Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Maqsood Alam is a seasoned software professional with 15 years of experience working with Oracle technologies, specializing in databases, maximum availability, data warehousing and business intelligence. His current initiatives are focused towards Oracle’s hardware platform partners and publishing Oracle reference architectures and blueprints targeting Oracle’s high availability architectures and best practices. He has also been involved in evangelizing and training on Oracle Exadata and promoting best practices for migrations into Exadata from third-party technologies. He is an Oracle Certified Professional and holds a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science.

Luojia Chen is a software engineer in Sun’s ISV Engineering organization. Specializing in integrating Sun technologies with ISV applications, she focuses on benchmarks, performance monitoring, optimization, and scalability to help applications run at peak performance on Sun platforms.

Ron Graham has been with Sun Microsystems for almost 14 years and has 20 years experience in the computing industry. Most recently his role at Sun is a Technical Product Manager for x86 servers and blades in the Systems Technical Marketing Group. He works closely with customers on implementations, solutions, and reference architectures, and specializes in enterprise solutions and working with engineering on product features, bug fixes, and customer problem solving. Ron has worked on numerous benchmarks and published many white papers and reference architectures on virtualization, Oracle BIEE, and datacenter deployments.

Chaitanya Kadaru is an Oracle software professional with 8 years of experience working with Oracle technologies, J2EE platform and .NET application development, and Siebel CRM development. His current initiatives are focused on Oracle BI products and developing reference architectures for disaster recovery management using Sun platforms. He has also been involved in evangelizing and training on Oracle content management and security products. With interests in Oracle databases and high availability Web architectures, Chaitanya is a Siebel Certified Professional and holds a Masters degree in information systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

Giri Mandalika is a software engineer in Sun’s ISV Engineering organization. Giri works with partners and ISVs to make Sun the preferred vendor of choice for deploying enterprise applications. Currently, Giri is focused on standard benchmarks, optimization, and scalability of enterprise applications on Sun platforms.

The authors would like to thank Steve Smith of Brocade and Kevin Thuan Thai of Sun Microsystems for their help in setting up the hardware for the reference deployment.