Oracle BI Discoverer - Your one stop solution to enterprise reporting and analytics!!!
October 25, 2019

Oracle BI Discoverer - Your one stop solution to enterprise reporting and analytics!!!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Business Intelligence Discoverer

The BI Discoverer is being used by our Finance/HR and Payroll departments. A lot of instant mission-critical reports are being generated from the Oracle EBS system via discoverer. It has really helped the users with time-savings.

Pros

  • Complex reporting made easy.
  • With ease, multiple levels of nested groupings possible within pivot functionality.
  • A lot of formatting tools are available for more control of reports containing visual attributes.

Cons

  • Maybe a more user-friendly worksheet wizard used in this tool.
  • More tuning options or maybe SQL advisory hints when building the worksheets would be immensely helpful.
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 within pivots. BI Discoverer is a far superior product.
I have worked with a variety of reporting tools but when you are building super complex reports, then this is the tool to go. Its seamless integration with the Oracle database while processing millions of records and data for reporting purposes is just awesome. I can't see any scenarios where it would be less appropriate to use.

Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
6.0
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
6
8.3
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
7
7.3
Publish to Web
6
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
8.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Not Rated
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

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