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\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=“3.0.95″ background_color=“#e7e6e6″ custom_padding=“20px|20px|20px|20px“]„Oracle Reports<\/a> released with Oracle Fusion Middleware\u2019s 12.2.1.3.0 will be its terminal release. Oracle Reports will be supported in accordance with the Oracle Fusion Middleware Lifetime Support Policy. Customers are advised to use Oracle BI Publisher for their reporting needs.“<\/em>
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As mentioned in the statement of direction from October 2016 the next Oracle Forms release 12.2.1.3.0<\/a> will be the last which ships out Oracle Reports.<\/a>\u00a0So Reports will not be part of future Oracle Forms releases, which leaves customers with the question of what to do. Oracle intends to push Oracle Forms customers towards the usage of BI Publisher, which is Oracle\u2019s preferred replacement for Reports. Therefore Oracle Forms 12c has been delivered with an much easier integration of the BI Publisher Reporting solution.<\/p>\n

But are there any other alternatives out for Oracle Forms customers? In this blogpost we would like to give you an overview over the two most frequently mentioned solutions when it comes to Oracle Reports alternatives: Oracle BI Publisher and Jasper Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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BI Publisher<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If Oracle is asked, then there is only one real Oracle Reports replacement: Oracle BI Publisher. But BI Publisher (in the past XMLPublisher) is not a one-to-one replacement for Reports – it\u2019s rather a different concept for reporting that is quite different to Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BI Publisher divides the reporting into data, layout and language.<\/p>\n

This changes the flow of work when it comes to the creation of a report. The advantage is, that reports that use the same data source but have a different layout must not be created multiple times. For creating these different layout-templates the development environment or a Microsoft Word Add-in can be utilized. An additional advantage of BI Publisher compared to Reports is that BI Publisher supports many sources and export formats.<\/p>\n

One is not limited to an Oracle Database as a source of data – you can use different other sources like WebServices, files or external systems. Those can be exported to a wide range of formats like: PDF, PPT, SML, Excel to different output channels (printer, filesystem, mail etc.). BI Publisher additionally offers a dashboard functionality with which users can create their own reports. All of those mentioned possibilities make BI Publisher to a not to cheap Enterprise Reporting solution.<\/p>\n

If you have licensed the iAS-EE the use of BI Publisher is free of an extra charge.<\/p>\n

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