The Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure components can be deployed across your enterprise.

The Oracle Business Intelligence components can be installed in a distributed architecture in a multi-server environment. Oracle Business Intelligence provides for high availability through the use of native clustering, failover, and load balancing capabilities. The Oracle Business Intelligence SSL Everywhere feature allows you to secure communications across all Oracle Business Intelligence components. Oracle Business Intelligence allows you to enable Single Sign-On for your deployment. The Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure allows integration with the Oracle Middleware products such as Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Single Sign-On.

The Oracle Business Intelligence components consist of:

• Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services

  The Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services provides the framework and interface for presentation of Business Intelligence data to web clients. It maintains a Presentation Catalog service on the file system for the customization of this presentation framework. It is a stand-alone process and integrates with the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Plug-in from which it receives web client requests. It communicates with the Oracle Business Intelligence Server using ODBC over TCP/IP.

• Oracle Business Intelligence Server

  The Oracle Business Intelligence Server is a stand-alone process that maintains the logical data model which it provides to BI Presentation Services via ODBC. Metadata is maintained for the data model in a local proprietary file called the repository file (rpd). On the back-end, the BI Server connects to customer data stores via data source adaptors.

• Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler

  The Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler is an extensible scheduling application for scheduling reports to be delivered to users at specified times. It is the engine behind the Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers feature.

• Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

  The Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher generates highly-formatted, pixel-perfect enterprise reports.

• Oracle Business Intelligence Java Host

  The Oracle Business Intelligence Javahost provides services to BI Presentation Services for Charts, Gauges and PDFs. The services are provided based on request-response model.

• Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Plug-in

  The Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Plug-in is the entry point for web client requests to BI Presentation Services. There are two types of BI Presentation Services Plug-ins. For Oracle Business Intelligence that is serviced by J2EE application servers, the BI Presentation Services Plug-in is a Java Servlet. For Oracle Business Intelligence where the web server used is Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), the Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-in is an ISAPI Plug-in.

NOTE:  This guide assumes that you are familiar with the components of Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure, their functionality, and the process to install and configure these components.

This guide describes how to deploy Oracle Business Intelligence in an enterprise. The enterprise deployment options described in this guide are shown in Table 2.