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Comparative Comparative Evaluation Evaluation

Between Between Discoverer &Discoverer &

Oracle ReportsOracle Reports

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Discoverer - Overview

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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 Discoverer Desktop.

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Overview

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.

Formatting:

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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.

Overview

Graphs:

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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 

Overview

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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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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.

Overview

Scheduling

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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

Overview

Administration When number of users increased:

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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.

Overview

Performance when number of users increased:

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Discoverer Services monitors client activity and end inactive sessions after a specified timeout limit. This frees up valuable resources for other users.

Overview

Performance when number of users increased:

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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.

Overview

Licenses (Purchasing):

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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)

Overview

Licenses Licenses (Purchasing):

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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.

Overview

Discoverer Can Export data to Oracle Reports:

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Overview

Revenue Strategic Report (Screen Layout):

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IntroductionAdvantage of Discoverer Over Oracle Dev. Reports

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Advantage of Discoverer over Oracle Reports

Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Effort in Development is lesser

Effort is significantly more in Development

Very easy to modify the Worksheet

Change in Layout is a significant effort

Effort

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Advantage of Discoverer over Oracle Reports

Analytical Functions like Rank, Running Totals, Statistical Functions are available “Out-of-the Box” to be used by Users in a dynamic fashion

This feature is not available dynamically

Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Flexibility

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Advantage of Discoverer over Oracle Reports

Users can Sort by any Item in the Work-sheet. This can be changed effortlessly by User at Run-time.

Sorting can be provided, but at the time of Report creation by the developer

Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Flexibility

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Disadvantage of Discoverer Over Oracle Dev. Reports

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Disadvantage of Discoverer 2000

Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Meta data needs to be created by Oracle technical consultants

No need to create Meta data

Initial Efforts

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Disadvantage of Discoverer 2000

Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Can not create multiple graphs in one sheet

Can create multiple graphs in one sheet

Flexibility

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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

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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)