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Oracle BI Publisher
Mike Donohue
Director
Product Management

The following is intended to outline our general
product 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
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Oracle BI Publisher
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
Payment
Server
Invoice
Server
Report
Formatter
Reports
Label
Manager
Labels
Delivery
Server
Checks
XML / EFT / EDI
Invoices
Destinations
Classic Reporting Tool Challenges
Slow Development
Iterate on Report Requirements
Must be same geometry, font, margin
size, etc.
Report Requirements
Report files
Report Output
Classic Reporting Tool Challenges
Difficult 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
Classic Reporting Tool Challenges
Other 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 languages
require 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
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Oracle BI Publisher
Oracle BI Publisher Benefits
All your Reports and Documents
Easier
Better Managed
Fast
BI Publisher Benefits
Simplified Maintenance
Separate query, layout, and translation
Report
output
" Flexibility
" Reduced maintenance
Data Logic
Layout
Translation
BI Publisher
Gallup
Results
30 Publisher reports
(85% reduction)
3 months w/ one f/t
report developer
Challenge
200+ Crystal Reports
Duplicate reports
Hard to use, hard to
manage
Better Managed
Report Outputs
XML
Layouts
Multiple Data Sources
BI Publisher Benefits
Easier, Faster Development
Business users create layouts with
familiar desktop tools
IT builds data model
" Rapid Development
MasterCard Worldwide
Result
3 days and 1 person to
implement POs
12x faster w/ 1/3 fewer
people



Challenge
90 days and 3 people
(incl. 3
rd
party vendor) to
implement POs
50 Operating Units
Easier, Faster
Development
BI Publisher Benefits
One 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
Layouts
Output Formats Destinations
BI Publisher
Email
Printer
Fax
e-Commerce
Repository
Data Sources
Publisher
Word
Acrobat
Layout Tools
Excel
Flex
Others
Web Services
Oracle Database,
Oracle BI EE,
Oracle BI Apps
SQL Server
E-Business
Suite,
PeopleSoft,
Siebel, JDE
OLAP
XSL
XML
EDI
EFT
PDF
HTML
Excel
Power
Point
CSV
Flash
RTF
Interactive
BI Publisher Benefits
From Data to Destination
" Invoices
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" Invoices
" Correspondence
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" Invoices
" Correspondence
" Purchase Orders
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" Invoices
" Correspondence
" Purchase Orders
" Shipping Labels
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" Government Forms
" Invoices
" Correspondence
" Purchase Orders
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" Shipping Labels
" Government Forms
" Invoices
" Correspondence
" Purchase Orders
" EFT & EDI
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" Shipping Labels
" Government Forms
" Invoices
" Correspondence
" Checks
" Purchase Orders
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" EFT & EDI
" Shipping Labels
" Government Forms
" Invoices
" Operational Reports
" Correspondence
" Checks
" Purchase Orders
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" EFT & EDI
" Shipping Labels
" Government Forms
" Invoices
" Operational Reports
" Correspondence
" Financial Statements
" Checks
" Purchase Orders
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" EFT & EDI
" Shipping Labels
" Government Forms
" Invoices
" Operational Reports
" Correspondence
" Financial Statements
" Checks
" Purchase Orders
BI Publisher Benefits
All your reports and documents
" Interactive Reports
" EFT & EDI
" Shipping Labels
Payment Data
Controller
CEO
Banking
XML
EFT
B2B
XML
Government
EFT
Excel
Interactive
PDF
BI Publisher
Different Templates
For different Output Formats
BI Publisher Benefits
Extract Data Once, Publish Many Docs
XSL
Qualcomm
Business
Requirements
60 Reports
30 Invoice variants
Barcodes
Graphics
Electronic banking
Implementation
Implemented in
3 Month
Business Analysts
create Templates
RTF Templates
eText Templates
BI Publisher Benefits
Global 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
Bidirectional
Languages
Unicode
Multiple Language
Support
Bank of Egypt
Business Requirements
Report from
transaction database
High Volume Reporting
Minimize Load on
Database
Bursting
Bidirectional language
support: Arabic
Implementation
iFLEX Customer
Converted 400 reports
from BO to BI Publisher
Bidirectional RTF
Templates
Bursting
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 minimum
Implementation
RTF Templates
Delivery Manager
Watermarking support
BI Publisher on separate server
Oracle BI Publisher Benefits
All your Reports and Documents
Easier
Better Managed
Fast
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The preceding is intended to outline our general
product 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.