|
|
Copyright © 2008, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license, transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish or display any part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering, disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by law for interoperability, is prohibited.
The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and is not warranted to be error-free. If you find any errors, please report them to us in writing.
If this software or related documentation is delivered to the U.S. Government or anyone licensing it on behalf of the U.S. Government, the following notice is applicable: U.S. GOVERNMENT RIGHTS: Programs, software, databases, and related documentation and technical data delivered to U.S. Government customers are "commercial computer software" or "commercial technical data" pursuant to the applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation and agency-specific supplemental regulations. As such, the use, duplication, disclosure, modification, and adaptation shall be subject to the restrictions and license terms set forth in the applicable Government contract, and, to the extent applicable by the terms of the Government contract, the additional rights set forth in FAR 52.227-19, Commercial Computer Software License (December 2007). Oracle USA, Inc., 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065.
This software is developed for general use in a variety of information management applications. It is not developed or intended for use in any inherently dangerous applications, including applications which may create a risk of personal injury. If you use this software in dangerous applications, then you shall be responsible to take all appropriate fail-safe, backup, redundancy and other measures to ensure the safe use of this software. Oracle Corporation and its affiliates disclaim any liability for any damages caused by use of this software in dangerous applications.
This software and documentation may provide access to or information on content, products and services from third parties. Oracle Corporation and its affiliates are not responsible for and expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind with respect to third party content, products and services. Oracle Corporation and its affiliates will not be responsible for any loss, costs, or damages incurred due to your access to or use of third party content, products or services.
Table of Contents:
Installation and Configuration
Administration Utility Enhancements
Smart Space Software Development Kit (SDK) Enhancements
Oracle Smart Space, Fusion Edition is the first personalized information delivery solution for Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management that uses desktop gadgets. Its instant collaboration capabilities enable knowledge workers to share insights, discuss issues, document actions, and adjust plans. Smart Space exploits the collective power of Microsoft Windows and .NET technology, local memory and CPU resources on standard personal computers, and the Services Oriented Architecture of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus. This document describes the features available in Smart Space Release 11.1.1. For information on using these features, see the documentation set.
It is our goal to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to the disabled community. Oracle Smart Space New Features Guide release 11.1.1 supports accessibility features. Accessibility features are fully described in the appendix of the Oracle Smart Space User's Guide.
Smart Space is part of Oracle's Hyperion® Shared Services and is installed with Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System. Read the Oracle Smart Space Configuration Guide before you install Smart Space.
The new Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installer, Fusion Edition and Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Configurator provide a streamlined and simplified approach to product installation, upgrade, and configuration. Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Configurator uses the new Oracle's Hyperion Shared Services Registry, which simplifies product configuration by storing and re-using configuration information.
Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Diagnostics confirms that product components were successfully installed, configured, and are up and running.
The reorganized installation and configuration documentation set reduces the number of installation guides and makes it easier to find the information you need. Individual product installation guides are replaced by the following guides:
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation Start Here
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Security Administration Guide
You might also need to use these guides:
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Manual Deployment Guide
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System SSL Configuration Guide
Access to any combination of the following Oracle products is supported:
Hyperion Reporting and Analysis 9.3.1 or 11.1.1, which includes documents from:
Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting, Fusion Edition
Oracle's Hyperion® Interactive Reporting
Oracle's Hyperion® SQR® Production Reporting
Oracle's Hyperion® Web Analysis
Note:
Smart Space does not support Hyperion Reporting and Analysis 9.3.1 and Hyperion Reporting and Analysis 11.1.1 simultaneously. You can configure one version only, to be used at a time, within a Smart Space installation.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.4, which includes these items:
Answers requests
Interactive Dashboards including MyDashboards
Delivers - iBot results sent as Smart Space Notifications
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 10.1.3.4 reports
Oracle Essbase 9.3.1 or Essbase 11.1.1 for use with the Essbase Calculation gadget and Essbase Dataload gadget.
Note:
Smart Space does not support Essbase 9.3.1 and Essbase 11.1.1 versions simultaneously. You can configure one version only, to be used at a time, within a Smart Space installation.
Directly from Smart Space, you can view and interact with BI Publisher and Oracle BI EE content from Shared Folders and My Folders using the Smart Space Content Viewer, the Smart Book gadget, Favorites gadget and Windows Explorer Smart Space content drive.
You can invoke content from BI Publisher and Oracle BI EE for editing, viewing and interacting using a web browser.
From Smart Space, for a specific BI Publisher report, you can view the Schedule and History pages using a web browser.
Using Oracle Delivers iBots, you can send notifications to Smart Space users.
Single sign-on is supported, enabling Smart Space users to invoke and interact with reports in BI Publisher and Oracle BI EE.
Using Oracle Smart Space Collaborator, Fusion Edition, you can collaborate with BI Publisher and Oracle BI EE users connected to Smart Space.
Global gadgets—A gadget can be set to global so it is shared and displayed on all Smart Space desktops.
Essbase Calculation Gadget—You can launch and run Essbase calculations.
Essbase Data Load Gadget—You can load Oracle Essbase data.
In the Favorites gadget, additional right click menus have been added to initiate a collaboration session and to change the open options for reporting content.
In the Smart Book gadget, additional right click menus have been added to change the open options for reporting content.
In the Content Viewer, additional right click menus have been added to change the open options for reporting content.
Meetings, discussions and notifications—You can drag and drop document links from the Content Viewer, Windows Explorer, or a gadget onto a meeting, discussion or notification window.
Nicknames—You can define nicknames which are alternative names for Smart Space Collaborator users. The nickname is displayed instead of the user name.
Remember User Custom Status—A custom status will be optionally remembered the next time you log in to Smart Space Collaborator.
Archive Administration Utility Server Settings—You can archive and restore Administration Utility server settings.
Oracle BI Configuration wizard—Enables you to configure Smart Space Administration Utility to use login accounts from Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition when Hyperion Reporting and Analysis is not installed. You can also perform the initial configuration of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition servers without Hyperion Reporting and Analysis.
Services—Enables you to add custom services and make them available to users. These are built using the Smart Space Software Development Kit (SDK) with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005. Services are like gadgets but without a user interface. Services can be called from other gadgets and services.
install.html—This page is installed on the Smart Space server; it contains installation links to the Administration Utility, SDK, Java messaging libraries, and the Notification Web Service WSDL. Optionally, you can remove install.html from Smart Space server so users cannot access it.
Service Architecture—Provides the ability to create, deploy and publish a service. This functionality enables splitting the implementation between user interface (UI) and non-UI components. The gadget layer (UI) can reuse the service layer components (non-UI) when developing multiple gadgets that utilize the same service. It also provides extensibility of the Smart Space framework enabling developers to create services others can use with their own custom gadgets or services.
Visual C# and Visual Basic project template—Enables you to create a service. The templates are available within Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 in addition to the existing Visual C# and Visual Basic gadget templates.
Messaging library for Java and .NET—Libraries that enable external use of the Collaborator and Notification services. The libraries are available in both Java and .NET enabling external systems and applications to send and receive instant message and notification messages using the Smart Space Collaborator infrastructure.
Notification Web Service WSDL—Enables external applications to send messages to users, and manage a user's contact list.
Gadget SDK Enhancements:
Support for gadget to gadget communication.
Ability to add additional folders and files to the Smart Space Content drive of Windows Explorer for accessing data from other external systems such as a new repository.
Oracle Smart Space Collaborator, Fusion Edition user interface elements are exposed.
Ability to write to the Smart Space log files.
Standalone SDK Help—The SDK help that is displayed within Visual Studio, is now available standalone.
Note:
SDK enhancement documentation and the standalone SDK Help are available at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/epm/smart-space/community/index.html.
Tab Orders—508 compliance is based on tab orders and the components can be accessed by tabbing.
Short cut keys—Robust keyboard navigation, performing all actions using the keyboard exclusively.
Smart Space Administration Utility online Help—Provides context sensitive online Help.
Oracle Smart Space Configuration Guide—Designed for administrators, this document provides an introduction to Smart Space concepts and a comprehensive check lists for installation and configuration. Read this before you install Oracle Smart Space, Fusion Edition.
Oracle Smart Space, Fusion Edition Developer's Network—Developer documentation, articles, and tutorials on the Oracle Technology Network. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/epm/smart-space/community/index.html.
