BI EE - Installation

Preparing to EE Installation was quite easy task. I started with version 10.1.3.3.

It is worth reading the "System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Oracle® Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition" Guide before starting off.

System Requirements and Supported Platforms

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I started the installation on HP-UX 11.23 Itanium 64 bit Server where there was already Discoverer 10.1.2.2 already running. The goal was to integrate BI Discoverer and BI EE.

During the setup OracleBI_HOME and OracleBIData_HOME has to be specified.
OracleBI_HOME is the BI Installation Directory
OracleBIData_HOME is the BI Data Directory


I opted for the Advanced option to Install the BI EE onto an exising 10g SOA Suite version 10.1.3.1.0 , so that I could get the BI EE Intergrated with the existing SSO Setup.



In the further installation screens , existing 10g SOA suite location and access details were supplied which enable the BI to get installed.

Further discussion : BI processes and the startup and shutdown procedure for them.

BI Enterprise Edition

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is a full range of BI Components that every one was looking for. It includes Dashboard , Answer , Delivers , Publisher and Disconnected Analytics.

If you are familiar with other Oracle Products then Dashboard is similar to Portal , Answer is similar to Discoverer , Delivers is similar to Alerts , Publisher is previously known as XML Publisher.

In the further topics I will cover my experience in getting the BI EE working.