Category Category Description

INSTALLATION Installation Process

NATURE OF TOOL Ad Hoc Query and Analysis Tool for End Users

Hide Complexity of Underlying Data From End Users

Delivery of Content

Importance of Tool to Vendor

Vendor Recommendation

FUNCTIONALITY Reports Definitions

SCHEDULE WORKBOOKS Ability to schedule workbooks to run at a future point in ti

REPORTS MIGRATION Migrating Discoverer queries

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Not easy to install

May require external consultants and/or various patches to
complete and verify the installation over a number of days

Ad hoc query and analysis tool that is similar to Excel

End User Layer (EUL) must be developed and maintained

Portal-, desktop-, and browser-based
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer has been non-strategic since
2006 *

Oracle recommends migrating Discoverer to the Oracle BI Offerings

by June 2015

Report definitions are stored as a Discoverer workbook.

Users need to know how to use Discoverer.
Drill downs must be built into the custom EUL (where possible) and m

Discoverer has this functionality.

Authorized administrators can extract the underlying queries used

by existing Discoverer reports as SQL statements.
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Easy installation by inhouse personnel takes

just a few minutes to complete

Ad hoc query and analysis tool that is actually Excel

based
EUL equivalents are the Report Definitions that provide
the Report platforms
Excel 2003-2013

strategic to Excel4apps and is constantly enhanced

Excel4apps recommends testing some of the most

commonly used Discoverer Reports in Reports Wand

Report definitions are saved as an Excel workbook.

Users need to know how to use Excel.
Wizards make it easy to configure drill down.

This functionality is planned for a future release.

SQL extracted from Discoverer can be repurposed as new

Report Definitions, which are then made available to
Reports Wand users.