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

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Mike Donohue Director, BI Product Management

Osama Elkady Sr. Director, BI Development

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 Oracles products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
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Oracle BI Publisher
Why BI Publisher Reporting Challenges BI Publisher Benefits Demo Whats New Availability and Integration Q&A
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Why BI Publisher?
BI Publisher can Provide All Your Reports Easier Better Managed Faster

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels Government Forms

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels Government Forms EFT & EDI

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels Government Forms EFT & EDI Checks

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels Government Forms EFT & EDI Checks Operational Reports

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels Government Forms EFT & EDI Checks Operational Reports Financial Statements

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BI Publisher For All Your Reports

Invoices Correspondence Purchase Orders Shipping Labels Government Forms EFT & EDI Checks Operational Reports Financial Statements Interactive Reports

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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

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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 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

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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

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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

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

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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
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Faster Consolidated Graphics

Before 100,000 Forms in 24 hours After

24 .NET Servers
* Required to re-submit failed jobs

15 Administrators *
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Faster Consolidated Graphics

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

24 .NET Servers
* Required to re-submit failed jobs

15 Administrators *
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Faster Consolidated Graphics

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

1/8 Fewer Servers!

24 .NET Servers
* Required to re-submit failed jobs

1 BI Publisher Server 2 .NET Servers

15 Administrators *
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Faster Consolidated Graphics

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

1/8 Fewer Servers!

24 .NET Servers
* Required to re-submit failed jobs

1 BI Publisher Server 2 .NET Servers

1/3 Fewer People! No babysitting!

15 Administrators *
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4 Administrators

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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Oracle BI Publisher
Why BI Publisher Reporting Challenges BI Publisher Benefits Demo Whats New Availability and Integration Q&A
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Diverse Reporting Requirements

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

Checks

Destinations

Reports

Labels

Complex Reporting Infrastructure

Multiple point solutions Highly-skilled engineers required to maintain servers and reports
Costly Time consuming Complex systems Expensive maintenance Labor intensive
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Invoice Server Delivery Server Payment Server

Check Print Server Report Tool Label Generator

It takes a long time to develop using Traditional Reporting Tools

Many Iterations

Report Requirements

Report files

Report Output

Layout, font, margin etc.

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Traditional Reports are difficult to maintain

Combine query, layout, and translation

Data Logic
1 Query

Layout
10 Layouts

Translation
10 Translations

1 Query 10 Layouts 10 Translations = 100 report files

High cost to customize -- Difficult upgrade

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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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Oracle BI Publisher
Why BI Publisher Reporting Challenges BI Publisher Benefits Demo Whats New Availability and Integration Q&A
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BI Publisher Simplifies Maintenance

Separate query, layout, and translation

Data Logic Layout

BI Publisher

Translation

Report output

Greater Flexibility Reduced Maintenance Cost

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Develop Reports Faster with BI Publisher

Business users create layouts with browser or familiar desktop tools IT builds data model

Layouts

Multiple Data Sources

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Reports

BI Publisher One Environment

Author Manage Deliver Remove Complexity Reduce Maintenance Cost Reduce Total Cost
Destinations Reports Invoices Checks

Labels
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XML / EFT / EDI

BI Publisher from Data to Destination

Interactive Oracle Database Oracle BI SQL Server PDF HTML

Email

E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards

Layouts
XSL

Printer
Excel Power Point Flash

Fax

OLAP

Publisher Excel Flex Word Acrobat Others

RTF XML / CSV EFT / EDI

Repository

Web Services

e-Commerce

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BI Publisher Get Data Once, Publish Many Docs

Payment Data
EFT / EDI Excel Interactive PDF XML / CSV

Bank Controller

CEO

Government

Layouts as needed For different requirements

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Auditor

Qualcomm
Requirements 60 Reports 30 Invoice variants Barcodes Graphics Electronic banking Implementation Implemented in 3 Months Business Analysts create Templates RTF Templates eText Templates
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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

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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
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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

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BI Publisher Enterprise Class Reporting

Report Server
Cache Manager Parameter Manager Security Service

BI Publisher
Translation Service Catalog Service Web Services

WebLogic Server Scheduler

Job Queue

Common Services

Layout Engine
RTF Processor Document Engine Form Processor Interactive View Engine FO Processor HTML5 AJAX SVG Flash Cache

LDAP OID

Delivery Quartz SSO ESS Bursting Auditing Data Service Logging JSF

XML Parser

XSLT Processor

Data Engine
Shared Data Models with Business Views

Notification Data Relationship Formulas Calculations Bursting Definitions Event Triggers Parameters and LOVs

OLTP & ODS Data Exadata Systems Warehouses

OLAP

Applications (Oracle, SAP, Others)

Excel XML

Business Processes

Scheduler Database

Java APIs

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Oracle BI Publisher
Why BI Publisher Reporting Challenges BI Publisher Benefits Demo Whats New Availability and Integration Q&A
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Demo
DEMONSTRATION
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New in 11.1.1.5 for Report Consumers

Safari support Native Excel XSLX output Interactive output performance enhancements

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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
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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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Oracle BI Publisher
Why BI Publisher Reporting Challenges BI Publisher Benefits Demo Whats New Availability and Integration Q&A
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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

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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 Grants CRM SCM Student Admin

Siebel CRM
Integrated in 8.1.1 119 reports OOTB Actuate to Publisher Conversion Assistant
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BI Publisher Limited Use License in Apps

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

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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 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

Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting Agile Product Lifecycle Management Oracle Hyperion Planning Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Enterprise Manager - Configuration Change Console Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management

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