Understanding web services in general is a big benefit for anyone using integrated technologies today. That includes any system that integrates a web client on a closed intranet network or open network with access to the world wide web. Because OBIEE presentation services is ultimately a web-based tool using your favorite web browser one would hypothesize that utilization of web services could also be incorporated by bringing in external data or reading from network data sources.
This post will show how to leverage presentation services to pull in a web service and integrate the web service data into our Dashboard. This is a low level example just to get you thinking about the grand possibilities of the integration.
The data we will consume stems from a Yahoo.com web service built inside an Answers report view. It does not require any database integration or schema modifications. We will display it in the dashboard. In the dashboard our final product looks like this:
