Comparative Evaluation Between Discoverer & Oracle Reports

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Agenda
Discoverer - Overview
Advantages over D2K Reports

Disadvantages over D2K Reports

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Overview

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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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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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Discoverer allows both Inexperience 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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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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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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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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- Following Value - Running Total - Percent Running Contribution - Percent Contribution - Moving Total - Group Total - Band By Value - Band By Rank

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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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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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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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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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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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Discoverer Can Export data to Oracle Reports:

Discoverer provides seamless integration with Oracle Reports Developer, the enterprisereporting 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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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 Effort in Development is lesser Very easy to modify the Worksheet Oracle Reports Effort is significantly more in Development Change in Layout is a significant effort

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Advantage of Discoverer over Oracle Reports

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

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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 Meta data needs to be created by Oracle technical consultants Oracle Reports No need to create Meta data

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Disadvantage of Discoverer 2000

Flexibility
Oracle Discoverer Oracle Reports

Can not create multiple graphs in one sheet

Can create multiple graphs in one sheet

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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 : Discoverers metadata repository stored in the database Discoverer Desktop : Ad hoc query creation, advanced analysis (client/server version)

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Administration Edition Is an application that database administrators use to prepare the data so users' exploration can be easy and productive. User Edition Enables business professionals to explore and analyze the data that's important to them -- while avoiding complex database structures and procedures.

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End User Layer

The End User Layer lies between the User Edition and the database. It shields users from the complexity of database tables, views, columns, joins, and SQL.

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Business Area

A business area is a logical grouping of information from database tables or views. Within a business area, you create: Folders -- based on tables and views.

Items -- based on columns.

Business areas are stored in the End User Layer.

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Admin Edition Components

End User Layer

Business Area

Folder
Items Joins

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