Discover
Discover is the main interface in Pyramid for users to author and build reports and visualizations, perform ad-hoc, interactive analytics and create content for dashboards and publications. As the core analytics component for users, Discover performs the role as the central venue for content authoring on the system. Discover reports are also often consumed directly without incorporation into Present dashboards or Publish publications. This can be by launching them directly, through embedding or on the mobile platform.
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Discover Interfaces
Given its prominence, Pyramid offers multiple ways (aka "modalities) to access Discover, in varying degrees of functionality and sophistication.
Modalities
Discover comes in various levels of sophistication based on application entry point, user license type and user profile settings. These configurations and options are typically orchestrated by system administrators - who can ensure the right interface is presented to the right person at the right time.
Discover tools are presented in 5 core modalities:
- Report Viewing - this is a live interactive option to view a report with optional slice, dice and drill down capabilities. In this modality, the content has already been authored.
- Smart Discover - this is an augmented toolset for building reports using internal AI and heuristics to help non-technical users design analytic content.
- Natural Language Querying - this is another augmented toolset for building reports using plain English text questions.
- Discover Lite - this is a simplified toolset for drag-and-drop, point-and-click report building and adhoc querying WITHOUT numerous sophisticated features.
- Discover Pro - this is the complete Discover toolset for drag-and-drop, point-and-click report building, adhoc querying and data visualization WITH ALL sophisticated features enabled
A sixth option - Auto Discovery - is a special AI driven tool that allows pro users to submit an entire data set to the application to automatically analyze and construct analytic content.
Report Viewing
Unlike the main Discover authoring modalities listed above, report viewing is a core feature afforded to any user (based on their content access rights) since this is the most basic and foundational function of Pyramid. Pro and Viewer licensed users alike can view Discover content in any accessible client setting. The content is always live. It is also usually presented with interactive capabilities - unless these options have been disabled by the content designer.
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Finding the Right Interface
The following matrix explains the various combinations of Discover that can be accessed by different users with different licenses and different user profiles.
|
Consume |
Author |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
View Report |
Smart Discovery |
Natural Language Query |
Discover Lite |
Discover Pro |
|
License Type |
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|
Pro Licensed Users |
■ |
■ |
■ |
■ |
■ |
|
Viewer Licensed Users |
■ |
□ |
□ |
□ via Analyze Further |
□ |
Pro User Profiles |
|||||
|
Pro Mode |
■ |
■ |
■ |
□ via Analyze Further |
■ |
|
Lite Mode |
■ |
■ |
■ |
■ |
□ |
|
Smart Options |
■ |
■ via Present and Publish |
□ |
□ via Analyze Further |
□ |
Interfaces |
|||||
|
Desktop Client + Tablet Client |
■ |
■ |
■ |
■ |
■ |
|
Mobile Client (Phone) |
■ |
□ |
□ |
□ |
□ |
|
Embedded Client |
■ |
□ |
□ |
□ |
□ |
Combinations
Using the above matrix, the following example user deployments are possible (there are numerous permutations):
- A pro user, with authoring rights using the Discover Lite interface rather than the full Discover Pro tool set.
- A pro user, with authoring rights using the Smart Present tools only in the Present dashboard builder.
- A viewer user, with no authoring rights can manipulate existing content via 'analyze further' - if this capability is enabled in a dashboard.
- Any user viewing live interactive Discover reports embedded in a 3rd party application, without authoring capabilities