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2. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 2 Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to describe the following elements of BI Publisher: –Components –Architecture –Technology In addition, you should be able to describe the advantages of using BI Publisher.

3. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 3 Revisiting BI Publisher BI Publisher is a Java-based web application that is available: –As a stand-alone product –As part of Oracle BI EE –With Oracle applications products, including E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards BI Publisher provides: –A template-based, easy-to-use reporting and publishing solution –Tools to rapidly develop and maintain reports –A rich set of Java APIs and web services for custom solutions

4. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 4 BI Publisher Functional Components BI Publisher consists of the following functional components: BI Publisher Server Data Model Editor Layout Editor (online) Template Builder (MS Word Add-In) Excel Analyzer Layout templates

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6. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 6 BI Publisher Layout Templates Industry-standard templates in various formats can be created by using the following: Desktop applications –Adobe Professional –MS Word (Template Builder) –MS Excel (Excel Analyzer) –Text editors (XSL) Layout Editor (online) –XPT files R T F P D F X L S X S L XPT

7. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 7 BI Publisher Multitier Architecture Browser Template Builder MS Word MS Excel Adobe Acrobat (for viewing reports in PDF format) Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise ClientMiddle TierData Tier Databases: Oracle, DB2,SQL Server, MySQL, and Sybase Other Data Sources: Essbase, web services, RSS feeds, and so on WebLogic Server

8. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 8 BI Publisher Enterprise Server Architecture Printer, fax, email, WebDAV, FTP, B2B Delivery Channels PDF, HTML, RTF, Flex/Flash MS Excel, EFT, EDI, XML, PS Output Formats Data Modeling, Extraction Layout Creation, Rendering SecurityScheduling/Archiving Core Engine Report Repository Oracle DB, XML DB, or file system Scheduling and Archiving Any DB: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, … Oracle DB, Oracle BI EE, SQL Server, DB2, Essbase, RSS, … Design data models. Administer the server. Company portal, SAP, MSFT CRM, Oracle EBS-PSFT-JDE-CRM Data Sources View and schedule reports. Office integration. Build report layouts. Security SSO, OID, LDAP, Oracle BI, EBS, JNDI interface Web Services Interface DHTML - AJAX Interface J2EE Container: WebLogic, Oracle, WebSphere, Tomcat,... Caching Services Document Delivery

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10. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 10 BI Publisher Document Generation Process Specialized Template Processor PDF/FLASH MS Excel Template XML Data RTF/XPT Template Processor eText Template Processor XSLT Engine FO Processor XSL Stylesheet XSL-FO Stylesheet PDF/FLASH MS Excel Document XSLT Engine RTF/XPT Template eText Template PDF Document RTF Document HTML Document Text Document 1. Main Flow 3. Others 2. eText Flow …

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12. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 12 BI Publisher Supported Data Sources Any database or multiple databases –Distributed queries –BI Publisher data engine Any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system Any XML data server –Oracle BI Discoverer –DB packages in SQL or XML Any XML web service Web services Oracle, Essbase, others PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel Java, C++, PERL, etc.

13. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 13 BI Publisher Underlying Technology Open-standards technologies: W3C XSL—FO implementation Pure Java Pluggable data in XML Output formats in PDF, RTF, HTML, interactive Support for Internet Printing Protocol, WebDAV, Internet Fax Protocol, and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

14. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 14 BI Publisher Bursting Overview Bursting is the process of generating multiple documents from a batch report and delivering each document to a different destination. BI Publisher

15. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 15 Downloading Government Forms Download PDF forms from the government web site. Return the exact form filled with data. Business data: Human Resources Procurement Government Human Resources: W2, W4 1099 Procurement : sf26, sf33, sf1449 OF347 PDF Government BI Publisher

16. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 16 Performance and Scalability Stream-based implementation: Reduces memory footprint Handles large XML input files Is the fastest XSL-FO implementation

17. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 17 Internationalization and Language Support No need for expensive language-specific printers Full set of Unicode fonts supplied with BI Publisher Scalable fonts embedded with CID mapping tables Communication with partners around the world Templates created for any language or territory

18. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 18 BI Publisher Output Formats BI Publisher supports the following formats: Rich text format (RTF) Portable document format (PDF) eText (used with EDI and EFT)

19. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 19 Summary In this lesson, you should have learned how to describe the following elements of BI Publisher: Components Architecture Technology In addition, you should have learned how to describe the advantages of using BI Publisher.

20. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 20 Quiz: Overview This quiz examines your knowledge of the concepts discussed in the lesson.

21. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 21 Quiz BI Publisher is a pure Java-based web application that is available both as a stand-alone product and as part of Oracle BI EE and Oracle applications products. a.True b.False

22. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 22 Quiz The Template Editor is a design tool to create and publish report layouts from within the BI Publisher interface. a.True b.False

23. Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 - 23 Quiz BI Publisher provides a closed-loop process for downloading government forms and delivering the required information to the appropriate agency. a.True b.False

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