What is the use of Oracle BI Publisher?

Overview. Oracle BI Publisher is a strategic enterprise reporting product from Oracle that provides the ability to create and manage highly formatted reports from a wide range of data sources. Oracle BI Publisher is available as part of the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Suite and also as a stand alone reporting tool.

Is Oracle BI Publisher free?

You must purchase a full-use license and install BI Publisher using the Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer to start using BI Publisher in a production environment.

What is the difference between BI Publisher and Obiee?

OBIEE is stand alone suite has n number features graphic tool depreciation in it. The BI (XML Publisher )Is limited with template builder and follows same old standards of XML tags.

Is Bip part of Obiee?

If you have OBIEE Suite licence, BI Publisher comes along with the suite as a package. Whereas, you can purchase BI Publisher’s licence alone with minimal cost than OBIEE Suite.

What is RTF in Oracle?

Rich Text Format (RTF) is a specification used by common word processing applications, such as Microsoft Word. When you save a document, RTF is a file type option that you select. BI Publisher’s RTF Template Parser converts documents saved as the RTF file type to XSL-FO.

How do I create an XML Publisher report in Oracle Apps?

Adding the Template to ORACLE Application. In order to add the template to application the user should have the responsibility XML Publisher Administrator assigned. And register the template using the data definition created. Go to XML Publisher Administrator->Data Definitions->Create Data definition.

Is OBIEE a database?

I created a SQL Server database named “OBIEE” and then run these two DDL scripts. Once the RCU has successfully installed required schemas, it should look like following screenshots.

What is the difference between tableau and OBIEE?

OBIEE is strong in data source connectivity and data management aspects, whereas Tableau is strong in data visualization and self-service capabilities. Therefore, Tableau and OBIEE form a strong pair by complementing the limitations of one with the strength of the other.

How do you write a BIP report?

To define a new report:

  1. While logged into Oracle BI Publisher as Administrator, click the Reports tab.
  2. Click Home, then click the My Folders link.
  3. Click Create a new report in the Folders and Report Tasks menu.
  4. Enter Invoices as the report name, then click Create.
  5. Click Edit under the newly created report.
  6. Click Report.