Seed endeca

Rittman Mead Consulting – Delivered Intelligence
Endeca, Looking beyond the general demos
Adam Seed & Charles Elliott
T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 or (888) 631 1410 (USA) E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com

Introduction

Introduction
Data Sources
Endeca

How does Endeca fit in with current infrastructure?
Data Warehouse
?
Endeca
BI Publisher
T : +44 (0) 8446 697 995 or (888) 631 1410 (USA) E : enquiries@rittmanmead.com W: www.rittmanmead.com Business Intelligence

How does Endeca scale to meet Enterprise Needs?
?

Current release of Endeca (3.0) – is it different?
Fully Hosted
Weblogic
Endeca 3.0

Endeca 3 Topology
Weblogic Server
Endeca Portal Domain Endeca Server Domain
Endeca Provisioning
Server Domain
Endeca Integrator
Server Domain
Client
Integrator
Portal Repository Data Sources BI Server

Endeca, A collaboration of software
Endeca Integrator
Text Enrichment
Endeca Server
MDEX
Endeca Studio

Endea 3, components
Data Source
Integrator
Development
Production
Integrator Server
Endeca Server
Endeca Portal
Endeca Provisioning
Service

Installation Directories
fmw
Integrator Server Domain
Provision Service Domain
Endeca Server Domain
Endeca Portal Domain
Also used as default
Endeca Portal Home
user
projects
Domains
wl_server
EndecaServer
/Oracle/Endeca/Discovery
(Suggested) /u01/app/oracle/product
Integrator
Client
(suggested) EndecaPortal

Hardening the Install
• Change Endeca portal home by altering the portal-ext.properties
‣ Currently goes into the fwm/user_projects/domains
• Change Document Root from http://localhost:port/ to /company/
• Change the Endeca portal database from the default hypersonic to oracle/mysql
• Enable SSL throughout

Some Changes in Endeca 3
Endeca Server
Data Domain1 Data Domain2
Data Domain3 Data Domain4
Endeca Portal
Application1 Application2
Application3 Application4

Advanced features

New ‘Getting Started’ with detailed configuration
Group Name
Group Display Name
Attribute Name
Attribute Key
Display Name
Type
Profile
Format
Profile
Select Type
Ranking Type
Show Record Counts
Is Value Searchable
Is Record
Searchable
Snippet Size
Is Unique
Is Single Assign
Is Dimension
Format
Available
Aggregations
Default Aggregation
Description
Format Settings

Integrator Server
1) Create Sandbox
2) Export Project
3) Schedule

Endeca Integrator Server Demo

Row Level Security
User
Group
Role
Data Filter Mapping
{
"dataDomainName": "twitter",
"name": "twitter",
"port": "7001",
"server": "localhost“
"inheritSecurity": "true",
"rolePermissions": {
"df_amazon": ["AMAZON"],
"df_ibm": ["IBM"]
…
},
"rolePermissionsMultiOr": "true",
"securityEnabled": "true",
"securityFilters": {
"AMAZON": {
"class": "com.endeca.portal.data.functions.DataSourceFilter",
"filterString": "FINANCIAL_SYMBOL='AMAZON'"
},
"IBM": {
"class": "com.endeca.portal.data.functions.DataSourceFilter",
"filterString": "'FINANCIAL_SYMBOL'='IBM'"
}
…
}
}

Mapping
Mapping in Endeca requires a few configurations:
• Column type in the configuration to be mdex:geocode
• Column format to be longitude latitude
(##.##### ##.#####) with a space separating them.
• Custom value in the Edge of mdexType=mdex:geocode

Mapping

Endeca Front End Demo and Provisioning Service

OBIEE and Endeca Integration

OBIEE as a Data Source using Integrator
• New in Endeca 2.4 and 3.0
• Prerequisites
‣ Running BI Server
‣ Single Semantic Model
‣ To Understand Data Volume
• Caveats
‣ Does not support Logical Calculations
‣ Custom Fields using non-XML Standards do not import
‣ Does support Physical Expressions
• Create a New Project instead of sharing

OBIEE as a Data Source for Endeca

BI Publisher Configuration
Configuration for BI Publisher and Endeca
requires the following details:
• Server Protocol (HTTP, HTTPS)
• Server Version
• Server (hostname or IP)
• Port (2.4 default is 7770)
• URL Suffix (ws)
• Session Timeout
Restart OPMN Components

BI Publisher Data Model Integration
• The Data Model page will now have Oracle
Endeca Query as an option in the New Data
Set dropdown.
• Allows for selection of Data Stores running in
Endeca
• Security options not available in current
release

BI Publisher Data Model Using Endeca

Endeca Server Catalog Search

This is how endeca fits into current infrastructure
Endeca
Data Warehouse
BI Publisher
Business Intelligence

Where is endeca going?
Endeca
Data Warehouse
BI Publisher
Business Intelligence

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