Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise
Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise is Oracle’s revolutionary new reporting and document output management solution. BI Publisher offers multiple innovations that substantially lower the total cost of ownership for reporting solutions, such as:
- End user desktop applications — Microsoft Word, EXCEL and Adobe Acrobat Professional — allow functional users to define and customize the layout of documents. This results in a more efficient cooperation between IT and functional departments and reduces the need for external consultants.
BI Style Reports
- A single web-based solution for producing and delivering a broad range of business documents such as: sales orders, invoices, purchase orders, management and financial reports, government forms, checks, labels, and electronic documents (EDI/EFT). Since Oracle BI Publisher can replace multiple systems, it results in less complex and easier to maintain solutions.
BI Publisher facilitates the global consolidation of your reporting solutions. A single instance supports multiple user interface and document languages. The same user can create documents in English, German, Chinese or Arabic (bi-directional) and print them to a local or remote printer.
Financial Reports
- BI Publisher reduces report customization and maintenance cost – due to the separation of data extract, layout, and translation. For examples changes to a report query require you to change only a single report file and none of the layouts or translations of this report.
- Oracle BI Publisher is "hot pluggable" - meaning it is completely based on open standards. As such it can run on any J2EE compliant application server and can access data from practically any database. This makes BI Publisher fit into any IT environment and protects your investment into legacy systems.
Version 10.1.3.3 Released
The latest version of BI Publisher has been released, it is now available embedded into the BIEE 10.1.3.3 release and as a standalone server.
New Features
Despite being a point release there are many new and improved features, follow the links for more information on a particular feature:
- Template Builder Enhancements
- New Output Formats - Overview
- Flash Output
- Flex Templates
- PDF output for Flash
- PowerPoint output
- CSV output
- Discoverer - BI Publisher Integration Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV
- Multithread support in Report Generation
- RDF to RTF report conversion utility
- PDF to PostScript Filter
- Data Engine Enhancements
- Native support for BLOB, CLOB, long and raw data types
- Online Analyzer - Introduction - Enhancements for 10.1.3.3
- New Bind variables:
- xdo_user_roles
- xdo_user_report_oracle_lang
- xdo_user_ui_oracle_lang
- xdo_user_ui_locale
- xdo_user_report_locale
- Link to Report
Four modes available:
- Current Page
- No Header
- No Parameters
- Document Only
- Link to Oracle SQL Developer
- Digital Signature support
- Added Report Repository option under Admin > System Maintenance
- Link to Dashboards from BI Publisher
- Miscellaneous RTF Template enhancements
- Under Edit Report, Main Data Set: New items:
- Database fetch size
- Include Parameters
- Include Null Element
- Include Rowset Tag
- Scalable Mode
Download BI Publisher 10.1.3.3 from here. The documentation library including the New Features guide is available here.
BI Enterprise Integration
BI Publisher now provides users with the ability to build high fidelity reports and documents from the BIEE interface, there are a tight set of integration features:
- Embed a BI Publisher report in a BIEE dashboard page passing dashboard prompt values
- Build BI Publisher reports based on a BIEE Answer
- Build BI Publisher reports by connecting directly to the BI Data Server
For more information and a step by step walk through check out the Oracle by Example (OBE) page:
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