1. Oracle’s Reporting Strategy
Oracle BI/XML Publisher
Oracle DBI/Discoverer
Hyperion Essbase
OBIEE

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Agenda:
What is it and how is it used
Strengths and Weaknesses
Synergies and redundancies with other tools
Screenshots
Benefits

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Oracle BI/XML Publisher
An enterprise level reporting solution to author, manage, and deliver all types of highly formatted documents eliminating the need for costly point solutions
Allows power users to easily design report layouts using familiar desktop tools.
Separates data from presentation
Enables to query or accept data from multiple sources
Helps in publishing one document to multiple output formats and destinations

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Oracle BI/XML Publisher
Mainly used for Static Reporting
Richly Formatted Reports
Financial Statements
Checks, Labels, etc
Advanced Charting
Report Layout templates can be designed using MS Word, Excel or Adobe Acrobat
Supports creation of layouts in 185 languages

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Data Source
Layout
Output
Delivery
PDF
Oracle,
SQL Server
RTF
Printer
HTML
Oracle 11i,
PeopleSoft,
SAP, Siebel
Excel
Fax
XML Publisher
XSL
XML
WebDAV
Oracle Reports,
PL/SQL, Java,
Perl, etc
Templates
EDI
EFT
WWW
Web Services

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Oracle BI/XML Publisher
Built on Open standard technologies
Can be deployed in any J2EE container
BI Publisher is used in Advanced reporting in BI EE Plus
Already integrated with Oracle eBusiness 11i and R12, Peoplesoft, Siebel,etc
Integrated with Discoverer to create formatted reports with data from Discoverer worksheets

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Oracle Discoverer
Discoverer is an intuitive ad-hoc query, reporting, analysis, and Web-publishing tool that empowers business users to access information from various systems
Provides powerful analytical functionality such as dimensions, data slicing, drilling to details, etc
Flexibility to change report layouts
Spreadsheet functionality
Enables business users to create their reports on the fly.

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Oracle Discoverer
Provides management of infrastructure
EUL (Presentation Layers)
Business areas (Access Control)
Folders, Conditions, Joins, etc
Security (Users and Responsibilities)
Enables creation of multiple worksheets (tabular, crosstab)
Place items from folders on page, top or side
Apply conditions, parameters to refine the reports
Create calculations, add charts, colors without any need for coding
Ability to share or unshare workbooks with multiples users
Easily export to excel, html, pdf, xml, csv, etc

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Oracle Discoverer
Discoverer has evolved into internet enabled application and is integrated with Oracle DB and Fusion middleware.
Latest release of Discoverer provides integration with OBIEE.
Discoverer Web Services APIs help to integrate with business systems and processes using SOA.

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Oracle Essbase:
Essbase offers powerful business analytics
Provides superior calculation power
Provides extensive financial and time intelligence
Enables optimized storage.
Enables creation of Enterprise scale forward looking applications
Provides richest business user experience and best custom analytic environment

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Oracle Essbase:
Essbase offers multi dimensional views
Essbase offers single design environment unifying modelling of many sources such as Structured Relational, Flat files, XML files, EPM Architect dimensions, OBIEE
Enables reuse of hierarchies, metrics, cub schemas at a granular level
Offers Drill anywhere functionality to relational, OBIEE, URL, Essbase, etc

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Oracle Essbase:
Provides Web Analysis Reports
Web based
Interactive
Flexible Displays
Calculations
Provides Financial Reporting
Highly formatted
Report Books
Batch Distribution

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25. OBIEE Plus
Oracle business intelligence suite enterprise edition plus is a comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products that delivers a full range of analysis and reporting capabilities.
Featuring a unified, highly scalable, modern architecture, Oracle BI EE Plus provides intelligence and analytics from data spanning enterprise sources and applications empowering the largest communities with complete and relevant insight.
Provides powerful analytical functionality such as dimensions, data slicing, drilling to details, Navigate to different subject areas etc.
Oracle BI EE Plus also bundles key Oracle Hyperion reporting products for integrated reporting with Oracle Hyperion financial applications.

26. OBIEE plus
Can report from several data sources – flat files, relational and multi-dimensional sources.
Has several unique features not readily available in other BI platforms – disconnected analytics, analytic workflows, etc.

27. OBIEE Plus Components
Server, client and web-based interface
Oracle BI Server
Oracle Presentation Server
Oracle Answers
Oracle BI Publisher
Interactive Dashboards
Oracle BI Delivers
Oracle BI Administration
Others:
Disconnected Analytics
MS Office Plugins
Web Service connectivity
Tightly integrated

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OBIEE Plus Benefits
Comprehensive BI functionality built on a unified infrastructure—Includes interactive dashboards, full ad hoc queries and analysis, proactive intelligence delivery and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis and presentation, high-volume production reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, disconnected analytics, as well as integration with Microsoft Office.
Pervasive insight to everyone, everywhere—Provides relevant insight to everyone, not just analysts. All levels of the organization can see information optimized for their role.
Unified business model—Built on an enterprise information model that unifies metadata across the Oracle BI tools and analytical applications for the lowest TCO.
Hot-Pluggable BI infrastructure—Integrates with any data source, extraction, transformation and load (ETL) tool, major business application, application server, security infrastructure, portal technology, other front-end and analytical tools, and databases including IBM DB/2, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server; SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Analysis Services; flat files; XML data; and unstructured data.

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OBIEE Plus Architecture

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OBIEE Plus Dashboards

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OBIEE Plus Administrator