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XML Publisher vs. Crystal vs. nVision
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As Oracle is more aggressively positioning XML Publisher as an alternative to Crystal for new report development, what are the different reporting tools, and how they fit together?

XML Publisher
There are several new features coming in XML Publisher. One thing to note is that many of these features are core XML publisher features, versus PeopleSoft-specific feature enablement. Here is the list:
  • Subreports in XMLP. You can embed reports within other reports (from a template perspective). Examples of where you would want to do this is page headings and footings (there's a limitation in this covered in Jody Runstadler's Advanced Reporting Techniques session)
  • Email distribution. The delivered email distribution in process scheduler is currently only supported for nVision, Crystal, and SQR.
nVision
Started by making sure that the audience knew that nVision was not going away. For nVision, much of the discussion was on longer-term futures (8.50). The exception is for Office 2007 support.
  • Not in tree criteria. This is something that we've seen a need for. It's mostly valuable when you want to capture data from of values that may not have been added to your tree 
  • Multiple effective dated trees in same report. This allows organizations to compare the implications of tree changes side by side in a single report. Although you can see the changes pretty easily by exporting your trees to file and compare them there using tree mover, this allows you to see the dollar impact of the change.
  • Query prompts. If you have a prompted query in an nVision report, those prompts can only be displayed in the windows nVision (not web). This will be an interesting feature if they really can get it in, because if they do it right, they may be able to add additional features as well.
  • Private reports in 2-tier.
  • Excel 2007 adoptions of server performance improvements. One of the biggest places where nVision had issues is stability and performance on the server. This is because Excel is a client tool where nVision automates it on a server. Excell 2007 has a server version that can be used very nicely with nVision, and they are adopting it.
The above info was written by Grey Sparling regarding a presentation by Colleen Rinehart. To see the enitre blog, click here.

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SAP running on Oracle
If SAP runs on Oracle, and not many people know this, you can treat the system as Oracle as well. So you can do what many (or most) other ETL tools do and go to the SQL layer. Not a problem. However I would recommend not to do this, and any ETL tool that uses SQL to access SAP is destined to become a problem. SQL looks at database tables, not pool and cluster tables. These are SAP constructs, not database constructs. Some of the most important tables in SAP are non-transparent (e.g. pool or cluster). OWB approaches these tables using ABAP so it can extract from them, no problem!
 

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