what s new with bip 11g everything
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Business Intelligence Publisher 11gTRANSCRIPT
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 [email protected]://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
www.thelowedownblog.com
www.strsoftware.com