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Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting

By : Daniela Bozdoc
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Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting

By: Daniela Bozdoc

Overview of this book

<p>Oracle BI Publisher 11g (formerly XML Publisher) enables the creation, management and delivery of various reports, making it a desirable tool for any company to achieve the best image of your resources. This book offers practical application of BIP functionality for improving your ability to design and deliver quality reports just when they are needed.<br /><br />“Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting” is an applicable guide for using Oracle BIP from the perspective of a report developer, helping you to utilize the tool from simple to complex report design. You can take advantage of both the existing functionality of BIP 10g, as well as a special emphasis on the new 11g features.<br /><br />This guide will take you on a tour of Oracle BI Publisher 11g, beginning with a description of all of the new features in 11g. You’ll continue by learning from a range of step-by –step procedures for building Data Models, Layout Templates and report configurations, packed with screenshots to help you along. Finally, you’ll tackle themes like integration with Oracle EBS, Oracle report migration, and report translations.<br /><br />By the end of “Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting”, you’ll be equipped with all you need to know to produce complex reports detailing your company’s data.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Glossary
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
X
Z
Index

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Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (BI EE): A comprehensive suite of enterprise Oracle BI products, delivering the full range of BI capabilities including interactive dashboards, full ad hoc proactive intelligence and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, disconnected analytics, and more.

BI Publisher (BIP): Formerly known as Oracle XML Publisher, BIP is Oracle's reporting XML based technology, which generates highly formatted data output using multiple data sources.

Bursting: A process of splitting data into blocks. For each block of the data, a separate document is generated and delivered to one or more destinations.

Business Intelligence (BI): This is the process of transforming data gathered from all business data sources into decision support business information. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, process mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.

Business performance management: A set of management and analytic processes that enables the management of an organization's performance to achieve one or more pre-selected goals.