04 Oracle BI Publisher Architecture

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Table of Contents....................................................................................................... 1 What Is Oracle BI Publisher?....................................................................................... 2 Classic Reporting Paradigm........................................................................................ 3 Oracle BI Publisher Paradigm..................................................................................... 4 Flexible Deployment Options...................................................................................... 5 Oracle BI Publisher for Applications............................................................................6 Oracle BI Publisher Standalone................................................................................... 6 Oracle BI Publisher Desktop....................................................................................... 7 Oracle BI Publisher Architecture.................................................................................7 From Data to Destination........................................................................................... 9 Government Forms................................................................................................... 10 Extract Once, Publish Many Times............................................................................11 Report Bursting........................................................................................................ 12 Consolidated Document Publishing..........................................................................13 Distributed Delivery.................................................................................................. 13 Inbound Document Capture...................................................................................... 14 Data Sources............................................................................................................ 15 Oracle BI Publisher Data Engine............................................................................... 15 Oracle BI Publisher Technology ............................................................................... 15 Oracle BI Publisher Technology ............................................................................... 16 Performance and Scalability .................................................................................... 16 Security ................................................................................................................... 16 Internationalization and Language Support..............................................................17 Translation................................................................................................................ 17

What Is Oracle BI Publisher?

Oracle BI Publisher is a Java-based product available within the technology stack of the E-Business Suite which provides users with: A template-based, easy-to-use publishing solution A tool to rapidly develop and maintain report formats What is Oracle BI Publisher? Oracle Oracle BI Publisher is a new Java-based product within the technology stack of the e-Business Suite. It is an easy-to-use, template-based publishing solution that enables customers to rapidly develop and maintain report formats. It is build on standard, well-known technologies such as XML and allows customers to take advantage of using tools they are familiar with such as Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. It consists of: A library of APIs An integrated architecture with the E-Business Suite A reporting tool providing rich output options A friendly solution that provides control of the report design layout to the customer to decrease the overall costs associated to customizations and maintenance

Classic Reporting Paradigm

Classic tools include such products as Oracle Reports.

Oracle BI Publisher Paradigm

Separate data, layout, and translation

Oracle BI Publisher Paradigm While it may appear that splitting the report into data, layout, and translation components is more complex, the tools and techniques used actually simplify the process.

Flexible Deployment Options

Oracle BI Publisher for Applications

Oracle BI Publisher for Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated with concurrent manager Tightly integrated with all E-Business Suite modules Central repository for managing data and layout Translation and configuration management Oracle BI Publisher for PeopleSoft Enterprise Integrated with process scheduler and report manager Publish PeopleSoft queries and row sets Report bursting Security join tables Template manager with effective dates support Oracle BI Publisher for JD Edwards Enterprise Integrated with Enterprise One queries Support queries saved through data browser Row and business unit security

Oracle BI Publisher Standalone

Oracle BI Publisher Embedded: Custom Development Powerful formatting engines High-performance data extraction engine Batch processing, and bursting Delivery API for e-mail, fax, printing, FTP, and AS2 Based on open standards: Java, XML, XSL, FO, RTF, PDF Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Easy and fast deployment Any J2EE container Configure repository on XMLDB or file system Data from multiple DBs in the same report (Oracle, DB2, and others) Multiple output formats and multiple delivery options Document repository, scheduling, archiving Database and Application Server independent Advanced security and administrative options Pluggable Services, Web Service APIs

Oracle BI Publisher Desktop

Functional users tools: Functional users can create reports using familiar desktop applications. Oracle BI Publisher for Word Oracle BI Publisher for Excel Oracle BI Publisher for PDF Consultants or IT departments tools: Consultants create data sources and reports using expert tools. Oracle BI Publisher Builder Oracle BI Publisher Viewer or Debugger

Oracle BI Publisher Architecture

Oracle BI Publisher Architecture Oracle BI Publisher is made up of the five modules:

Data Handled: Data engines are registered with the data handler. Can be any XML source or any engine that generates XML such as Oracle Reports. Template Manager: The Template Manager is a friendly user interface that is built over a collection of APIs that enables customers to register and maintain their Data Definitions and Templates. Layout templates to be used for the final output are stored and managed in the Template Manager. Templates are created using familiar desktop tools such as MS Word, MS Excel, or Adobe Acrobat. Document Processor: The Document Processor allows the user to build single documents from multiple data source and template combinations or individual documents for each combination. Passing XML that contains multiple data sources and templates to Oracle BI Publisher will result in the generation of multiple output documents. Translation Handler: The Translation Handler provides users with ability to register and maintain Data Definitions and Templates in a friendly user interface. Increases ease and flexibility of maintaining everyday reports and business documents. (This will be supported in a future release.) Delivery Server: Takes the output document and delivers it to the printer Oracle BI Publisher offers a new concurrent program, XML Report Publisher, that will apply a user-selected template layout to generated XML data. The new concurrent program is accessible at the Concurrent Manager and can be executed at the Single Request Submission screen. New concurrent program is executed at the familiar Concurrent Manager Request Submission screen. Provides flexibility of choosing a layout template from a list of registered templates associated to the selected XML generated data source User is able to apply multiple layout templates to the same XML data without having to run the XML generating program more than once. Output is a friendly viewable PDF document. Prerequisite is to register data definition and template. Four parameters in the report: XML data, Template, Language, and Currency.

From Data to Destination

An Oracle BI Publisher report can consist of one or more sources that feed a template created by any supported method. The resulting output of the report can be sent to one or more outputs and distributed to one or more destinations.

Government Forms

Download PDF forms from the government Web site. Send back the exact form filled with data.

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Extract Once, Publish Many Times

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Report Bursting

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Consolidated Document Publishing

Generate consolidated documents: Briefing books Shipping documents Others Either Oracle BI Publisher or third-party PDFs: Page numbering Bookmarks Start and end pages Overlays

Distributed Delivery

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Inbound Document Capture

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Data Sources
Any database or multiple databases Distributed queries Oracle BI Publisher Data Engine Any ERP system Any XML data server Oracle Reports DB packages in SQL or XML Any XML Web service

Oracle BI Publisher Data Engine

Fast, scalable extraction engine Integrated into concurrent manager Migration tools available from Oracle Reports Offers all that Oracle Reports offers, 3040% faster Multiple queries and joins Event triggers Flexfield support Formula/Summary columns Java API layer for Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) support Data bursting (5.6.1) Distributed queries (5.6.1)

Oracle BI Publisher Technology

Open-standard technologies: W3C XSL:FO implementation Pure Java Pluggable data in XML Output formats in PDF, PS, RTF, and HTML Support for Internet Printing Protocol, WebDAV, Internet Fax Protocol, and SMTP

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Oracle BI Publisher Technology

Industry Standard Templates Using desktop applications Word Excel PDF XSL Editors Template Builder Add-ins

Performance and Scalability

Stream-based implementation: Reduces memory footprint Handles large XML input files Is the fastest XSL-FO implementation Users can design layout templates using familiar desktop applications such as Adobe Acrobat and MS Word. There are now many XSL editors available on the market for the user to take advantage of.

Security
Printing from MS Excel is not accepted by financial auditors. PDF security levels for: Read only/editable text Copyable text Printable text Password protecting text

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Internationalization and Language Support

No need for expensive language-specific printers Oracle BI Publisher ships with a full set of Unicode fonts. Scalable fonts embedding, with CID mapping tables Oracle BI Publisher supports CJK BiDi Unicode MLS Communicate with partners around the world. Create a template for any language or territory.

Translation
Communicate with partners around the world. No dependency on installed languages No dependency on database character set Create a template for any language or territory. Translate template or send to third party Support for XLIFF Recognizes any combination of: 185 language codes 244 territory codes

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