Update on the OBIEE11g Book
November 11th, 2011 by Mark Rittman
If you’re one of the people that are looking forward to the OBIEE 11g book I’m writing for Oracle Press, I thought you might be interested in an update.
After what seems to be an eternity, we’re now entering the final stages of putting the content together. Some of you might remember that I actually proposed the book a few years ago, then we had to wait three years or so for OBIEE 11g, but the challenge now has been keeping up with the new releases and incorporating what’s new into the book. Oracle have been very helpful over the past few months, and thanks in particular go to Mike Durran, who’s one of the tech editors and has been my main contact within Oracle, and Balaji Yelamanchili, who heads up development for both BI & EPM and has been a great Oracle sponsor and advocate. Thanks also to all the other PMs who have provided assistance and of course to the Rittman Mead team who’ve given me the time and resources to get the book written.
So where we are now is that the book is being written for the release of OBIEE 11g that will be out next year, so we’re covering topics such as Exalytics, new developments with the admin tool, the new visualizations that are coming along soon and so on. In fact the reason I’ve not been blogging for the past few months is that I’m primarily working with this future release but of course, under NDA, so you’ll have to wait until the book comes out to see what I’ve been investigating. But I can promise you, there are some very exciting new developments coming along with OBIEE, and it’ll be worth the wait.
The current chapter listing for the book is as follows, and it’s likely to be around 1,100 pages long:
1. OBIEE Overview and Product Architecture
2. Installation and Upgrades from OBIEE 10g
3. Creating Repositories from Relational Sources (updated for the forthcoming release, depending what makes it in)
4. Creating Repositories from Essbase and Other OLAP Sources
5. Creating Repositories from ADF, XML and File Sources
6. Configuring and Maintaining the BI Server
7. Creating Reports using Answers and Dashboards
8. Actionable Intelligence
9. Oracle Scorecard & Strategy Management
10. Creating Published Reports
11. Security
12. Systems Management
13. High-Availability, Clustering and Backup & Recovery
14. Managing Change
15. Oracle Exalytics BI Machine
The target date to get all the copy in is March 2012, with the book hopefully on the shelves around the summer. Mike Durran (Oracle) and Venkat Janankiraman (Rittman Mead) are the technical editors, and the book is being published by Oracle Press. In the meantime, I will try and post a few things to the blog, and keep an eye on my regular column for Oracle Magazine (available online, here).
November 13th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Dear Mark Rittman,
We hope this book would not just a tool based book, but will/can contain an introductory chapter on the world of reporting/decision support systems and the reporting requirements of various divisions of an organization and how many of them can be achieved by using a relational olap tool like OBIEE, what reporting/analysis requirements are not possible with OBIEE as of today and what requirements are impossible to achieve with OBIEE even using workarounds etc.
We hope the rpd modeling chapters will be based on the real world reporting requirements of organizations and expect that some generic methodology in designing meta data for real world requirements and hope it covers many concepts that are not properly covered by Oracle documentation.
From the BI Architecture side, it would be of great help if u can provide various suggested BI Architectures considering the Organization Structures (Centralized or decentralized Org structure).
All the best and hope this would be one of the best books on the complex topic of metadata modeling using OBIEE.
Regards,
Venkat
November 16th, 2011 at 3:48 am
Mark,
Thanks for keeping us updated, i am looking forward to it.
Cheers,
Babak
November 28th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
This looks good Mark. I look forward to the book. However, nothing on mobile? :-)
Regards,
Abhinav
December 4th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Hi Abhinav
Yes, this should be in the Analyses and Dashboards chapter – just working out whether to wait for the new mobile client, or write about the old one.
Mark
December 8th, 2011 at 6:39 am
Hi Mark,
interesting update. I’m sure many will like the idea of the reference. Hope the book proves popular, you guys are clearly working hard on it.
All the best,
Justin
January 16th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Hello Mark
What is the final 2012 month for you BIEE book to be publish,lot of consultant in Florida waiting inclusing myselft :)
Regards.
Jose Beato
January 17th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Dear Mark Rittman,
There is not much information about your book in Amazon.com nor Oracle Press Website. Is the book really going to be published in spring this year? Currently, there is not even any book about OBIEE in the market. It is extremely difficult to learn how to use the product.
Thanks.
Andy
January 25th, 2012 at 8:00 am
WHat would be the price on the book?
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:08 am
Eagerly waiting for the book. I would like to know the price and when exactly it would be available ?
February 28th, 2012 at 3:07 am
Sounds like a good book. Good luck with final stages.
March 18th, 2012 at 7:37 am
Hi Mark,
Please keep us update about the publication of book, Whether it is published or it need more time. As you informed, book should be published in March’12.
Many Thanks,
Archie
April 6th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
is this book released?please let me know someone.
Thanks,
sasi
April 6th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Hi mark,
Please provide a update on the book. looking forward to using the book. What would be the estimate cost for the book?
Thanks
July 6th, 2012 at 10:48 am
Where’s the book?
July 16th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
is this book released?please let me know someone.
July 17th, 2012 at 6:04 am
Hi Krishna – I think it will be out in either August or September this year – I’m completing the final edits and page approvals now.
August 7th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Thanks Mark..keep posted the update on this book.Hope it will soon come to india bookstall too.
August 20th, 2012 at 7:24 am
Thanks Mark for the details…
September 5th, 2012 at 6:39 am
Hello Mark,
Amazon.com shows the Publication Date as October 11, 2012. Just wanted to confirm if this is when we expect the book to be available.
September 5th, 2012 at 7:13 am
Hi Sunil,
The publishers haven’t given me an exact date, but that sounds around the right time. There should also be copies available to buy at the Oracle Openworld bookstore, in a few weeks time.
Mark
October 5th, 2012 at 8:50 am
Hi Mark,
I have just brought the book. Thanks a lot for the same. In one of the chapters u had mentioned that all the SQL scripts, programs and other files are present in the oracle press website. I was trying to set up the same at home so that i can follow the book, but unfortunately i was not able the find the required files in the website.. Can u provide the required details so that i can start ..
Thanks and Regards,
Krishna Prasad
October 18th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
same here,i also bought the book but can’t find sql scripts in oraclepress
October 21st, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Hi Prasad,
Apologies for this. The scripts etc should go up on the Oracle Press site soon, at:
http://www.mhprofessional.com/getpage.php?c=oraclepress_downloads.php&cat=4222
However when I last checked they *still* aren’t there. I’ll chase the publishers again now.
Mark
October 23rd, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Thanks Mark.i can see them now.
-Prasad