2 Getting Started

This chapter describes the basic features of the BI Publisher application including setting preferences, navigating the catalog, and accessing task menus.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Accessing Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

• Setting My Account Preferences and Viewing My Groups

• About the Home Page

• About the Catalog

• About the Global Header

• Searching the Catalog

Note:

If your implementation of BI Publisher is integrated with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (BI EE), you access BI Publisher through the Oracle BI EE application. For information on the BI Publisher features in theOracle BI EE interface, see Introduction to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition in User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.