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transactions while they execute and automatically optimize each transaction, in real time, by way of close loop business rules and predictive models.
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform Developers Guide for Oracle Real-Time Decisions.
3.6 Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Oracle BI Discoverer is a business intelligence tool for analyzing data, and is a key component of Oracle Fusion
Middleware. The latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 11g offers new functionality, including published Discoverer Webservice APIs, integration with
Oracle WebCenter, integration with Oracle WebLogic Server, integration with Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control and improved performance and
scalability.
For more information, see What is Oracle BI Discoverer? in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer.
3.7 Oracle Portal
Oracle Portal offers a complete and integrated framework for building, deploying, and managing enterprise portals. Only Oracle Portal delivers a unified and secure point of
access to all enterprise information and services to improve business visibility and collaboration, reduce integration costs, and ensure investment protection.
Oracle Portal offers the following advantages:
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Improved productivity Employees, customers, partners, and suppliers are empowered with role-based,
self-service access to enterprise content and services to improve business visibility and responsiveness to key business events.
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Reduced costs and complexity A pre-integrated, portal solution that enables you to quickly build and deploy an
enterprise portal that delivers powerful business intelligence, search, collaboration, and security capabilities.
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Investment protection through open standards Support for open standards to take advantage of existing enterprise investments
by exposing heterogeneous applications and services through a unified, intuitive user interface.
For more information about Oracle Portal, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Portal.
3.8 Oracle Reports
Oracle Reports is an enterprise reporting tool that enables businesses to give immediate access to information to all levels within and outside of the organization in
a scalable and secure environment.
With Oracle Reports, you can rapidly develop and deploy sophisticated Web and paper reports against any data source, including an Oracle database, JDBC, XML, and
text files. By leveraging Java EE technologies, such as JSP and XML, you can publish your reports in a variety of formats, including HTML, XML, PDF, Spreadsheet,
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delimited text, PostScript, and RTF to any destination including e-mail, Web browser, WebDav, FTP, printer, Oracle Portal, and file system in a scalable, efficient manner.
Oracle Reports includes the following components:
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Oracle Reports Builder: Report developers use the Oracle Reports Builder design-time user interface to create and maintain report definitions.
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Oracle Reports Services: This component executes, distributes, and publishes your reports for enterprisewide reporting. Using Oracle Reports Services to deploy
your reports results in gains of flexibility, time savings, and processing capacity. It includes the following components:
– Oracle Reports Bridge that provides functionality for discovering a Reports
Server across farms.
– Oracle Reports run time that runs a report by starting its own in-process
server not to be confused with the default in-process Reports Server, which runs in the same JVM as the rwrun process.
– Oracle Reports Client that provides a command-line interface to send a report
to a remote Reports Server.
– Oracle Reports Servlet that translates and delivers information between either
a Web Server or a Java EE Container for example, Oracle WebLogic Server and the Reports Server, enabling you to run a report dynamically from your
Web browser.
– Oracle Reports Server that provides reporting services to execute, distribute,
and publish your reports for enterprisewide reporting. This component processes client requests, including user authentication, scheduling, caching,
and report distribution.
For more information about Oracle Reports, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services.
3.9 Oracle Forms Services
