Oracle BIEE vs Oracle BI Publisher

Oracle BIEE全称：Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition；

Oracle BI Publisher以前叫XML Publisher（也可缩写为BIP）；

Oracle BI Publisher是OBIEE其中的一个组件，主要用于展示不同格式的报表；

Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (OBIEE)则是一套完整的，开放的企业级商务智能系；

Oracle BI Publisher主要用于OLTP；

OBIEE主要用于OLAP；

The main takeaway here for me is that BI Publisher is clearly a tool meant for operational reporting and not analytical reporting. You can create reports based on a data mart and deliver analytical reports, but there is no concept of real user interactivity without OBIEE. Unlike OBIEE, which imposes a Kimball methodology in modeling its central model, BI Publisher will let you use any old SQL as the basis for a “data model.” In the hands of non-technical users, this is a recipe for disaster in terms of maintenance costs and overall durability of those reports over time. So BI Publisher is really still a report-based solution for operational-type reporting.