Introduction

You can author, manage, and deliver pixel-perfect reports such as operational reports, electronic funds transfer documents, government PDF forms, shipping labels, checks, sales and marketing letters.

The administrator sets up and maintains the following system components.

• Publisher security

• Data source connections

• Report delivery destinations

• Publisher Scheduler configurations

• Runtime configuration settings

• Server configuration settings

For other business roles, see the guides that are outlined in the table below for information about using the product.

Role	Sample Tasks
Data Model developer	Fetch and structure the data to use in reports
Application developer or integrator	Integrate Publisher into existing applications using the application programming interfaces
Report consumer	View reports Schedule report jobs Manage report jobs
Report designer	Create report definitions Design layouts