Oracle OBIEE Reviews

Name: Oracle OBIEE
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 3.9 (157 reviews)

3.9 out of 5

157 reviews
87% willing to recommend

10K followers

What is Oracle OBIEE?

Oracle OBIEE (Oracle Business Information Enterprise Edition) is a business intelligence (BI) tool developed by Oracle. OBIEE will gather, store and analyze an organization's network data and compile the information to create reports, dashboard graphs, and performance analysis. OBIEE’s unique platform allows clients to discover new awareness and improve the speed of completing important business decisions by providing robust visual tools and intuitive realization coupled with the latest unmatched enterprise analytics available. OBIEE helps IT enterprise organizations to experience an intelligent view of all enterprise data from across all sources and empowers trusted users with increased levels of reliable, dependable access, interaction, and the ability to utilize the data to increase the overall effectiveness and productivity of the organization.

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Oracle OBIEE is the #3 ranked solution in top Reporting Tools and #5 ranked solution in top Business Intelligence Tools. PeerSpot users give Oracle OBIEE an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 157 most recent Oracle OBIEE reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 6.5. (Among the lowest in the category). Oracle OBIEE is most commonly compared to Microsoft Power BI: Oracle OBIEE vs Microsoft Power BI. Oracle OBIEE is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 17% of all views.

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VishnuReddy

Senior Manager at Ernst & Young

Oracle's technical support usually recommends to upgrade when you contact them for support. They don't focus on fixing the issue at hand or providing guidance on how to do it. If you are in a lower environment, like one version down, they will blindly suggest upgrading. Additional patches are given for other Oracle products like WebLogic, databases, and apps. They fix issues and create patches based on client needs. But from an OBIEE point of view, they mostly provide bundle patches of around 5 to 6 GB that need to be applied and tested end-to-end. It's not an easy way to get small patches, and if issues arise after applying the patches, you have to contact Oracle again.

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Yossi Belitasky

BI manager at Clarivate Analytics

The solution's initial setup was straightforward. The deployment process for the solution takes time since we have many users. But because we have been doing it for a while, we're getting to more and more users while improving our learning curve. Basically, the deployment process is not that complicated. We're doing fine with the deployment process even though it takes time for us to train its users to give them the ability to understand what they're doing, what to do and how to do certain things on the solution. For the deployment and maintenance of the solution, we have about six to seven people, consisting of engineers and developers, in our organization.

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Ashok Bhadra

Associate Director at Sequentis

The solution's most valuable feature is that it is a very comprehensive tool. Oracle OBIEE is a really robust tool for a very large enterprise implementation. Its features in terms of physical data model to logical data model building are all really robust. Though somebody else had developed the tool for the client for whom I used the tool, it was very well done. The data modeling was very well done, and it depends on the person who is executing it, as I hadn't developed it. I had just enhanced it. I had seen whatever my role was, but somebody had initially developed it. It was developed very well. It has a fantastic feature of documenting. When you work with many clients, you see the documentation is always missing, and you end up taking up some other vendor's job. It is usually very hard to figure out technically what was done, what was not done, and where the data is, so the data dictionaries are not up to date, and information documentation is always very poor. Oracle OBIEE has a built-in feature where you can actually create entire documentation of all the data elements and how they are linked, and it throws out HTML documents that are all interlinked, so if you have an entire directory structure, it helps create the document. You can find out which logical model links to which physical table, and it is very easy to identify. There are multiple combinations if you want to identify one particular table and how many models are involved. You just need to click a hyperlink click, and it gives you all the information. If somebody has made any enhancements, you can just regenerate the document as there is a component of the tool that generates the documentation automatically, which is brilliant, I think.

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Oracle OBIEE mindshare

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As of January 2025, the mindshare of Oracle OBIEE in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category stands at 3.9%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Comparison	Oracle OBIEE vs Amazon QuickSight	Jan 4, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Microsoft Power BI	4.0	22.6%	93%	315 interviews Add to research
Tableau	4.2	19.7%	89%	295 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"It is a very stable solution."
"Integration-wise, it's good."
"The complexity that OBIEE can handle in the form of RPD is unmatched. I haven't found this level of complexity in other reporting tools, especially when dealing with complex calculations that are not readily available in the reporting layer."

Room for Improvement

"The tool's downside is that it is very expensive, making it an area where improvements are needed."
"I would rate its current performance as a five out of ten because a lot of features are missed out in OBIEE."
"Oracle OBIEE is lagging in data visualization."

ROI

Organizations report mixed results from Oracle OBIEE's ROI. Many users achieved successful outcomes with enhanced reporting and visibility. While some were disappointed with its value, others highlighted operational efficiencies and decision-making improvements. Several companies noted investment recovery and necessary use due to regulatory requirements. Some struggled to stabilize initial implementations, whereas others benefited from deployment on WebLogic for a streamlined setup. Its ability to address time constraints with pre-built templates was appreciated by some.

Pricing

Enterprise users report Oracle OBIEE as a costly solution, with high licensing and setup costs structured typically on a per-user basis. Companies suggest negotiating directly with Oracle for potential discounts. Costs, including maintenance and licensing, can be significant compared to competitors like Power BI, leading some enterprises to explore alternatives. Simplified price structures and bundled packages could improve value perception. Users emphasize starting with minimal licenses and scaling as needed to manage expenses effectively.

"All products from Oracle are very pricey."
"Compared with the other products in the market, I feel Oracle OBIEE is an expensive product."
"The licensing cost for Oracle OBIEE is expensive."

Deployment

Users have mixed experiences with Oracle OBIEE's initial setup. Some find it straightforward, especially when using provided documentation or receiving external assistance. However, others experience complexity, particularly in large environments with customization needs. Successful setup often requires specialized knowledge and careful planning. Challenges arise with integration and migrating from previous versions, requiring significant time and technical expertise. Despite initial hurdles, Oracle OBIEE provides flexibility and robust enterprise capabilities once properly configured.

Scalability

Oracle OBIEE is highly scalable, supporting numerous users and enterprise-wide implementations globally. It offers both vertical and horizontal scalability but can require significant setup and maintenance efforts. Cloud availability enhances its scalability, though it remains biased towards Oracle infrastructure. Scaling is straightforward with sufficient expertise, though complexities exist for non-enterprise users. Some performance issues and limitations are noted, but many find it scalable for diverse business needs and future growth expectations.

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Financial Services Firm

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Government

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Learn more about Oracle OBIEE

OBIEE provides unique immediate mobile access, intuitive dashboards, robust reporting, real-time alerts, metadata search, procedure management, direct access to Big Data resources, enlightened in-memory computing, and seamless systems management processes. These features seamlessly combine to make Oracle OBIEE a complete, top-of-the-line broad solution that is cost-effective, minimizes TCO, and provides a competitive, quick ROI for the entire organization.

Oracle OBIEE Top Features

Complete comprehension: Oracle OBIEE offers a full range of BI strategies, including intuitive smart dashboards, dynamic alerts and detection, efficient workflows, enterprise reporting, MS Office integration, real-time predictive analysis, and more. OBIEE also includes many next-generation options, including mission critical scalability and performance, diverse data access and integration, and a modern, robust, service-oriented architecture.

Hot-pluggable: OBIEE will take advantage of existing IT relationships, both Oracle and non-Oracle databases, solutions, and applications. Organizations that partner with OBIEE have access to an entire library of analytic tools that are immediately deployable and provide an improved TCO and a super-fast ROI. Additionally, in an outstanding collaboration with Hyperion, OBIEE incorporates BI tools that integrate well with the current suite to supply the grandest selection of BI tools available on the market today.

Extensive: OBIEE is very user-friendly and extremely intuitive, and the 100% Web UI brings robust and dynamic BI from diverse sources to any audience, distributing awareness when and where users require it to manage activities, decisions, and processes.

Reviews from Real Users

Sandeep V., Process System Engineer at a comms service provider, tells us, “This solution is very easy for people who are building ad-hoc things. It's an enterprise solution so it can be deployed for a lot of users. There are some great new features that come with the 12c like data visualization, desktop BI Publisher, automation, and interactive dashboards. The product has good features. “

A user who is a CEO at a consultancy relates, “The most valuable feature is the visualization. The data warehousing, data storage, and data wrangling are all features that are in there, and it's one of the better products out there. A good thing is that for large datasets, it's very stable, especially when you have an Oracle database.”

A user who is a Principal Business Intelligence Architect at a computer software company suggests, "It is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. One of the major red flags we have at the moment against Oracle is that it doesn't support deployment on other cloud providers. We're quite heavily vested in AWS as our infrastructure, and Oracle is yet to formally support deploying on those virtual infrastructure instances. That's quite disappointing, and it also cuts them out of over 70% of the market."

Oracle OBIEE was previously known as OBIEE, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle BI, Oracle BI EE 11g.