01/12/2010 by Simon Tomey.

Here’s the address to download the slides for today’s session. It’s in an hour’s time and the pressure is on, as last night I was awarded “UKOUG Inspiring Presentation 2010″ for last year’s presentation (”A BI Reporting Roadmap”).

Our session at this year’s UKOUG conference demonstrates some of the powerful functionality in BIP in the context of converting Discoverer and FSG (Financial Statement Generator) reports to BIP.

• The session takes you through and end to end conversion of a FSG to a BIP report, concentrating on data templates.
• I concentrate on Data templates as I’ve done loads of presentations on Presentation templates before (and some knowledge of them is assumed in this presentation).
• The presentation culminates with bursting an FSG equivalent report (actual, budget, variance by cost centre and nominal, period and YTD (year to date)).
• The report emulates drill down and is truly awe inspiring.

Check out the presentation here and get in touch with any questions or observations.

http://oracle.belife.co.uk/BeLife%20-%20Transforming%20Discoverer%20and%20FSG%20Reports%20(UKOUG%20Dec2010)%20v1.0.zip

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25/11/2010 by Simon Tomey.

If you just want your FSG’s in BIP (with limited functionality) then the session we did at UKOUG last year will be helpful.

I’m preparing for my session at the UKOUG conference next week and wanted to refer to some slides I’d run last year. They weren’t on our blog, so I’m sorting that now. Here’s the link to download the slides http://oracle.belife.co.uk/TRANSFORMING%20your%20FSG%20REPORTS%20with%20XML%20PUBLISHER%20v7.2%20[PDF].zip

The presentation just goes through the templates available as standard in EBS for publishing your FSG’s via BIP, in Excel, PDF, HTML or RTF format. We add a few tips and tricks and describe what you can’t and can do. What you can do is a bit limited, hence my presentation next week where I will be showing folk how to do some truly awesome publishing using data templates and bursting. I’ll make a post on the presentation along with a link to download the slides.

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02/11/2010 by Adam.

Very little has said about whether any of BIP 11g’s new functionality will be integrated into e-Business Suite… I think we’ll have to wait for Fusion.

With all this talk bouncing around about the new 11g release of Oracle’s BI suite, very little has said about whether any of this new functionality is to be integrated into an instance of BI Publisher that’s shipped with e-Business Suite. The likelihood is that we’ll have to wait until Fusion before you EBS users can take advantage of some of the rather functionally rich and end user orientated elements of 11g.

So, the upshot is that we are stuck, at least for the time being with the current RTF template development for EBS based BI Publisher reports, which for some may not be such a bad thing!

Coming soon:
First impressions of BIP 11g
BI Publisher Report Layouts: 11g Vs RTF

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