12 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Creating Data Models and BI Publisher Reports Based on Other Data Sources

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to: Create a BI Publisher report based on web services Create a BI Publisher report based on HTTP (XML/RSS Feed) Create a BI Publisher report based an XML file Create a BI Publisher report based on an MS Excel spreadsheet

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Reviewing Supported Data Sources BI Publisher supports the following data sources: SQL Query MDX Query (including Essbase) Oracle BI Analysis View Object Web service LDAP Query XML File Microsoft Excel File HTTP(XML/RSS Feed)

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Introduction to Web Services Web services: –Are open, standard-based web applications –Integrate applications across platforms to exchange data –Return valid XML data Web service standards include: –WSDL –SOAP –UDDI

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved The HTTP (XML/RSS Feed) Data Source Web sites provide XML, RSS, and other types of feeds RSS feeds: –Support web content syndication or aggregation –Are popular for use with news and blogs

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Proxy Settings for Web Services and HTTP Data Sources When the WSDL or RSS/XML feed URLs are outside the firewall, you must: Configure Oracle WebLogic Server to recognize the proxy Restart the services

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Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Creating a BI Publisher Report Based on External Web Services 1.Define a parameter. 2.Define a web service data set. 3.View the XML for the web service data set. 4.Create a simple layout to view the data.

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 1: Defining a Parameter 2 3 1

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 2: Defining a Web Service Data Set

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Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 3: Viewing the XML for the Web Service Data Set 1 2 3

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 4: Creating a Simple Layout to View the Data by Using Layout Editor

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Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Creating a BI Publisher Report Based on HTTP (XML/RSS Feed) Data Sources 1.Define an HTTP (XML/RSS Feed) data set. 2.View the XML. 3.Create a simple layout to view the data.

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 1: Defining an HTTP Data Set

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 2: Viewing the XML 1 2 3

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 3: Creating a Simple Layout to View the Data by Using Layout Editor

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 3: Creating a Simple Layout to View the Data by Using Layout Editor RSS Layout RSS Feed 5 6

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Creating a BI Publisher Report Based on an XML File 1.Define XML as a data set. 2.View the XML. 3.Create a simple layout to view the data.

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Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 2: Viewing the XML 1 2 3

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Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 3: Creating a Simple Layout to View the Data by Using Layout Editor XML Layout 6 Customer Balance 5

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Creating a BI Publisher Report Based on an MS Excel Spreadsheet 1.Define an MS Excel spreadsheet as a data set. 2.View the XML. 3.Generate a simple layout to view the data.

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Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 1: Defining an MS Excel Spreadsheet as a Data Set 2 4 3

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Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Step 2: Viewing the XML 1 2 3

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Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Summary In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Create a BI Publisher report based on web services Create a BI Publisher report based on HTTP (XML/RSS Feed) Create a BI Publisher report based an XML file Create a BI Publisher report based on an MS Excel spreadsheet

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Practice 12: Overview This practice covers the following topics: Creating a BI Publisher report based on web services Creating a BI Publisher report based on HTTP (XML/RSS Feed) Creating a BI Publisher report based an XML file Creating a BI Publisher report based on an MS Excel spreadsheet

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Quiz: Overview This quiz examines your knowledge of the concepts discussed in the lesson.

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Quiz BI Publisher can utilize SQL Query, web service, XML, and Oracle BI Analysis data sources. a.True b.False

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Quiz When creating a web service data source, you make a distinction between simple and complex data types for the web service data model that you are defining. a.True b.False

Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved Quiz When creating an MS Excel data source, you can use any spreadsheet format. a.True b.False

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