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Vice President Credit Risk Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Good dashboards and reporting, secure, and the machine learning enablement is helpful
Pros and Cons
  • "The AI/ML enablement is useful, as many reporting tools do not offer machine learning models as of now, without writing customized code."
  • "At this time, dataflows cannot be shared, but I think that this should be enhanced."

What is our primary use case?

This product is used for reporting and visualization.

We are not using the latest version but rather, one version back.

What is most valuable?

From a financial or bank perspective, this product is secure enough.

The dashboards, analytics, visualizations, and different reports are valuable for business analytics.

The AI/ML enablement is useful, as many reporting tools do not offer machine learning models as of now, without writing customized code.

What needs improvement?

This product does not support custom charts in the visualization.

At this time, dataflows cannot be shared, but I think that this should be enhanced.

There are a couple of other limitations. For example, many reporting tools offer good features and oracle should learn from that.

There should be tool tech enhancements.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Oracle Analytics Cloud for approximately three years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution and we plan to continue using it for at least another year.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I believe that this is a scalable product.

How are customer service and support?

We have been in contact with Oracle technical support and we are satisfied with it.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have worked with many reporting tools including SAS Visual AnalyticsSpotfire, and Activu.

There was no specific reason for switching to Oracle Analytics Cloud. This was a decision driven by the priorities of the moment.

How was the initial setup?

The time required for deployment is almost an hour.

What about the implementation team?

Deployment requires a small team of people. One from admin, another from the development team, and one more.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Director - Data Analytics / EPM at Constellation Consulting Group
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Provides an easy-to-use data analytics process, but the technical support services need improvement
Pros and Cons
  • "The ability to quickly search for and access relevant data is crucial."
  • "The product could benefit from increased flexibility compared to other vendors."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case for Oracle Analytics Cloud is for management reporting purposes within our organization.

How has it helped my organization?

The primary benefit of using Oracle Analytics Cloud is the ease of access to data, which enables users to retrieve and utilize data more efficiently. Another key benefit is the ability to share data across different departments seamlessly.

What is most valuable?

The product's most beneficial feature is the ease of use for data analysis.

What needs improvement?

The product could benefit from increased flexibility compared to other vendors like Power BI and Tableau. Currently, it can be quite complex for end users to navigate. Enhancing flexibility and ease of use would enable users to create reports more effortlessly with just a few clicks.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Oracle Analytics Cloud for more than 15 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The platform is relatively stable now, particularly considering its newer features. However, the platform continues to evolve, and there is room for improvement.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We manage the operations for five Oracle Analytics Cloud customers. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support services could be more user-friendly, knowledgeable, and fast.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We are implementing Power BI and Tableau. At the moment, they seem better than Oracle Analytics Cloud. They're more user-friendly and support flexibility. For example, if you don't have the required charts for that product, you can download them from chart markets. So it is quite easy. But for Oracle, it's still not possible now.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Oracle Analytics Cloud's pricing is generally higher than that of Tableau and Power BI. I rate pricing a nine out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

The integration of machine learning algorithms has significantly improved our analytics capabilities. It now provides quick insights into the data by leveraging machine learning algorithms. Users can input their queries or preferences, such as nearby products, and the system uses these algorithms to generate valuable insights. It supports data governance and security requirements.

Before implementing, I advise understanding the product's pros, cons, and features. Without a solid foundation, a gap between the product and expectations could occur, making management challenging.

It addresses the trend of self-service and managed analytics well. The ability to quickly search for and access relevant data is crucial.

I rate it a six out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Implementer
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Managing Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Reseller
Top 10
A solution for data warehousing purposes with dashboarding and data visualization features
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of the solution are dashboarding and data visualization."
  • "When you implement the product on a small scale, it doesn't generate any ROI."

What is our primary use case?

My company's clients use Oracle Analytics Cloud for data warehousing purposes.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of the solution are dashboarding and data visualization.

What needs improvement?

Oracle needs to improve scheduling processes, especially the way Oracle defines global-level formatting. The improvements in the solution would also include the integration of data visualization since all the new visualizations are only visible with the DV Cloud. Since it is very difficult, you cannot use the new visualizations on the older historical data, like the answers and all that stuff. The aforementioned details can be considered for improvements.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Oracle Analytics Cloud for fifteen years. My company functions as a reseller and has a partnership with Oracle.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The total number of users of the solution in my company ranges from 100 to 500.

My company mostly caters to enterprise-sized businesses.

How are customer service and support?

I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

I rate the initial setup a nine, considering an infrastructure with a single server on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy. The setup phase depends on what kind of setup a person asks for in their infrastructure. Suppose a person expects disaster recovery or multi-level redundancy when that person's server is in Europe, and the backup is in the data centers in the USA and India. In that case, it takes a longer time.

The solution is deployed on the open cloud or public cloud.

Considering all the instances, the deployment process takes a week, but it takes only a few hours for one instance.

As a part of the deployment process, you opt for the universal credit pricing to figure out the licenses required, or else you will have to bring your own license model. After speaking to Oracle's support team, you can create your user ID and password while ensuring that all the universal credits were a part of the process, following which you can give the name you want for your instance before connecting with Oracle's support team who will then carry on with the instance creation processes. Meanwhile, you will have to see where your database connectivity features, and if you want public connectivity, then you will have to whitelist some IPs while also having to take care of the firewall part. The aforementioned areas are usually taken care of by Oracle.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I rate the product's pricing a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

There are no hidden or redundant charges apart from the standard licensing costs.

What other advice do I have?

Oracle Analytics Cloud is meant for enterprise users and is based on traditional data warehousing approaches. The product is probably meant to store over a thousand reports and dashboards. When you implement the product on a small scale, it doesn't generate any ROI.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Director - Data & Analytics at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Useful for visualizations and basic reporting but improvement is needed in user interface
Pros and Cons
  • "Oracle Analytics Cloud's most valuable feature is its visualization."
  • "The product should improve its user interface. It should be welcoming and modern. Developers should also find it easier to build data models. Oracle Analytics Cloud needs to have better visualizations and more options in the marketplace."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution for the dashboards and basic reporting. 

What is most valuable?

Oracle Analytics Cloud's most valuable feature is its visualization. 

What needs improvement?

The product should improve its user interface. It should be welcoming and modern. Developers should also find it easier to build data models. Oracle Analytics Cloud needs to have better visualizations and more options in the marketplace. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the product for three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product's stability a nine out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I used Tableau before Oracle Analytics Cloud. We switched to Oracle Analytics Cloud due to company decision. 

How was the initial setup?

Oracle Analytics Cloud's deployment is straightforward. You need to create connections and ensure that proper syntax is made. Also, proper configuration is needed to be made in OCI. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The tool's pricing is not unreasonable or non-competitive. 

What other advice do I have?

You need to overcome a learning curve to utilize the tool's benefits. I rate it a seven out of ten. 

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Head of Data Science Section at The National Bank PLC Palestine
Real User
Top 10
User-friendly and competitively priced
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is user-friendly."
  • "The scalability has room for improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We use a solution incorporating machine learning and diction to word instructions for student appointments.

What is most valuable?

The solution is user-friendly.

What needs improvement?

The CLEAR report has room for improvement. 

The AI features can be improved.

I would like to have extra visualization such as geographical, more advanced org charts, and interactive charts and dashboards.

The scalability has room for improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for one year.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I give the scalability a six out of ten. The solution is not very scalable.

We have 20 people using the solution.

How was the initial setup?

I give the initial setup a seven out of ten. I had some difficulty with the query and the report flush. The deployment took one month.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation was completed in-house.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is not very expensive. I give the cost an eight out of ten.

We pay on a monthly basis and it is $10 per user each month.

What other advice do I have?

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

The maintenance requires one person.

Oracle Analytics Cloud is the gold standard, but new users need to also take into account the price.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Independent Consultant - Oracle BI Applications at Desjardins
Consultant
Complete product with excellent stability and scalability with no downtime
Pros and Cons
  • "It's really an enterprise solution. It has a dashboard, like standard dashboarding functionality. It also has reporting capabilities for producing pixel-perfect reports, bursting large volumes of a document if you need to. It has interactive data discovery functionality, which you would use to explore your data, bring your own data, and merge it with maybe the data from an enterprise data warehouse to get new insights from the pre-existing data. It has machine learning embedded in the solution. If you're new to machine learning, it's a really good way to get into it, because it's all within this platform, and it's really easy to use."
  • "As with most BI tools, the visualizations can be made much nicer. Currently, it has standard visualizations. They've been adding new visualizations, but we see animated visualizations from other vendors. It would be nice to have similar visualizations, such as the swarming visualizations, which are fairly new and very popular at the moment. I haven't seen that with Oracle. That would be nice."

What is most valuable?

It's really an enterprise solution. It has a dashboard, like standard dashboarding functionality. It also has reporting capabilities for producing pixel-perfect reports, bursting large volumes of a document if you need to.

It has interactive data discovery functionality, which you would use to explore your data, bring your own data, and merge it with maybe the data from an enterprise data warehouse to get new insights from the pre-existing data. 

It has machine learning embedded in the solution. If you're new to machine learning, it's a really good way to get into it, because it's all within this platform, and it's really easy to use.

What needs improvement?

As with most BI tools, the visualizations can be made much nicer. Currently, it has standard visualizations. They've been adding new visualizations, but we see animated visualizations from other vendors. It would be nice to have similar visualizations, such as the swarming visualizations, which are fairly new and very popular at the moment. I haven't seen that with Oracle. That would be nice.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for about a year. We are using the most current version. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I find the stability of this solution excellent. I haven't encountered any problems, but that would be my expectation. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's excellent. Its scalability is really what makes it stand out. You can on the fly increase the processing capacity of your instance for as long as you need it and then bring it back to whatever minimum setting you had. It's done on the fly with no downtime. That is very impressive. I love this.

How was the initial setup?

It's very easy to set up. It's extremely easy because it's in the cloud. You spin up your instance, which takes two minutes. You can also natively connect to an autonomous data warehouse.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I've given some thought to Power BI because it's so widely used, but my area of expertise is really around or has always been around Oracle. So, it was more of a natural choice for me.

What other advice do I have?

It really has everything that I want and need. It's very easy.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. It would be nice to see swarming kind of visualizations. Other than that, it's a complete product.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Vice President Credit Risk Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Stable, reasonably-priced, good support, and the BAS and narrate features work well
Pros and Cons
  • "The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization."
  • "Sharing dataflows is not possible at this time, and the custom chart functionality is not available."

What is our primary use case?

I am a software designer and a part of the technical team and we create the dataflows for the end-user.

What is most valuable?

The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization.

What needs improvement?

Sharing dataflows is not possible at this time, and the custom chart functionality is not available. 

I would like to see making abbreviations as per the user's needs.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Oracle Analytics Cloud is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's a scalable product.

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support that we are getting from Oracle is pretty good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, I worked with Tableau, Spotfire, and SAS VA. Tableau and Spotfire are a little advanced when comparing with OACs (Oracle Analytics Cloud). The customizations and making the licenses to suit your needs is pretty easy.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price is reasonable; it's quite a bit lower than Tableau and Spotfire.

What other advice do I have?

Depending on the needs of business to business, but as far a visualizations are concerned, this is a good product. Anyone can update for Business Intelligence.

I would rate Oracle Analytics Cloud an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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Data Analytics Manager with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Expensive, does not scale well, and there are issues around performance
Pros and Cons
  • "It's great for consolidation and creating one source of truth."
  • "When we have, for example, a table with low performance, we have several issues with drawing some graphics in the Oracle cloud."

What is our primary use case?

I have been using it only for reporting. I am trying to conduct some usage regarding the self-service BI, however, I haven't been able to implement it in that way. What I have been using is only BI reporting.

How has it helped my organization?

Previous to using Oracle Analytics Cloud, we had several issues consolidating information in one report. Using this tool, we were able to forget about using Excel and keep using it as the only source of data.

What is most valuable?

The main functionality is great and everything is pretty standard and easy to use. 

It's great for consolidation and creating one source of truth. 

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. 

What needs improvement?

The user interaction with the solution could be better. It can be frustrating at times. Sometimes it depends on the database performance. When we have, for example, a table with low performance, we have several issues with drawing some graphics in the Oracle cloud.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution since 2018. it's been about four years now. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. The only stuff I have some issues with was related to some communication with the database. I had some lack of communication that was an issue over there, however, most of the time, it was very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's not a scalable product. We have about 40 people using the solution and they are mostly data analysts. 

There is only one business area using the product and we have no plans to expand the usage.

How are customer service and support?

We did not have a positive experience with technical support. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Negative

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did assessments of other solutions. We were also trying to use Tableau and Power BI. The main difference was the self-service functionality. 

How was the initial setup?

The solution is pretty straightforward and simple. I'd rate it a three out of five in terms of ease of setup. We did the full deployment twice and it took us about eight months. 

We had a team of six people who handled the deployment and maintenance tasks. 

What about the implementation team?

We handled the implementation with our in-house team. We didn't use outside consultants or anyone like that. 

What was our ROI?

We have not yet witnessed any ROI. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I cannot speak to the exact licensing costs of the solution. In previous experiences, however, I recall it being quite expensive. I would rate it five out of five in terms of the level of expense to expect. That said, beyond the licensing fee, there are no other add-on fees to expect. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

When I was onboarded for the project, I was told to use Oracle Analytics Cloud. The assessment of other options is being done right now.

What other advice do I have?

We have a hybrid cloud deployment and use both AWS and Azure. I tried to use the Oracle cloud, however, I was unable to due to the budget.

I'd rate the solution two out of ten. It really isn't the best.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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