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Introduction to BI Publisher
Mike Donohue Director, BI Product Management

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release and timing of any development release, features or functionality described for Oracles products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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Reporting Challenges Requirements are Diverse

High Fidelity Reports Partner Reports P t R t Financial Statements Government forms Marketing materials Contracts Checks, Labels XML EFT / EDI Multiple destinations M lti l d ti ti

Checks Invoices

Labels

Reports

Destinations

XML / EFT / EDI

Reporting Challenges Complex Infrastructure

Multiple reporting solutions Hi hl kill d engineers Highly-skilled i required to maintain servers and report formats
Costly Time consuming Complex systems C l t Labels Expensive maintenance Labor intensive

Checks Invoices Invoice Server S Label Manager Check Print Server Report Formatter F tt Reports Delivery Server Payment Server XML / EFT / EDI

Destinations

Reporting Challenges Slow Development Iterate on Report Requirements

Report Requirements

Report files

Report Output

Must be same geometry, font, margin size, etc.

Reporting Challenges Difficult to Maintain

Combined query, layout, and translation

Data logic
1 Query y

Layout
10 Layouts y

Translation
10 Translations T l ti

1 Query 10 Layouts 10 Translations = 100 report files

High development cost High customization cost Difficult upgrade

Reporting Challenges Other Issues

Production Issues
Huge load on the transactional Data Base, shuts down the operation Output file size, time to produce the reports High maintenance, proprietary report programming languages require expensive specialists and consultants

Global Deployment Issues

Multiple Instances required for different character sets Insufficient support for Bi-Directional Languages Bi Directional Dependence on Printer Character sets require language specific printers

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BI Publisher Benefits Simplified Maintenance

Separate query, layout, and translation

Data Logic g Layout

BI Publisher

Translation
Flexibility Reduced maintenance

Report output

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Challenges
Cumbersome report repository D li t reports with Duplicate t ith minor layout changes and to support multi-language

Requirements q
Event Docs: Surveys, Name Tags, Certificates Gantt Charts

Implementation I l t ti
RTF Templates Conditional Formatting Sub Templates 200 Crystal reports to 30 Publisher reports (85% reduction) 3 months w/ one f/t report developer

BI Publisher Benefits Faster Development

Business users create layouts with familiar desktop tools IT builds data model

Layouts
XML

Report Outputs Multiple Data Sources

Rapid Development

MasterCard Worldwide
Challenges 90 days and 3 people (incl. 3rd party vendor) to implement POs 50 Operating Units Requirements Vendor Country Terms and C diti d Conditions Send PO by Email or Fax Implementation RTF templates designed by Business A l t B i Analysts Mutli-Language T&Cs handled via Sub template End-to-End process using Out f th B f O t of the Box functionality ti lit 3 days and 1 person to implement POs 12x faster w/ 1/3 fewer people l

BI Publisher Benefits One Environment

Oracle BI Publisher
Author Manage Deliver

Checks Invoices

ALL Your Business Documents

Meet Business Requirements Remove Complexity Reduce Maintenance Cost Reduce Total Cost Labels

Reports

Destinations

XML / EFT / EDI

BI Publisher Benefits From Data to Destination

Interactive Oracle 10g, Oracle BI EE, Oracle BI Apps SQL Server XSL PDF HTML
Excel Power Point

Email

Layouts
E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Siebel JDE

Printer

BI Publisher Publisher Excel

Flash RTF CSV

Fax

OLAP

Word Acrobat

Flex Others

Repository
XML EDI EFT

e-Commerce

Web Services

Data Sources

Layout Tools L tT l

Output F O t t Formats t

Destinations D ti ti

BI Publisher Benefits

For All your Business Documents

Purchase Orders Labels / Bar Codes Collateral Government Forms eText Order Forms Invoices Operational Reports Correspondence Financial Statements Checks

BI Publisher Benefits

Extract Data Once, Publish Many Docs Once

EFT

Payment Data
EFT

Banking

Excel

Controller

BI Publisher

HTML

CEO
PDF

XSL

XML

Government

Different Templates For different Output Formats

XML

B2B

Qualcomm
Business Requirements q 60 Reports 30 Invoice variants Barcodes Graphics Electronic banking Implementation Implemented in 3 Month Business Analysts create Templates RTF Templates eText Templates

BI Publisher Benefits Global Consolidation

Create ONE template for any of 185 languages and 244 territories Single Global Instance Translated User Interface BI Publisher ships with full set of Unicode Fonts No need for expensive language-specific printers BI Publisher is alone in supporting
Chinese, Japanese, Korean Bidi ti Bidirectional l Languages Unicode Multiple Language Support

Bank of Egypt
Business Requirements Report from transaction database High Volume Reporting Minimize Load on Database Bursting Bidirectional language support: Arabic pp Implementation iFLEX Customer Converted 400 reports from BO to BI Publisher Bidirectional RTF Templates Bursting

BI Publisher Benefits Hot-Pluggable

Pure Java application - any J2EE application server Rich t f J Ri h set of Java APIs for custom application development API f t li ti d l t Web Services for SOA development Any data source: JDBC and Web services XML data sources MDX OLAP Data sources: Essbase, Analysis Servers, SAP/BW Standard W3C XSL-FO style sheets Output formats in PDF, PS, RTF, HTML Delivery Support for
Internet Printing Protocol, CUPS Internet Fax Protocol SMTP email protocol WebDAV, FTP, SFTP

DEMONSTRATION

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BI Publisher Availability & Integration

Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise BI Publisher is Reporting and Publishing in BI EE Plus
BI Server semantic layer as a data source BI Answers request as a data source BI Publisher report in a Dashboard w/ prompts Security

Integration with
Oracle Discoverer Oracle Application Express (APEX) O l W kS Oracle WorkSpace

BI Publisher in Oracle Applications Limited Use License

Oracle E-Business Suite
In 11i -- 500 templates In R12.1 -- ALL reports are BI Publisher: 2724 templates and 2092 data sources or data templates across 95 products Oracle Reports to Publisher Conversion Assistant

PeopleSoft
Integrated into 8.48 Products shipping content in R9 Financials HCM Grants CRM SCM Student Admin

Siebel CRM
Integrated in 8.1.1 119 reports OOTB Actuate to Publisher Conversion Assistant

BI Publisher in Oracle Applications Limited Use License

J.D. Edwards Enterprise One
Integrated into 8.96 Allow customers to develop their own templates Subsequent releases will add Apps content

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne JDBC driver

J.D. Edwards World

Integrated in A9 1 A9.1 Produce XML that can be used as input to BI Publisher Automated integration in newly released A9.2 JD Edwards World JDBC Driver

BI Publisher in Many Oracle Products

Oracle Identity Management Oracle Life Sciences AERS Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub i-Flex FLEXCUBE Retail Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking Oracle Reveleus Oracle Mantas Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process Agile Product Lifecycle Management Oracle Hyperion Planning Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Oracle SOA Governance Oracle Retail Oracle Global Risk & Compliance Oracle FLEXCUBE Lending and Leasing Oracle Communications Applications Oracle Transportation Management Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and g Underwriting Oracle Application Express (APEX) Enterprise Manager - Configuration Change Console

Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking iFlex FLEXCUBE IFLEX Reinsurance

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Some of our Customers

Avago / Agilent / HP Bank of Egypt The Boeing Company City of West Palm Beach Dell Dubai e-Government European Parliament Fidelity Investments German Ministry of Finance y Metro Group NCR Pfizer Toyota Europe URS Corporation Qualcomm

DELL Inc.
Business Requirements Generate Customer Facing Output M lti l D t S Multiple Data Sources Translation support Multiple Delivery Channels High Volume ~20000 docs/hr 20000 Keep database load to a minimum Implementation RTF Templates Delivery Manager Watermarking support BI Publisher on separate server P bli h t

NCR
Business Requirements Generate Bill of Lading Barcode support Multiple Delivery Channels Supplemental Pages

Implementation RTF Templates Conditional Formatting External Font Mapping Delivery Manager

URS Corporation
Business Requirements Project Management reports, labels and transmittals Integrate into custom SOA application 3 d party content 3rd t t t management application Implementation Java APIs and Enterprise with Web Services RTF Layout Templates Data Templates and Complex g p p graphs

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We W encourage you to use the newly minted corporate tagline t th l i t d t t li Software. Hardware. Complete. at the end of all your presentations. This message should replace any reference to our previous corporate tagline Oracle Is the Information Company.

The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release and timing of any development release, features or functionality described for Oracles products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.