History of OBIEE

Out of curiosity, I surfed around the web to understand the history of OBIEE. While consulting at SIEBEL I was pretty much aware of their product called SIEBEL ANALYTICS and as per the general talk around Oracle after acquisition of SIEBEL has been selling SIEBEL ANALYTICS packaged as OBIEE. Well, part of the talk may be true but there is more to history…. I came to know about the same by surfing the web and reading the articles posted by various authors on their blogs. Some of the links are published below, please access and read the same.

http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/history

http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/09/a-potted-history-of-oracle-bi-suite-enterprise-edition/

Please enjoy the reading.

Shot at OBIEE11g installation

After almost 5 yrs the consulting bug has hit me again. This time round the consulting would revolve around projects on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) and Oracle Business Intelligence Apps. Hence, to get used to new world of OBIEE I decided to start with installing the same on my laptop. 

Laptop Configuration:   8GB, Windows 7 – 64bit.

Please note there are many sites available on the web where the authors have taken the pain & efforts to write in detail the steps of the installation. I am going to guide you to the sites/links that I used during my 'installation' journey. The installation process is pretty straightforward, hence my objective here is to highlight some of the minute issues or hurdles you may come across.

Enclosed are the links I referred to during my installation process

http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/installation_11.1

http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2011/12/29/oracle-11gr2-on-windows-7/

** All the necessary Oracle Software can be downloaded from https://edelivery.oracle.com

Pre-Requisites: Need to have Oracle 11gR2 database installed and running.

Documentation:

Oracle Business Intelligence Documentation

During the installation process, some of the listed issues were encountered and the solution for them is also very simple.

1)    Please make sure your Windows User Account you use is ‘administrator’ account.

Problem: The oracle database installer would keep crashing.

Solution: Created a new user a/c and a/c type as administrator. The installer went thru like a well-oiled process.

2)    Also would need to make sure that the text in your PATH environment variable is not more than 1026 as oracle installer throws up the error indicating it cannot be extended.

3)    While installing the database or OBIEE11g, please make sure the folder you plan to install does not have any ‘white space’ in the name as it may throw errors during installation.

4)      Also install the Microsoft Loopback Adapter or else you may encounter the following error during the OBIEE11g BI

INST-5058: A lookup of the address for this machine

Below are some of the links I referred to and found them really helpful for the above issue.

http://www.tensixconsulting.com/2012/03/oracle-bi-publisher-installation-error-inst-05058-a-lookup-of-the-address-for-this-machine/

Even after installing the Microsoft Loopback Adapter you continue to have issues then, please go thru the steps mentioned on link below:

http://kalpesh-obiee-eklavya.blogspot.com/2011/06/setting-loopback-adapter-for-obiee-11g.html

Well, the installation is complete on my laptop and now it is time to play with the software.  As I progress will put together some more stuff for everyone’s benefit.

Before Signing-off, would like to extend my thank you and appreciation to all the authors/bloggers whose links have been referred during the installation process.