This presentation presented at both Collaborate -2014 (Las Vegas), Innovate - 14 (NY User Group).

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Oracle Endeca for Application DBA
Oracle Applications Extensions for Oracle Endeca
May 16, 2014
Presented by:
Ravi Madabhushanam
Apps Associates LLC

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About the Presenter
• Ravi Madabhushanam
– Sr. DBA / Architect at Apps Associates LLC
– Over 9 years of experience as a DBA in maintaining Oracle products
– Solution Architect focused on enabling Oracle products on cloud platforms and
Business intelligence solutions
– Certified Amazon Web Services - Solution Architect

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About Apps Associates LLC
• Global provider of business & technology consulting services
– Founded in 2002 – Consistent Growth
– 650+ employees across US, Europe, India, Oman
• Recognized as one of the fastest growing private US companies by Inc. 500/5000
(four consecutive years)
• Strategic Partnerships & Certifications
– Oracle Platinum Partner & BI Pillar Partner
– Oracle Specializations (BI, EBS, SOA & Database, Fusion Applications, Oracle
Enterprise Manager)
– Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Certified – Oracle and Managed Service
Provider Competencies
– CMMI Level 3 Certification

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Session Agenda
• Business Intelligence and Data Discovery
• Endeca Information Discovery
– Architecture
• Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca
– Overview
– Architecture
– Installation, Configuration overview
– Data Model and Data synchronization
– Monitoring and Diagnostics
• Q & A / Evaluation

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Business Intelligence & Data Discovery
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

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Business Intelligence Challenges
• Exponential growth of enterprise data
• Introduction of unconventional data sources
– Semi-structured
– Unstructured
• Traditional BI Systems – model-analyze-report pattern
– Fixed data model
– Answer specific known questions
– Not available in real time
– Costlier to implement
• Need for a solution that is
– Intuitive
– Real time
– Flexible Data model

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Oracle Endeca Information Discovery
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery is an enterprise data discovery
platform for rapid, intuitive exploration and analysis of information
from any combination of structured and unstructured sources.

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Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

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Oracle E-Business Suite – Data Discovery
See More – Act Faster

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Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca

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Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca
Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca enable
enterprises to optimize operational decisions and improve process
efficiency with real-time access to operational data, driving better
cost and revenue decisions.

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Product Availability
Projects
Discrete
Manufacturing
Order Management
Enterprise Asset
Management
iProcurementInventory
Process Manufacturing
Outsourced
Manufacturing
Cost Management
Learning
Management
Install
Base
Depot
Repair
Field Service
iRecruitment
Channel Revenue
ManagementWarehouse
Management
Receivables

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Oracle EBS Extensions for Endeca Architecture

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Oracle EBS Extensions for Endeca Components

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Endeca Integrator Server
• Based on CloverETL
• Integrator Server
– Sandbox
– Graph
– Integrator DB
• Deployed on Weblogic Server
– Integrator domain

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Endeca Server (MDEX Engine)
• Hybrid search-analytical engine that organizes data into
a faceted data model
• Endeca Server's leverages
– NoSQL-like data model
– columnar physical storage
– in-memory architecture
– data parallelism for multicore architectures
• Data Domain
• Dgraph

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Endeca Studio
• Web-based tool for building and using applications
to search and analyze data from Oracle Endeca
Server data domains.
• Studio Components
– Data Source
– Studio Application

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User Authentication

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Install – Configure - Maintain

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Install & Configure - Architecture

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Install & Configure - Architecture

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Installation Flow

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Data Flow

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EBS – Endeca Views
• Each Extension module installed delivers a set of views installed on the EBS
database
• Views created as part of installation can be easily identified. All these view
names start with <product short code>_EID_<name> or <product shot
code>_ENDECA_<name>.
Ex: EAM_EID_WORK_ORDERS_V,
OE_ENDECA_RETURNS_V
• All these views contain following columns:
– EID_ENDECA_ID
– EID_LAST_UPDATE_DATE:

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EBS – Endeca Views
• Full data refresh / graph performs below activities
– Reset data store
– Load attribute information
– Load application data from the view
• Incremental data refresh / graph performs below activites
– Load application data created/updated since previous load, filtering rows
where eid_last_update_date >= ( last successful ETL date time) and eid_last_update_date
< ( Date time of current run)

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EBS – Endeca Views

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ETL Audit Table
• To ensure data consistency across multiple ETL runs (Graph executions), endeca
maintains an audit table FND_EID_ETL_AUDIT
• FND_EID_ETL_AUDIT
– ETL_RUN_AUDIT_ID
– EID_DATA_STORE_NAME
– ETL_RUN_LANG
– ETL_RUN_START_DATE
– ETL_RUN_END_DATE
– ETL_RUN_STATUS
– ETL_COMMENTS

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Monitoring and Diagnostics - Log Files

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Demo
Apps Associates – AWS Test Drive

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Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Endeca

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Summary
• Oracle Endeca Information Discovery – components
• Oracle E-Business Suite extensions for Oracle Endeca
• Architecture & Data flow
• Installation Overview
• Monitoring
• Demo
• Q & A

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White papers & Data sheets
• http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/oeid-tech-overview-
1674380.pdf
• http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/business-analytics/specs-to-exploration-
wp-2105080.pdf
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/endeca/documentation/docu
mentation-1544963.html
• https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/announcing_oracle_e_business_sui
te
• http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/ebiz-suite-endeca-
solution-brief-1896945.pdf

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MOS & OPN
• Information Center: Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca (Doc
ID 1486924.2)
• FAQs about EBS Extensions for Endeca (Doc ID 1621853.1)
• http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18727_01/doc.121/e37993/toc.htm
• E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca: Technical Considerations – Open
World 2013 presentation
• Installing Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca, Release 12.1.3.4
(Doc ID 1562372.1)
• R12.1.3.4 TOI: Implement & Use E-Business Suite Applications for Oracle Endeca
- Architecture, Installation & Patching (Oracle iLearning)

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