Overall Satisfaction with Business Intelligence Discoverer
At my previous company, I was one of only two people who knew how to manage and work with databases as we were primarily using SQL in Access. Our organization had a need for deeper database integration with the amount of data we were pulling in and so they had opted to go with Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer as it did not require each user to know how to use or work in a database. This way, each member of the team could access the data and generate reports without needing to access the actual database.
- SQL friendly which allows for fast adoption for those users who know how to write in SQL. This makes integration with other programs much easier.
- Accessing data is very fast even with larger data sets.
- The layout is clean and organized similar to a spreadsheet which allows for easier viewing and analyzing of the data.
- Sometimes it can be a bit too rudimentary and rigid, not allowing users who can manage databases to customize other reports.
- Necessary to have a "Discoverer manager" who organizes the data and allots access to Discoverer, which requires a company to have someone on staff who is database savvy.
Before our team grew to incorporate more database savvy members, Discoverer was an easy and efficient tool for reporting and analyzing data. As our team added more database members, though, we quickly outgrew the need for a simpler program and expanded into one where we could customize everything as well as add external vendors' data to pull in from multiple sources.