I’ve been working on helping to configure system subject area to automate configuring Delivery Profiles. Unfortunately, Oracle’s documentation is severely lacking – and there’re only a few tutorials online. Even though they’re good – something isn’t working out yet – there’s an error in the Sessions log – that says something like nqsError “unable to locate table SET”. The only SET which is there looks like “Set Loglevel=2″. I’m trying to recreate all steps from the beginning.
On the other hand, I strongly believe that a partial in-place drill-down should be a feature in the OBIEE. Even though clicking on a column in BI Answers partially solves the issue – it doesn’t do in in such a way it would be useful. I’ve seen OBIEE being used for transactional type of reporting where users want to go deeper into detail level without loosing focus on other items.
It’s been very quiet lately. Maybe because the summer is leaving and everyone is trying to take advantage of its latest days. I’m still learning my ways around newly updated Oracle’s MySupport. So far I have mixed feelings – I like the speed compared to metalink3, however, I’m still not sure if I get the new interface as well as flash-based navigation.
Tom Siebel got into problem with an elephant – but everyone probably knows about it by now. I wish him a speedy recovery.
I’ve been busy preparing environment for new project. Learning about configuring SSO for WNA-enabled security under Linux using OAS. Luckily for me, there’s a good discussion in regards to this here: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=847808
Also, I’ve started re-reading “The Data Warehouse Toolkit”. It’s an awesome book.
I can’t dedicate enough attention to OTN anymore, but cheers to everyone who’s doing a great job of helping people to learn. I’m still about 15 questions away from 10th spot, so don’t relax too much Goran 
This is how top-10 looks like as of today:
Kishore Guggilla (2160)
Stijn Gabriels (1295)
John Minkjan (1175)
Turribeach (1155)
Madan Thota (1070)
gerardnico (925)
Christian Berg (805)
mma1709 (795)
David_T (775)
Goran O (680)
Good luck all.
I moved on to a new project in NYC. This explains my lack of the posts. It’s an exciting new project that I’m not able to share anything about publicly. But hopefully, I’ll be able to share some more new tips and hints. There’re so many new OBIEE bloggers now. I wonder what’s the reason the OBIEE web arena is becoming so competitive Also, I’ve lost interest for posting on OTN for time being. Good luck all
I was on a short vacation in Miami and couldn’t approve / reply to comments or post new things. Thank you for your interesting comments. I’ll definitely try to reply to everyone. I’m going to deal with pressing issues and then post new things about OBIEE.
Meanwhile – I suggest you read this article by Adrian Ward – http://majendi.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-obiee-market.html
Have a great day!
OBIEE powerhouses – Majendji (Adrian Ward – original Siebel Analytics blogger) and Rittman Mead have merged. I am very happy for both parties and I am sure that this merger will work out great. Congratulations!(I actually made sure that it wasn’t posted on April 1st)
Official links:
http://www.rittmanmead.com/2009/04/06/rittman-mead-and-majendi-join-forces/
http://majendi.blogspot.com/2009/04/rittman-mead-and-majendi-join-forces.html