Is BI Publisher included with Oracle EBS R12?

Yes, BI Publisher is installed with R12 with a limited use license which allows you
to report on data that exists in Oracles seeded tables. Reporting on custom tables
is 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 the
concurrent manager will still run reports. However if you would like
to transition to BI Publisher, you can change the report output to XML
by editing the Concurrent Program denition and changing the output
type 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 they
still exist within the application. Oracle continues to support the majority of
existing reports and the report developer through the latest version of Oracle.
Moving forward however, new reports or modied reports are being pushed
over to BI Publisher data template format.
Standard Oracle Reports are the result of queries and data combined with layouts the formatting
is inseparable from the report generation which is why you may have multiple copies of similar but
slightly different reports on your system. However, BI Publisher separates the layout from the data
model which allows a variety of layouts to be applied to a single data model making BI Publisher
faster and more exible 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 single
report to recipients. While a step in the right direction for Oracle, be sure to investigate your
organizations delivery needs and do not assume they can be met natively in R12. To learn more
about the truths and opportunities of document delivery from R12, click to check out the
Quick 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 to
know where to begin. To give you a leg up, here are 5 questions we hear regularly: