What is Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher ?

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher is a template-based publishing solution delivered with the Oracle E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. It provides a flexible and robust approach to report design and publishing by integrating familiar desktop word processing tools with existing data reporting. BI Publisher leverages standard, well-known technologies and tools, so you can rapidly develop and maintain custom report formats. The flexibility is a result of the separation of the presentation of the report from its data structure. The collection of the data can still be handled by existing report tools, but with BI Publisher you can design and control how the report outputs will be presented in separate template files. At runtime, your designed template files are merged with the report data to create a variety of outputs to meet a variety of business needs, including: • Customer-ready PDF documents, such as financial statements, marketing materials, contracts, invoices, and purchase orders utilizing colors, images, font styles, headers and footers, and many other formatting and design options. • HTML output for optimum online viewing. • Excel output to create a spreadsheet of your report data. • "Filled-out" third-party provided PDF documents. You can download a PDF document, such as a government form, to use as a template for your report. At runtime, the data and template produce a "filled-out" form. • Flat text files to exchange with business partners for EDI and EFT transmission.