A variable setting defines if a job is published on your own PC or managed by a publishing server.
If the publishing profile has the variable SYS_PUBLISH_REMOTE assigned with value True, the publishing server executes the publishing jobs for that profile. Than means that you can easily combine local publishing with centralized publishing: only profiles that have SYS_PUBLISH_REMOTE assigned with value True use centralized publishing. This allows you to publish to Word locally and to web based training output with the publishing server.