Using Oracle Discoverer
October 31, 2017

Using Oracle Discoverer

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Business Intelligence Discoverer

We use Discoverer as a way to provide self-service reporting and analytic services to our organization. It provides a graphical interface for simplifying data access.
  • Discoverer allows drop and drag for data elements onto reports. All technical aspects, like joins, are handled in the administration section and away from the end users. This makes it easier for them.
  • Discoverer allows for the registering of PL/SQL functions for easily adding functionality to the reporting abilities.
  • The creation of calculations can be difficult for end users. SQL creation skills are needed to understand complex additions.
  • When multiple joins are added between reporting objects, it does not give enough details regarding what the differences might make.
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.
It is a good product, however it has been discontinued.

Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
3
Report Formatting Templates
5
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
6
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
2
Report Delivery Scheduling
1
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
1
Mobile Application
4
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated