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Installing Oracle BI Open Intelligence Interface

Operating System: Windows only.

This topic is part of Installing Oracle BI Ancillary Client Programs. This client program is included on the Oracle Business Intelligence CD-ROM in the folder Oracle_Business_Intelligence_Open_Intelligence_Interface.

This topic may apply if your deployment includes remote machine connection to Oracle BI Servers over a network.

Some sites use third-party analytical tools, such as spreadsheets and databases, which require connectivity to the Oracle BI Server. Some of these sites have client connections to the corporate network using a modem. The Oracle BI Open Intelligence Interface (ODBC) client connectivity and the client connectivity tools NQCMD.exe and NQClient.exe are a means of distributing client connectivity to these remote clients that cannot otherwise access Oracle BI.

Using the Oracle Business Intelligence installer, only the Open Intelligence Interface ODBC connectivity client and the NQClient.exe and NQCMD.exe utilities are installed. The latter two utilities are necessary for debugging and technical support issue identification. The installer includes a silent mode option to automatically install the Open Intelligence Interface ODBC client on the remote machine. This installer does not require a license key.

The Open Intelligence Interface installer installs the following components to remote client machines:

To install the Oracle Business Intelligence Open Intelligence Interface Ancillary Client

1. In the folder Client_Ancillary\Oracle_Business_Intelligence_Open_Intelligence_Interface, click setup.exe.
2. The meanings and default for each screen and prompt for the Oracle Business Intelligence Open Intelligence Interface installation under Windows are listed in Table 11.
3. Provide the requested input for each screen. To continue to the next screen, click Next. To return to a previous screen, click Back.