OBIEE High Level Design Template/Document

Just wanted to share how High Level OBIEE Design Template looks like

Introduction

< Give a brief background about the project and the objectives of the design document.>
Purpose

<Provide the purpose of this document here.>
Scope

< Provide the scope of this document >
Design Overview 

<This section defines the overview of the Design document, including the key points in the design>
Environment Setup

<This section contains details about the environment setup.>

Description
<This section shall contain the details of the proposed architecture for the OBIEE application. Include a brief description about the components of the OBIEE application here.>

System Environment
<This section shall contain the information about the server configurations done for OBIEE in the development, testing and the production environment. Also include the diagrams here.>

Development
<This section shall contain details about how the development is done – How the repository is configured (whether multi-user development environment is set up for repository configuration or each developer is working on the repository asynchronously).
Specify how the reports and dashboards will be created  (whether on the developers local machine and the catalog objects copied to the servers’ catalog later or is the development done on the server directly).>

Repository

This section contains a brief description of the OBIEE repository, including the 3 layers of the repository. Also specify the following details:

·        How the business models and presentation catalogs will be created in the repository

·        List the presentation catalogs to be created

Presentation Catalog	Description	Intended Users	Business Model Source
< Name of the presentation catalog.>	<Description of the presentation catalog>	<Intended user groups  of the presentation catalog>	<Source of the Presentation Catalog>

·        How the OBIEE application users would be authenticated

·        Data level security to be implemented

Repository Group	Data level security
<Name of the repository group>	Data level security to be implemented on the repository group

·        How the cache management would be done.

Presentation Catalog

This section shall contain the following details:

• A brief description about the components of the presentation catalog that will be used to create the reports, dashboards and iBots
• Dashboard and reports to be created.
• List the iBots to be created and their purpose.
• How the dashboard and report level security is implemented.

Dashboard	Dashboard Page	Report Name
<Name of  the Dashboard>	<Name of the dashboard page>	<Name of  the Report>
		<Name of  the Report>
	<Name of the dashboard page>	<Name of  the Report>
		<Name of  the Report>

iBot	Purpose
<iBot Name>	<Purpose of the iBot>

Dashboard Name	Intended Users
<Name of the Dashboard>	<Intended users of the dashboard>

 Backup and Recovery Plans

<Specify the backup and recovery plans for this project.

Consider the following:

• How do you plan to back up the repository and the presentation catalog?
• How often do you plan to back up?
• What are the necessary requirements for recovery?

    Are there any legal requirements for backup or recovery?>

--Asif Pathan