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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By: Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes. We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence. This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system. This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

What's all this XML talk?


The original name of BI Publisher was XML Publisher. The original name emphasized the basis of the tool--XML. At its debut, it was one of the only, if not the only tool that leveraged the power of the XML open standard to retain its core metadata. This is still true, even though the name of the tool has changed. XML is ubiquitous throughout the Web. Just about all major report vendors and web technologies can consume, parse, or otherwise leverage XML to produce dynamic information. A good example of this would be the Portable Document Format (PDF) standard, with which BI Publisher interacts seamlessly.

The basic development functionality of BI Publisher is straightforward and provides excellent results. However, the greatest flexibility of developing with BI Publisher comes when knowledge about advanced XML formatting can be leveraged. In BI Publisher's core all details, datasets, templates, and other data are stored as XML. These XML files can be manipulated manually...