Knowage vs Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer comparison

Knowage and Oracle are both solutions in the Reporting category. Knowage is ranked #24, while Oracle is ranked #15 with an average rating of 10.0. Knowage holds a 0.8% mindshare in RT, compared to Oracle’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Knowage users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Knowage and Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer compete in the business analytics and intelligence category. Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer has an edge with its comprehensive feature set, making it worthwhile for its cost.

Features: Knowage offers a highly modular system with extensive customization options, analytic capabilities, and flexibility. Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer delivers robust data analysis and reporting features, seamless integration within the Oracle suite, and a more comprehensive solution that leverages existing Oracle ecosystems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Knowage is open-source, facilitating lower installation prerequisites and flexibility to deploy on various platforms. Its community-based support benefits technical teams. Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer requires more resources and depends on Oracle infrastructure but benefits from structured, professional enterprise-level support services, enhancing deployment and ongoing assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Knowage's lower initial setup costs attract smaller businesses seeking cost-effective data analytics capabilities and solid ROI through modular offerings. Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, despite higher upfront costs, potentially delivers substantial ROI for businesses that utilize its extensive features and integrate well into the Oracle ecosystem.

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Categories and Ranking

Knowage

Ranking in Reporting

24th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (32nd)

Oracle Business Intelligenc...

Ranking in Reporting

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Knowage is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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AbdulshukoorMohammed

General Manager Information Technology & Enterprise Applications Manager at OXFORD HOLDING

Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable

The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills. When we come to the integration with the single sign-on facilities, that part is very challenging. In Power BI and other tools, it's very easy to integrate with active directory and single sign-on, and identity management is very easy in other business intelligence tools. However, when it comes to Knowage, it's a bit heavy, it's time-consuming sometimes, it's not very fast, and definitely not as fast as other business intelligence tools in terms of getting graphical reports. The solution could be cheaper.

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Magdy Tawfik Eskander Taya

CEO at 3JITS

Useful for business reports and helps to drill down accounting information

The tool's most valuable feature is table creation. One of the most important capabilities is the supplier assessment reports. These reports provide a balance during transactions, which is crucial for auditing. This feature is not standard in other ERP systems, making it highly valuable. The solution helps to drill down details from sources like payables and inventory, which the accounting department requires.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."

"We can easily do our own customizations."

"The embedding feature is great."

"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."

"The tool's most valuable feature is table creation. One of the most important capabilities is the supplier assessment reports. These reports provide a balance during transactions, which is crucial for auditing."

Cons

"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."

"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."

"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."

"The dashboard components could be better."

"Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer needs to improve its performance and HTML reports."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Knowage is open-source, and an enterprise edition is also available."

"It allows the implementation of an effective reporting system using internal skills at a limited upfront cost."

"Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer is more expensive than its alternatives. You need to pay additional costs for implementation."

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Computer Software Company

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Government

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Real Estate/Law Firm

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Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer is more expensive than its alternatives. You need to pay additional costs for implementation.

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Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer needs to improve its performance and HTML reports.

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Also Known As

SpagoBI

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Overview

Knowage (formerly SpagoBI) has a 14-years history. The actual release is the 6.3.

Knowage offers FULL ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES, with a special focus on big data analytics and comprehensive support to rich and multi-source data analysis. Knowage provides different modules, each one focused on a specific domain but mutually combinable (Big Data, Smart Intelligence, Enterprise Reporting, Location Intelligence, Performance Management, Predictive Analysis). Moreover, Knowage is an OPEN SOURCE solution: the source code is freely accessible, everyone is allowed to join the community and build the own business solution to ensure strategic decision-making and improved productivity.

Knowage suite is supported by Engineering Group, the leading Italian software and services company, with about 10,000 people and more than 50 offices worldwide. Maintenance and support services (such as trainings, migration support, proof-of-concepts, etc) are provided by Engineering Group (KNOWAGE Labs) under subscription.

Knowage

Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer is an ad-hoc query, reporting, analysis, and Web-publishing tool that empowers business users at all levels of the organization to gain immediate access to information from data marts, data warehouses, online transaction processing systems and Oracle E-Business Suite.

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Sample Customers

FIAT Group, Italian air navigation service provider, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Telecom Italia, ASL Genovese, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital

Georg Fischer Central Plastics

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