what s new with bip 11g everything

What’s New In BI Publisher 11gEVERYTHING!

Brent Lowe – Manager of Product DevelopmentSTR Software

About STR Software

STR SoftwareLocated in Richmond, VAFocused on document delivery solutions since 1988Over 1,230 licenses of AventX in 47 states and 19 countriesOver 94% customer retentionOracle Gold Partner with staff of Oracle Certified ProfessionalsOAUG 2-Star Elite partner for 2011www.strsoftware.com

Brent LoweManager of Product DevelopmentBS in Computer Science from College of William and Mary804-897-1600 ext. 132 and brent.lowe@strsoftware.comhttp://www.thelowedownblog.com

Agenda

Introduction to BI Publisher Enterprise

What’s 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 MiddlewareIntegrated into 30+ applications! (EBS, PeopleSoft, JDE, OBIEE, Siebel…)

Enterprise = StandaloneCompletely Standalone ApplicationUse for all your business reporting regardless of data sourceIntegrated 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 OBIEELook and FeelReport and Data Model Separation (Data Model Editor)Layout Editor and Interactive ViewerSub TemplatesBursting and DeliveryMisc

Scheduling ImprovementsHandling 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/wp-content/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 Installation11g Database Pre-ReqRepository Creator Pre-ReqOracle WebLogic (comes with OBIEE)

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

ConsMore overhead

Weblogic Application ServerOracle DBMore HW/SW to manage

Look and Feel

11g received a facelift10g 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)

11gOne-to-Many relationship between Data Model and ReportsData Templates are now history.New Data Model Editor helps you build your Data Model!

<<Demo>>

Layout Editor and Interactive Reports

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

11gCan still use MS Word, Adobe Acrobat, Excel, etc… to produce static reports.New Layout Editor for Interactive ReportsDemo

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 emailEmail Attachment NamingDuplex, tray specification, print range for PrintingSecure FTP

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

Demo

Bursting Query

Column Description

KEY Must match value returned by Deliver By field

TEMPLATE Name of Layout to Apply

LOCALE Locale of Template

OUTPUT_FORMAT Output data - PDF, HTML…

DEL_CHANNEL Fax, Email, File, …

TIMEZONE Timezone for report

CALENDAR Calendar for Report

OUTPUT_NAME Name of Report Output for reporting and attachment names.

SAVE_OUTPUT True/False

PARAMETER1-10 Depends on DEL_CHANNEL

Delivery and Bursting

Channel Parameter 1 Parameter 2 Parameter 3 Parameter 4 Parameter 5 Parameter 6 Parameter 7 Parameter 8

Email Email address cc From Subject Message Body Attachment (true/false)Note that if your output format is pdf, you must set this parameter to "true" to attach the pdf to the email.

Reply-To BCC

Printer Printer Group Printer Number of copies

Sides Tray

Fax Fax server Name

Fax Number

WEBDAV Server Name Username Password Remote Directory

Remote File Name

Authorization Type

File Directory File Name

FTP Server Name Username Password Remote Directory

Remote File Name

Secure “true”to enable SFTP

Delivery and Bursting

Delivery and Bursting

Misc New Features

Scheduler ImprovementsMultiple outputs to multiple destinations when not bursting.Demo

Misc New Features

Handling of Large Data SetsReferencing Static ContentPDF Splitting and Zipping

Contact Information:

Brent Lowe

STR Software

brent.lowe@strsoftware.com

www.thelowedownblog.com

www.strsoftware.com