After some recent testing with OBI 11g and EPM 11.1.2 and utilizing several browsers I found that the both the EPM and OBI 11g front ends are a bit clugey when viewing the GUI from the latest FireFox browser version release. I am not 100% if this is an issue with the ADF engine incompatibility or just a change in the latest release of FF. Either way, if you are using FF for the EPM 11.1.2 GUI I wouldn’t upgrade to the latest version of FF which as of today 2010/10/19 is 3.6.10. The previous version still works properly with EPM 11.1.2. I didn’t put any video together on this one but the screenshot below just highlight the versions.
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Sticking with a solid need for integrating sales, performance, and compensation data from distributed data sources I chose one that one that has been relatively absent from this attempt, Oracle Data Integrator.  The detail in this tutorial was too extensive to be placed in a basic blog post and is readily available as a PDF for download.  Please take note that unfortunately this a relatively straighforward integration with some deviations and patches.  Oracle presented this integration as ready but as you can see from this tutorial that that declaration was not 100% accurate.  However, with some step-by-step patching and careful procedural fine tuning the integration is indeed possible and value rich.
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I was happy to see that the SubSonic project is back in full swing and better than ever. I had a few post on the SubSonic project a while back when they were on version 2. Rob really took the bulky version 2 and slimmed it down tremendously with a lot of new features and the excellent use of VS.NET templates. With what seems to be a strong emphasis on leverage LINQ has turned into a superb product. And, of course the SubSonic project remains free, which is not the best part of the project but it doesn’t hurt any either. Actually, Rob has thrown together several different methods for accessing database data via your code. He even took a principle that I have only seen in Ruby on Rail which allows objects in code to basically create/build database schema, which is pretty powerful. I am writing this post quite late into the game since I really haven’t done any major .NET development since last year but better late than never.

I’ll be using SubSonic again on one of my next projects and posting some goodies here when I run across them. If you are not familiar with ActiveRecord or O/RM you can breeze through some of the SubSonic pages to get an idea of what is going on.