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

This is a crash course in improving your enterprise reporting skills using Oracle BI Publisher. It takes you from the fundamentals of Business Intelligence to advanced configuration techniques, and everything in between.

Overview

• A practical tutorial for improving your Enterprise reporting skills with Oracle BI Publisher 11g
• Master report migration, template design, and E-Business Suite integration
• A practical guide brimming with tips about all the new features of the 11g release

What you will learn from this book

• Jump start your learning by understanding what Business Intelligence really means
• Migrate Oracle reports to Oracle BI Publisher 11g
• Get to grips with designing Data Models for reports in Oracle BIP 11g
• Master the management of multiple data sources
• Gain the skills to design the layout of reports and build BI Publisher templates
• Build RTF templates using Template Builder for MSWord
• Go further with Oracle BIP by integrating with E-Business Suite and dealing with report translations
• Learn how to build a report from beginning to end, including configuration

Approach

This is a practical guide with step-by step instructions for enhancing your application of Oracle BI Publisher 11g for enterprise reporting.

Who this book is written for

If you are an Oracle BI Publisher 11g end user, be it a report developer, business analyst or consultant, this book is for you. You should have good knowledge of general reporting practices and XML/XSL programming, though experience of using BI/XML publisher is not essential.

In Detail

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.

"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.

This guide will take you on a tour of Oracle BI Publisher 11g, beginning with a description of the new 11g functionality. 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.

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.

這是一本關於使用Oracle BI Publisher提升企業報告技能的速成課程。它從商業智能的基礎知識講起，介紹了高級配置技巧，以及其中的一切。

概述：
- 一本實用的教程，幫助您提升使用Oracle BI Publisher 11g的企業報告技能
- 掌握報告遷移、模板設計和E-Business Suite集成
- 一本充滿關於11g版本所有新功能的實用指南

本書將教您以下內容：
- 通過了解商業智能的真正含義，快速開始學習
- 將Oracle報告遷移到Oracle BI Publisher 11g
- 掌握在Oracle BIP 11g中為報告設計數據模型
- 掌握多個數據源的管理技巧
- 學習設計報告佈局和構建BI Publisher模板的技巧
- 使用Template Builder for MSWord構建RTF模板
- 進一步了解Oracle BIP，包括與E-Business Suite的集成和報告翻譯
- 學習如何從頭到尾構建報告，包括配置

這是一本實用指南，提供了Oracle BI Publisher 11g企業報告應用的逐步指導。

本書適合Oracle BI Publisher 11g的終端用戶閱讀，無論是報告開發人員、業務分析師還是顧問。您應該對一般報告實踐和XML/XSL編程有良好的了解，但使用BI/XML發布工具的經驗並非必需。

Oracle BI Publisher 11g（前身為XML Publisher）可以創建、管理和交付各種報告，使其成為任何公司實現最佳資源形象的理想工具。本書提供了實際應用BIP功能的方法，幫助您在需要時設計和交付高質量報告。

《Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting》是一本從報告開發人員的角度使用Oracle BIP的實用指南，幫助您從簡單到複雜的報告設計中充分利用這個工具。您可以充分利用BIP 10g的現有功能，同時特別關注新的11g功能。

本指南將帶您深入了解Oracle BI Publisher 11g，從描述新的11g功能開始。然後，您將通過一系列逐步操作的程序學習如何構建數據模型、佈局模板和報告配置，並提供了屏幕截圖以幫助您理解。最後，您將學習與Oracle EBS的集成、Oracle報告遷移和報告翻譯等主題。

通過閱讀《Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting》，您將掌握製作詳細的公司數據報告所需的全部知識和技能。