Roles Required to Perform Pixel-Perfect Reporting Tasks

Understand the application roles required for performing the pixel-perfect reporting tasks.

Application Role Tasks

BI Service Administrator

Set up data source connections to retrieve data for reporting from:

  • JDBC Connection

  • JNDI Connection

  • OLAP Connection

  • Web Service Connection

  • HTTP Connection

  • Content Server

You can also use the following data sources:

  • Oracle BI Analysis

  • Oracle BI Server subject area

 

BI Service Administrator

Configure the connections to delivery servers:

  • Printer

  • Fax

  • Email

  • HTTP

  • FTP

  • Content Server

  • CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System ) Server

  • Oracle Content and Experience Server
  

BI Service Administrator

Configure the scheduler processors

BI Service Administrator

Configure system runtime properties that do the following:

  • Control the processing for different output types

  • Enable digital signature

  • Tune for scalability and performance

  • Define font mappings

BI Service Administrator

Configure server properties such as caching specifications, database failover properties, and database fetch size.

BI Content Author

Fetch and structure the data to use in reports.

 BI Consumer

  • View reports

  • Schedule report jobs

  • Manage report jobs

BI Content Author

  • Create report definitions

  • Design layouts