This chapter describes the Siebel Reports development environment and how Siebel Reports interacts with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (Oracle BI Publisher) to generate reports in Siebel Business Applications. It includes the following topics:

• About the Siebel Reports Architecture
• Workflow for Generating Reports in Connected Mode
• Workflow for Generating Reports in Disconnected Mode
• Siebel Reports Directory Structure
• Siebel Reports File Types
• About the Oracle BI Publisher Server in Siebel Business Applications
• How Siebel Business Applications and Oracle BI Publisher Interact