Currently, Oracle Fusion OTBI (Transactional BI) and BI Publisher lack a native version control system or DevOps pipeline integration.
To promote analytics content (reports, dashboards, data models) across environments (Dev → Test → Prod), customers must rely on manual export/import of .catalog files.
This leads to:
- Limited traceability (no commit history, diffs, or rollback)
- Risk of human error during migrations
- Uncontrolled direct edits in Production
- No automated approval or review workflow
- Lack of alignment with modern DevOps and GitOps practices
Enhancement Request to introduce a “Fusion Analytics DevOps Extension” a native integration layer that provides
- Allow OTBI and BI Publisher objects (reports, dashboards, data models) to be stored as XML/JSON definitions instead of binary
.catalog files. - Enable direct check-in / check-out from the OTBI web UI to a configured Git repository (GitHub, GitLab, OCI Code Repo, etc.).
- Include metadata in commits (object name, owner, timestamp, change summary).
- Automatically version content in Git when saved in OTBI.
