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Oracle Analytics vs. Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Analytics
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Analytics is a solution used to visually explore data to create and share compelling stories. Oracle Analytics Cloud is a cloud native service, and Oracle Analytics Server is the on-premise option.N/A
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Score 8.0 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
Pricing
Oracle AnalyticsOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle AnalyticsOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
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Community Pulse
Oracle AnalyticsOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Considered Both Products
Oracle Analytics
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
I think Oracle Analytics Server does a pretty good job against its competitors and, in fact, may surpass them in many areas. The cost is just a limitation, especially for small—to medium-sized organizations. The user interface and visuals are a win. Another limitation is the …
KI
Kseniya Ivanchyk
People & Culture Director
Chose Oracle Analytics
Affordable and could be also 'married' (or integrated) with the other HRIS platfrms. ALso, system interface is always an important thing and we have availed overall high positive response from those stakeholders who used / applied this systes. In essence, there is not so much …
Khushank Sehgal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Khushank Sehgal
Software Engineer
Chose Oracle Analytics
Oracle Analytics Cloud stacks up against them pretty well. I found it almost identical. Oracle Analytics Cloud is more to me a one-stop solution with all necessary details and data and due to its security and personalized access to each colleague and team. We are simply relaxed …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
If compared with other major BI and data visualization tools ODVC guarantees a higher level o scalability. In fact, ODVC is ideal to be used to cover very complex use cases with data coming from different enterprise systems through different integration technology. ODVC can …
Judy L. Berglund | TrustRadius Reviewer
Judy L. Berglund
Solutions Architect - Infrastructure Solutions Group
Chose Oracle Analytics
Tableau can be a somewhat difficult product for someone unfamiliar with it. Based on your query, search will produce a very high amount of data, which you then need to sort. Can be cumbersome to work with. Oracle Data Visualization Cloud is easy to use upon initial trial …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
IBM is also a very fine contributor in these fields of software engineering. They like Oracle are the masters of large data, whether for large entities, or small shops.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
With respect to the above mentioned tools the Oracle BI provides excellent semantic layer(BMM) layer which is very effective in creating complex measures for various financial reporting solutions and also other use cases. The delivery options are great too. Only drawback is …
Ali Kazempour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ali Kazempour
Information Technology Adviser
Chose Oracle Analytics
Oracle Analytics Cloud, is one of the most agile and secure data analysis platforms that according to the budget and the amount of use, you can use the resources you need under the cloud. The Oracle brand is also very well known in this field and can meet all the needs of an …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
Oracle Analytics Cloud provides a more comprehensive and refined understanding of customers through thoughtful market segmentation compared to Adobe Analytics. Oracle is able to offer our managers a much more insightful narrative about buying habits and preferences. Has been …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
The best part about Oracle Analytics Cloud is better data visualization than with the competition. Of all the different analytics reporting tools available in the market today, Oracle Analytics Cloud is best for all Oracle ERP products or even non-Oracle financial or sales …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
We use Oracle BI and native connection with them. And since it has not been used for a long time, it is very costly to put the reports into a different application.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
Oracle Analytics Cloud is a much more robust and true enterprise-level product on the cloud. The great support and documentation behind this product are amazing.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
We are using multiple products from Oracle Cloud and Oracle Analytics Cloud is part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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Shifa Nazumudeen
BI Architect
Chose Oracle Analytics
We are primarily an Oracle shop. OAC jives well with our business needs and is the most sought after solution if your organization is a major Oracle shop. OAC provides connectors out of the box and makes data analysis a breeze even if it has to be from totally disparate …
Shiva Krishna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Shiva Krishna
Oracle Cloud Procure to Pay Consultant
Chose Oracle Analytics
We are an Oracle shop. We use Oracle Cloud ERP, HCM and EPM. Hence, Oracle Analytics Cloud is a natural extension. We also use third-party software like Salesforce which can be easily integrated. We have a long-standing relationship with Oracle, and we attend various Oracle …
JM
Johnson Munene
Database Administration manager
Chose Oracle Analytics
I haven't had the chance to use any other product especially because I work in a purely Oracle environment.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
Essbase is more scalable and data source agnostic where the other products are not
JM
Joanna Marks
Sr. HR Systems Advisor
Chose Oracle Analytics
Not related. Oracle Business Intelligence currently is linked to our Taleo environment to report recruiting data.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
I have not used other products like Oracle.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
OBIEE is comparable to SAP BO in many respects, even more so than MS Power BI. It stacks up strong compared to another similar tool in the market with respect to enterprise-level reporting. Among various other financial and strategic reasons, OBIEE was chosen because of its …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Analytics
On-premise essbase

Cloud advantages include not having to do major upgrades, invest in infrastructure, run a data center (who can do that better?)
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.
Shashank Pathak | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Oracle BI publisher
Oracle analytics cloud
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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 …
Jatel Desai | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
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 …
Eduin Zuloaga | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Desktop
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Sherif Said | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Rob Bates | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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 …
David Lisauskas | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
yixiang Shan | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Joseph R. Sweeney | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Glen Norman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
Features
Oracle AnalyticsOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.1
Ratings
1% below category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.9
Ratings
3% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.10 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.0
Ratings
0% below category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.9
Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.40 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.20 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.20 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
7.8
Ratings
5% below category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Publish to Web7.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.70 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning7.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.90 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
7.8
Ratings
2% below category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.50 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.50 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.70 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.4
Ratings
1% below category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
9.7
Ratings
13% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.10 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.10 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.70 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.0
Ratings
3% above category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.0
Ratings
3% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Mobile Application8.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
7.9
Ratings
2% above category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.5
Ratings
3% below category average
REST API8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Javascript API7.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
iFrames8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Java API7.90 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.90 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Oracle AnalyticsOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.6 out of 10
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Score 9.5 out of 10
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Oracle AnalyticsOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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-
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Usability
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
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Availability
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
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Performance
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
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In-Person Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Online Training
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
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Ease of integration
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
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Product Scalability
9.1
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-
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User Testimonials
Oracle AnalyticsOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
The entire deployment and configuration stage was easy and it was accessible across the organization in a matter of days. Oracle Analytics Server being a cloud-based solution helped right from Input of Bulk Data to Info preparation, Data cleaning, and finally Data Modeling. Everything was visual and the Help Wizard was very intuitive.
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Discoverer is definitely well suited for a company that is working with a lot of data but does not have a large database knowledgeable team. It allows for basic database management while permitting users to access the data in a simple and efficient way. Reporting is easy to do and, again, does not require a lot of database know-how. If you are looking for more in-depth customization and multiple data sources from various vendors, though, you may want to look into a more robust platform.
Joseph R. Sweeney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joseph R. Sweeney
Senior Analyst
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Pros
  • Oracle helps with easy customization of reports.
  • It helps with the creation of dashboards and the integration of different data sources.
  • Oracle BI was a package used for multiple users across our organization - publishing and distributing reports was a breeze.
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  • Business Intelligence Discoverer helps with our Reporting team. We are able to run reports needed immediately using this tool.
  • Business Intelligence Discoverer helps with getting analysis of monthly and yearly medical data from across the state.
  • Business Intelligence Discoverer helps with web publishing and sending information to the trading partners.
Jatel Desai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jatel Desai
Programmer Analyst
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Cons
  • More AI but with human back up.
  • Less mumbo jumbo so even IT guys/gals can more easily work.
  • More statistics (math) and orientation for those not familiar with it.
  • More live as well as virtual (live) show casing of real situations in business.
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  • It would be useful if users could be allowed to write subqueries.
  • It would be helpful if there was a way for users to download the reports on their PC.
  • Most of the functionality is awesome and I would like to see more graphics in the reports.
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Likelihood to Renew
Scalability and rich integration capabilities. In the future, if we go with Hyperion for the Financial Consolidation and planning purposes -BI integration with Hyperion is going to be much simpler as it has native interface connectivity and even integration capabilities with well known CRM products (Siebel) and ERP Products (Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, SAP) is going to be easy and straight forward.
Satyendra Yenugula | TrustRadius Reviewer
Satyendra Yenugula
Director of Business Intelligence
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Usability
Great, if you are limited to using it along with other Oracle products; sadly, not if you are integrating with other products, which can be a challenge. It is a great product with tons of functionality and great integration with other in-house platforms. Great visuals and customization for data and analytics to provide decision-making data and analysis.
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Anonymous
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Reliability and Availability
No problems, it's that simple.
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Anonymous
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Performance
Other than anomalies or expected quirks, there were never any earth-shattering delays.
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Support Rating
Oracle Analytics Support team is very proactive and I have never had a situation where I had to wait for more than a day or two to get my issues resolved. This is a very big help for us and we appreciate Oracle and its team for guaranteeing that experience.
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Shifa Nazumudeen
BI Architect
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In-Person Training
Oracle University offers very in-depth training.
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Tom Jaskula
Manager - Business Analytics
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Online Training
It was a private training site.
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Anonymous
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Implementation Rating
Like most other large implementations of such technical programs, it pays to plan as much upfront as possible, and this is why we are researching this great product so much.
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
If compared with other major BI and data visualization tools ODVC guarantees a higher level o scalability. In fact, ODVC is ideal to be used to cover very complex use cases with data coming from different enterprise systems through different integration technology. ODVC can easily deal with millions of records.
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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 importing database tables, defining joins and running the queries. Discoverer stacks very well on top of ERP systems directly. Users can run reports on ERP tables using Discoverer. To perform similar jobs through OBIEE, one has to either use Noetix or another transactional model.
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Scalability
We have seen the results of this in our initial research and are not surprised that Oracle does this like it does soo many other things in this area, so well.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • We've used OBIEE (or it's previous named product) for over 13 years and it's still the most used tool for BI by the business.
  • We moved our largest business system off of Business Object into OBI so we could gain improved performance, reliability, and easier management of metadata.
Mary BrowningSmith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mary BrowningSmith
Project Leader - Strategic Leverage Platforms
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  • 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.
Glen Norman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Glen Norman
Lead Analyst - Accounting Systems
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