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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

D


Data mining: The process of discovering new patterns from large Data Sets involving methods from statistics and artificial intelligence, but also database management.

Data Model: A BIP concept, including a set of components needed to generate an XML file at runtime as a Data Source for a BIP report.

Data Model editor: Enables the BIP tools to choose various types of Data Sources, and to build the desired model and structure of data.

Data Template: Defines the BIP layout format. The Data Template can be designed using Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel (standalone version), Adobe Flash (standalone version), and Oracle BI Publisher's own layout editor.

Data warehouse (DW): A database used for reporting and analysis. The data stored in the warehouse is uploaded from the operational systems. The data may pass through an operational data store for additional operations before it is used in the data warehouse for reporting.

Document Object Model (DOM): A cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML, and XML documents.