OBIEE 11g’s new graphing and charting engine defaults to Adobe Flash (previously Macromedia Flash) . This is fine and dandy as the rendering looks great and demos really well to clients.  I refer to it as the shiny spoon when relaying new features of OBI 11g to technical folks.  But, this offers a new paradigm for infrastructure administrators within an organization.  Basically all users of OBI 11g “must” have Adobe Flash installed on their browsers.  And, on each browser that they use.  Yes, that’s right, for those non-Flash educated readers.  Flash is browser compliant and must be installed on each browser individually.  So, for those corporations that lock down or push software to their corporate user base this may be a quick tug of war but ultimately as most of use know, Flash helps more than hurts, so this really isn’t a beefy argument at all is it?

So, where does that leave us? First, as an OBI implementer, make sure that everyone can either download and install flash on their respective browser(s) or an administrator can bulk push Adobe Flash to all users. Okay, now that that is done, let’s talk about some other options, (just in case the bulk release of Adobe Flash offends the distributive capabilities of your software administrator).
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So, to much excitement, the first GA release of OBIEE 11g is finally available for the public to download.  You can download it as Friday August13, 2010 from the OTN OBIEE Page.  There is a lot to say for this release and our good friends at BI Consulting Group and Rittman-Mead have already begun blogging on the topic and setting up webinars to relay some great information to the masses about this much anticipated release.

OBIEE 11gR1 Download: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html

I am quite certain that Oracle pushed this GA release out the door just in time for OOW which is next month in San Francisco, CA.   Nevertheless, OBI 11g is finally here, so its time to get crackin’ on some new material.  If you haven’t already signed up, I’ll be part of a panel conducting a webinar with BI Consulting Group (OBI11g, What’s in it for Me?) on August 31st, 2010.  You can sign up for that event if you haven’t already.  The webinar should be very informative for a first look at OBI 11gR1.

Happy downloading!

The latest version of the Oracle BI Applications, 7.9.6 and 7.9.6.1 have not been out for that long.  That goes as well for the newest version of the DAC clearly. And, perhaps it is that this release is so new and there are just enough changes that several bugs still got out in this release.  Although these bugs are subtle and minor, they will pop-up on you in the damnedest of places, just when you thought you were sailing along swimmingly.

Now, if you read the systems requirements documentation word-for-word upon each and every OBI Apps release, no matter how minor the release, you may not need this information.  But, if you are human, you may have missed the tiny section on page 12 of the related release document, http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14847_01/bia.796/e14221.pdf. This page briefly highlights the fact that a DAC patch, 8760212, is required for this release of OBI Apps. It’s a DAC patch.
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