Extracting/Uploading Portal Activity Data Collector data in BI for reports

Hello Experts,
I am looking for the approach where we can upload the data collected by portal activity data collector service into BI for generating report from BI. If anyone has done this before, what are your strategy in this case? I think Portal Activity Data Collector is more detailed over Portal Activity Reporting. Any thoughts on generating the custom reports?
Kindly help me with your valuable information
Thanks,
Ameya

Hello Ameya,
We are using Activity Reporting service for KM activity tracking and activity data collector for PCD access logs. What we do in our environment is , we have created a custom tablespace in our oracle DB of portal. We upload these logs to db using shell scripts (flat file format, later which is converted to a more maningful schema structure which can be queried upon). We have specific procedures in db for getting the required reports.
Another option would be to upload to solution manager where the reports can be generated using BI.
File formats of these Activity reports can be modified by configuration.
Regards,
Vinod.

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