Downgrading from OBIEE to OBISE1
Monday, February 1st, 2010A number of times I’ve worked on projects where the client is using Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One (OBISE1) but have not had the time or resources to install development and production versions of the application. Thus, other than developing on the production OBISE1 installation I’ve had to develop on my own application, which happens to be OBIEE.
Oracle basically sellls the two versions as one being the entry level version (OBISE1) and the second being the ‘all dancing’ enterprise version (OBIEE). Theoretically they are the same except that OBISE1 hasn’t all the functionality as OBIEE. A user can very happily start with OBISE1 and when the time comes that they need more functionality or need to upgrade their license for more users then they can seemlessly switch to the enterprise edition, OBIEE.
Logically it would make sense that the two versions are the same, except that OBISE1 has some of the functionality disabled. Logic doesn’t always work in business and it turns out that they are not the same. In fact, they are different versions of thee same tool, OBISE1 being an older version than OBIEE. And it is this fact that makes developing in OBIEE and moving the rpd repositiory to OBISE1 interesting.
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