Oracle OBIEE Reviews

We do all of our reporting out of OBIEE, and the analysis is valuable. Moving clients over has been a big step for us. Coming into web, we segregated our web interface data entry as opposed to just reporting to OBIEE Analysis. We also have publishers on great front-end tools for the presentation side of it.

They can always improve on the user interface, and the publisher could get some new features.

We have used it for four years now.

It has consistently been stable.

We foresee it meeting our needs for the future. Financials and advancement to our team was big. It has been able to handle everything so far.

Tech support is knowledgeable. We use the community, which is helpful.

It’s a nice stable tool. All the dashboards, iPad support and other features have been great for us, and we totally rely on it. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

• BI Publisher
• Oracle Maps
• MS Office integration

It has helped provide ad hoc reports. These improve the business by doing forecasting, as well as analyzing the existing reports with old data.

• OBIEE maps
• BI Publisher

I've used it for the last five years.

There were issues encountered.

There were some issues encountered with stability.

There were some issues encountered with scalability.

It's good.

It's good.

No solution was in place previously.

It was straightforward.

My team did the implementation and integration.

• Delta extracts
• Scheduler
• Multiple delivery options
• Word and Excel integration to create report templates

A lot of manual processes, e-forms and paper forms were replaced by automated interfaces and reports.

Customer support and documentation.

I've used it for 15 months.

No, we're using the cloud service.

No issues encountered.

There are slow processing times sometimes, and with it being a cloud solution, the infrastructure is out of our control.

4/10.

3/10.

No, we were switching from manual business processes.

It was quite complex, due to many business-specific requirements. OTB extracts and reports couldn't be used, so customized ones were created.

Two external vendors, one from the US with a high level of expertise and one from Australia with a medium level of expertise.

It's a good product with a lot of functionality, customization, a relative easy-of-use.

We use it for analyzing our sales, our processes. So far, it is good.

It has unified the reporting within the group. Previously, each business unit had its own report. Now we have the unified report, so everyone can look at the same picture at the same time.

I think the most valuable features are the ability to drill down, the graphs, and the scheduling for the reports to be received in Excel on a daily basis. Users like Excel, so it's good for them that they receive the reports by email, that they don't have to specify the schedule.

We are looking at Power BI and Data Visualization from Oracle, because it has more appealing graphics. This is going to be the next step, if we do move at all. 

It's very stable. 

It is scalable.

Technical support is good. I would give it a rating of seven out of 10.

We did not have a previous solution.

The most important criteria when selecting a vendor include 

• support - that is one of the important things 
• availability of partners to help if we need anything
• integration with ERP systems and the other tools that each company would have.

It was straightforward.

We only evaluated Oracle at that time.

I would rate it at eight out of 10. It has very good features but it is missing going quickly into the cloud, and virtualization - unlike other vendors.

The most valuable feature is that we don't have to do anything. They give the code by themselves. We just have to do minor customizations. Its usability is really good. When we implement the tool, we can implement it in a short span of time and start doing enhancements on the basis. It's really good; a good tool.

They offer multiple database support. We can import data from Excel files, CSV files, along with our ERP systems. I just think that’s a cool thing.

The only thing is: Upgrades are critical. They are migrating their business intelligence systems. They have introduced cloud-based analytical solutions. I like where it is going, but with what we have been using, we are facing difficulties in upgrading and so on.

In my company, they have been using it for seven or eight years.

I've been working on OBIEE since the beginning of my career, around eight or nine years.

This is definitely a stable solution.

One feedback would be that their upgrade is not as easy as other cloud solutions. You have to install the software again and migrate the repositories. That's kind of bad; that's a negative.

Nonetheless, it could serve as a business solution for the whole organization, multiple business teams, and so on.

The solution is definitely scalable. I have seen it grow with my company. Once the tool is implemented, multiple teams want to exploit the tool, derive different business cases out of it and build different dashboards out of it. They give a base system, on which we can do ad-hoc reporting. Dashboard development is also extensive with OBIEE.

Technical support is quick actually. I've been communicating with those guys regarding multiple issues. The support is good. They look into our issue and give the best possible solution to us. So far, it has worked out good. They're definitely knowledgeable. They are knowledgeable about the issues. They figure it out and give out multiple possible ways to approach the problem and find a solution.

This is definitely a good tool. I recommend it. Moreover, if someone was thinking about implementing this solution and they came to me, I would have a quick chat telling them the pros and cons we faced during the implementation. I would give them ideas about how useful it was for our business.

I use this primarily for our passports. 

The most valuable feature is the openness of the solution. It helps us integrate some of our clients. 

The functionality is in need of improvement. We find the graphs need to be upgraded. 

The stability is good. But, we are a small team. We have not yet tested it in a larger setting.

In terms of tech support, we have our own technicians. But, we did register for their help. When we register a call, it takes time for them to respond to us.

We used Microsoft BI in the past.

The pricing we negotiated with Oracle. But, I do not have details.

It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources.

It allows us to control inventory and warehouse management (by using the features listed in the previous answer).

Supply chain and finance.

10 years.

Yes, in the previous release of the administration tool, there were a lot of issues, and compatibility issues that didn't work with OBIEE.

No, I can scale out horizontally and vertically.

Seven out of 10. There is not much technical support. Sometimes, I have to find the solution myself.

This is a pretty cool, enterprise BI tool. If you can, do a drill back against Oracle EBS.

Basically reporting, and we have a couple of modules which we bought. OBIEE, which is used financial procurement and reporting purposes.

I think in the older version, 11g versus 12c, Oracle has thought through so many things. I think the installation is a lot simpler. I think they have improved a lot. If you asked about the older one, maybe I would have given you many reasons, but not with the new one.

It's close to four years now, or even more, maybe close to five years.

It is a stable product and I think we are on the latest and greatest. We are in the process of upgrading to 12c, and any product you take, it will have some issues, so it's not something we run into a lot of issues with.

I think the amount of reporting, the amount of users that we have, I think we are pretty solid and how we scaled it I think the end user is very happy.

When you open up SR Oracle has a list of things which they ask for. Being an end customer, when we open an SR, we give as much as information as we want and again the support person comes into the picture, and without reading what we have put through, they just has the same questions over and over. What version, what product, all that kind of things, which is not at all fair.

We used to have Interactive Reporting which is an Oracle product. Hyperion Interactive Reporting.

I would say if you want to make your financial reporting simpler and easier, and you can put it towards the end user, and the way you can control the things, and show the graphical use, or ease of use, and functionality, it's very simple for the financial user or end users. I think it's very good product.

Maybe not all products are up to the speed or like any product you take, there is space to improve. I think for our company, the way we use it, we are very happy with it and the end customer is very happy with it.