This post is part of our online OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) training on weekend (more information here) where apart from theory We also help trainees to install OBIEE on their PC (laptop/desktop) for Lab exercises.
.
As per certification OBIEE is only certified on following Windows Version 
 

Windows XP x86Windows 2003 x86
Windows 2003 AMD64
Windows 2003 EM64T
Windows Vista x86
Windows Vista AMD64
Windows Vista EM64T […]

Popularity: 5% [?]

read more from this topic.....

I recently installed OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) with Installation Type as Advanced (i.e.Using existing Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.X ). For Step by Step OBIEE installation click here
With Advanced Installation you get three HOME (top level directory)
1. ORACLE BI Home
2. ORACLE BI DATA Home
3. ORACLE Application Server Home (HTTP Server and OC4J)
After installation, Login failed while accessing BI […]

Popularity: 18% [?]

read more from this topic.....

In this post we are going to cover steps to integrate OBIEE with OID. By default BI users are stored locally and authenticate against BI Server.
OBIEE support authentication via LDAP Server (OID, iPlanet, openldap server).
.
Integration of OBIEE with OID is required if
1. You wish to use OID as user repository for OBIEE or
2. You […]

Popularity: 21% [?]

read more from this topic.....

This post covers managing users in Oracle Business Intelligence Server (OBIEE) using Security Manager in BI Administration Tool
Security Manager - is used to setup users, groups, synchronize LDAP users and  Groups, set access rights for Objects (tables, columns) and to control over when and what data a user can access.
                       User Accounts can be defined […]

Popularity: 19% [?]

read more from this topic.....

On request from readers, I am posting step by step installation of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 10.1.3.X on windows (you can use same steps to install OBIEE on Linux)
.
Things good to know about OBIEE Installation
i) Siebel Analytics from Siebel (acquired by Oracle) is now called as OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition). […]

Popularity: 36% [?]

read more from this topic.....

This post covers Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) deployment for High Availability (cluster).
Lets first understand components of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
.
Components of BIEE

Oracle BI (Business Intelligence) consist of following components
i) BI Server- maintains logical data model in local proprietary file (.rpd).
ii) BI Presentation Service - provide framework and interface for presentation of BI data to […]

Popularity: 19% [?]

read more from this topic.....

Oracle BI Publisheris J2EE application which can be deployed on OC4J or any application Server like Oracle Application Server, IBM Web Sphere, Apache, BEA Weblogic ….
Here is quick overview of clustering BI Publisher or Configuring High Availability
Options Available for clustering BI
1. HA (High Availability) - Also called as Active-Passive deployment where one node is active and other […]

Popularity: 13% [?]

read more from this topic.....