It’s time for CI/CD for Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence. Explore this innovative solution to build and deploy WebCatalog objects across the pipeline.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) is built on the power of Oracle’s industry-leading business intelligence tool Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). This allows users to build powerful data visualization with real-time data that highlights data patterns and encourages data exploration instead of delivering static flat reports. OTBI provides users a wide variety of data visualization options from standard graphs to advanced visuals such as trellis, treemaps, performance tiles, KPIs, and others. FlexDeploy has an innovative CI/CD solution for managing the build and deployment of OTBI WebCatalog objects across the pipeline. Using FlexDeploy’s partial deployment model, developers can assemble related catalog objects into packages, build them from source control or a development environment, and deploy them into the target environments. Utilizing the FlexDeploy platform, you will enjoy the same benefits of full-featured pipelines, toolchain integration, dashboards, reporting and visibility, and much more. Additionally, FlexDeploy has a concept called Dynamic Packages. With traditional User Managed Packages, users pick and choose the objects which are required to migrate as part of a change. With Dynamic Packages, by virtue of include/exclude expressions, the packages can automatically calculate their content. For example, a ‘Payables’ package could automatically add objects which belong to the ‘/shared/Custom/Financials/Payables’ path. As new objects are populated in this path, they are automatically added to the package. This is a powerful feature where artifacts are managed as a consistent set for a module or functional area. Dynamic Packages are available for any FlexDeploy partial deployment project, extending well beyond Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence. Other partial deployment project types, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, JDBC, and File can take advantage of the same features. ‘I really like the additions. Really powerful statement of the partial deployment does not deploy ALL objects but rather only those that have changed. The other part I really like is the environment consistency it provides without deploying EVERYTHING but still ensuring that all objects are evaluated. It is a great addition to the product and something we will definitely leverage.’ — Technical Architect, Food Manufacturer First, let us take a brief look at the plugin operations for OTBI. These operations are used to build very simple build and deployment workflows.
