Excel Plug in setup for OBIEE

http://oraclebispace.blogspot.com/2009/07/using-oracle-bi-office-in-obiee-for.html

OBIEE Connection Pool best practice

http://oraclebiblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/connection-pools-best-practices.html

Good architecture articles

There are quite a few articles here of BI architecture interest - not related to Teradata

http://www.tdwi.org/research/reportseries/reports.aspx?pid=819

OBIEE basics - how to start development

This is a simple document, but explains how to start OBIEE developement
http://bidwsig.org/bidwsig.files/BI%20SIG%20OBIEE%20Presentation%2010%2014%2008.pdf

OBIEE future roadmap - Rittman link

This i a good article talking about how the architecture will evolve in OBIEE... this is from Mark Rittman and not Oracle.

The SOA is the key concept in my view - will this be accepted by the industry for data warehouse dealing with Peta bytes of data???

http://www.rittmanmead.com/2008/02/15/a-future-oracle-obiee-architecture/

Performance Reporting

Found a good article that talks about the different layers need for BI:
http://www.databaseanswers.org/tutorial4_integrated_performance_reporting/index.htm

QlickView

This is a desktop analytical product which is visually appealing (Ajax) and easy to use. Rittman wrote a good article comparing this with Oracle's Essbase http://www.rittmanmead.com/2009/08/15/a-quik-look-at-qlikview/

Key Highlights
1. It is meant for desktop.
2. It does in memory computation. It compresses data so a 1 GB essbase database is 4 MB in qlickview.
3. Visualization is intuitive and allows user to dig into areas which he/she wants to.

So, which BI tool will this get integrated with in the future?

Some interesting links

What not to do in OBIEE:
http://majendi.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-try-this-at-home-kids.html

Modeling Header:
http://greatobi.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/modeling-header-details/

Tips site: http://tipsonobiee.blogspot.com/

Vertical text:
http://blog.trivadis.com/blogs/andreasnobbmann/archive/2009/07/17/vertical-text-in-obiee.aspx

OBIEE Initialization Block

Initialization Block is powerful in setting one time per session.

http://www.rittmanmead.com/2008/09/03/obiee-repository-variables-filtering-and-conditional-formatting/

Ragged Hierarchies and OBIEE

This is the best article on implementing ragged hierarchies in OBIEE which does work - http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/06/21/obiee-data-modeling-tips-3-ragged-hierarchies/

OBIEE Variables

Good link discussing OBIEE variables http://shivabizint.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/oracle-bi-ee-variables-overview/