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!

Oracle Business Intelligence 11g has finally gotten going with a whirlwind release tour that started in early April 2010.  Today’s launch party takes place in one of the largest business cities in world, New York, NY USA.

After much beta testing, and hush-hush, behind the doors secrecy, this clandestine tool can now be seen via a myriad of marketing paraphernalia online as presented by Oracle.  There are a lot of great resources, break-out session videos, keynotes, etc provided on the Oracle site.  One of my favorites is a side link at http://ht.ly/2bADM which provides some great webcasts on the topic.

Get ready to see some great in-depth detail  on ArtOfBI.com.  We are stoked about the EPM/BI integration that now doesn’t have the limitations that 10g had.  Everything is better in this version as one could only expect from the amount of delay and anticipation this release has brought upon the Oracle BI communities.  We are looking forward to sharing more detail on the topic.

Take a look at some heads up resources from Oracle, et al.  I think you’ll find most of the initial collateral most exciting.

• http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/143363
• http://www.oracle.com/oms/businessintelligence11g/index.html
• http://www.oracle.com/oms/businessintelligence11g/business-insight-075567.html (Demo Videos)
• http://blogs.oracle.com/robreynolds/2010/07/reminder_obiee_11g_north_ameri.html
• BICG Twitter Live from OBIEE 11g Launch

Reviewing some disconnected solutions I came across CodeRun.com.  CodeRun.com is basically a web-based development environment that let’s you write,test, and debug code online - in the cloud so to speak.

And, it’s no joke, this is a powerful interface.  It let’s you, with syntax highlighting, write the most popular code syntax out there including ASP.NET, PHP, AJAX, Java, etc.   This is clearly not enterprise-level team based software but if you need to transfer code, test a quick snippet out, or are looking to train users in a classroom setting this is really functional.

The more tools that I have in my arsenal the better versed and prepared I am. So, I’ll keep this in my favorites regardless.

Just thought I’d share.

Oracle has recently stepped-up and done a really cool integration with their 11g release of Oracle Data Mining on Amazon’s EC2 Cloud.

You can check it out for yourself here.

You can get step-by-step instruction on how to launch and run your own environment for testing/demo purposes, here.  This is a great way to introduce new users to this amazing technology that I think has always bleeding edge.

I wonder if they’ll start doing this with all of their new technology releases.

In the spring of  2009 Sun Microsystems went live with their implementation of OBIEE and presented at the North California Oracle Applications User Group.  The original document is found here,

http://www.norcaloaug.com/seminar_archive/2009_05/Sun_Microsystem_OBIEE_Implementation.pdf

but I have also mirrored the file here,

http://www.artofbi.com/docs/Sun_Microsystem_OBIEE_Implementation.pdf

The document highlights some of the benefits of  bringing OBIEE into the organization along with pros and cons and usage of the BI Meta Data Repository.  At a minimum there are some great bullet-points here that could be leveraged for your next OBIEE presentation.