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Primavera Users:Welcome to BI Publisher!
Daniel L Williams, PhDOracle Practice Manager
Partners Consulting
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How BI Publisher relates to Primavera and the Red Stack
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Topics
History of BI Publisher and Primavera
About Primavera
How to use BI Publisher
- Word Plug in and Sample Data
- The Data Model
- BIP Repository & Structure
- Editing reports in BIP Web
Connecting Primavera with BI Publisher
- PCM
- P6: true tables, report schema, and issues
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History
2003 XML Publisher with EBS 11.5.10
2004 Oracle Acquires PeopleSoft/JDE
2008 Oracle Acquires BEA Systems (WebLogic)
2008 Oracle Acquires Primavera
2010 Primavera P6 v8.0 BI Publisher 10g / WebLogic
2011 Primavera PCM 14.0 BI Publisher 11g / WebLogic
2012 Primavera Unifier BI Publisher
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Architecture: Enterprise Applications
Oracle
Database
WebLogic
Application Server
UCM
P6 PCM
BI Publisher many more…
Applications
OBIEE
App Server
Database
Unifier JDE
Applications run within the WebLogic Application Server, which stores information in the underlying database.
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Clarification: OBIEE vs BI Publisher
BI Publisher- For Publishing “static” information- Reports delivered in a variety of formats- PDFs, Word, Excel
OBIEE- For Interactive analysis of data- Web Interface- More “free form”
P6 Analytics
PCM/P6 Reports
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What is BI Publisher?
Started as XML Publisher for E-Business Suite
Key concept: Separate Data Model from Layout
-> you can report on virtually anything
Data Extraction
Layout Template
Output: Word, Excel, PDF &cLayout
TemplateLayout Template
Delivery: Email, FTP, Repository, file system
Scheduling &c
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What is Primavera?
MS Project – build a treehouse
Primavera P6 – build a dozen nuclear plants worldwide 1000’s of people, +10,000 of tasks
Primavera Contract Management – manage project documents and costs
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Primavera Reporting: Old and NewOld: InfoMaker
- Windows Only
- Not owned by Oracle
- Not supported on 64-bit OS
New: BI Publisher
- OS “independent”
- Editing through MS Word, Acrobat Professional, Excel
- 11g has Web-based Layout Editor
- Owned and Intensely developed by Oracle across
the Stack
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Two hatsServer setup and administration
Report Writer/Developer
Running BI Publisher
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Log into BI Publisher
Running BI Publisher
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Data Sources First make your data sources
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Data Sources JDBC is the natural choice for Primavera
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Data Sources Settings are identical to those set through Primavera database configuration application
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Report Catalog: Layouts and Models
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Report: Data Model
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Report: Data Model
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Report: Layouts
Two Main Options:- MS Word- Web UI
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Report: Layouts
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Report: View
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Reports in BI Publisher – now what?
Tie the two together- BI Publisher Folders- Primavera Folders- Primavera Connection settings
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BI Publisher Setup: Folders
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Primavera Setup: Folders
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Primavera Setup: AdminCM.cmd
Only three settings: user, password, and URL->How does that work???
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Secret Sauce: The URL reveals WSDL
Web Service Definition Language – how to request BIP reports
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Secret Sauce: The URL reveals WSDL
- Primavera sends web requests specifying report,passing parameters such as project name
- Primavera output is PDF by default
Request
Primavera P6
Primavera PCM BIP Service
OtherOther
Other
TPS-27b/61 $123.452 $543.213 $101.014 $314.15
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Report in Primavera Contract Manager
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Recap
> BI Publisher, formerly XML Publisher
> BI Publisher initially for EBS, now for everything
> Primavera 2008 acquisition, moving onto the Red stack
> BI Pub architecture
> Primavera/BI Pub interface via Web Service
More on Primavera:
Oracle Primavera Special
Interest Group
www.PrimaveraSIG.com
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Questions?
Daniel L Williams
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