Astera ReportMiner vs. Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astera ReportMiner
Score 8.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
ReportMiner provides an automated solution for data ingestion and integration for unstructured document data sources. This data extraction software enables you to liberate business data trapped in documents such as PDFs, PDF forms, PRN, TXT, RTF, DOC,DOCX, XLS, and XLSX. With features for data scrubbing, business rules-based data quality verification, data transformation (merging, splitting, normalizing, denormalizing, and more), and loading into high-end database platforms, an integration flow…N/A
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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
ReportMiner Enterprise
Contact sales
per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are provided for 10 pack, 20 pack, 50 pack, and enterprise-wide ReportMiner Professional licenses.
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros

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Features
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BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.9
20 Ratings
4% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.017 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.717 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.9
22 Ratings
3% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.021 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.514 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.3
22 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.716 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.0
16 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.815 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.815 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
9.7
22 Ratings
12% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.017 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.0
16 Ratings
1% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.915 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.811 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.811 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.5
9 Ratings
5% below category average
REST API00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(7 ratings)
8.0
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Astera Software
Astera ReportMiner is well suited for those who work with EMR Data or business operations data where different platforms may report on similar data but not everything is the same between the different systems and how they export their data. It works especially well when systems can't edit their exports so you need to clean up data a lot before they are combined into a single file. It is less appropriate a solution when you are trying to combine large data, let's say thousands of files and need some sort of platform to deduce analytic patterns out of it. This is more used for data preparedness rather than big data analysis. This may have changed with recent updates, however they do not do a good job of updating customers on new releases so keeping track of their developments is something worth doing if data management is an important part of your/your company's role.
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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.
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Pros
Astera Software
  • ReportMiner's OCR accuracy is flawless to my experience. I use the program to pull values from check details, and have yet to find an error.
  • ReportMiner's interface is easy to learn. I never even got formal training on the program. I watched some YouTube videos and learned as I went.
  • ReportMiner training personnel is very knowledgeable and quick to respond. Anytime I ran into a problem I could not figure out on my own, they would get back with me within a half a day.
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  • 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.
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Cons
Astera Software
  • Could provide some features to help with advanced analytics for big data. (i.e. larger data sets)
  • Too much clutter on their Youtube page, they should highlight the tutorials so they are easier to find for new users. Get rid of old tutorial video playlists so the organization is clean and up to date.
  • Have sales rep follow up with customers to offer product updates, new product releases, and do check ins to see if customers have suggestions for feature improvement.
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  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Astera Software
It is the best way to get a multi line record from pdf to Excel in one row.
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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
Astera Software
I have never actually used another program like ReportMiner. Before I was just using PDF viewers such as Adobe that had OCR capabilities. I would have to select a range of numbers and copy and paste to Excel. It was tedious, slow, and sometimes error prone. I chose to learn ReportMiner because it saves me at least 4 times the amount of time I would have to use by copy and pasting.
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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.
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Return on Investment
Astera Software
  • Efficient and automated data extraction. Saves time and resources.
  • User-friendly interface and good documentation. It is therefore easiest to learn and apply in a short time.
  • Documents, which have various formats of data tables or arrangement, needed a lot of manual fixing. So it required a lot of time for validation and quality control.
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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.
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ScreenShots

Astera ReportMiner Screenshots

Screenshot of automatic field creation in ReportMiner, done by scanning the region’s sample for repeating patterns of data.Screenshot of the interface to map and export data to almost any desired destination, including databases like SQL Server, Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and any ODBC-compatible database, as well as formats such as fixed length, delimited, Excel, and XML.