Monday, July 26, 2010

Oracle BI/XML Publisher

Oracle BI Publisher is a powerful report generation tool. It is a template based publishing tool available with Oracle E-Business suite. The report designing generated is mainly driven by desktop tools and XML technology. Lot of people get confused by the terms BI publisher and XML publisher, but to let you know both are same.The older version was known as XML Publisher, which is now called as BI Publisher.BI Publisher can be used as stand alone product whereas XML Publisher is always included in EBS.

Compared to traditional oracle reports, XML publisher provides output of the
file in various formats like excel, word, pdf and HTML at runtime. The data structure and presentation layer can separated unlike the standard oracle reports where data logic, presentation are in one file.

BI/XML Publisher can be integrated with E-Business suite as:

BI Publisher + Data Templates
BI Publisher + Oracle Reports
BI Publisher + OA Framework

BI/XMl Publisher can be mainly used for types of reports like Invoices,
sales orders, purchase orders, statements, pay slips, financial and business reports.

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