Oracle BI Publisher Desktop was a Microsoft Word Add-in that provided the ability to import an BI or SQL data source, lay out a report template using standard Microsoft Word tables and formatting, and then run the report from within Microsoft Word.
The original release was called XML Publisher 5.5 and consisted of 2 products – Oracle XML Publisher (Desktop) and Oracle BI Publisher (Server).
It was first released with Oracle EBusiness Suite 11.5.10 towards the end of 2005. Oracle BI Publisher was originally developed to solve these reporting problems.
