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Financial Reports - which tool to use? Part 2

Financials in BI Publisher## I find it interesting that BI Publisher is mostly known for the creation of pixel perfect repeating forms (invoices, labels, checks, etc) and its ability to bursting them. To me, BI Publisher is the best kept secret for the most challenging reports known to mankind. In

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Financial Reports - which tool to use? Part 1

One of the treats of working in the Business Intelligence world is that we are asked to analyze different aspects of a business. In fact, we are asked to analyze many different types of businesses, too. Most of us using BI tools have come from some previous background. Be it

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Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g

Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g give the facility to call a function in Oracle either before or after a data set is refreshed. The function must return a boolean (true/false), and if it returns false the data model will abort execution. In this article I will demonstrate how

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Web Services in BI Publisher 11g

BI Publisher 11g comes with a shiny set of new Web Services, superseding those that were in 10g. This article will discuss some of the uses, and ways to implement them. Introduction First, a quick refresher : what is a web service? I'd hasten to Wikipedia for a formal

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Accessing BI Publisher 11g Web Services through a JDeveloper Web Service Proxy

In the second part of this series looking at Web Services in BI Publisher 11g, I will look at using JDeveloper to create a Web Service Proxy. This exposes the BI Publisher Web Services in Java, from where they can be embedded in numerous other applications. I demonstrated in part

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Calling BI Publisher 11g Web Services from BPEL

BI Publisher 11g exposes a lot of functionality through its four new Web Services. In part one [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/web-services-in-bi-publisher-11g] we looked at how we can examine the services and prototype calls into them. In part two [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/accessing-bi-publisher-11g-web-services-through-a-jdeveloper-web-service-proxy/