Learning Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA)

In the same vein as Learning Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), this will serve as a summary for me (and hopefully you) on all things OBIA. I need to get ramped up rather quickly so I should be doing a lot of writing (to reinforce) to go along with it.

Let's start with the basics.

• Oracle Home
• A nice non-Oracle overview of what OBIA is at Siebel Essentials, Can you describe Oracle BI Applications?, h/t RNM
• Oracle's documentation library
  • System Requirements (pdf)
  • Installation Guide for Informatica PowerCenter Users
• All things OBIA on the aforementioned RNM's site
• White Papers
  • OBIA Overview
  • Metricsphere: Justifying Oracle Business Intelligence Applications: Build vs. Buy
• Demos
  • Financial Analytics with Essbase (flash, 3 min.)
  • Oracle Financial Analytics: General Ledger (flash, 3 min.)
• Blogs
• The OTN forums have always been a great source of information as well.

I haven't had a chance to look up a whole lot of blogs yet, but I will. If you know any good ones out there, leave links in the comments. I'll add them to the page.

Essentially, OBIA sits on top of OBIEE and is setup to run against PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, EBS and others. For now, I'm interested in the EBS side of things...I've been downloading and unzipping all weekend. John Piwowar [ blog | twitter ] has promised to do a series of posts in the very near future detailing the installation of EBS. I've been the fortunate recipient of his EBS wisdom this weekend which means I've only had to download 46 GBs of install files. WTF is that all about?

Update 09/14/2011

Along with the Learning OBIEE post, this one seems to pop up a lot in search results...which means I shall finally begin to maintain it.

Installation

• Informatica PowerCenter 9.0.1 on Oracle Enterprise Linux (64 bit)
• Informatica Repository Service
• Informatica Integration Service