Oracle® Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus User's Guide
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OracleBI Discoverer comprises the following components:
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus
This component runs over the internet or intranet and enables you to:
create new worksheets and graphs to get the data you want
analyze the data
share worksheets and graphs with other people
For more information:
about using Discoverer Plus Relational, see "Using Discoverer Plus with a relational data source"
about using Discoverer Plus OLAP, see "Using Discoverer Plus with a multidimensional data source"
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer
This OracleBI Discoverer component runs over the internet or intranet inside a web browser. Use Discoverer Viewer to analyze the data in worksheets created in Discoverer Plus, and Discoverer Desktop. You can personalize worksheets (e.g. by repositioning items) and save your changes.
For more information about Discoverer Viewer, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer User's Guide.
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Portlet Provider and Discoverer portlets
These OracleBI Discoverer components run over the internet or intranet inside a web browser. Use Discoverer Portlet Provider to include Discoverer worksheets as areas (or portlets) within existing Oracle Portal pages. Discoverer Portlet Provider enables you to publish the following types of Discoverer portlet:
a List of Worksheets portlet
a Worksheet portlet
a Gauges portlet
You can personalize worksheets (e.g. by adding stoplight formatting) and save your changes.
OracleBI Discoverer Desktop
This OracleBI Discoverer component is a Windows-only application that enables you to build new worksheets to analyze data from relational data sources. The worksheets you create in Discoverer Desktop can be used in Discoverer Plus, Discoverer Viewer, and Discoverer portals.
For more information about Discoverer Desktop, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Desktop User's Guide.
OracleBI Discoverer Administrator
This OracleBI Discoverer component is a Windows-only application used by the Discoverer manager to create and maintain a business oriented view of relational data. Discoverer Administrator provides wizards and dialogs to:
control access to data
manage summary data
administer batch scheduling
For more information about Discoverer Administrator, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administration Guide.
OracleBI Discoverer End User Layer (EUL)
The Discoverer End User Layer component is a repository for storing and retrieving definitions of objects used when querying relational data sources.
For more information about the End User Layer, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administration Guide.
OracleBI Discoverer Catalog
The Discoverer Catalog component is a repository for storing and retrieving definitions of user objects when querying multidimensional data sources.
For more information about the Discoverer Catalog, see "What is the Discoverer Catalog?".