In today's fast-moving, competitive business world clear and up to date information is needed for the accurate, expedient decision making requirements of an often geographically distributed workforce. The timely distribution of that information must be reliable, cost effective and accessible to everyone who requires it. Oracle9iAS Reports Services provides an unbounded, easy to use, scalable and manageable solution for high-quality database publishing and reporting for the Internet and across the enterprise.

High-Quality Reports via the Internet
Oracle9iAS Reports Services realizes the promise of the Internet and delivers "board room", high quality information to all users in the Enterprise using a standard Internet browser. Data is served dynamically from the database in various reporting style formats:

• HTML with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) which extends the HTML standard to support greater font and image styles giving high-quality reporting from a web browser.
  
  
• Even higher-quality reporting through native generation of Adobe’s PDF (Portable Document Format).
  
  
• Reports are declaratively designed to provide users with an easy route to the information they require. Through data driven table of contents and report hyperlinks, users view just the information they are interested in.

All of this functionality is available in a secure environment that leverages the performance and scalability of the database.

Unlimited Data Formatting
Oracle9iAS Reports Services provides endless ways in which to format information, be it a dynamically generated personalized letter, or a matrix style layout embedded within a tabular report that includes dynamic, data-driven charts. Oracle9iAS Reports Services include:

• Multiple report formats such as tabular, matrix, group style and graphical output or limitless combinations of all these.
  
  
• Multiple queries to select all the data required into one high-quality formatted report.
  
  
• Data access from any database including Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, DB2, Rdb, Oracle and any other ODBC compliant data source. Reports are not banded which provides development with full flexibility over report formatting and allows easy production of essential standard business reports.

Oracle9iAS Reports Services also provides a myriad of ways in which to deliver valuable information:

• Report Bursting allows a report to be run once, split into multiple sections and each section to be sent to a different destination. This reduces network traffic and enables one report run to service the needs of multiple users, thereby ensuring that the correct people see up to date information in the format that they require.
  
  
• One Pass Reporting produces multiple output styles e.g. PDF, HTML, Postscript from a single report run. This saves both time and system resources. Files are distributed to users using a variety of mechanisms such as printer, email and the Internet.

High quality report formatting and distribution is available from within a powerful, declarative development environment which reduces development time.

Application Server Based Reporting
Oracle9iAS Reports Services provides the power organizations need to produce reports, through the unrivaled scalability of its centralized application server based environment.

• Report requests are automatically balanced across a heterogeneous reports server cluster. This allows organizations to easily add more users to their reporting environment as demand increases and the enterprise grows.

The centralized, application server based reporting environment also allows users to:

• Schedule, batch, queue, view and reuse reports according to their needs. This saves both time and resources.
  
  
• Use an advanced reports cache that negates the need to re-run common reports for every user request. Users simply share the report run output which saves on report runtime per user and allows them to see information more rapidly.
  
  
• Obtain an automatic job finished notification via email.

In addition, the application server based environment provides:

• Centralization of the reporting process, which in turn provides low maintenance reports management, thereby reducing the total cost of ownership of the computing environment.
  
  
• Thin clients, Internet browsers or an ActiveX control that can be embedded into third party applications and used to publish reports. This eliminates the need to install and maintain software on every user's PC.

Meeting the Full Spectrum of Business Intelligence Needs
Oracle9iAS Reports Services is an integral part of Oracle’s integrated business intelligence tools solution. Oracle provides Business Intelligence tools that span the full spectrum of user needs from enterprise reporting through ad-hoc query to advanced analysis.

Oracle9iAS Reports Services integrates with Oracle9iAS Discoverer™, Oracle’s award- winning, end user, ad-hoc query and analysis tool. Oracle9iAS Discoverer users can perform ad-hoc queries and publish the results using the dynamic Internet reporting capabilities of Oracle9iAS Reports Services. This integration provides the most complete end user and enterprise reporting environment: from powerful ad-hoc analysis to high quality reports.

Oracle9iAS Reports Services allows report developers to create standard enterprise reports against multidimensional data held in Oracle® Express. This brings powerful production reporting capabilities to the world’s leading OLAP server.

Reports for the Internet
The reporting model provides all the advantages of an application server based, thin client deployment architecture. Reduced cost of ownership while meeting your user demands for information, in the format they require. Oracle9iAS Reports Services provides:

• High-quality Internet publishing that dynamically generates “board room” quality Web pages based on your corporate data.
  
  
• A powerful declarative development environment that allows sophisticated, unbounded reports to be created in a matter of minutes.
  
  
• Proven database-aware technology that provides tight integration with multiple data sources and easy, fast delivery of information via a browser, a thin client viewer or an Active-X control.
  
  
• Self-service, dynamic Internet publishing for Oracle9iAS Discoverer users, and multidimensional reporting for Oracle Express
  
  
• Application server based reporting which provides a centralized, scalable, low cost of maintenance report deployment architecture.

In Summary
Oracle9iAS Reports Services provides the most powerful development environment to build and publish sophisticated high-quality database reports. Reports deployed in a centralized environment allow companies to reduce the cost of software installation and maintenance while taking advantage of the increased scalability and manageability of application server based reporting.

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