Siebel Reporting – Part 1 – Architecture and Installation

In the first of my Reporting articles, I’ll discuss some of the architectural changes that have taken place in the move from Actuate to BI Publisher (hereafter referred to as BIP). With Siebel 8.1.1.2 the recommended version of BIP is 10.1.3.4.1. You’ll need this if you want to use report scheduling from within Siebel. Typically, [...]

Siebel Public Sector 8.2 Released

As we are currently heavily involved with a Siebel Public Sector client, I was interested to note the announcement of Siebel 8.2 for Public Sector. Being a major point release, going from 8.1.x, we’re expecting some interesting enhancements in this release. From the Oracle documentation: Key focus on social services functionality Enhanced Case Management functionality [...]

Actuate to BI Publisher

Having recently upgraded the Actuate reporting solution in a client’s 7.8 SIA implementation to 8.1.1.2, I thought I’d share my thoughts. The move from Actuate to BI Publisher (BIP) is not as terrifying as it may first appear, but there are some gotchas in there that you need to be prepared for. In the next [...]