Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)	Score 7.4 out of 10	N/A	Oracle's Business Intelligence Discoverer is an ad- hoc query and analysis reporting tool oriented for end users to have easy access to relational and multi-dimensional data. The product is now end of life. The vendor has stated that Discoverer 11g release 11.1.1.7.0 is the terminal release of Discoverer.	N/A

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Free Trial
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) AT Akin Tunc Principal Analyst Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) We prefer Oracle BI because it continues to support and is more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Shashank Pathak Internet Marketing Analyst Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) We have chosen for particular tasks or according to requirements of clients, we are also use this because we are well familiar about this tactics and features too. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Oracle BI publisher Oracle Analytics Cloud Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Very easy to use and understanding the technology could work well for your organization. Sometimes the majority of the business unit's key stakeholders don't utilize the data for the needs of the business. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) BI Discoverer is simpler and lighter. It offers a much lighter option for data access when compared to most other business intelligence tools. However, the features on BI Discoverer are limited and cannot solve deeper analytics requirements. For such use cases, it might be … Incentivized Helpful? Jatel Desai Programmer Analyst Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Oracle BID was a better alternative than AER for our department. Since we are an Oracle-heavy department, using Oracle software for all tasks, from data storage to reporting was the way to go. BID has proven to be a cheaper, more efficient alternative to AER. It has served its … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Power BI is mostly for visualization and dashboards whereas Discoverer is for lifting heavy reports outputs. Oracle APEX can be used for building reports but not very complex ones. Pivot functionality in apex reports is not all good when it involves multiple nested groupings … Incentivized Helpful? Eduin Zuloaga IT Architecture Manager Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Regarding to Power BI and Business Intelligence Discovery I think the principal difference is Business Intelligence Discovery allow discoverer data from web services and there are a lot of tools for only one purpose, manage data! Regarding to SAP BusinessObjects and Business … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Both produce the same end results for creating reports used by higher management for decision making. The way they are designed and featured, the process is what makes them different. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) We selected this tool because it is easy to create an end-user layer which is the repository in the database. The data that is being used is from the datamart which we have built on a daily basis. This tool was selected because it is a web-based and available 24/7. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) N/A Incentivized Helpful? Sherif Said Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) They offer completely different functions. OBIEE is better for detailed data and Tableau is for visualization and summary of data. Incentivized Helpful? Rob Bates Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) We have used several products over the years, including Sisense and Tableau. They both stack up well against Business Intelligence Discoverer, however, the costs for us are what split them apart. Feature-wise, there isn't much to separate the products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Discoverer is more of a departmental BI tool. OBIEE is much more expensive compared to Discoverer. OBIEE needs an ETL and Reporting team to develop reports. OBIEE involves complex modelling of RPD whereas it is much simpler with Discoverer. With Discoverer, it is as simple as … Incentivized Helpful? David Lisauskas Service Engineer Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) I did not select Discoverer.....however, I do prefer it to the other tools that I have used for report creation. I do like the mix of GUI and SQL direct code avail. I have mostly used the desktop version, but migrating over to the web based version and starting to build reports … Incentivized Helpful? yixiang Shan Strategic Planning And Engineering Advisor Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) TIBCO Spotfire or SaaS BI are much more flexible and comprehensive, being compared with Business Intelligence Discoverer, they support many ways of scripting and has rich data visualization options, and furthermore, they can be linked with recent popular ML/DL frameworks. Incentivized Helpful? Joseph R. Sweeney Senior Analyst Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Both Tableau and Argos are newer products and have much improved features. Argos in operation is closer to how Discoverer is. Tableau is a top rated analytics product. Incentivized Helpful? Glen Norman Lead Analyst - Accounting Systems Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Discoverer was already in place when I joined the company so I was not involved in the selection process. However, I have been involved in the review of Discoverer as compared to alternatives including Business Objects, OBIEE, and SSRS. On a cost benefit analysis Discoverer … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Business intelligence Pro Create reports Pro Analyze data
Top Cons	Minus Reporting tool Minus Data visualization Minus Visualization options

Features

Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

BI Standard Reporting

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 7.9 20 Ratings 4% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports	8.017 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	7.717 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.020 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 7.9 22 Ratings 3% below category average
Drill-down analysis	7.021 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.022 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.514 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.020 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.3 22 Ratings 1% below category average
Publish to Web	8.021 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.020 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.018 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.022 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	7.716 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.0 16 Ratings 1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.416 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	7.815 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.815 Ratings

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 9.7 22 Ratings 12% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	10.022 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	10.020 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.021 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	10.017 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.0 16 Ratings 1% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.915 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.811 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.811 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 7.5 9 Ratings 5% below category average
REST API	8.08 Ratings
Javascript API	8.09 Ratings
iFrames	8.08 Ratings
Java API	7.08 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.07 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	6.08 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Small Businesses	BrightGauge Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Reveal Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises	TIBCO Jaspersoft Community Edition Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (22 ratings)

User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend	Discontinued Products Discoverer is well suited as a reporting tool where data integration doesn't play a major role. Discoverer suits very well situations where a user has to run a query every day. Discoverer reports can be scheduled and the user can just view the data instead of running the query manually. Also, Discoverer takes away the pain of managing the database credentials. Discoverer is not well suited to situations where the whole enterprise wants to view the same dashboard. Discoverer is more of a departmental BI tool. Discoverer doesn't offer many options to integrate data unless one has to create and handle integration using PL/SQL. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Discontinued Products 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. Incentivized Joseph R. Sweeney Senior Analyst Read full review
Cons	Discontinued Products There is always room for more scalability and optimization of performance. Oracle BI changes a lot from version to version. A smoother transition into a new version would be very helpful. Oracle BI's reporting tool is a little hard to use at first. The UI/UX of the tool can use improvement. Incentivized Jatel Desai Programmer Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Discontinued Products Discoverer was already in place when I joined the company so I was not involved in the selection process. However, I have been involved in the review of Discoverer as compared to alternatives including Business Objects, OBIEE, and SSRS. On a cost benefit analysis Discoverer always came out on top. Changing to another tool never provided enough additional functionality to overcome the cost of conversion and ongoing maintenance. Incentivized Glen Norman Lead Analyst - Accounting Systems Read full review
Return on Investment	Discontinued Products We have used Discoverer to respond to state sales and use tax audits and saved the company more than the cost of the product. Discoverer has thus assisted in our objective of managing costs. Discoverer is used to provide reports for EEOC reporting assisting our goal of complying with all government requirements. Incentivized Glen Norman Lead Analyst - Accounting Systems Read full review
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