Discoverer Administrator also enables you to control user access to business areas. You grant access permissions and task privileges to user IDs and roles for business areas only—all primary access to database objects is provided and controlled in the database by the database administrator. By reusing database security mechanisms, Discoverer Administrator reduces the workload involved in maintaining access control to business areas.

You can also export entire business areas or individual EUL elements to a file. Item-level export allows you to upgrade certain EUL components without affecting other customized areas, and assists in migrating between test and production instances.

Discoverer Administrator can cross reference the EUL to Discoverer workbooks, enabling you to view and assess the impact of modifying EUL elements. For example, Discoverer Administrator can tell you which workbooks reference a folder that you are about to delete and whether those workbooks will be affected.

Discoverer Administrator also provides system managers with information about business areas that support reporting against the content of the EUL. This metadata reporting can be used for administrative reporting purposes helping you to analyze issues such as 'Which folders are users querying most?', 'Which items?', 'Where are my long running queries?', 'Who owns what workbooks?', 'When were they last used?', and 'What are my users' privileges?'.

Discoverer Administrator includes Discoverer Desktop, which allows you to test query execution and view results as your users would. Tight integration with Oracle9i Database simplifies complex business analysis, security, scalability, data access, and metadata creation. Seamless integration with other complementary Oracle business intelligence products makes Discoverer Administrator the only tool you need to support your organization's query building and execution needs.

With Discoverer Administrator you can: