Preface

Welcome to Release 12c (12.2.1.3.0) of the Data Modeling Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.

Oracle 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.

Audience

This guide describes how report authors use BI Publisher's data model editor to fetch and structure the data for use in the many different types of report layouts that BI Publisher supports.

The following table provides more information about using BI Publisher 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
Report consumer	Viewing reports Scheduling report jobs Managing report jobs	User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
Report designer	Creating report definitions Designing layouts	Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documentation and Other Resources

Oracle Business Intelligence features a variety of documentation and user assistance resources.

See the Oracle Business Intelligence documentation library for a list of related Oracle Business Intelligence documents.

In addition:

• Go to the Oracle Learning Library for Oracle Business Intelligence-related online training resources.

• Go to the Product Information Center Support note (Article ID 1338762.1) on My Oracle Support at https://support.oracle.com.

System Requirements and Certification

Refer to the system requirements and certification documentation for information about hardware and software requirements, platforms, databases, and other information. Both of these documents are available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

The system requirements document covers information such as hardware and software requirements, minimum disk space and memory requirements, and required system libraries, packages, or patches:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/fusion-requirements-100147.html

The certification document covers supported installation types, platforms, operating systems, databases, JDKs, and third-party products:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/fusion-certification-100350.html

Conventions

This document uses text conventions, summarized below.

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.