Getting a single report out of Oracle can take a developer five to ten days: write a spec, hand it over, wait on questions about parameters and formats, and the BI Publisher report arrives a week or two later. Teams that need several a week never clear the backlog. OTBI self-service was meant to help, but it still expects you to know the subject areas and enough SQL to pick the right fields, so people who just want their data out often still cannot get it. 

At our recent Oracle user group session we showed the reporting platform our technology team built in-house. You describe the report in plain English (a formal offer letter, say), click generate, and the platform drafts the SQL, sets the parameters, applies row level security and builds the template, correcting itself as it goes. A few minutes later you click deploy and the finished BI Publisher report is live in Oracle. It works across every module, not just HR, and reaches payroll balances, element entries, future-dated changes and flexfields. 

Two things make it safe to hand to a team. Security is a mandatory build step that cannot be skipped, applied during the build rather than bolted on afterwards. And a governance engine searches your standard and custom reports, shows the gaps, and helps you decide whether to build new or extend, so nothing gets rebuilt twice. Technical users keep a full SQL editor and AI SQL grounded in the Fusion data model. If reporting is one of the slowest parts of owning Oracle for you, this is worth thirty minutes. 

Download the white paper (PDF) for the full walkthrough, or book a short demo with Fusion Practices and see a report built, secured and deployed into your own Oracle in minutes. No commitment required.