Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Just a short blog post this time, but there’s a couple of new features in BI Publisher 11.1.1.5 that are worth taking a look at. BI Publisher 11.1.1.3 introduced the ability to connect your data model to an Excel spreadsheet, directly via a JDBC driver rather through external tables, CSV files or other workarounds. The [...]

Jorge Anicam’s blog post the other day reminded me about the online layout builder preview that’s been available in the past couple of releases of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 10g. As a quick recap, BI Publisher up until now uses either Microsoft Word (through the BI Publisher Desktop plug-in), Microsoft Excel or Adobe Acrobat to [...]

Earlier on this week I’ve been delivering some BI Publisher classroom training, with a day at the end for one-to-one sessions with the delegates and some consulting. One of the requirements that came up from the customer was for a report to split the various pages within it to different trays in the printer, so [...]

The other day I was asked to look in to how we can use BIPublisher to report against a mySQL database. According to the documentation one can report against basically any database that can be connected to via JDBC. Obviously I am assuming you already have your mySQL database up and running :). But to [...]

One of the presentations I’m giving on the Monday at the UKOUG Conference is a joint talk with Mike Durran, the Oracle Discoverer Product Manager. Mike is going to do an update on Discoverer migration and interoperability with Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, and I’m going to show off one of the first fruits of [...]