Oracle BI Publisher Blog

Heading off to Collaborate next week. Very glad to see that OAUG, Quest and IOUG have created a joint scheduling tool.

I can now search across all three tracks and see that there are over 50 sessions that include Publisher in some way or form. A nice range of intro to advanced topics covering the various deployments of Publisher in EBS, JDE and stand alone. I plan to attend as many as my schedule will allow.

Here are a few being delivered by Oracle folks -- oddly all on Wednesday May 6. That must be our designated day.

Please also drop by the "Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition" demo pod (#9) in the Oracle Booth (#4780) in the Exhibit Hall if you have any questions or want to see a demo of BI Publisher Enterprise or BI EE. You may also be able to get application specific demos at the following demo pods:

Oracle E-Business Suite Tools and Technology (15)
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools (38)
PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools (1)
JD Edwards World Applications (40)

Stop by the Oracle Reception Booth after your visit to the demo pods. I'm told that there is a "extremely retro-cool" thank you gift.

Kudos to Kan over at the BIP consulting blog, just wanted to spread the word a little about the couple of articles he has on the Actuate > Publisher converter.

Actuate to BI Publisher Reports Conversion for Siebel - Part 1

... nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Don't know if it's still true for the US Mail but, the Publisher team was on the go despite the "epic" storm in San Francisco today.

Siva Ramanathan from MasterCard and Noelle

gave a great session on Publisher in E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and JD Edwards World.

Siva gave a great demonstration of using the BI Publisher Template Builder. He also told the story of how it used to take a business analyst, an IT developer, and a consultant from the vendor of their 3rd party tool THREE MONTHS to create a new PO or modify an existing one (like changing the signature) - and this was happening across 50 operating units. Now, using BI Publisher, it takes a business analyst only THREE DAYS to create a new PO or implement changes and does not require the intervention of IT nor anyone else. Imagine ... 30 times faster implementation time with 1/3 the people to create or edit a Purchase Order ... Priceless.

Noelle, the superwoman of many hats, covered each Application's integration with Publisher and an update of what's new and planned for each. The audience was hanging on her every word when they weren't laughing at her jokes.

There was a little less traffic at the demo pod today ... possibly due the storm but, Fethiye, Leslie, Noelle, Alin, Klaus, Nikos and Pradeep kept the demos going all day long. And of course, Osama-bey, the inspiration behind the innovation, was there to pitch in as needed.

Also saw a presentation packed with lots of great details on using Publisher in PeopleSoft by Millie Babicz and Todd Kummer of SpearMC Consulting.

Coming up on Wednesday::

• S308767 Innovations Using Oracle XML Publisher
  Manoj Chitre, Claremont Graduate University
  Moscone West L3 Room 3005
  1:45 pm - 2:15 pm


• S310889 Creating Custom Siebel Reports, Using Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
  John Bedford, Oracle; Pradeep Sharma, Oracle
  Moscone West L2 Room 2009
  1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
  


• S311667: Modernize JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Reports with Embedded Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
  Gurbinder Bali, Oracle; Jeff Erickson, Oracle; Michael Zheng, Oracle
  Marriott Hotel Golden Gate A1
  5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
  

A Sunday post, I know, dedicated or what! It is however a lazy post of sorts. Im sitting in my wife's ice cream shop serving ice cream to non-existent customers on a chillsome Sunday. Thinking up new marketing strategies for my poor wife to implement and idly surfing the Publisher pages on OTN.

There's a bunch of new content out there from Reporting Plaforms for Applications to Integration with MSSharepoint (nice article). For me, the best practices paper is the best (no I didnt write it :0) its packed with info and the PM folks have put notes on each slide in the PDF. Just click the note icon in the bottom right for some information on what the slide is getting at.

Its Monday, for most of you reading this, ease into the week with a peruse of the Publisher pages - http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/xml-publisher/index.html and a cup o java or char.