Oracle Open World 2010 Papers – Vote for them on Oracle Mix!
So I've found that the majority of my posts have involved something to do with BI Publisher. Hopefully I'm not boring you to death!If you're interested in learning more, I've submitted a number of papers for the Oracle Mix "Suggest A Session" contest. Even if ... read more
BI Publisher Enterprise – Bursting From Multiple Data Sources Using Cursor Expressions
From my previous post regarding Bursting from Multiple Data Sources I had assumed that Kris' comment meant that he had data in separate databases. After some discussion with him, I learned that the data was in the same database and he was using multiple SQL ... read more
DaVita Chooses AventX to Print AP Check Stubs
DaVita Inc. (Denver, CO), a FORTUNE 500® company and leading provider of kidney care in the United States, will use AventX to automatically print accounts payable check stubs.DaVita needed a solution to automatically route AP check stubs to the appropriate ... read more
BIP-Enterprise – Bursting with Data From Multiple Sources
I received a comment from Kris regarding a post on How to Burst and Deliver Documents From BIP Enterprise that said: Thanks for your example. I managed to get this to work but as my data is based on 2 datasets I miss part of my data on the report. Only data that ... read more
Hormel Foods Moves to BI Publisher, Chooses AventX to Deliver Purchase Orders
Hormel Foods Corporation (Austin, MN), manufacturer of high-quality, brand-name food products worldwide, will use AventX to automate fax and email delivery of 700 purchase orders daily.Hormel evaluated their existing fax solution and decided it was time to move ... read more
Pitt Plastics Chooses AventX to Automate Delivery of Seven Document Types from EBS
Pitt Plastics, Inc. (Pittsburg, KS) has manufactured high-quality trash can liners since 1972. With over 500 employees and half-a-million square feet of manufacturing and warehousing space, Pitt Plastics strives to keep facilities and offices lean and efficient. ... read more
Using BI Publisher APIs to create PDF from XML and RTF Templates
I was working on a customer issue last week where we were getting some odd results when using the BI Publisher API's to burst data to create PDFs. Specifically, data was not showing up in the output PDF. Turns out the issue was with the bursting control file which ... read more
UTOUG Recap – 2 Full Days of Education
Back in the office from Utah and catching up with various emails etc... We didn't have a lot of time in Salt Lake City, but we tried to make the best of it. In addition to checking out the Bingham Canyon Mine, our hotel was right across from Temple Square. We ... read more
Utah Oracle Users Group
Well.. my adventures continue. I'm in slighty cold Salt Lake City for UTOUG this week. Much better than the 90 degree weather back in Virgina though! This is my first visit to Utah, I wish I had more time to explore. Upon landing we had some time to kill so we ... read more
STR Software Wins “Innovation Hour” Competition at Collaborate ‘10
The official launch of STR Software’s newest product, DataZing, took place during Innovation Hour at this year’s OAUG Collaborate conference. Contestants were required to create a promotional video for an innovative product prior to the conference and then ... read more
Collaborate 10 Day 4
Attended a number of sessions today on BIP, Application Integration and Virtualization.There have been a ton of BIP sessions this year, for all the details check out Mike Donohue's roundup here on the official XMLP blog.Attended a session today named ... read more
DataZing Product Launch, BI Publisher Fun and More From Collaborate
Great day at Collaborate today, some might call it action packed…Participated in a number of BIP sessions today regarding non-Oracle EBS applications (PeopleSoft and JDE) as well as a great session by Steven Feuerstein on PL/SQL exception handling.The real ... read more