Oracle’s Discoverer application was designed as a smart ad hoc query and analysis reporting tool for businesses. In January of 2009, Oracle released a public statement encouraging its users to migrate from Discoverer. Fast forward a decade and organizations are still...
Migrating from Oracle Discoverer: Everything you need to know
Oracle Discoverer used to be a trusted ad-hoc operational reporting tool, that was primarily used by Oracle ERP customers. However, it reached its end of life (i.e. Oracle stopped offering support for Discoverer) a few years back. In spite of this lack of support and...
5 Ways in Which Orbit Analytics Compliments Oracle OTBI Reporting
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) is one of the reporting tools available with Oracle Cloud ERP Applications (Fusion) and is built on the Oracle BI platform. Being a part of the Oracle Cloud Apps licenses, it is integral to the platform and does not...
SQL DirectQuery for Empowering End-Users to Generate Customized Reports
Change is the only constant in this world. Businesses too need to constantly evolve and change strategies from time to time to remain competitive and grow. This impacts the operations of every business function, requiring new reports to be generated to reflect the...
Ad Hoc Reporting: Key Factors to Consider
Remaining competitive and efficient across various business functions requires each department to be able to identify areas of improvement on an ongoing basis. It requires access to real-time data and the ability to generate specific reports “on-demand”. Ad hoc...
Impact of IE 11 Desupport on Discoverer
Internet Explorer 11, the last major version of the desktop application from Microsoft, will be sunsetted in June 2022 when support will be withdrawn on some of the operating systems. Users are being encouraged to migrate to Microsoft Edge, a more new-age solution....
FAQs for Discoverer Replacement
Common Questions that come up while Migrating from Oracle Discoverer Oracle BI Discoverer, an integrated business intelligence component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, facilitated intuitive ad-hoc query, reporting, analysis, and Web-publishing functionality. It...
What Happens When Software Reaches End of Support?
A number of software applications are reaching their end of support this year. That includes Adobe Flash, no longer supported after December 31 2020, and Microsoft products like Visual Studio 2010 and Windows 7. The day after support ends for the software you use, it...
Oracle Discoverer End of Life: Are You Still Using Decades-Old Reporting?
It’s the start of a new decade and a great opportunity to inventory the software applications you use or support. One of them that might be running on desktops in your organization is Oracle Discoverer. An early version of an ad hoc query reporting tool, Discoverer is...
Orbit Reporting + Analytics, and Discoverer Migration
Support for Oracle Discoverer officially ended on June 30, 2017. Users still running Oracle Discoverer as their everyday operational reporting tool within Oracle E-Business Suite should consider moving to another tool before it is too late... "No new patches for...
Best Practices for Discoverer Migration & Replacement
The June 2017 deadline for Discoverer’s end of life is rapidly nearing. With that end in sight, and budget planning well underway, the time to begin migrating reports and locking down a Discoverer replacement solution could not be better. Depending on the number of...