Oracle Government User Group

30/06/2010 by Matt Stocker.

The Oracle Government User Group was held last month (13 May 2010) and we were privileged to be invited to share both the exciting potential of BI Publisher and the ways in which it can transform an organisation’s reporting capabilities. With good overall attendance, it was great see some familiar faces as well as meet some of those who were attending for the first time.

In case you haven’t attended an Oracle User Group before, these groups are run by Oracle users for the benefit of other users and cover topics ranging from the upgrade path to R12 to the specifics of certain functionality such as reporting – which is where BeLife comes in.

For this particular presentation, Simon Tomey (Consulting Director) and Adam Penchoen (Consultant) focused on the specifics of creating a BI Publisher report. Whilst there are some technical elements, it is entirely feasible for a non-technical user to get to grips with the process as it involves use of standard Microsoft Office functionality.  Due to this, use of BI Publisher enables organisations to be much less reliant on technical experts, which in turn leads to internal empowerment, improved reporting capabilities and reduced investment costs.

As you can probably tell, BI Publisher and its capabilities excite us and it was great to see that others were excited too. Those who attended our presentation were, in the main, interested in the free capabilities that BI Publisher offers and were either looking at or were already using it to replace Discoverer, FSG or other third party reporting applications.

Whilst BI Publisher can tend to be a lesser-known capability within EBS, it certainly seems that awareness of it is growing. With BI Publisher’s key role within the Oracle EBS R12 release and, beyond that, the Oracle Fusion upgrade, it would seem that its importance is only set to grow.

Many of those attending our presentation also reported that there are many advantages to BI Publisher when compared to other options. In fact, our presentation followed a presentation by George Gallagher (Jephson Housing Association Group and one of our clients), who shared his experience of converting to BI Publisher. He explained that BI Publisher had reduced reports users’ reliance on himself, as users were able to run reports themselves once they had been created or, in some cases, reports could be run automatically through bursting.

If you’re interested in finding out more about implementing BI Publisher yourself, feel free to get in touch and we’d be more than happy to talk you through what’s involved.

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