1 Installation requirements

To use OBIEE to report on the Empirica Signal and Topics application, you must meet the requirements specified in this chapter.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Database requirements

• Oracle Business Intelligence requirements

• Empirica Signal requirements

Database requirements

Obtain the following information:

• SYSTEM password for the Oracle database instance used by the Empirica Signal application.

• Name of the Empirica Signal application database account and tablespace.

• TNS name used for database access from Empirica Signal and OBIEE.

Oracle Business Intelligence requirements

• Oracle Business Intelligence URL.

• Oracle Business Intelligence administrator username and password.

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Manager URL.

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Manager administrator username and password.

• Oracle WebLogic Server Administrator Console URL.

• Oracle WebLogic Server Administrator Console administrator username and password.

• Server and file system access to the OBIEE and WebLogic installation.

  These software tools and installation instructions are available as downloads from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork.

Empirica Signal requirements

• Empirica Signal release 8.0 or higher, installed and configured.

• Empirica product ZIP file from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

• File OBIEE.zip from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

• Empirica Signal URL.

• Empirica Signal administrator username and password.

• Empirica Signal Topics feature, installed and configured.

• Name of the topic workflow account.

• Topic Workflow Configuration ID for which OBIEE can generate reports.

• Server and file system access to the Empirica Signal application server.

To create the topic workflow account during the Empirica Signal installation, see the Installation Guide.

Note: Before you configure Oracle Business Intelligence for Topics reporting, you must ensure that you have the installation media, such as the product ZIP file that corresponds to the release of the Empirica Signal software that you installed. The procedures for configuring Oracle Business Intelligence require files that are provided on the installation media.