Posts Tagged ‘OBIEE 12c’

System Requirements The system requirements for Oracle BI Applications installation: Oracle Fusion Middleware requires a minimum 1-GHz CPU Windows minimum physical memory required – 4 GB. Windows minimum available memory required – 8 GB. Additional System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Oracle Business Intelligence EE Release 12.2.1 can be found in Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.0.0) […]

OBIEE 12c by default uses WebLogic internal user directory for security purposes. This is effective only when the number of the users is very limited and is not expected to grow much over the years. But, in a real world business scenario, almost all implementations require configuring a more robust way to implement authentication and […]

Usage tracking in OBIEE 12c is very similar to that in 11g, which enables mainly administrative users to track all reports being run and queries fired to the database. It is also very helpful in identifying and analyzing objects that require better query performance. The configuration steps will be mentioned in this blog as well as […]

One of the many multi-dimensional data sources that OBIEE supports is Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). If you have used Essbase as a data source in OBIEE, you will realize that HFM integrates in a similar approach, but not quite the same. While a direct connectivity between OBIEE and HFM is very useful for financial users, […]

In this post, I deliver an in-depth look at the steps to upgrade OBIEE 11g to OBIEE 12c in a separate environment. So that means it is an out-of-place upgrade of OBIEE from 11g to 12c. I did this upgrade for an American worldwide financial services client. Following are the details for the upgrade process […]

Earlier, I wrote a blog post about the presentation (Complex Data Security Made Easy in Oracle BI) that I delivered at Kscope17. I used a typical use case from a marketing organization as to how complex data security like team and position based hierarchies can be implemented via four different approaches in Oracle BI. When […]

Oracle has released a new bundle patch for OBIEE 12c platforms, version 12.2.1.0.161018.  The bundle patch can be found in the My Oracle Support Patches & Updates section, the direct link is here: https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=patch&id=24695761.  It can be applied to OBIEE 12.2.1.1.0 and OBIEE 12.2.1.0.0.  In addition to patching the OBIEE application server, developers and administrators need to […]

In Part 1 of this series, I explained how to prepare your system for VirtualBox and download and extract the .ova file from the Oracle OTN site.  This post describes how to deploy the image, setup the virtual machine settings, how to set up your network adapters and run a critical patch.  At that point […]

Shortly after the release of OBIEE 12.2.1.1, OBIEE Sample Application version 607 was released.  This Sample App is extremely robust and nicely highlights the updates to OBIEE 12c including Data Visualization improvements and really shows off what OBIEE 12c can do.  In addition to the core Sample App, an EPM Plug-in for Sample App is available, […]

OBIEE release 12.2.1.1 not only boasts improved Data Visualization capabilities as I outlined earlier this week, but there are many important updates to source system support.  One of the main drivers of this is that OBIEE now supports DataDirect 7.1.5.  For those of you unfamiliar with DataDirect, it is a set of ODBC drivers from Progress Software […]

Oracle has recently introduced a new version of OBIEE 12c, 12.2.1.1 (not to be confused with the original 12.2.1.0) This is the first point release of the 12c platform and contains a host of changes.  The biggest changes are in the Data Visualization side of the house where the platform has seen significant functionality additions in […]