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BI Publisher - Create All Your Reports Easily and Quickly (14982)

Mike Donohue Director, BI Product Management

Osama Elkady Sr. Director, BI Development

3 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.


Oracle BI Publisher

• Why BI Publisher • Reporting Challenges • BI Publisher Benefits • Demo • What’s New • Availability and Integration • Q&A


Why BI Publisher?

• BI Publisher can Provide All Your Reports…

• Easier • Better Managed • Faster


Invoices

BI Publisher … For All Your Reports


Invoices Correspondence



Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders



Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels



Government Forms

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels



Government Forms

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders

EFT & EDI

Shipping Labels



Government Forms

Invoices Correspondence

Checks

Purchase Orders

EFT & EDI

Shipping Labels



Government Forms

Invoices

Operational Reports

Correspondence

Checks

Purchase Orders

EFT & EDI

Shipping Labels



Government Forms

Invoices

Operational Reports

Correspondence

Financial Statements

Checks

Purchase Orders

EFT & EDI

Shipping Labels



Government Forms

Invoices

Operational Reports

Correspondence

Financial Statements

Checks

Purchase Orders

Interactive Reports

EFT & EDI

Shipping Labels



Easier – MasterCard Worldwide

Challenges • Purchase Orders for 50 Operating

Units across the globe • Vendor Country Terms & Conditions • 90 days and 3 people (incl. 3rd party

vendor) to implement POs


Easier – MasterCard Worldwide

Results • 3 days and 1 person to implement

POs • 12x faster w/ 1/3 fewer people • End-to-End process using out of the

box functionality

Challenges • Purchase Orders for 50 Operating

Units across the globe • Vendor Country Terms & Conditions • 90 days and 3 people (incl. 3rd party

vendor) to implement POs


Better Managed – Gallup

Challenges • Over 200 Crystal Reports • Cumbersome report repository

frustrated users and IT staff • Duplicate reports with minor layout

changes and to support multi-language


Better Managed – Gallup

Results • 30 Publisher reports (85% reduction) • 3 months w/ one f/t report developer • End Users and IT staff very happy

Challenges • Over 200 Crystal Reports • Cumbersome report repository

frustrated users and IT staff • Duplicate reports with minor layout

changes and to support multi-language


Faster – Consolidated Graphics Business • Customer brochures at car dealerships • Photo albums & Calendars from photo

websites • Large Print singage at conferences • Benefit & Enrollment forms for

Healthcare Providers

Challenges • 100,000 Enrollment Forms in 48 hours • .NET server taking 24 hrs to generate

4,000 Forms • 24 .NET servers & 15 people to monitor

and resubmit failures


Faster – Consolidated Graphics

24 .NET Servers

15 Administrators *

Before … After …

100,000 Forms in 24 hours

*

* Required to re-submit failed jobs



24 .NET Servers

15 Administrators *


100,000 Forms in 24 hours 100,000 Forms in 3 hours 8 x Faster!

*




24 .NET Servers

15 Administrators *



1 BI Publisher Server 2 .NET Servers

1/8 Fewer Servers! *




24 .NET Servers

15 Administrators *



1 BI Publisher Server 2 .NET Servers

1/8 Fewer Servers!

4 Administrators

1/3 Fewer People!

No babysitting!

*



“This (BI Publisher 11.1.1.5) is a total bad ass release. I have just started playing with it and it is amazing. You guys rock.”

Dasu Baregala Enterprise Architect, Consolidated Graphics


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Diverse Reporting Requirements

• Customer Facing Documents • Financial Statements • Government Forms • Marketing Collateral • Contracts • Checks, Labels • XML / EFT / EDI • Multiple destinations

Reports

Checks

Labels

Invoices

XML/EFT/EDI

Destinations


Complex Reporting Infrastructure

• Multiple point solutions • Highly-skilled engineers

required to maintain servers and reports

Costly Time consuming Complex systems Expensive maintenance Labor intensive

Check Print Server

Payment Server

Invoice Server

Report Tool

Label Generator

Delivery Server


It takes a long time to develop using Traditional Reporting Tools

Many Iterations

Layout, font, margin etc.

Report Requirements

Report files Report Output


Traditional Reports are difficult to maintain

Data Logic Layout

Translation

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

High cost to customize -- Difficult upgrade

Combine query, layout, and translation

1 Query 10 Layouts

10 Translations


Other Issues with Traditional Reporting Tools

• Production Issues – Large load on the transactional data base – Time to produce the reports; size of output file – 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 Simplifies Maintenance Separate query, layout, and translation

Report output

Greater Flexibility – Reduced Maintenance Cost

Data Logic

Layout

Translation BI Publisher


Develop Reports Faster with BI Publisher

Reports

Layouts

Multiple Data Sources

• Business users create layouts with browser or familiar desktop tools

• IT builds data model


BI Publisher – One Environment …

Reports

Checks

Labels

Destinations

Invoices

XML / EFT / EDI

• Author • Manage • Deliver

• Remove Complexity • Reduce Maintenance Cost • Reduce Total Cost


BI Publisher … from Data to Destination

Layouts

Email

Printer

Fax

e-Commerce

Repository

• Publisher • Word • Acrobat

• Excel • Flex • Others

Web Services

Oracle Database Oracle BI

SQL Server

E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel,

JD Edwards

OLAP

EFT / EDI

PDF

HTML

Excel

Power Point

XML / CSV

Flash

RTF

Interactive

XSL


BI Publisher Get Data Once, Publish Many Docs

Payment Data

Controller

CEO

Auditor

Government

Bank

Layouts as needed For different requirements

PDF

Interactive

Excel

EFT / EDI

XML / CSV


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

Implementation • Implemented in 3 Months • Business Analysts create

Templates • RTF Templates • eText Templates


BI Publisher Global Consolidation

• Supports 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 supports

• Chinese, Japanese, Korean • Bidirectional Languages • Unicode • Multiple Language Support


Bank of Egypt Requirements • Report from transaction

database • High Volume Reporting • Minimize Load on Database • Bidirectional language

support: Arabic

Implementation • iFLEX Customer • Switched 400 BOBJ reports

to BI Publisher • Bidirectional RTF Templates • Bursting


BI Publisher is Open • Web Services for SOA development • Java APIs for custom application development • Data sources: JDBC, Web Services, XML data sources • MDX OLAP Data sources: Essbase, Analysis Servers, SAP/BW • Standard W3C XSL-FO style sheets • Output formats in Interactive, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, HTML … • Delivery Support for

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


BI Publisher – Enterprise Class Reporting

Shared Data Models with Business Views

Data Engine

Cache Manager

Document Engine

Parameter Manager

Translation Service

Report Server

XML Parser

Layout Engine

Form Processor RTF Processor FO Processor

Security Service

XSLT Processor

Data Relationship

Formulas Calculations

Bursting Definitions

Catalog Service

Event Triggers

Parameters and LOVs

Interactive View Engine HTML5

AJAX

SVG

Cache

Flash

Scheduler

Job Queue

Quartz

Delivery

Bursting

Notification

ESS

Java APIs

Web Services

WebLogic Server

BI Publisher

Common

Services

OID

Data Service

Auditing

JSF

SSO

Logging

LDAP

OLTP & ODS Systems

Data Warehouses

Applications (Oracle, SAP,

Others)

Excel XML

Business Processes

OLAP Exadata Scheduler Database


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Demo D E M O N S T R A T I O N


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New in 11.1.1.5 for Report Consumers

• Safari support • Native Excel XSLX output • Interactive output performance

enhancements


New in 11.1.1.5 for Report Authors

• Excel Templates • Local Excel Data Source • Layout Editor

– List – Pivot Table Enh. – Formula Dialog Enh.

• EBS Data Source Enh • XML in CLOB via SQL • Office 2010 support


New in 11.1.1.5 for Admins & Developers

• LDAP Enh for Active Directory • Lifecycle Mgt Utilities • Web Services • Audit Enh. and Reports • Bursting Enhancements

– Parameters – XML. Webservices


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BI Publisher Availability & Integration

• Oracle BI Publisher • BI Publisher is Reporting and Publishing in BI EE Plus

• BI Server as a data source • BI Answers request as a data source • BI Publisher report in a Dashboard w/ prompts • Catalog • User Interface • Security integration


BI Publisher Limited Use License in Apps • Oracle E-Business Suite

• In 11i -- 500 templates In R12.1 -- ALL reports are BI Publisher Oracle Reports to Publisher Conversion Assistant

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

• Financials HCM SCM • Grants CRM Student Admin

• Siebel CRM • Integrated in 8.1.1 119 reports OOTB • Actuate to Publisher Conversion Assistant


• J.D. Edwards Enterprise One • Integrated into 8.96 and higher • Allow customers to develop their own templates • JDBC driver

• J.D. Edwards World • Integrated in A9.1

Produce XML that can be used as input to BI Publisher Automated integration in newly released A9.2 JDBC Driver

BI Publisher Limited Use License in Apps


BI Publisher with Many Oracle Products • Oracle Identity Management

• Oracle Life Sciences AERS

• Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub

• Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking

• i-Flex FLEXCUBE Retail

• Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking

• Oracle Reveleus

• Oracle Mantas

• Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process

• Agile Product Lifecycle Management

• Oracle Hyperion Planning

• Oracle Hyperion Financial Management

• Oracle Application Express (APEX)

• Oracle SOA Governance

• Oracle Retail

• Oracle Global Risk & Compliance

• iFlex FLEXCUBE – IFLEX Reinsurance

• Oracle FLEXCUBE Lending and Leasing

• Oracle Communications Applications

• Oracle Transportation Management

• Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting

• Enterprise Manager - Configuration Change Console

• Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management


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BI Publisher Demo Pod: Moscone South, Right - SR-287

What Where When

32020: Building Reports and Data Models in BI Publisher 11g (HANDS ON LAB)

Marriott Marquis - Salon 5/6

Wed 1:15 – 2:15 pm

16762: Become a Reporting Superstar with BI Publisher Best Practices

Moscone West Room 2002/2004

Wed 5:00 – 6:00 pm

15010: BI Publisher: Anatomy of a Template

Moscone West Room 2000

Thr 1:30 – 2:30 pm


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60 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 60 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.