Very good post by @lex giving a nice clear explanation of what OBIA (Oracle Business Intelligence Applications) is http://siebel-essentials.blogspot.com/2009/06/can-you-describe-oracle-bi-applications.html This should be made a sticky on the OBIA forum in my opinion. It’s clear from postings on the forum that an awful lot of people don’t understand what OBIA is or how it sits with OBIEE. I even attended a course last week in which the Oracle trainer stated that OBIEE included ETL and DW schemas, and stuck to this when challenged.

New releases this week - 10.1.3.4.1 of OBIEE, and 7.9.6 of OBIA. After a bit of scrabbling around found: “The 10.1.3.4.1 release of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition introduces no new features.” Though there are some new bits and pieces for Publisher For 7.9.6 OBIA, there’s no New Features document :( By piecing together the “What’s New in This Release” for each document you can build up a picture (eg in the Upgrade Guide there’s reference to changes for the doc relating to a new version of Informatica), but it would be nice to have it all in one place:

We’re getting problems with an instance of Informatica / out-of-the-box OBIA on a new set of servers. When we run the execution plan we get this error soon after starting: MAPPING> DBG_21075 Connecting to database [TNSENTRY], user [MYUSER] MAPPING> CMN_1761 Timestamp Event: [Tue Mar 24 18:56:33 2009] MAPPING> CMN_1022 Database driver error… CMN_1022 [ Database driver error… Function Name : Logon ORA-12537: TNS:connection closed Database driver error… Function Name : Connect