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Primavera Users: Welcome to BI Publisher!
Dr Daniel L Williams, Sr Integration Engineer, Partners Consulting
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Entering the brave new world beyond InfoMaker
Topics
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Background
Evolution of Primavera reporting technology
How that fits into Oracle’s overall strategy*
Walkthrough
A very simple report
In InfoMaker
In BI Publisher
* This is all my own personal opinion, and thus completely unrelated to any decisions Oracle will actually make.
Background
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2010
P6 v8.0 BI Publisher 10g
2011
PCM 14.0 BI Publisher 11g
Also using BI Publisher:
Oracle EBS
PeopleSoft
JD Edwards
Siebel
Walkthrough: Architecture
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InfoMaker
- Reports are Stored a single binary PBL file
- Data connection
- Layout
BI Publisher
Reports are split into parts
Data Extraction
Layout Template
Output: Word, Excel, PDF &c Layout
Template Layout Template
Delivery: Email, FTP, Repository, file system
Scheduling &c
Walkthrough: Tools
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InfoMaker
- Single Program
- Not owned by Oracle
- Not supported on 64-bit OS (but workable)
BI Publisher
- Standalone product exists
- Enterprise product
- Editing through MS Word, Acrobat Professional, ->Excel templates are on the way/here
- 11g Web-based Layout Editor
- Owned and Intensely developed by Oracle across
the Stack
Log into BI Publisher
Data Sources First make your data sources
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Data Sources JDBC is a good choice if this is the machine hosting P6 or PCM
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Data Sources Settings are identical to those set through dbConfig
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Reports
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Report: Data Model
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Report: Layouts
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Report: View
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http://localhost:9704/xmlpserver/~administrator/Primavera/Project/Project.xdo?_xpf=&_xpt=0&_xdo=%2F~administrator%
2FPrimavera%2FProject%2FProject.xdo&_xt=generated&_xf=pdf&_xmode=4
Other Resources:
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Demo Grounds Tues 9:45-6:00, Weds 9:00-4:00 pm not open on Thursday!
BI Publisher in Moscone South SR-287 (back, right hand side)
Primavera in Moscone West
Tuesday 11:45 BI Publisher Roadmap Moscone West 2001
11:45 Primavera Evolution and Vision Intercontinental Union Square
1:15 Primavera Solution Roadmap Intercontinental Union Square
Wednesday 10:15 PCM Roadmap, Mariott Nob Hill CD
1:15 Building Reports and Data Models in 11g Mariott Marquis salon 5/6
5:00 BI Publisher Best Practices Moscone West 2002/2004
Thursday: 9:00 am Using BI Pub with PCM 14 Mariott Marquis, Nob Hill CD
1:30 pm Anatomy of a Template Moscone West 2020
BI Publisher YouTube Channel!
Questions?
Dr. Daniel L. Williams, Sr Integration Engineer
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