Comparative

Evaluation
Between
Discoverer &
Oracle Reports

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Agend
aDiscoverer - Overview

 Advantages over D2K Reports
 Disadvantages over D2K Reports

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Overview

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 Overview

OracleAS Discoverer offers web based

decision support capabilities to end-users
and is an integral element of a
comprehensive business intelligence
solution provided by Oracle Application
Server.

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 Overview

Discoverer is an intuitive ad-hoc querying,

reporting, analysis, and web-publishing tool.
It provides business users with immediate
access to information from data marts, data
warehouses, online transaction systems,
and Oracle Applications.

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 Overview

Discoverer allows both novice and

experienced users to create queries,
navigate through data, and publish report
results.
Discoverer can be deployed in either a
scalable web architecture or client/server
architecture or a combination of both. It has
six components: Discoverer Plus,
Discoverer Viewer, Discoverer
Administrator, Discoverer Portlet Provider,
the Discoverer End User Layer, and
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 Overview
Formatting:
Font, size, alignment, color – foreground and
background, display names and format masks –
numeric, monetary, date, etc… can be applied to
report elements in Discoverer Plus. Format
modifications are independent of the platform.
Changes applied in Discoverer Plus are visible in
the Discoverer Desktop and vice versa. This
formatting is preserved when uses view these
reports in Discoverer Viewer or in a portal page.
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 Overview

Graphs:
End users can create graphs in Discoverer with
an easy to use wizard that supports more than 50
different standard and custom graph types. Users
can add graph titles, resize, format styles, colors
and much more to create ‘boardroom quality’
graphs, or to conform to corporate standards.

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 Overview
Analytic calculation templates available in
Discoverer Plus:
Users can use the following analytic calculation
templates to get quick insights into their data

- Rank
- Percent Rank
- Difference
- Percent Difference
- Preceding Value

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 Overview

- Following Value
- Running Total
- Percent Running Contribution
- Percent Contribution
- Moving Total
- Group Total
- Band By Value
- Band By Rank

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 Overview
Scheduling
Discoverer provides advanced scheduling
capabilities. Users can schedule workbooks
using a wizard based user interface, specify and
maintain a 'repeat' interval, choose to keep either
all results sets or just the latest
version. Discoverer suggests users to schedule
workbooks when their query prediction threshold
is exceeded. Discoverer automatically notifies
users when scheduled workbooks are available or
when expired result sets are to be removed.
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 Overview
Administration When number of users increased:
Discoverer is built using a stable ‘n-tier’
distributed component architecture. Components
of Discoverer Services can be added dynamically
to meet increased demand as the number of
concurrent users increases. It uses a configurable
round robin method to balance the load across all
available Discoverer Services. No administrator
intervention is required

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 Overview
Performance when number of users increased:
Discoverer is optimized for performance and
designed to minimize network traffic.
Performance options include HTML paging,
client side timeouts and zero software
download. Discoverer Viewer breaks large
documents into pages in the background
and displays the first page initially.

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 Overview
Performance when number of users increased:

Discoverer Services monitors client activity

and end inactive sessions after a specified
timeout limit. This frees up valuable
resources for other users.

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 Overview
Licenses (Purchasing):
You need to purchase the following Oracle
products in order to receive Discoverer:

· Oracle Application ServerTM Enterprise

Edition for Discoverer Plus and Viewer.

· Oracle Developer SuiteTM for Discoverer

Administrator including 1 user license of
Discoverer Desktop Edition.
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 Overview
Licenses (Purchasing):
Oracle Discoverer Desktop Edition can be
purchased as a stand alone product for additional
licenses.

Price :
Discoverer Desk top Edition –
Named User Plus Perpetual ($1,000.00)

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 Overview
Discoverer Can Export data to Oracle Reports:
Discoverer provides seamless integration with
Oracle Reports Developer, the enterprise-
reporting tool. Discoverer users can export
workbooks with full fidelity.

This provides users access to the full suite of

publishing capabilities of Oracle Reports
Services, such as batch scheduling and PDF
support.
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 Overview
Revenue Strategic Report (Screen Layout):

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Advantage of Discoverer
Introduction
Over Oracle Dev. Reports

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 Advantage of Discoverer over Oracle Reports

Effort
Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Effort in Development Effort is significantly

is lesser more in Development
Very easy to modify the Change in Layout is a
Worksheet significant effort

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 Advantage of Discoverer over Oracle Reports

Flexibility
Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports
Analytical Functions This feature is not
like Rank, Running available dynamically
Totals, Statistical
Functions are available
“Out-of-the Box” to be
used by Users in a
dynamic fashion

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 Advantage of Discoverer over Oracle Reports

Flexibility
Oracle Discoverer
Users can Sort by any
Item in the Work-sheet.
This can be changed
effortlessly by User at
Run-time.
Oracle Reports
Sorting can be
provided, but at the
time of Report creation
by the developer

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Disadvantage of Discoverer
Over Oracle Dev. Reports

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 Disadvantage of Discoverer 2000

Initial Efforts
Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Meta data needs to be

No need to create
created by Oracle
Meta data
technical consultants

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 Disadvantage of Discoverer 2000

Flexibility

Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Can not create Can create multiple

multiple graphs in one graphs in one sheet
sheet

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 Disadvantage of Discoverer 2000

Discoverer Components

Discoverer Plus : Ad hoc query creation, advanced

analysis, navigation and charting

Discoverer Viewer : Powerful analysis and easy

navigation for casual users to view reports

Discoverer Portlet Provider : Publishing existing

Discoverer workbooks to OracleAS Portal

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 Disadvantage of Discoverer 2000

Oracle Developer Suite includes:

Discoverer Administrator : Creating and maintaining
a business view of the data and access control

Discoverer End User Layer : Discoverer’s metadata

repository stored in the database

Discoverer Desktop : Ad hoc query creation,

advanced analysis (client/server version)

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