If you have OBIEE Suite licence, BI Publisher comes along with the suite as a package. Whereas, you can purchase BI Publisher's licence alone with minimal cost than OBIEE Suite. To consider this, below are the basic differences between two of the Oracle's reporting tools. When your reports are more pixel oriented then BIP is preferable whereas if you are looking more for analytics, graphs, interactive reports, dashboards, etc. then OBIEE is preferable.
Some of more basic differences are as,
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Some of more basic differences are as,
OBIEE
|
OBIEE
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For canned and
ad-hoc reports
|
For
canned reports only
|
Fully interactive
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Non-interactive
unless integrated with OBIEE
|
Not meant for a real
time reporting
|
Meant
for real time reporting
|
More for trends,
analytics, dashboards, etc.
|
Mainly
for fixed format, pixel perfect reports
|
Drill down is
possible
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Drill
down is not possible
|
Need DWH/OLAP
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OLTP
is also preferable
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