This topic introduces the features specific to viewing and scheduling reports for report consumers.
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Oracle Business Intelligence (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.
User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher describes how report consumers use BI Publisher to view and schedule reports. See the other guides that are listed in the table for information about using the product for other business roles.
| Role | Sample Tasks | Guide |
|---|---|---|
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Administrator |
Configuring Security Configuring System Settings Diagnosing and Monitoring System Processes |
Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher |
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Application developer or integrator |
Integrating BI Publisher into existing applications using the application programming interfaces |
Developer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher |
|
Data Model developer |
Fetching and structuring the data to use in reports |
Data Modeling Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher |
|
Report designer |
Creating report definitions Designing layouts |
Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher |
Report consumers use BI Publisher to view and schedule reports.
The tasks that are available to you depend on the permission that is assigned to you by your administrator. A report consumer performs the following tasks:
Run and view reports in real-time from the BI Publisher catalog. See Browsing the Catalog.
Schedule reports to run at selected intervals and to various destinations such as printer, fax, or e-mail. See Navigating to the Schedule Report Job Page and Creating a Bursting Job.
View report history. See Viewing Report Job History and Saved Output and About the Manage Report Jobs Page.
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