Module 5.2: Intro to Oracle Reports Developer

Finals topic

Oracle Reports Developer

• Is a powerful enterprise reporting tool that allows developers to rapidly develop and deploy sophisticated high quality reports from any data source, in any format, to any destination

• Provides an enterprise-wide publishing solution that delivers high fidelity, dynamic web pages to corporate (intranet) and Internet users without compromising scalability and performance

Business Intelligence

• The combination of providing information and enabling additional investigation of that information is commonly referred to as _

• Reporting is the delivery of information to information consumers. These consumers must often further investigate that information

Enterprise Reporting

• Provides access for more users to vital customized information

• Lowers cost of ownership

• uses integrated business intelligence

Web Publishing

• Is very fluid. A web page does not have the limitation of page size; a page can contain as much or as little data as you wish.

• A web page comes alive with rich images, color, JavaScript, and animation. Users can interactively drill down to see details or related data. Style sheets are used to universally control appearance

Paper Publishing

• A paper report has characteristics that include rigid geometry restriction, headers, and footers repeated on each page, and higher resolution allowing more details to be presented to the end user at once, giving the end user the option of printing the output and the ability to “study” the data

OracleAS Report Services Architecture

• A component of Oracle Application Server. Provides the deployment environment for Oracle Report Developer applications.

• Executes, distributes, and publishes your reports for enterprise wide reporting.

• Using this to deploy your reports results in gains of flexibility, time saving, and processing capacity

OracleAS Report Services consists of 4 tiers:

• The client tier (web browser)

• The Web server tier

• The OracleAS Reports Services tier

• The Data tier (databases and pluggable sources)

OracleAS Report Services major components:

• OracleAS HTTP Server

• Reports Servlet and JSP

• Report Server

• Report Engine

• Report Cache