Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
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http://bit.ly/OFMLifetime
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Reporting Challenges
Requirements are Diverse
Checks
Invoices
Labels
Destinations
Reports
Reporting Challenges
Complex Infrastructure
Multiple reporting solutions
Highly-skilled engineers
required to maintain servers
and report formats
Costly
Time consuming
Labels
Complex systems
Expensive maintenance
Labor intensive
Checks
Invoices
Invoice
Server
Label
Manager
Destinations
Check Print
Server
Report
Formatter
Reports
Delivery
Server
Payment
Server
Reporting Challenges
Slow Development
Report files
Report Output
Reporting Challenges
Difficult to Maintain
Combined query, layout, and translation
Data logic
Layout
1 Query
10 Layouts
Translation
10 Translations
1 Query
10 Layouts
10 Translations
= 100 report files
Reporting Challenges
Other Issues
Production Issues
Huge load on the transactional database, shuts down the
operation
Output file size, time to produce the reports
High maintenance, proprietary report programming languages
require expensive specialists and consultants
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Benefits of BI Publisher
Simplified Report Maintenance
Translation
Flexibility
Reduced maintenance
Report
output
Benefits of BI Publisher
Faster Development
Business users create layouts with
familiar desktop tools
IT builds data model
Report Templates
XML
Report Outputs
Multiple Data Sources
Rapid Development
Benefits of BI Publisher
Multiple output formats & delivery destinations
PDF
Oracle 10g,
Oracle BI EE,
Oracle BI Apps
SQL Server
HTML
XSL
Layout Templates
E-Business
Suite,
PeopleSoft,
JDE
Excel
Power
Point
Printer
Flash
BI Publisher
RTF
Fax
CSV
OLAP
Excel
Word
Acrobat Flex
Others
JDev
XML
EDI
EFT
Web Services
Layout Tools
Repository
Output Formats
e-Commerce
Destinations
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
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Conversion Utility
Introduction
Data
Template
LOV
.xdo file
RDF XML
Conversion
Utility
RTF Template
Reports 9i or
higher
rwconverter
Oracle
Report RDF
files
.PLS files
Log file
Conversion Utility
Data Template
Conversion Utility
Prerequisites
Oracle Reports 9i or later
Source reports must eventually be in Oracle Reports XML format. Oracle
Reports XML format is supported in Oracle Reports 9i and above
If your source reports are not in Oracle Reports XML format, the conversion
utility will do this conversion automatically. However, this requires Oracle
Reports Designer 9i or later on the same machine where you will do the
conversion.
Conversion Utility
Conversion Steps
Conversion Utility
Command Line Usage
java oracle.apps.xdo.rdfparser.BIPBatchConversion [debug] -source SourceDirectory -target TargetDirectory
[-oraclehome OracleHomePath]
-source (required) Source directory for Oracle Reports files. All reports must
be in the same format - either RDF or XML.
-target (required) Target directory to create Oracle BI Publisher report
objects. This includes the Oracle BI Publisher Report file (.xdo), the layout
template file (.rtf), the PL/SQL package, and log file.
-oraclehome (optional) If your reports are in Oracle Reports XML format do
not specify this parameter. If your reports are not in Oracle Reports XML format,
specify the Oracle home path where Oracle Report Designer (9i or later version)
is installed. BIPBatchMigration assumes that rwconverter is contained in the bin
directory beneath the Oracle Home path.
-debug (optional) To run the utility in debug mode and write debug statements
to the log file.
Conversion Utility
Command Line Usage Examples
XDO_LIB_DIR=<BIP1034_INSTALL_DIR>\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\applications\xmlpserver\x
mlpserver\WEB-INF\lib
Conversion Utility
Capability Highlights
Layout
Tabular, Form based & Free form reports
Repeating frames
Header & Footer
Data
Conversion Utility
Important Notes
Currently conversion utility exists for BI Publisher
10.1.3.3 and 10.1.3.4 only;
Conversion utility for BI Publisher 11g is planned for
the future release;
Oracle Reports to BI Publisher 11g conversion is a 2step process now:
Convert Oracle Reports to BI Publisher 10g
Upgrade BI Publisher 10g report files to 11g report files using
Upgrade Assistant tool available with 11g
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Demo
DEMONSTRATION
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Data Definition
Sample XML
Report (.xdo)
Data Definition
Report (.xdo)
Sample XML
Template (RTF, PDF, etc.)
Report Runtime
Configuration file
(xdo.cfg)
Report Runtime
Configuration file
(xdo.cfg)
Scheduler Schema
Quartz Table
Scheduled Jobs
Job History
Quartz Table
Upgrade Assistant
11g Install - Upgrade Chart
RCU
Start
BISHIPHOME
Install
Post Install
Configuration
Upgrade
Required?
Yes
Upgrade
Assistant
No
End
Repository
BI Publisher Repository
- Reports (Shared/Private)
- Admin Files
Repository
BI Publisher Catalog
- Reports (Shared/Private)
- Data Model (Shared/Private)
Admin Files
Quartz Table
Quartz Table
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More Information
BI Publisher 10.3.4 documentation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12844_01/welcome.html
Converting Reports from Oracle Reports to Oracle BI Publisher:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12844_01/doc/bip.1013/e1
2187/T518230T518393.htm
BI Publisher Forum:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=245
BI Publisher Blog:
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/
Questions
Dmitry Nefedkin
Oracle ISV Migration Center FMW Consultant
Dmitry.Nefedkin@oracle.com
ISV Migration Center blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/imc