Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Oracle releases Discoverer 11g

Hi everyone
The long and eagerly awaited release of Discoverer 11g has just been announced by Oracle and it is available for download right now. This new version of Discoverer is now part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

Here is a (link) to the software download. Scroll down to the section entitled Portal, Forms, reports and Discoverer and click on the appropriate link(s) for your platform. The download is beigger than you have been used to.

Here is a (link) to the documentation download.

My good friend Abhinav, who runs the Oracle BI Blog and was the techincal editor for the Discoverer 10g Handbook, has more information available (link). Please pay close attention to Abhinav's comments regarding the order for installing the software.

My friend, Mark Rittman, who also runs a blog and wrote the OLAP chapter in the Discoverer 10g Handbook, has further information (link) including some screenshots.

Here are some important notes for you to consider:

  • Currently the software is only available for the Microsoft Windows and Unix x86 platforms. The other operating systems as well as the 64-bit versions will be available soon
  • The OC4J engine that we have all got used to has been dispensed with and replaced with the WebLogic Server, otherwise known as WLS. Get used to this acronym as it will soon become common place within the Discoverer environment
  • From 11g, Discoverer is still available as a stand-alone install but the install is done from a single interface. If you want to use the full-blown install there is now a single install instead of the two as there are with 10g.

I will be making more postings in the coming months as we all come up to speed on the new version.

One thing to note, as far as I know at this stage, is that once up and running the functionality of Discoverer 11g is virtually the same as the later versions of Discoverer 10g. I am not sure which cumulative patch it is equivalent to but as soon as I find out I will let you know.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Michael,

Its nice to see oracle 11g in your blog.Hope you will come up with installations made easy and what are the changes in 11g in your next posting.

Regards,
Kranthi

Disco User said...

Is there any What's new? document within Disco 11g documentation? I can't see anything like that on Oracle website. I'm interested in new/changed functionalities of the tool (Plus/Viewer/Admin). Release notes for Disco 11g are in fact Known bugs list only.

Michael said...

Not sure what is new at this point. I have a meeting with Oracle next week to talk about 11g. I may have more info then. Personally I don't think there will be much in the way of new functionality at this stage because 11g is lining up the possibilities for interfacing to other parts of the BI stack.
Watch this space!
Michael

Anonymous said...

Does anybody know if Discoverer Plus can open blob files in database?

I can open PDF's, JPEGS... in Discoverer Desktop but in Disco. Plus 10.1.2.48.18 it's impossible.

Thanks in advance,
Hugo.-

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