2.Benifits of XML Publisher

We can run the report into multiple output formats like PDF,Excel,Html,RTF...etc.
If you want the report output into 3 output formats, we don't need to run three times.We can run report once and we can publish into various output formats.

XML Publisher/BI Publisher allows custom Ready document such as financial statements,marketing materials,invoices,purchase orders directly from the business suite.

We can Develop the XML Publisher Reports from various sources like RDF,Data Template,PL/SQL,Discoverer,OAF..etc.

We can use bursting feature to spit the output into various logical parts and sending email to related users.