Need help in Customization in Oracle Business Intelligence.

Question

Hi Guru,
I am working on ODI to customize Oracle Business Intelligence ( Category 1 and Category 2 Customization ). I need comprehensive / detail documentation on "OBI Customization" and "RPD Modification" . Kindly help and advice.
I use OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 and ODI 11.1.1.7.0.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hello Arshad,
Thanks for signing you post. It would be easier if you changed your forum handle to your name for communication purposes.
So I did understand you correctly Ijust wasn't aware that Oracle still uses this somewhat arbitrary wording. Anyways as I said you're looking for a How-To on customizing Oracle BI Applications which means learning how to work with OBIEE and how to work with ODI.
To have and read the documentation isn't bad - the new one is here by the way: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Documentation - but places like the Learning Library I posted are a good place as well since your questions are potentially very vast.
In general for what you call Cat1 changes it's all about
- finding the source of your new column in a source system or calculating it in the ELT if it is a derived column
- adding it to your physical schema of the target database
- adjusting your ELT processes to fill it
- import the new column into the RPD physical layer or create it manually
- map it to a new logical column in a logical table in the business model
- expose it in the presentation layer
Cat2 is more of the same but you also need to integrate it into your physical model (both actual physical model in the database and the physical model metadata of the RPD) in terms of joins etc and your ELT-work becomes a lot more extensive (table construction, key resolution, SCDing, partitioning, indexing,..........).
As you can see there's a lot of things to cover so we can't just "give you an answer". You're basically touching topics which take time to learn and assimilate and to just jump in and start doing isn't necesssarily somehting I'd suggest. Best take a training course on OBIA since otherwise you may implicitely "just do" things because you were told so in here or by someone and you'll never see and be able to comprehend the underlying concepts and techniques.