BI Publisher for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Overview

This guide describes the tools and procedures for using Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher and common desktop tools to create customized reports for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Users create report templates with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe Acrobat that enable application data to be reused and reformatted into various layouts and output types. Depending on the template type, the available output types are PDF, Rich Text Format (RTF), Excel, XML, HTML, and eText.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne provides two BI Publisher reporting options:

• Embedded BI Publisher reporting.

  Embedded BI Publisher reports are created, managed, and processed using the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne toolset. Embedded BI Publisher reports use data that is generated by JD Edwards EnterpriseOne batch applications.

• BI Publisher reporting with JD Edwards Data Access Drivers.

  You can also create ad-hoc, dynamic reports with BI Publisher using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Data Access Driver. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Data Access Driver is a read-only JDBC driver, which is used to access JD Edwards EnterpriseOne data for BI Publisher reports.