A Quick Recap on "The Best of" our OBIEE 11g Postings

it's been a couple of months now since the GA release of OBIEE 11g, and if you've only just got around to installing and evaluating the software, you may well have missed some of our early postings on the internals, architecture and key new features of the 11g release.

With this in mind, I thought I'd just call out some of our key OBIEE 11g articles over the past few months

Overview, Installation, Upgrades and Architecture:

• OBIEE 11gR1 : New User Interface, Home Page and Unified Framework
• OBIEE 11gR1 : Architecture and Use of WebLogic Server
• OBIEE 11gR1 : Installation and Initial Configuration
• OBIEE 11gR1 : Basic System Administration
• OBIEE 11gR1 : Scale-out, Clustering and High Availability
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Vertical Clustering – Fault Tolerance & Multiple BI Servers in a Box
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Upgrading from BI EE 10g – Repository & Web Catalog
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Incremental Web Catalog Migration – Patching Web Catalogs

New RPD and BI Server Features:

• Oracle BI EE 11g – BI Server new features
• OBIEE 11gR1 : Support for Ragged, Skip-Level and Value-Based Hierarchies
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Lookup Tables – Sparse and Dense Lookups
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Handling Double Columns – ID/Description interoperability
• Oracle BI EE 11g – BI Server Upgrade Considerations
• Oracle BI EE 11g – New BI Server Functions
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Patching Repositories and Migration from Development to Production

New Reporting, Analysis and Scorecarding Features:

• OBIEE 11gR1 : Hierarchical Columns, and Enhancements to Pivot Table Views
• OBIEE 11gR1 : New Visualizations, Dashboard Controls and Interactions
• OBIEE 11gR1 : Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Map Views – Integration with Mapviewer

Improvements to Essbase Integration:

• OBIEE 11gR1 : Enhancements to Essbase Support
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Enriching Essbase reports with Relational Attributes – Lookups
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Vertical Fragmentation on Parent-Child Hierarchies – Drills from Essbase to Oracle Database
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Navigation & Passing Parameters using Hierarchical Columns

The Action Framework:

• OBIEE 11gR1 : Action Framework and Conditions
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Action Framework – Integration with External Applications
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Integration with EPM 11.1.2 – HFR & Action Framework
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Action Framework – BI Web Services for SOA

New Security Features:

• OBIEE 11gR1 Security Explained : An 11g Security Overview
• OBIEE 11gR1 Security Explained : Working with the Default Security Configuration
• Oracle BI EE 11g – Security Integration with Microsoft Active Directory

We've also put together a few presentations, mainly for Oracle OpenWorld which ran in San Francisco in September. If you missed them, they're a good introduction to the key new architectural, data modeling and analysis features in the 11g release.

• OBIEE 11g Answers, Dashboards & More Oracle Open World 2010, San Francisco
• OBIEE 11g Architecture Best Practices and New Features Oracle Open World 2010, San Francisco
• OBIEE 11g Data Modeling Best Practices and New Features Oracle Open World 2010, San Francisco

Now that the initial launch of OBIEE 11g is over, the team are now restarting our work on the Oracle Press "OBIEE Developers Guide" that got postponed whilst we waited for the 11g release. Don't hold me to it, but the plan is for the book to be in the Oracle Open World bookstore for next year's event, in October 2011.