Business Intelligence Discoverer, a relatively simple and straightforward BI solution
December 07, 2018
Business Intelligence Discoverer, a relatively simple and straightforward BI solution
Score 5 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Business Intelligence Discoverer
Business Intelligence Discoverer was used for some departments (majorly the BI department), the main focus user group is those who don't have enough in-depth SQL or let's say database knowledge. It's also only for those databases which don't have a complex relationship, and where the business user's graphic report requirement is quite straightforward. So, the end user can quickly transfer the info buried in the Oracle database to a more understandable chart and share with team members.
- It is good for quickly building some ad-hoc report on top of the data
- It works well with the Oracle's own database of course
- The drop feature is very useful for the business user who hasn't mastered the SQL knowledge
- Allow customization of PL/SQL functions/procedures, to add more complex data processing logic
- In order to be able to add the data "processing" logic, for the basic business user without too much SQL or procedure knowledge, it is almost mission impossible. Simply hiding the complexity of basic technical things like "join" is not enough.
- Lack of the "hints" or "relationship explanation" when a report with complex joins is created
- Data visualization options are really too limited
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.