BI Pub vs SQR

I am interested in thoughts on using BI Pub as a replacement for SQR.

BI Publisher is Oracle's strategic reporting product which is used in Oracle e-Business Suite, Peopleseoft,
Siebel and Fusion applications.
SQR seemed to be used for many different things such as running SQL jobs.
For the pure report generation BI Publisher is probably the solution easier to learn and maintain reports in.
I am part of the BI Publisher team (which by the way also includes the SQR team) so I am biased.
However, hardly any product is in every aspect superior to another - so there are some cases were SQR
will be superior. Since an SQR report is practically a program, I assume that you can do some things you
can't in BI Publisher.
I will try to get the architect of SQR to comment - he should know both products reasonably well.
He maybe biased in a different direction - but that's ok - then you get 2 sides of a coin.
Klaus

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