Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

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Free Trial
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

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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 Anonymous Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Oracle BI publisher Oracle analytics cloud Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? 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 … 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 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 … 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 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Desktop Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 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 … 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 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. 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?

Features

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BI Standard Reporting

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 7.9 Ratings 3% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports	8.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	7.70 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.00 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 7.9 Ratings 1% below category average
Drill-down analysis	7.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.50 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.00 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.3 Ratings 2% above category average
Publish to Web	8.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	7.70 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.0 Ratings 0% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.40 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	7.80 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.80 Ratings

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 9.7 Ratings 13% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	10.00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	10.00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	10.00 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.0 Ratings 3% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.90 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.80 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.80 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 Ratings 3% below category average
REST API	8.00 Ratings
Javascript API	8.00 Ratings
iFrames	8.00 Ratings
Java API	7.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	6.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Small Businesses	Yellowfin Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Reveal Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Kyvos Semantic Layer Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Joseph R. Sweeney Senior Analyst Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Jatel Desai Programmer Analyst Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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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