Building a OIBEE Business Model

Hello ,
I am looking into building a OBIEE application.
I need to following Dashboard reports and their fields:
--1--
Carrier
Year
Cost
Country
Total Weight
Total WeightCosts (Cost*Weight)
--2--
Carrier
Year
Cost
Country
I was imagining to do the following dimension tables in my DB:
DimCarrier
DimYear
DimFleetType
DimCountry
The fact table then has the columns
Carrier|Year|Country|Cost|TotalWeight
Where the last TWO columns are data. I know that in Essbase you can have only
one data column in the fact table and you decide with the other columns where
to load in against. How would I do this in OBIEE?
Thanks,
metalray

Actually on your business model you don't need to keep any references to other tables. This is all been taken care off by OBIEE as it has that information from the physical layer.
It's important to understand the difference between these two layers:
- the physical layer is the one which should reflect your database structure
- the business model should reflect a logical structure which is independant from the physical structure
For example you may have stored some 'dimensional' info on your facts table. A typical example would be a Sales order facts table on which you store also the order number and order item (with possibly some additional info related to it).
In this case you will end up with 3 logical tables for 1 physical table:
- Sales order facts (only measures)
- Sales order (order number & related info)
- Sales order item (order item & related info)
In your business model you will then join Sales order & Sales order item to Sales order facts and create dimensions with respectively the order number and the order item as the lowest level (= key of your logical table).

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HI,
Just you can drag and drop the columns from physical layer to BMM layer.
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Edited by: user12602240 on Mar 31, 2012 11:50 AM

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1)create a view with single column using the sql (select 1 from dual) in physical layer and join it with the table using complex join in physical layer (1=1).
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Hello Saichand,
No I did not. Do I have to create joins even when I am dragging this object from the physical layer? Let me read and learn how to create the joins. I will get back if I will have more questions.
But, thanks for the quick response. As you can see this is the first time I am trying to modify the business model layer.
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As we know that we could make join relationship in physical layer and also business model layer in obiee 10g. This is what makes me confuse.
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Physical layer does represent datamodel joins as is in almost all cases.
Federated queries are a best example why joins are implemented in both (Physical & BMM layer) places.
Business model mapping layer is modelled according to your business requirements.
This is where your model MUST be a simple star schema, also where you model your hierarchies based on logical tables in bmm layer, & do appropriate aggregate navigation.
Hope the view points presented will put you in right direction.
mark answers promptly.
-bifacts
http://www.obinotes.com
J
Edited by: bifacts on Dec 16, 2010 9:19 PM

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1) I need some tips in building a logical data model.
I have reviewed a functional spec and listed all the fields required in a report. I now looked into datasources( extractor) in R/3 side which can bring most of these fields but there are certain characteristices which are not part of this extractor, what i have found out is that they are the attributes of a master Data <u>but there are still some more fileds which are not part of the extractor and attributes of a master data</u> , so now how do i bring the data for those fieds????? <b>Do I have to enhance the extractor or do i need to enhance the Masterdata???????</b>
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Am I right else correct me gurus.
Will surely award points.
thanks.

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