Preface

The Empirica Signal application provides the ability to generate reports on topic content using Oracle® Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). This guide provides system requirements and configuration instructions to integrate OBIEE with the Empirica Signal application.

The preface includes the following sections:

• Audience

• Documentation accessibility

• Related documents

• Conventions

Audience

This document is intended for database administrators, Empirica Signal administrators, and IT administrators.

This guide assumes that you have an understanding of operating system and database concepts, and have experience using the supporting software as described in the Installation requirements chapter. This guide assumes you have both the Empirica Signal software and OBIEE already installed.

Documentation accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal Release 8.0 documentation set:

• Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal and Topics User Guide

• Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal Release Notes

• Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal Known Issues

• Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal Installation Guide

• Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal Secure Configuration Guide

• Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal Third Party Licenses and Notices

• Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Topics API Guide

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.