OBIEE Automated Deployment through Ant

OBIEE configuration management and deployment is one of most complex compare to any technology or tool, here is the way you can achieve very easily and you can have multiple streams of project working on same tool or platform (OBIEE). It explains how best you can track and promote the code to different environments like TEST, PRE_PROD and PROD, also you can deploy all four components ETL (DAC & Informatica), BI (RPD), and BI Presentation (WebCat). It is built with Java based configuration tool aka Ant. Details are attached to this post.

For details, please refer to the content https://communities.informatica.com/thread/11252

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