Oracle Business Intelligence offers a platform that serves enterprise analytics and comprehensive self-service data discovery. Oracle BI Publisher (formerly known as XML Publisher) offers an efficient; scalable reporting solution available for complex, distributed environments. It provides a central architecture for generating and delivering information to employees, customers, and business partners - both securely and in the right format.

Oracle BI Publisher allows to publication and distribution of reports in the field of enterprise-wide operational reporting detail. These reports can be created from the same portal (DHTML editor). It has a graphical interface that greatly facilitates the work. In terms of SQL, allows you to write sentences directly or help a Query Builder. A major advantage of the tool is that the report design can be based on templates made with Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe Acrobat. Oracle BI Publisher also offers support for Adobe Flex, so you can create Flex templates, a format for creating interactive reports and forms. BI Publisher separates the creation of the data (XML) formatting. The engine can deal with any XML data, allowing integration with any system that generates XML as Web services or any JDBC data source. BI Publisher can merge different data sources into a single output document. As for the distribution of report counts with a scheduler that allows us to schedule delivery of the report. We have different distribution platforms such as fax, print, mail, and published on the site.

Similarly allows multiple output formats such as pdf, rtf, html, xml, xls, etc.. BI Publisher is based on the W3C XSL-FO standard. BI Publisher is a J2EE application that can be deployed in any J2EE container. To summarize is a great alternative to publishing any report of high fidelity.