Oracle Discoverer (discontinued) Reviews & Insights

We use Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer as part of ERP for our purchasing and financial reports.

Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer is a very flexible and fast report generation application. Big data is our problem.

We are using Oracle Business Intelligence discoverer for generating ad hoc reporting, data analysis, web publishing and reporting for particular clients' Oracle database environment. Basically it is having many features which we have used to solve the database queries and many more like admin activities, end user layer management, relational and OLAp queries shoot, catalog management, etc.

It is well suited for Oracle database environment requirements, but it is not very appropriate for those who are working on different types of database environments.

Business Intelligence Discoverer is used to access and analyze data in the database and create reports. Since it supports web-based publishing of reports, it serves as a single tool to query, analyze, report and publish it in the web. It is a very useful tool for non-technical or business analysts.
It is used only by a department and not across the organization.
It addresses the business problem of getting immediate access to data and analyze data in the database and create reports.

Areas where Business Intelligence Discoverer is well suited - when immediate access to the data is required, places where different types for m data visualization is required. It supports numbers, charts, etc.

Areas where Business Intelligence Discoverer is not well suited - in places where direct access to data in the database is not needed, slice and dice of data and building data models are not needed, businesses that don't require reports and numbers everyday.

We use it in data analysis.

It helps to look at stats as a whole, from wait times to call times, scheduling times to recovery times...

The Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Discoverer is used by teams across the entire organisation for easy access to data and actionable-information in their day to day activities. For example, teams from the Marketing division use BI Discoverer to retrieve data that helps make decisions for running promotions. There are similar use cases for the Operations and Finance divisions as well.

If you work in an organisation in which data requirements are heavy across all functions, then Oracle BI Discoverer is an effective solution. BI Discoverer provides easy access to your databases through a simple browser-based touchpoint. This allows all users to query the database without the use of cumbersome tools and requires almost no SQL expertise.
On the other hand, if you have deeper analytics requirements with heavy reliance on visualisation, then BI Discoverer will not fulfil your requirements.

Business Intelligence Discoverer is being used by my current department. We use it to analyze worker's compensation data, and run reports. It is also used to find results when an outside agency or trading partners have questions on current stats on things like the opioid crisis and disability rates. It is a quick and easy way to find results needed.

Oracle BID is suited for a business that needs to run many reports daily. This includes getting stats on current information, and analytics to send back to trading partners and other business entities. Oracle BID would not be appropriate for any company whose main focus is not to store data that will be queried for reporting purposes.

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.

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 BI Discoverer enables business users at all levels of the organization to make faster and more informed business decisions. Using any standard Web browser, you have secure and immediate access to data from both relational and multidimensional data sources. Oracle BI Discoverer provides a business view to hide the complexity of the underlying data structures, enabling you to focus on solving business problems. We are using BI Discoverer in our BI area because we need to create reports and analyze a lot of date for take decisión and increase our sells.

Create report about sells. Create report for customer and embedded into our web sites. Simplify data repositories. When you have different database and you need to centralize this data, this is a perfect tools to do it
When you need analyze data and take decisions to improve your business in order to be most efficient.

It is being used by our business as well as implemented to our clients. Business Intelligence discoverer is a tool-set for ad hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment. Queries can be created and executed faster and the focus is aligned towards making decisions based on results rather than designing the queries.

In Reporting tools, this software can be a game changer. It has immense features that are suited towards creating reports for strategic business decisions. In OLTP setup , where processing is of major importance, this tool is not of much use.

Business Intelligence Discoverer is used for reporting purposes by different departments across the company. The tool helps the business gain visibility to transactional data entered in the core Oracle ERP system.

It regarded as a tool that can primarily be used by Oracle core users versus the general public where other tools such as Tableau seem to have more traction.