Author: John McGale, Performance Architects
After you have procured your Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) environment, you should receive an email from Oracle that contains a direct link to your service. If for any reason you misplace the link, you can simply go to cloud.oracle.com and click the sign-in button.
You will then be presented with a list of choices. Select “My Services” and then pick your data center region. Your region will be indicated in the email. The region is determined based on the geography you indicated during sign up. You will then be prompted to enter an identity domain and your login credentials.
After logging in, you will be presented with the BICS homepage. For those of you familiar with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), you may have expected a similar user interface. BICS uses the “simplified interface” and there is no option to change the interface at this time.
BICS Home Page, Create Menu, Alternate Horizontal Task Menu
A quick tour of BICS features will play when you login. You can opt out of this. You can go directly to creating content from the “Create” menu or follow one of the links to begin working. We highly recommend you take the tutorial which can be found in the “BI Cloud Service Academy.”