Chapter 10. Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer 10g Release 2 (10.1.2)

In this chapter you will learn about Discoverer Viewer 10g Release 2 (10.1.2), another part of Oracle Business Intelligence. In the first edition of this book, we did not cover Viewer at all. There was good reason for that. Four years ago the tool did not offer much, and we were really not very impressed with it. We do, however, think that this release of Viewer is really terrific.

Viewer is a thin-client HTML-based version of Discoverer Plus. It is packaged with Plus, so if you are using Desktop only, you will not have access to Viewer. It allows you to view reports that were created in both Desktop and Plus, but there are limitations to Viewer’s ability to see everything created in Desktop. In other words, it is fully integrated with Plus but not Desktop. This release has many cool features that make it much more than just a viewer. We think it should be called “Viewer on steroids.”