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

254 Pages·2011·10.017 MB·English

by  Daniela Bozdoc

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Oracle BI Publisher 11g:
A Practical Guide to
Enterprise Reporting
Create and deliver improved snapshots in time of your
Enterprise data using Oracle BI Publisher 11g
Daniela Bozdoc
professional expertise distilled
P U B L I S H I N G
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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Oracle BI Publisher 11g:
A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting
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About the Author
Daniela Bozdoc is an IT professional with experience of almost a decade working
as a software developer, an analyst, and a data and software architect on different
technologies from MS .NET Framework to Sybase Power Builder, Oracle and MS
SQL Server. She is continuing as an ERP consultant, and a report developer for MS
dynamics NAV, Oracle EBS, and BI Publisher respectively in the present.
She is a graduate of Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with a B.D.
in Computer Science.
Daniela lives in Romania, where she has her family's support in her career and
enjoys taking pictures of nature's beautiful landscapes.
I dedicate this book to my family for their unconditional love and
support in every way possible throughout the process of writing this
book and beyond. Their confidence in me especially has made this
book a real thing.

I would like to express my gratitude to all those who gave me the
opportunity to meet, and then to master, all the technology needed
to write this book.

In addition, a special thanks to the people from Packt Publishing,
editors, and project coordinators I worked with for their
professionalism in offering me guidance and support.
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Chandan Banerjee is the Director and Principal Consultant at BA IT Consulting
Pvt. Ltd. (www.baconsultinggroup.com).
He is also a partner and a Principal Consultant at Beetra Consulting
(www.beetraconsultancy.com).
He has 20 years of experience in leading and deploying IT solutions out of which
18 years has been in the field of Business Intelligence (BI). He provides consulting
services in BI Education, Data Integration, and Solution Architecture design.
Managing deployments of common BI tools and applications are his forte. He is an
expert in all phases of lifecycle development for business intelligence projects. He
has also been the architect of two BI-based pre-built application products.
Brenner Grudka Lira has been a Business Intelligence Consultant at Apply
Solutions since 2010. He has a bachelors degree in Computer Science from the
Catholic University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. He also has experience in
building and modeling of data warehouses and has knowledge of Oracle Warehouse
Builder, SQL Server Integration Services, SAP Business Objects, and Oracle Business
Intelligence Standard Edition One. Today, he is dedicated to the study of business
intelligence with a focus on ETL.
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Michael Verzijl is a Business Intelligence consultant, specialized in OBIEE, BI
Publisher, and Oracle Data Integrator.
Michael has a wide experience in the financial, utilities, and government industries
that include BI technologies such as Oracle, IBM Cognos, and SAP Busines Objects.
He is currently employed as a Developer for the VX Company in Netherlands.
Prior to this he was an employee of Accenture Technology Solutions and ING
Investment Management.
I am thankful for the loving support of my wife Noortje and my
son Joey.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: What's New in Oracle BI Publisher 11g? 13
A comparison with 10g 13
Building a Data Model 14
Designing a layout 16
Managing sub-templates 18
Style templates 19
Zipped PDF 19
Scheduling a report job 20
Getting started with Oracle BI Publisher 11g 20
BI Publisher homepage 21
Catalog 22
Data Model Editor 23
Layout options 24
Template builder for Word 26
The Online Analyzer 28
Schedule report job 28
Bursting options 30
Report job history 31
Integrated thin-client report design editor 32
Backward compatibility of BI Publisher 11g with
BI Publisher 10g reports 34
Summary 35
Chapter 2: Creating a Data Model for a Report 37
Report Data Model Editor interface 37
Data Sets 39
Data Set types 40
SQL query 40
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