Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 3 · The reporting stack: which tool answers which question
Which tool answers which question
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Three questions decide it, and they are worth asking in this order. ONE: is it a DOCUMENT or an ANALYSIS? A document has a required appearance and a defined recipient — it is printed, emailed, or read by another system. An analysis is looked at on a screen by somebody who may want it sliced differently tomorrow. Document is BI Publisher; analysis is OTBI. This one question settles most requests on its own. TWO: scheduled or ad hoc? Something that must run at 2am on the first of the month and land somewhere is a scheduled job, which is BI Publisher plus ESS. Something a person runs when they wonder about it is OTBI. Both tools can technically do both, and the tool that fits the rhythm is the one that survives. THREE: does a business user need to change it later? This is the question that gets skipped and…
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