. Make sure the item you want to add to a folder is not already there.
Do you create "complex" item folders instead having the dimensions and cubes prejoined?Read the best practices document/thread. You'll see that using db views might be an alternative.
I never tried this using OWB 10g R2. In previous releases you'd have to create collections, export/import it to discoverer and that was the most you could do using OWB.
As far as I've read the documentation, the "Defining Business Intelligence Objects" chapter in OWB users guide, it seems like there's a lot stuff you can do in OWB.
However you'll see the need to edit the Business Areas using Discoverer Adm Edition. Read this thread, you'll see there's plenty of stuff you won't be able to do using OWB (like editing security/privileges, for instance):
Discoverer Adm. Best Practices
Also, read the following document:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/discoverer/pdf/Discoverer_10_1_2_BestPractices.pdf
You'll find answers for most of your questions.
Regards,
Marcos