OBIEE 11g vs OBIEE 10g

OBIEE Interview Question: What are the new features added/changes made in OBIEE 11g compared to OBIEE 10g?

There are a lot of enhancements in the OBIEE 11g as compared to OBIEE 10g. Here are few points to talk during an interview:

• OBIEE 11g uses WebLogic Server as the application server as compared to Oracle AS or OC4J in OBIEE 10g.
• The clustering process in much easier and automated in OBIEE 11g.
• We can now model lookup tables in the repository.
• The new UI called Unified Framework now combines Answers, Dashboards, and Delivers.
• A new column called the hierarchical column in introduced.
• BI Publishers is fully and seamlessly integrated with OBIEE 11g.
• New time series functions PERIOD ROLLING and AGGREGATE AT are introduced.
• In OBIEE 11g we can create KPIs to represent business metrics.
• The aggregate persistence wizard creates indexes automatically.
• The session variables get initialized when they are actually used in OBIEE 11g unlike OBIEE 10g where they were initialized as soon as a user logs in.
• OBIEE 11g now supports Ragged (Unbalanced) and Skipped Hierarchy.
• You can also define Parent-Child hierarchy in OBIEE 11g as well.
• SELECT_PHYSICAL command is supported in OBIEE 11g.

In OBIEE 11g there are some changes in the terminology as well.

• iBots are renamed as Agents.
• Requests are renamed as Analyses.
• Charts are renamed as Graphs.
• Presentation Columns are renamed as Attribute Columns.

There are of course a lot more changes and updates but these are few that you can talk about in an interview. More information is available here and here.

Cheers!

Deepak