BI Publisher 11g-OTMSIG

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Oracle BI Publisher

Mike DonohueDirector

Product Management


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The following is intended to outline our generalproduct direction. It is intended for information

purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any

contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any

material, code, or functionality, and should not be

relied upon in making purchasing decisions.The development, release, and timing of any

features or functionality described for Oracles

products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.


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Reporting Challenges BI Publisher Benefits More Information

Oracle BI Publisher


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Multiple reporting solutions Highly-skilled engineers

required to maintain servers

and report formats

!Costly!Time consuming!Complex systems!Expensive maintenance!Labor intensive

Classic Reporting Tool Challenges

Complex Infrastructure

Check Print

Server

PaymentServer

Invoice

Server

ReportFormatter

Reports

LabelManager

Labels

DeliveryServer

Checks

XML / EFT / EDI

Invoices

Destina

tions


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Classic Reporting Tool ChallengesSlow Development

Iterate on Report Requirements

Must be same geometry, font, marginsize, etc.

Report Requirements

Report files Report Output


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Classic Reporting Tool ChallengesDifficult to Maintain

Data logic Layout

Translation

1 Query 10 Layouts 10 Translations= 100 report files

! High development cost! High customization cost! Difficult upgrade

Combined query, layout, and translation

1 Query 10 Layouts

10 Translations


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Classic Reporting Tool ChallengesOther Issues

Production Issues Huge load on the transactional Data Base, shuts down the

operation

Output file size, time to produce the reports High maintenance, proprietary report programming languagesrequire expensive specialists and consultants

Global Deployment Issues Multiple Instances required for different character sets Insufficient support for Bi-Directional Languages Dependence on Printer Character sets require language

specific printers


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Reporting Challenges BI Publisher Benefits More Information

Oracle BI Publisher


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Oracle BI Publisher Benefits

All your Reports and Documents Easier Better Managed

Fast


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BI Publisher Benefits

Simplified Maintenance

Separate query, layout, and translation

Report

output

"Flexibility"Reduced maintenance

Data Logic

Layout

TranslationBI Publisher


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Gallup

Results 30 Publisher reports

(85% reduction)

3 months w/ one f/treport developer

Challenge

200+ Crystal Reports Duplicate reports Hard to use, hard to

manage

Better Managed


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Report Outputs

XML

Layouts

Multiple Data Sources

BI Publisher BenefitsEasier, Faster Development

Business users create layouts withfamiliar desktop tools

IT builds data model

"RapidDevelopment


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BI Publisher BenefitsOne Environment

XML / EFT / EDI

Reports

Checks

Labels

Destinations

Invoices

Oracle BI Publisher

Author Manage Deliver

ALL Your Business Documents

" Meet Business Requirements" Remove Complexity" Reduce Maintenance Cost" Reduce Total Cost


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Layouts

Output Formats Destinations

BI Publisher

Email

Printer

Fax

e-Commerce

Repository

Data Sources

Publisher WordAcrobat

Layout Tools

Excel Flex Others

Web Services

Oracle Database,Oracle BI EE,Oracle BI AppsSQL Server

E-BusinessSuite,

PeopleSoft,Siebel, JDE

OLAP

XSL

XML

EDI

EFT

PDF

HTML

Excel

PowerPoint

CSV

Flash

RTF

Interactive

BI Publisher Benefits From Data to Destination


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"Invoices

BI Publisher Benefits All your reports and documents


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"Invoices"Correspondence



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"Invoices"Correspondence"Purchase Orders



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"Invoices"Correspondence"Purchase Orders"Shipping Labels



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"Government Forms

"Invoices"Correspondence"Purchase Orders

"EFT & EDI


"Shipping Labels


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"Government Forms

"Invoices"Correspondence

"Checks

"Purchase Orders


"EFT & EDI

"Shipping Labels


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"Government Forms

"Invoices

"Operational Reports

"Correspondence

"Checks

"Purchase Orders


"EFT & EDI

"Shipping Labels


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"Government Forms

"Invoices


"Correspondence

"Financial Statements

"Checks

"Purchase Orders


"EFT & EDI

"Shipping Labels


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"Government Forms

"Invoices


"Correspondence

"Financial Statements

"Checks

"Purchase Orders


"Interactive Reports

"EFT & EDI

"Shipping Labels


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Payment Data

Controller

CEO

Banking

XML

EFT

B2B

XML

Government

EFT

Excel

Interactive

PDF

BI Publisher

Different TemplatesFor different Output Formats

BI Publisher Benefits

Extract Data Once, Publish Many Docs

XSL


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Qualcomm

BusinessRequirements

60 Reports 30 Invoice variants Barcodes Graphics Electronic bankingImplementation

Implemented in3 Month

Business Analystscreate Templates

RTF Templates eText Templates


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BI Publisher BenefitsGlobal Consolidation

Create ONE template for any of 185 languages and 244 territories Single Global Instance Translated User Interface BI Publisher ships with full set of Unicode Fonts No need for expensive language-specific printers

BI Publisher is alone in supporting Chinese, Japanese,

Korean

BidirectionalLanguages

Unicode Multiple Language

Support


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Bank of Egypt

Business Requirements Report from

transaction database

High Volume Reporting Minimize Load on

Database

Bursting Bidirectional languagesupport: Arabic

Implementation iFLEX Customer Converted 400 reportsfrom BO to BI Publisher Bidirectional RTF

Templates

Bursting


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DELL Inc.

Business Requirements Generate Customer Facing Output Multiple Data Sources Translation support Multiple Delivery Channels High Volume ~20000 docs/hr Keep database load to a minimumImplementation RTF Templates Delivery Manager Watermarking support BI Publisher on separate server


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Oracle BI Publisher Benefits

All your Reports and Documents Easier Better Managed

Fast


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BI Publisher


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The preceding is intended to outline our generalproduct direction. It is intended for information

purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any

contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any

material, code, or functionality, and should not berelied upon in making purchasing decisions.The development, release, and timing of any

features or functionality described for Oracles

products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.


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