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.
Administering BI Publisher requires setting up and maintaining the following system components:
BI Publisher security
Data source connections
Report delivery destinations
BI Publisher Scheduler configurations
Runtime configuration settings
Server configuration settings
See the guides that are outlined in the table below for more information about using the product for other business roles.
| Role | Sample Tasks | Guide |
|---|---|---|
|
Data Model developer |
Fetching and structuring the data to use in reports |
Data Modeling 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 Enterprise Edition |
|
Report designer |
Creating report definitions Designing layouts |
Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher |