Ditch Oracle Reports (RDF’s): Pure Play BI Publisher

BI Publisher as a stand alone product has five components. When dealing with the BI Publisher that is embedded in your E-Business Suite instance, three of those components are leveraged and the remainder are displaced by existing E-Business Suite functionality.

Embedded

Data Extraction Engine (XDODTEXE – JCP4XDODataEngine)
Output Post Processor (FNDCPOPP – XMLPublisherProcessor)
Bursting Engine (XDOBURSTRPT – JCP4XDOBurstingEngine)

Displaced

Report Server – Replaced by

Scheduler – Replaced by Concurrent Manager

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    <dataQuery>
      <sqlStatement name="QUERY1">
              <![CDATA[SELECT sysdate
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      </sqlStatement>
    </dataQuery>
    <dataStructure>
      <group name="GROUP_Q1" source="QUERY1">
            <element name="SYSTEM_DATE" value="sysdate"/>
        </group>
    </dataStructure>
</dataTemplate>