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.
"It's a pretty scalable product."
"The most valuable features are the easy creation of reports, dashboards, and the ability to perform analysis. It is important for us to create reports because we have some operations during certain hours and we can use this tool to track the information."
"It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"Our setup is very straight forward and can be done in a matter of hours."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools."
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"It is easy to use...I rate the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ability to handle large volumes of data and provide traditional BI functionalities that developers can easily understand."
"In terms of features, everything is good. It is also stable and scalable."
"Provides good data visualization features, and provides a lot of visualization reports from various data sources."
"Can utilize SQL queries to generate reports directly."
"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."
"They were reasonable in terms of price."
"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"These licenses are in US dollars. With a long-term license, the client is unaffected when the exchange rate goes up. However, if the exchange rate goes down, you don't get refunded from the excess money you've paid. I guess that is a risk you take in business."
"Implementation is cumbersome and requires expertise."
"The complexity of this product means that you need to have a technical team to develop the reports, although this is also true for products like Microsoft BI and Zoho."
"It takes a lot of maintenance to support the architecture, which is something that should be improved."
"One significant improvement is the need for simplification. The set up could be more intuitive. An enterprise setup with HA and DR are pretty complex and to get a robust solution one has to play around with Real Application Cluster data sources and FAN notifications as well as WebLogic clustering and external load balancers. SSO also is not that simple to set up especially if you want all your Oracle systems to use the same SSO solution, i.e., no cheating with direct LDAP connectivity."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"The solution needs to be easier to scale."
"Supply chain and finance."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd 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 SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. 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.