Google Charts vs. Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

Google Charts

Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Charts	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	Google Charts provides a way to visualize data on your website - for free. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types. The most common way to use Google Charts is with simple JavaScript that you embed in your web page.	N/A
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)	Score 5.4 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

Pricing

Google Charts

Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Google Charts	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Google Charts	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Google Charts DR Diego Reyes Practice Director Chose Google Charts In comparison to Microsoft Power BI, Google Charts has more ease of use for businesses who simply need a way to visually display their data from their reports. Although Power BI may be more robust in more complicated data compilation, Google Charts can still be able to do some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts As our company heavily utilizes Google products, when we first looked into the tool to help us to present our data, we were looking if we could find anything that is from Google and can satisfy our basic needs. Google Charts fit in it very well. That does not mean we are not … Incentivized Helpful? RW Rachel Walters Director of Financial Operations Chose Google Charts Google Charts is free so it was a no brainer for our company to use. There may be other products out there that have more functionality or are easy, but they are not free. Incentivized Helpful? JP Johnny Pelter Client Relations Manager Chose Google Charts Google Charts is great because it is free. There are not really other options that are out there that offer as much as Google Charts does without the cost, so no other software really stacks up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts I also would like to add Chart.js to the list, although it was not a searchable option. Google Charts is hard to beat, considering how effective it is, and that there's no need for an enterprise subscription. It's got basically any sort of chart or timeline or trend tracker you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts Having used other powerful BI tools, Google is still not upto the mark. But it does a decent job for a free tool. Incentivized Helpful? ET Elizabeth Turner Administrative Assistant Chose Google Charts We have not really tried any other software for this purpose other than Google Charts because it is free and has worked very well for us. Incentivized Helpful? JN Jun Nguyen Account Executive Chose Google Charts It is a reliable tool and its free version definitely stacks up against a lot of other paid versions of other software. So if you are using anything else, it is definitely worth checking out Google Charts. Incentivized Helpful? GA Greg Alder Account Executive Chose Google Charts Google Charts is one of the better software for data visualization because it is free. You can’t beat that! Incentivized Helpful? RI Ron Iver Director of Social Marketing Chose Google Charts Google Charts is better than any other alternative because it is free. It is a bit difficult to customize, so there may be better softwares out there depending on the complexity of what you are trying to do. Incentivized Helpful? VP Victor Pret Sales Manager Chose Google Charts Google Charts is one of the best tools out there because it integrates perfectly with Google Drive and Google Sheets, etc. Incentivized Helpful? DT David Turner Director of Social Media Chose Google Charts Google Charts does offer a lot of functionality and it is also free which is why it is a great choice for our team. We are always looking for free solutions that are out there. Incentivized Helpful? Alexander Cooper RPA Developer Chose Google Charts Smartsheet integrates better with JIRA out of the box so we primarily use Smartsheet for visualisation of our Sprint breakdown. However, when reporting to higher-ups, we use Google Charts as the flexibility is far greater. We can better make visualisations that suite our … Incentivized Helpful? YI Yosef Ing Director of Social Media Chose Google Charts There are very many other softwares out there that are as intuitive as Google Charts and that is what makes it great. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts Our teams were already using Google's G suite and as google charts simply came tagged along with it, they were more than happy to go with google charts given its capabilities. Though we have another BI solution in place but teams mostly work with google charts and export their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts Google Charts stacks up better since it is free and does not have the constant pressure for cost overruns, add-ons, annual maintenance and implementation services. The speed of using Google Charts is quick, saving users potentially weeks in getting up and going. For the … Incentivized Helpful? Collin Berg Lead Web Developer Chose Google Charts Chart.js is another javascript alternative to Google Charts. It outputs charts in Canvas elements rather than SVG, so it's a bit easier to manipulate and make responsive. Incentivized Helpful? Akhilesh Arya Assistant Professor Chose Google Charts For both the tools you need a good programming knowledge but this is not the case with Google Charts. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts I honestly have no used others. This was my first in my field. But I can say it's been a joy to work with and I don't see myself or my organization using any other platform or program. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts Went with Google Charts directly. Integrates with other Google apps that we use seamlessly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts We selected Google Charts because it is a free tool and is a part of the GSuite. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts We have not really used any other products, but we do not really need a reason to because this one has worked so well for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts I've used D3.js and Google Charts, in my opinion, is easier to use and more accessible. But D3.js is much more visually flexible and has a lot of different use cases if we compare it to this service. So I think Google Charts is suitable for dashboards and applications that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Charts I have not used many other software similar to Google Charts because a lot of the software I have used in the past has integrated reporting available to the customer. However, for instances where our software reporting is not accurate, we are able to use this online source to … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Bandy Executive Director Chose Google Charts I definitely prefer Google Charts over Piktochart chart because of the way that it integrates with Google Sheets, Google Drive, and Google Docs. The entire G Suite is completely crucial to our operation and having an outside chart program doesn't streamline or make data … Incentivized Helpful?	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

Google Charts

Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

BI Standard Reporting

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Google Charts 8.8 Ratings 8% above category average	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 7.9 Ratings 3% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports	8.10 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	9.50 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.80 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Google Charts 9.3 Ratings 14% above category average	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 7.9 Ratings 2% below category average
Drill-down analysis	8.60 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	9.50 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	9.50 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.60 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
	Google Charts 9.0 Ratings 8% above category average	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.3 Ratings 0% below category average
Publish to Web	9.50 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.60 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.60 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.70 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	8.80 Ratings	7.70 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
	Google Charts 8.8 Ratings 10% above category average	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.0 Ratings 0% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.90 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.80 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	8.80 Ratings	7.80 Ratings

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	Google Charts 8.8 Ratings 4% above category average	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 9.7 Ratings 13% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.80 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.80 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.80 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.80 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
	Google Charts 9.0 Ratings 14% above category average	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 8.0 Ratings 2% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access	9.50 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Mobile Application	9.60 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	8.70 Ratings	7.80 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
	Google Charts 8.8 Ratings 12% above category average	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) 7.5 Ratings 4% below category average
REST API	8.90 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Javascript API	8.80 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
iFrames	8.80 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Java API	8.90 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.80 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.80 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Google Charts	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Small Businesses	BrightGauge Score 9.1 out of 10	BrightGauge Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Reveal Score 10.0 out of 10	Reveal Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Kyvos Semantic Intelligence Layer Score 9.9 out of 10	Kyvos Semantic Intelligence Layer Score 9.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Google Charts	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	5.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	5.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Google Charts	Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Google Charts is perfectly suited for most presentations that are data oriented. There's not much of a limit on the type of table or chart you can create, and being able to integrate with Google Sheets just makes things even easier if you've already got the data stored somewhere. It works well on desktop browsers, Iphones, and Android phones. The only drawback I've been able to find is for those that prefer to have a desktop application. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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	Google Charts is free so a terrific tool for universities and students Provides new users that need charts an inventory and gallery of potential charts and types to visualize data The software is useful to add charts and data for websites with limited effort but with success Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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	I would like a couple more introductory videos or a live chat option for when you run into an issue. I think this is a Google-wide problem, not only linked to Google Charts. I have run into some issues with the Dynamic Data but also admittedly could potentially dive in deeper and investigate. It would be great if Google Charts made it possible to integrate Google Chat into the platform. Incentivized Sarah Bandy Executive Director Read full review	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
Likelihood to Renew	Google Charts is a good product. It's widely supported with deep documentation and a large community. But for me, it wasn't customizable enough. When we started with simple charts, it was great, but as we got deeper and more complex, our needs outgrew the library. If I was going forward, I would choose a more barebones library with more freedom and extensibility. Incentivized Daniel Ma Web Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Requires knowledge of Javascript, which can be difficult for a beginner. A business analyst often isn't as technically minded as a developer so collaboration is often required to produce a correct chart for the purpose required. However, the customisation capable due to this creates much better looking charts compared to other tools. Incentivized Alexander Cooper RPA Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability	Google charts is always available and provides fast output. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	Connectivity is occasionally very slow. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Google Charts has a very good documentation that we can just go in there and find the stuff we need to implement our solutions on Google Charts. Plus, if we get stuck, we can also email the support and they are very responsive. So overall, the support is very satisfying. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Online Training	The online training was solely done through self training on google's guide to charts. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Easy to implement Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	In comparison to Microsoft Power BI, Google Charts has more ease of use for businesses who simply need a way to visually display their data from their reports. Although Power BI may be more robust in more complicated data compilation, Google Charts can still be able to do some of the basics that Power BI delivers. DR Diego Reyes Practice Director Read full review	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
Scalability	Google Charts is essential for quick, easy, reporting. There are opportunities for advanced features. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	teams were easily able to create charts and find out progress on our learning courses and thus take actionable insights to their managers, professors students could also know their progress on various courses from one single view, same for instructors in terms of imparting education sales team could learn which kind of courses sold more to focus more on those areas Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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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