Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher is an enterprise reporting solution for authoring, managing, and delivering all your highly formatted documents, such as operational reports, electronic funds transfer documents, government PDF forms, shipping labels, checks, sales and marketing letters, and much more.

User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher describes how report consumers use BI Publisher to view and schedule reports. See the other guides that are listed in the table for information about using the product for other business roles.

Role Sample Tasks Guide

Administrator

Configuring Security

Configuring System Settings

Diagnosing and Monitoring System Processes

Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

Application developer or integrator

Integrating BI Publisher into existing applications using the application programming interfaces

Developer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

Data Model developer

Fetching and structuring the data to use in reports

Data Modeling Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

Report designer

Creating report definitions Designing layouts

Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher