Slide 1Slide 2The solution came from….Rapid DevelopmentSlide 5Publish data in a transparent wayPublishing the ReportSlide 8DeploymentSecurity and ReliabilityConclusionReferencesBy:Arthi SubramanianCIS 764 – Fall 2008Business Intelligence:Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. Present Day Challenges: Massive amount of data availability. Data spread over multiple resources. Publishing information in a secure, reliable manner .The solution came from….In the form of Oracle Reports- Oracle Reports is the enterprise reporting component of Oracle’s BI offering. It enables an organization to convert data into information, and publish the information securely and reliablyRapid DevelopmentEach major task in report generation – taken care of by a wizard. Eg: Query wizard, report wizard, graph wizardCustomization – report templates and WYSIWUG live previewsCreating complex data models – drag and drop actionsRe-entrant wizard technologyPublish data in a transparent wayOracle Reports provides an access to multiple data sources. Eg: manufacturing organizationIt supports SQL, PL/SQL, XML, JDBC, Oracle OLAP, and text files. JDBC data source can be used to access data from different JDBC-compliant data sources, and JDBC-ODBC bridge can be used to connect to any data that can be exposed as an ODBC data source.With Oracle Reports, the source of data is transparent, because data coming from any data source is available to you in exactly the same representation.Publishing the ReportOracle Reports caters to different audiences using single report definition.1) Paper based publishing : Established way.O/P can be generated in HTML,PDF,HTMLCSS, Word-compatible, Excel-compatible etc….Can be sent to the printer (PostScript).2) Publishing as dynamic web pages: No page boundaries. Needs to be dynamic. Adding elements to Web pages -Using custom JSP tags, JavaBeans or regular Java code JSP format -develop once, deploy anywhere principle of Oracle Reports. Why JSP-based Web reports ?i) separation of dynamic and static content.ii) Support of scripting and tagsiii) Reuse, portable, easy to useiv) Deployed to produce both paper and Web output.Deployment Easy deployment on server.Paper based reports : Copy definition file to location accessible by the server.Web-based reports : Copy to J2EE Application Server / deploy as part of EAR file.Security and ReliabilityOracle Portal user interface:Secure reports by registering with Oracle Application Server security framework.Define which users or groups are authorized to access, view, or manage the resources.Oracle Application Server High Availability:•Industry’s most reliable, resilient, and fault-tolerant application server platform. •Oracle Reports is integrated with Oracle AS High Availability.ConclusionOracle Reports:- the most flexible enterprise-reporting tool in the market today- is reliable- is integrated- is extensibleReferencesBooks:Oracle Reports - Pinnacle Software SolutionsOracle Developer Advanced Forms and Reports (Paperback) by Peter Koletzke (Author) and Paul Dorsey (Author)Web References:About Oracle Reports:http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10612_01/toc.htmOracle Reports – The
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