BI Publisher vs. OTBI: Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP) Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI)
BI Publisher vs. OTBI: Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP) Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI)
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Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP) Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI)
1. Fusion BI Publisher is a BI Publisher or XML Publisher embedded in 1. OTBI is based on OBIEE which is mainly used as a real time data analysis
Fusion, is a go-to tool for “pixel-perfect” reporting tool. tool.
2. It’s fully custom and supports any form of output. 2. It’s easy to use with declarative drag and drop feature
3. Fusion BI Publisher is a Java/ J2EE based tool and uses JNDI to connect 3. OTBI communicates to Fusion DB using web services.
to Fusion DB. 4. OTBI Analysis is created using one or more standard subject areas
4. User creates a data model where a SQL Query is written to fetch data (collection of tables and its’ columns)
from database tables and formats the data into XML format. Then a 5. OTBI analysis can be used in OTBI dashboards, as data source of BI
template(RTF, Excel, eText etc.) is created to consume the XML in the Reports, creating infolets.
desired format. 6. All Fusion Data security is applicable to OTBI Subject areas.
5. Fusion BI reports can be scheduled to burst it’s output to a FTP server 7. One can’t create or modify subject areas in OTBI.
or Fusion UCM, can be emailed or can be sent to a web service.
6. BI Reports can be used as an outbound integration tool as well to fetch
full extract or incremental data. However BI Cloud Connector is another
tool that Oracle has provided for full/ incremental data extract. BICC
extracts are created based on Public VOs which are nothing but the OTBI
subject areas.
7. Data security can be imposed by using secured views.