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Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

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Reporting Challenges Requirements are Diverse

• High Fidelity Reports• Partner Reports• Financial Statements• Government forms• Marketing materials• Contracts• Checks, Labels• XML• EFT / EDI• Multiple destinations

Reports

Checks

Labels

Invoices

XML / EFT / EDIDestinations

Reporting Challenges Complex Infrastructure

Check PrintServer

PaymentServer

InvoiceServer

ReportFormatter

Reports

LabelManager

Labels

DeliveryServer

Checks

XML / EFT / EDI

• Multiple reporting solutions• Highly-skilled engineers

required to maintain servers and report formats

CostlyTime consumingComplex systemsExpensive maintenanceLabor intensive

Invoices

Destinations

Reporting Challenges Slow Development

Iterate on Report Requirements

Must be same geometry, font, margin size, etc.

Report Requirements

Report files Report Output

Reporting Challenges Difficult to Maintain

Data logic Layout

Translation

• 1 Query• 10 Layouts• 10 Translations= 100 report files

High development costHigh customization costDifficult upgrade

Combined query, layout, and translation

1 Query 10 Layouts

10 Translations

Reporting Challenges Other Issues

• Production Issues• Huge load on the transactional Data Base, shuts down the

operation• Output file size, time to produce the reports …• High maintenance, proprietary report programming languages

require expensive specialists and consultants

• Global Deployment Issues• Multiple Instances required for different character sets• Insufficient support for Bi-Directional Languages• Dependence on Printer Character sets require language

specific printers

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BI Publisher Benefits Simplified Report MaintenanceSeparate query, layout, and translation

Report output

FlexibilityReduced maintenance

Data Logic

Layout

TranslationBI Publisher

Report Outputs

XML

Report Templates

Multiple Data Sources

Oracle BI Publisher Benefits Faster Development

• Business users create layouts with familiar desktop tools

• IT builds data model

Rapid Development

BI Publisher Benefits One Environment …

XML / EFT / EDI

Reports

Checks

Labels

Destinations

Invoices

Oracle BI Publisher• Author• Manage• Deliver

ALL Your Business DocumentsMeet Business RequirementsRemove ComplexityReduce Maintenance CostReduce Total Cost

Layout Templates

XML

EDI

EFT

Output Formats Destinations

BI Publisher

PDF

HTML

Excel

PowerPoint

CSV

Flash

RTF

Email

Printer

Fax

e-Commerce

Repository

Data Sources

• Word• Acrobat• JDev

Layout Tools

• Excel• Flex• Others

Oracle BI Publisher Benefits … From Data to Destination …

Web Services

Oracle 10g, Oracle BI EE,

Oracle BI Apps SQL Server

E-Business Suite,

PeopleSoft,JDE

OLAP

XSL

Government Forms

Order Forms

Invoices

Operational Reports

Correspondence

Financial Statements

Checks

Purchase Orders

Labels / Bar Codes

Collateral

eText

Oracle BI Publisher Benefits … For All your Business Documents

Payment Data

Controller

CEO

Banking

XML

EFT

B2B

XML

Government

EFT

Excel

HTML

PDF

BI Publisher

Different TemplatesFor different Output Formats

BI Publisher Benefits Extract Data Once, Publish Many Docs

XSL

BI Publisher Benefits Global Consolidation

• Create ONE template for any of 185 languages and 244 territories• Single Global Instance – Translated User Interface• BI Publisher ships with full set of Unicode Fonts • No need for expensive language-specific printers• BI Publisher is alone in supporting

• Chinese, Japanese, Korean

• Bidirectional Languages

• Unicode• Multiple Language

Support

BI Publisher Benefits Hot-Pluggable

• Pure Java application - any J2EE application server• Rich set of Java APIs for custom application development• Web Services for SOA development• Any data source: JDBC and Web services XML data sources• Standard W3C XSL-FO stylesheets• Output formats in PDF, PS, RTF, HTML…• Delivery Support for

• Internet Printing Protocol, CUPS• Internet Fax Protocol • SMTP email protocol• WebDAV, FTP, SFTP

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Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management System

BI Applications

EPM Workspace

OLTP & ODSSystems

Data WarehouseData Mart

SAP, Oracle, Siebel,PeopleSoft, Custom

ExcelXML

BusinessProcess

OLAP

Fusion Middleware

Business Intelligence Foundation

BI ApplicationsPerformance ManagementApplications

BI Publisher is part of the BI Foundation layer in Oracle’s EPM system

• Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise• BI Publisher is Advanced Reporting in BI EE Plus

• BI Server semantic layer as a data source• BI Answers request as a data source• BI Publisher report in a Dashboard w/ prompts • Security

• Integration with Oracle Application Express (APEX)• Integration with Oracle Discoverer • Many others …

BI Publisher Availability & Integration

• Oracle E-Business Suite• 500 templates in 11i 900 templates in R12• Project to convert all remaining Oracle Reports reports• Conversion utility from Oracle Reports

• PeopleSoft• Integrated into 8.48• Products shipping content in R9

• Financials HCM SCM• Grants CRM Student Admin

• J.D. Edwards• Integrated into 8.96• Allow customers to develop their own templates• Subsequent releases will add Apps content

• Hyperion Planning and Financial Management• More coming …

BI Publisher in Oracle Applications Limited Use License

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Some of our Customers • Avago / Agilent / HP• Bank of Egypt• The Boeing Company• City of West Palm Beach• Dell• Dubai e-Government• European Parliament• Fidelity Investments• German Ministry of Finance• Metro Group• NCR• Pfizer• Toyota Europe• Qualcomm• URS Corporation

DELL Inc.

Business Requirements• Generate Customer Facing Output• Multiple Data Sources• Translation support• Multiple Delivery Channels• High Volume ~20000 docs/hr• Keep database load to a minimum

Implementation• RTF Templates• Delivery Manager• Watermarking support• BI Publisher on separate server

NCR

Business Requirements• Generate Bill of Lading• Barcode support• Multiple Delivery Channels• Supplemental Pages

Implementation• RTF Templates• Conditional Formatting • External Font Mapping• Delivery Manager

Qualcomm

Business Requirements

• 60 Reports• 30 Invoice variants• Barcodes• Graphics• Electronic banking

Implementation• Implemented in

3 Month• Business Analysts

create Templates• RTF Templates• eText Templates

Bank of Egypt

Business Requirements

• Report from transaction database

• High Volume Reporting• Minimize Load on

Database• Bursting• Bidirectional language

support: Arabic

Implementation• iFLEX Customer• Migrating 400 reports

from BO to BI Publisher• Bidirectional RTF

Templates• Bursting

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