We performed a comparison between Microsoft BI and Oracle OBIEE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft BI is the clear winner in this comparison. It is easy to set up, has good customer support, and is reliable and easy to use. In addition, it has an impressive ROI and is less expensive than Oracle OBIEE.
"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"It's a straightforward setup."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"There was a lot of manual work involved with Excel, whereas once we moved on to Microsoft Power BI, it was a cleaner dashboard and it was faster too."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"We do you use Oracle support. We've been paying for an Oracle support subscription for four or five years, and not one ticket has ever been logged. When I came in, I've encouraged the team to ask Oracle questions. They do get back quite quickly. Their support is good. Working with our account managers, if I need to escalate anything, I can speak to them and they escalate the call. I've got that ecosystem working quite well. That does work for us."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The setup isn't too difficult."
"A great feature of the solution is its stability."
"Inter Process Communication."
"In terms of features, everything is good. It is also stable and scalable."
"The centralized metadata model component is most valuable."
"I like that Oracle OBIEE comes with more options. For example, more options with data security, user security, and other security. It's more complicated than Microsoft, but it gives you more options. They also added the part for machine learning, which is good."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"When it comes to improvement, I would say there could be more tutorials for students in universities who are just learning it. And it wouldn't have to be just for students in universities. It might also be for the people who use it in the real world."
"Microsoft has made a lot of progress with Power BI in the past couple of years, but there is still some room for improvement. For example, Integration is one area they could work on. They are adding more integration with other Microsoft tools, but I would like it if they sped up the process."
"It could have more of a hold on big data. Manipulating big data on this solution complicates things. This needs to be improved."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"The platform's interface needs improvement."
"The pricing of the solution should be bettered."
"We needed some technical expertise during setup."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office."
"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."
"It takes a lot of maintenance to support the architecture, which is something that should be improved."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Databricks, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Qlik Sense. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Oracle OBIEE report.
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When comparing Power BI with OBIEE, it is evident that OBIEE emerges as the winner in the data management aspect, while Power BI scores drastically above OBIEE in the self-service and data visualization aspects.
Power BI and OBIEE make a strong pair in the Analytics landscape by complementing the weaknesses of one with the strengths of the other!
Therefore, it is good to leverage the best of both OBIEE and Power BI, by connecting them seamlessly and securely through BI Connector.