Limitations of Discoverer
Discoverer is comprised of two main tools, Oracle BI Discoverer Plus, a web tool that allows users to build reports, and Oracle BI Discoverer Viewer where those reports can be viewed. One of the main reasoning for this two-point system is optimizing efficiency, which makes Discoverer Viewer a more agile platform and reduces network traffic. However, the system as a whole is rather cumbersome and requires multiple logins, page navigations, mouse clicks and overall redundancy. Discoverer also does not support any dashboard functionality and can only be used on a desktop platform.
Today’s industry standards require much more than what Discoverer has to offer. A reporting tool needs to be agile, intuitive, and easily customizable to suit all business needs. Now is a productive time to consider the next step in your company’s reporting.
New Generation Reporting Solution
CloudIO is a modern, agile business application platform that optimizes the native Enterprise System APIS, web services and interfaces to optimize your business functions. The platform is built to be fully customized to fit all business needs. From CloudIO a user can migrate Discoverer reports, build new reports, and view such reports from a single source. All of the necessary features like filters, sorting, advance search, saved search, personalized views, excel export/import, NLS & MLS support and Standard Oracle security are all standard functions of the platform. Dashboards can be created in a manner of minutes with all of the essential functionalities a user would need.
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FEATURE / FUNCTION
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DISCOVERER
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CLOUDIO
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Create / Edit Query
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Yes
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Yes
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View Query with Dynamic Data
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Yes
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Yes
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View Query with Snapshot Data
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No
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Yes
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Drill down capability
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Yes
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Yes
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Create pivot tables
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Yes
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Yes
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Conditional Formatting
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Yes
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Yes
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Create and Edit Calculations
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Yes
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Yes
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Reports on data sources, other than Oracle
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Yes
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Yes
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Able to schedule reports
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Yes
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Yes
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Auto email schedules reports for sharing
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Yes
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Yes
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Auto save filters & sort state
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Yes
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Yes
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User customization
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Yes
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Yes
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Display list of most recent reports
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Yes
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Yes
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Create Graphic Charts
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Yes
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Yes
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Report wizard
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Yes
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Yes
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Export to Excel
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Yes
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Yes
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Alerts – monitor a condition and send email when matched
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No
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Yes
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Ability to open multiple reports concurrently
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Yes
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Yes
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Auto-distribute reports via email
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Yes
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Yes
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Integrated with EBS Responsibilities
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Yes
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Yes
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Role Based Security
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No
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Yes
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Dashboards
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Yes
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Yes
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Enterprise Portal (Internal)
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Yes
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Yes
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Supplier Portal (External)
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No
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Yes
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Customize the look and feel
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Yes
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Yes
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The platform is accessible from any modern browser (IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc), tablet or mobile device, and there’s also the possibility of creating a native mobile app. CloudIO is metadata-driven and can be implemented in a manner of weeks.
There is more to CloudIO than just reporting and dashboards: the platform has the capability of migrating your company’s entire ERP system, creating a seamless and streamlined user experience. CloudIO can integrate all of your modules that suffer from a cumbersome UI and optimize it into a fully customized, agile, and powerful platform.
For more information and to set up a demo of the platform, please contact our team.