About Uploading Semantic Model Files from Oracle Analytics Server to the Cloud

If you’ve already modeled your business data with Oracle Analytics Server, you don't need to start from scratch in Oracle Analytics Cloud. Ask an administrator to upload your semantic model file to Oracle Analytics Cloud and start exploring your data through visualizations, analyses, and dashboards.

Oracle Analytics Cloud lets you upload a semantic model .rpd file with:

• One or more semantic models

• Connections to one or more databases

You’ll need to validate your semantic model .rpd file and configure database connection details in your Oracle Analytics Server environment.

When your administrator uploads a semantic model .rpd file from Oracle Analytics Server, existing semantic models (if any) are deleted and replaced with content from the uploaded file. Semantic models uploaded from the file become available to content authors through the Subject Areas pane.

If model changes are required, administrators can use Model Administration Tool to edit and deploy their updates to Oracle Analytics Cloud. This tool is available with Oracle Analytics Client Tools. See Download and Install Oracle Analytics Client Tools.

Note:

Oracle publishes new Oracle Analytics Client Tools with each Oracle Analytics Cloud update. After Oracle updates your Oracle Analytics Cloud environment, you must always download and start using the latest Oracle Analytics Client Tools.

If you want to copy reports and dashboards built in Oracle Analytics Server to Oracle Analytics Cloud you can do that too. See Upload Content from a Catalog Archive in Visualizing Data and Building Reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud.