Oracle Discoverer and OLAP

Hi,
I want to know whether Discoverer 9i (component of Oracle Application Server 9iAS ) can fetch data from Oracle 9i OLAP.
Or it an upcoming feature in 10g?
Thanks and Regards,
Roshini.

Roshini,
Try to post your question in the Discoverer forum.
Peter

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Hi Everybody,
I have a question concerning the differences between the two reporting solutions offered by Oracle : Oracle Discoverer Desktop and Oracle Reports Developer.
I am wondering if both of them support OLAP data, if they allow reports publishing (through a web server) and if they have an SDK kit.
Should we prefer one solution over another or each one has its own domain of use
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hi lee,
discoverer is an end-user based tool for querying data. basically
an administrator prepares an environment that the end-user can
easily select his query without knowing anything about the technologies.
discoverer is available on the web (iAS) as well as on client/server (iDS).
reports is a powerful enterprise reporting tool which provides the
end-user a ready to use reports. basically a reports developer can
base a report on any datasource and you can get the output in any format
you like. report has open api's and powerfurl frameworks to extend the
out of the box functionality. you can design reports for paper based
reporting to produce output or you can design reports for the web.
reports is capable of dealing with mass data and for that fully scalable.
this was just a high level introduction.
find much more information about the product on OTN
http://otn.oracle.com/products/reports/content.html
regards,
christian

Discoverer and OLAP

Do discoverer 9i support oracle 9i OLAP? If I don't want to build OLAP application with BI bean. Because it is too complicated. How can I do that?
Thanks
Winson

Hi
I'm not sure if I can answer all your questions, but this is how we do it. We tried BI beans and found it to complicated to start with, so we decided to use discoverer instead as a start.
I don't think that Discoverer uses the "OLAP part" on the server (this is not my strongest field), but it has the same functionality with drill-down and summaries (creates materialized views or summary tables) we like the functionality we have seen so far. There are also good documentation on these pages (tech-net) with User guide for all the discoverer applications.
Hope this helps. Search tech-net and read about Discoverer and see if this is something you could use.
Greta, Norway

How to do this in Oracle discoverer for OLAP

I have two dimensions like commodity ( having 3 levels) and organisation ( having 8 levels) and Time ( Year- Quarter-Month) . The measure is Gross spend in USD. I have calculated 4 measures on this.
When I make the report in discoverer plus I have created the reports as organisation as page Items at level 1. Commodity is another dimension which i have put in left hand of the report.I want to compare specific month calcualtion to prior or future month selection with out having drill downs,because when we drill on year, it contains 3 quarters and contains 4 months.. the report is becoming very big and the calculations are getting for each year.how to avoid this
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There is a Year to Date calculation template that will allow you to do this.
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Oracle Discoverer and Windows 2003 Server

Did anyone know if Discoverer 4.1 is compatible on windows 2003 server?
Also if Discoverer 10g is also compatible on windows 2003 server?
Thanks.

Hi,
No, Discoverer 4i is not supported with Windows 2003, see Note 332433.1. 10g is compatible with Windows 2003.
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Discoverer and Oracle 9i Olap Option

Hello,
I have a question regarding Discoverer and OLAP option in Oracle 9i. Is it required to buy OLAP Option
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As I know Oracle BI Beans make use of 9i OLAP Option and Discoverer Graphs use Graph Component of BI
Beans, so how this situation concerns OLAP Option (I haven't found any information that OLAP Option is required to use Discoverer)?
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Oracle OLAP is a multidimensional database on the top of the Oracle 9i database. It works like Oracle Express(MOLAP server).
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We are looking at possibly using Oracle Discoverer Plus OLAP. Our database is Oracle Database Server 10g Enterprise Edition (with OLAP option).
Is Discoverer Plus OLAP part of this? Or is it a separate product? Or can I -only- get it by purchasing Oracle BI EE (which is expensive and more than we need)?
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See the following links:
The Oracle BI Technology page: http://www.oracle.com/technology/bi/index.html
Oracle Discoverer page on OTN: (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/discoverer/), where you shall find Flash based demos on the following:
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Creating Business Intelligence Reports Using OracleBI Discoverer Plus OLAP
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Open balance in oracle Discoverer 4

hi,
I have supplier statement in oracle discoverer and it works fine. I give from date / to date parameters and it return transactions summary per each supplier. I need to add the open balance amount for each supplier to have real statement. so can you provide me with any idea to do that in discoverer.
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Where is Oracle Discoverer download?

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Can I schedule a discoverer In Oracle Discoverer Desktop, Plus, Viewer ?

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How to integrate Oracle Discoverer to Portal Release 2?

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Learning Oracle Discoverer

Hi, I am interested to learn Oracle Discoverer and need your suggestion on:
- Useful links for tutorial of Oracle Discoverer (I had PDF from OTN)
- Which Oracle products that I should download to setup a test environment, other than RDBMS/Oracle instance. (BTW, is Discoverer an old name? I saw it is classified as "archived" product in OTN).
- How far behind is 4i version?
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Edited by: jh77267 on Jan 26, 2010 7:23 AM
Edited by: jh77267 on Jan 26, 2010 7:33 AM

Hi Jill
There are various ways of learning about Oracle Discoverer, ranging from self-help tutorials to full-blown instructor-led courses.
INSTRUCTOR LED
You will find instructor-led courses offered by Oracle University for prices around $600 per day. You can find other companies, mine included, that also offers instructor-led courses.
E-LEARNING
My company also offers E-Learning for a very reasonable price. You'll find more details on my [home page|http://ascbi.com]. I don't make a habit of pushing our offerings in the forum and only mention it when a specific question comes up asking about learnning Discoverer. I don't know of any other company offering this type of training. If I did I would let you know.
FREE CONTENT
There is an abundance of free material on the web. You can find an awful lot here in this forum and by just using Google (I do this a lot). I am the author the official Oracle Press book on Discoverer which you can find on Amazon. I also run a [free blog|http://learndiscoverer.blogspot.com] and offer free white papers and presentations here on [my downloads page|http://ascbi.com/downloads.htm].
To be honest with you, if you are looking to learn it more than to just dabble then I strongly recommend you take some formal training. It's the fastest way to get up and running.
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Oracle DB 10g and BI Discoverer for OLAP - Dimension Attributes

Hi,
We are using Oracle Database 10g release 1 with partitioning, data mining and OLAP options and Analytic Workspace Manager 10.2.0.1.0A to create the multidimensional objects. For the user dimensions created using AWM we have custom attributes like HireDate, StartDate, Sales Personnel Role etc., For reporting purposes we are using Discoverer for OLAP. In this Discoverer version, I don't see an explicit provision to drag these attributes onto the worksheet. We are only able to filter based on these attributes and capture the measures...
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Oracle discoverer olap and 11g olap

Does anyone know if i can use disco plus olap against an 11g database cube. currently with my patch level it definately doesn't work as i cantwven select a catalog to report on but if i add patches will it work? and is it certified?
i have read the following and it still isn't clear
Doc ID: 808276.1
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Thanks

Oracle makes it a general policy not to announce things in future releases, even bug fixes, without due approval from senior management. This puts Oracle developers in the unfortunate position of not being able to pass on information in forums like this, which is why you are not able to get a straight answer to your very reasonable question.
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