Whats New In BI Publisher 11g EVERYTHING!

Brent Lowe Manager of Product Development STR Software

About STR Software

STR Software
Located in Richmond, VA Focused on document delivery solutions since 1988 Over 1,230 licenses of AventX in 47 states and 19 countries Over 94% customer retention Oracle Gold Partner with staff of Oracle Certified Professionals OAUG 2-Star Elite partner for 2011 www.strsoftware.com

Brent Lowe

Manager of Product Development BS in Computer Science from College of William and Mary 804-897-1600 ext. 132 and brent.lowe@strsoftware.com http://www.thelowedownblog.com

Agenda
Introduction to BI Publisher Enterprise Whats New In BI Publisher Enterprise 11g Q&A

Introduction to BIP Enterprise

Introduction to BIP Enterprise

BIP is the new standard for reporting from Oracle Part of Fusion Middleware
Integrated into 30+ applications! (EBS, PeopleSoft, JDE, OBIEE, Siebel)

Enterprise = Standalone
Completely Standalone Application Use for all your business reporting regardless of data source Integrated into OBIEE

BI Publisher Enterprise 11g

Released in August 2010 Represents 150,000 + Person Hours!* Same base functionality as 10g with major enhancements.

* Per Oracle

New Features in BIP 11g

Installation/Integration with OBIEE Look and Feel Report and Data Model Separation (Data Model Editor) Layout Editor and Interactive Viewer Sub Templates Bursting and Delivery Misc
Scheduling Improvements Handling Large Data Sets

About the Demo

Purpose:
Demonstrate new functionality of BIP 11g by manipulating sales data into an interactive management report and static deliverable PDF intended for individual sales reps. Demo data can be found at:
http://www.strsoftware.com/blogs/oracle/wpcontent/uploads/2011/01/BIP_11g_Files.zip

Installation/Integration with OBIEE

Installation footprint goes from 1GB to 6GB! Why?
BIP11g comes as part of OBIEE Installation
11g Database Pre-Req Repository Creator Pre-Req Oracle WebLogic (comes with OBIEE)

Pros

Tighter integration with OBIEE from security, common repositories and user/admin interface perspectives. True Oracle Fusion Middleware deployment

Cons

More overhead

Weblogic Application Server Oracle DB More HW/SW to manage

Look and Feel

11g received a facelift 10g for comparison:

Report and Data Model Separation (Data Model Editor) 10g:

Create Report and Data Model is tied to it.

Report and Data Model Separation (Data Model Editor) 11g

One-to-Many relationship between Data Model and Reports Data Templates are now history. New Data Model Editor helps you build your Data Model! <<Demo>>

Layout Editor and Interactive Reports

10g
Use MS Word, Adobe Acrobat, Flash, eText, etc Reports are static, outputs are PDF, HTML, RTF, Excel, Powerpoint, CSV

11g
Can still use MS Word, Adobe Acrobat, Excel, etc to produce static reports. New Layout Editor for Interactive Reports Demo

Style Templates
Style Template Contains style information that can be applied to RTF layouts to achieve consistent look and feel. <<Demo>>

Bursting and Delivery

Bursting & Delivery

Few minor updates to the delivery functionality. Mostly addition of options to bursting:
BCC for email Email Attachment Naming Duplex, tray specification, print range for Printing Secure FTP

Bursting definition no longer tied directly to the report, now on Data Model. Demo

Bursting Query
Column KEY TEMPLATE LOCALE OUTPUT_FORMAT DEL_CHANNEL TIMEZONE CALENDAR OUTPUT_NAME SAVE_OUTPUT PARAMETER1-10 Description Must match value returned by Deliver By field Name of Layout to Apply Locale of Template Output data - PDF, HTML Fax, Email, File, Timezone for report Calendar for Report Name of Report Output for reporting and attachment names. True/False Depends on DEL_CHANNEL

Delivery and Bursting

Channel Email Parameter 1 Parameter 2 Parameter 3 Parameter 4 Parameter 5 Parameter 6 Email address cc From Subject Parameter 7 Parameter 8 BCC

Message Body Attachment Reply-To (true/false) Note that if your output format is pdf, you must set this parameter to "true" to attach the pdf to the email. Tray

Printer Fax WEBDAV File FTP

Printer Group Fax server Name Server Name Directory Server Name

Printer Fax Number Username File Name Username

Number of copies

Sides

Password

Remote Directory Remote Directory

Remote File Name Remote File Name

Authorization Type Secure true to enable SFTP

Password

Delivery and Bursting

Delivery and Bursting

Misc New Features

Scheduler Improvements
Multiple outputs to multiple destinations when not bursting. Demo

Misc New Features

Handling of Large Data Sets
Referencing Static Content PDF Splitting and Zipping

Contact Information: Brent Lowe STR Software brent.lowe@strsoftware.com www.thelowedownblog.com www.strsoftware.com