What is OracleBI Discoverer?

OracleBI Discoverer is an intuitive ad-hoc query, reporting, analysis, and Web publishing toolset that gives business users immediate access to information in databases.

OracleBI 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. OracleBI Discoverer provides a business view to hide the complexity of the underlying data structures, enabling you to focus on solving business problems.

OracleBI Discoverer comprises a number of integrated components that work together with the Oracle database to give you a complete and integrated Business Intelligence solution.

Figure 1-1 OracleBI Discoverer components

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Which OracleBI Discoverer component you use will depend on what you want to do. For example:

• if you want to create new worksheets and analyze data from both relational and multi-dimensional data sources across the Web, you will use Discoverer Plus

• if you want to create new worksheets and analyze data from relational data sources using a Windows application on a PC, you will use Discoverer Desktop

• if you want to analyze data in existing worksheets, you will use Discoverer Viewer or Discoverer portlets (that have been added to an Oracle Portal page using Discoverer Portlet Provider)

• if you want to display Discoverer worksheets as gauges in dashboard-style portals, you will use Discoverer Portlet Provider and Discoverer portlets

• if you want to manage the end user view of relational data, you will use Discoverer Administrator

The OracleBI Discoverer components use definitions of Discoverer objects stored in the Discoverer End User Layer or the Discoverer Catalog.

For more information about the OracleBI Discoverer components, see "What are the different components of OracleBI Discoverer?".