8/12/2019 5 Questions BIP in R12

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Is BI Publisher included with Oracle EBS R12?

Yes, BI Publisher is installed with R12 with a limited use license which allows youto report on data that exists in Oracles seeded tables. Reporting on custom tablesis prohibited with this license so you should address any licensing questions with

your Oracle Sales Representative.

What will happen to my existing Oracle Reports?

But arent Oracle Reports going away?

How are BI Publisher generated reports different from standard Oracle reports?

In R12, you can continue to use your existing Oracle reports as theconcurrent manager will still run reports. However if you would liketo transition to BI Publisher, you can change the report output to XML

by editing the Concurrent Program definition and changing the outputtype to XML. BI Publisher can then use the data to format the report.

Its true that Oracle reports are not being actively developed for R12, but theystill exist within the application. Oracle continues to support the majority ofexisting reports and the report developer through the latest version of Oracle.Moving forward however, new reports or modified reports are being pushedover to BI Publisher data template format.

Standard Oracle Reports are the result of queries and data combined with layouts the formattingis inseparable from the report generation which is why you may have multiple copies of similar butslightly different reports on your system. However, BI Publisher separates the layout from the datamodel which allows a variety of layouts to be applied to a single data model making BI Publisherfaster and more flexible than standard reporting.

Is it true that BI Publisher in R12 allows me to deliver reports from Oracle EBS?

BI Publisher does offer some limited delivery capabilities such as the option to email a singlereport to recipients. While a step in the right direction for Oracle, be sure to investigate yourorganizations delivery needs and do not assume they can be met natively in R12. To learn moreabout the truths and opportunities of document delivery from R12, click to check out theQuick Reference Guide: Submit Request Delivery Options, R12.1.3.

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5 Commonly Asked Questions about BI Publisher in Oracle EBS R12

There is a lot of information to review when moving to R12 and sometimes its hard toknow where to begin. To give you a leg up, here are 5 questions we hear regularly:

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