Richard Byrom

Consultant RPC Data 9th June 2002

Discoverer Overview

Presentation Purpose
Provide you with an understanding of what Oracle Discover is and what it is capable of. Demonstrate the capabilities of the product on a test system.

What is Discoverer?

Market leading end-user ad hoc query, analysis and reporting tool that is also web enabled.

What does it do?

Enables users at any level in an organization to gain rapid access to information stored in their transactional databases, data warehouses or data marts. Provides powerful navigation and analytical capabilities such as pivoting, drilling, aggregations and calculations. In an Oracle Applications environment, it provides and intuitive way for non technical end users (like execs and business analysts) to get rapid answers to business questions.

Discoverer Strengths
Ease of Use
Analytical Power Scalability and Performance Ease of Administration Integration and Customization

Ease of Use

Business View of Database Information Hiding the complexity

Database
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Users View

Strong Focus on Customer Usability

One Click Operations Wizard Driven
Tutorials Reduced Learning Curve

Drag & Drop Layout

Interactive Dialogs

Discoverer for Windows

Single User Interface

Discoverer 3i User Edition Discoverer 3i Viewer

Desktop Edition (c/s)

Plus (java)

Viewer (HTML)

Drill Everywhere
Europe

Drill Down
France

Paris

Drill Everywhere
Europe

Drill Down
France

Drill Out
Paris

External Data

Analytic Power

Power and Simplicity You Demand

Answers to Analytical Questions

What are my top ten products...

What is the 3 month moving average ... What is the cumulative sum of my sales by Region... What is the ranking of my sales this year compared to sales last year?

Analytical Power at your fingertips !...

Calculator functions (+ - * / ) Intelligent (Sub)Totals & Percentages SQL functions: Financial, Arithmetic, Logical, Analytic Enhanced Data Aggregation

Custom functions - PL/SQL registered

Leverage Analytical Calculations: use with Conditions, Sort, Pivot and nesting

Empower your users

Ratios Rank

Subtotals

Nesting Analytic Power

Nested Calculations: 1 sales yr ago : lag(sales, 4) 2 growth : sales yr ago/sales this yr 3 rank growth : rank(growth)

Performance & Scalability

Discoverer Architecture
Clients Application Server(s)
DMZ

Database Server(s)

Oracle9i Application Server

internet

Oracle9i Web Cache

Oracle9i Application Server Oracle9i Application Server

EUL Metadata
Database

Internet users

Firewall Support

Load Balancing

Multiple Servers

Metadata in DB

Cubic Client Cache

Performance
Client

Oracle9i Application Server

Client Session

Re-using cache OLAP type access Rapid drill & rotate

Discoverer Services

EUL Database

Cubic Client Cache

Performance
Client

Oracle9i Application Server

Client Session

Re-using cache OLAP type access Rapid drill & rotate Incremental Drill

Discoverer Services

EUL Database

Advanced Query Prediction

Performance
Reactive Query Governor
Stops queries after a pre-set time

Uses the resources without showing results!

Predictive Query Governor

Predicts time a query takes before execution

Does not waste valuable resources!

Batch Scheduling
Wizard Driven Easy management
User friendly scheduling Automatic notice when result set is ready or to expire

Summary Redirection
Select Store, Period, Product, sum(video_sales) From video_details Group by Store, Period, Product

Slow Table Scans Machine Intensive Aggregation

Detail Rows Summary Table

Summary Redirection
Select Store, Period, Product, Sales From video_summary

Automatic!!

Detail Rows

Summary Table

Ease of
Administration

Discoverer Administrator
Easy End User Layer Management
Easy Administration Bulk Load Wizard Oracle9i Discoverer Administrator Populate Business Area Hierarchies Joins Default Aggregates LOVs

EUL Management Wizard Create/Delete EULs Sample schema and EUL for training

Tutorial Installation

Administrative Reporting

Which Folders are users querying most? Which Items? Where are my long running queries? Who owns what workbooks? When were they last used?

What are my users privileges?

Simplified Deployment
Application Application

Application

X
Application

Database
Application Application
Browser Java Browser

Oracle9iAS Discoverer Services

Centralized Metadata
Reports Metadata Reports Metadata Reports

Reports Metadata

Metadata

X
Reports Metadata Database

Oracle9iAS Discoverer Services

Discoverer Automated Summary Management

Evolutionary solution for optimizing query performance!

Discoverer Summary Wizard

recommends summary policies, create summary tables with a single click, allow users to view and fine tune policies as needed.

Discoverer Automated Summary Management

100% : automated - summary policies

Easy to use
Customize Graphical

: dont need to be a DBA

: the algorithm - tune for different policies : performance gain estimate

Customization &
Integration

Discoverer Viewer
Custom Look and Feel
Custom

Standard

Complete and Integrated BI

Oracle9iAS OEM Oracle9iAS Reports Oracle9iAS Portal Oracle9iAS Web Cache Oracle Single Sign On Server

Oracle Internet Directory

Oracle9i Warehouse Builder Oracle e-Business Suite

Discoverer integration with Portal

Worksheet Portlet: Graph Worksheet Portlet: Crosstab

List of Workbooks Portlet

Oracle e-Business Suite Business Intelligence Solution

Financial Applications
Discoverer EUL Business Views Logical Data Model Application Product Tables OLAP Applications Query/Reporting Tools

Manufacturing Applications

Business Intelligence System

Out of the Box Oracle e-Business Suite Integration

Native Oracle Application Security

Respecting 100% Apps user accounts /responsibilities No extra setup The same level of multi-org access control Reporting on cross organizations w/ users Apps grants Reporting on full apps data inc. customized flexfields

Applications Key and Descriptive Flexfields

Meeting Requirements...
Requirements Ease of Use Analytic Power

Oracle9iAS Discoverer
Single UI Instant Web Deployment Free SQL Analytics

Central Administration & Security

Integration Customization

Centralized Metadata Single Sign On (SSO)

Database, OWB, Reports, Portal, Web Cache, SSO, e-Business Suite XSL Style Sheet 4 Times Less

Price

Benefits...
Benefits
Empowered Users Reduced Administrative Costs Oracle9iAS Discoverer

Yes
Yes Yes

Reduced Deployment Costs

Reduced IT Dependency Competitive Advantage

Yes
Yes Yes

Better Decision Making

Demonstration - Query
Description of how to build an end user layer specific to user requirements and security specifications different views for different people

Demonstration - Analysis
Tables, page detail reports and cross tabs Show the use of conditions, exceptions and calculations and drag and drop Show a graph with a drill through

Demonstration - Reporting
Show how you can export the data to excel and express

Q U E S T I O N S A N S W E R S