Installing Oracle Analytics Client Tools on Windows

Purpose

This blog post is intended for all the Oracle Analytics Server Administrators, Developers, Data Model designers, DW architects.

Prerequisites

Installation of Oracle Analytics Client Tools 5.5.0 on Windows 64bit

Download the OAS Client Tool

Step 1: Uncompress the downloaded zip file OAS-5.5.0-bi_client-win64.zip use any unzip tool which runs on a Windows machine.

Step 2 : Open a new CMD and 'Run as Administrator' enter the .exe file hit ENTER key

C:\work\data>OAS-5.5.0-bi_client-win64.exe

Step 3: Launches install wizard

Wizard step 2

Wizard step 3

Wizard Step 4

Wizard Step 5

Wizard Step 6 (Development of RPD or online RPD connections required this configuraiton)

Wizard Optional Step "Add" ODBC configuration Select "Oracle BI Server DSN Configuration" is specific to your Datasource to which you have target to use, stored as Data.Source.. (This step is must for Design Data Model and Develop new RPD files)

Troubleshooting

If you run the installer from regular double click it will throws error as:

you can fix the above issue as suggested in the error message run as Administrator command line.