Oracle OBIEE Reviews

Primary use case, we use it for slicing and dicing service reporting. Our business is using Oracle BI to deliver business, marketing, and financial reports. Technology mainly does the modeling, and the business is creating the reports. We don't have any problems with the enterprise reporting.

It performs very well, because we are using Oracle Exadata. Oracle BI accesses Oracle Exadata, and it performs very well since Oracle Exadata has great performance. 

We have been using the Oracle stack for a long time. So, it was a natural choice to use Oracle BI.

The performance can issue queries to work in the Oracle database in Oracle's native language. There are a lot of visualizations which suit our business.

It shares quite a lot of features which suit us. For example, we have scheduled reports delivered automatically to our business users using enterprise features.

It is easy to create a report quickly. It does not take much time to create an ad hoc report.

Now, we have more demands to load data somewhere quickly, not seeped into a model, like data warehouse model. We need to load it somewhere like a data lake and have a tool which can analyze the information very quickly without creating a model. So, our business has a need to have a sandbox, or something similar to it analyze unstructured data that does not fit into the data warehouse model, along with joining unstructured data with structured data from the data warehouse. However, I am not sure that the BI tool is the right tool to do this, it is more of a data discovery tool. 

With Oracle BI, we need technology to create the model, then the business uses this model to create reports. If they wanted to analyze data quickly which is not in the data warehouse model, then we cannot use Oracle BI for it, or it's not so suitable.

In the beginning, it was not so good. Now, with the version 11.7 and 12, we are satisfied and don't have any problems.

In the beginning, it was not so good. Now, with the version 11.7 and 12, we are satisfied and don't have any problems.

We used the technical support a few years ago. We were not satisfied with the support, because we could not obtain answers or solutions. The problems that we had were recognized as bugs, and they would say, "It will be fixed in the next releases," and it was fixed, but it took time. Basically, it was not a pleasant experience to work with My Oracle Support.

We had at our disposal updates, new features, and new releases, which was good. We downloaded and upgraded, but regarding the problems that we had, we were not satisfied. The last problem that we had was about four or five years ago, and we haven't had problems since.

We previously didn't have a BI solution.

We first used Oracle 10, then Oracle 11, and afterwards moving to 11.3 until we got to Oracle 12. The initial setup was not complex. Although, in the past, when we had to upgrade, we had to install another version, and move the reporting to it. Now, we can do an in-place update. So, it is not so complicated.

We had more than one quotation, then we chose the product based on a type of questionnaire with scoring. I think Oracle made the high score at that time (2010). It was between Oracle and Cognos at that time.

There are now tools like Tableau or Power BI that enable you to do BI analysis without any model in the background. You can just connect to the database, or any other unstructured data source and do whatever you like, probably with more fancy visualizations. Although I'm a technical person, these things are more important to our business people. 

Oracle is an Enterprise BI tool. You have to do the modeling based on that model, then you can do whatever you like. However, it's not easy. It's not so flexible to do BI reporting directly from the data source without models. It is not that agile.

It's a very good tool for plain Enterprise BI reporting and usual BI reporting. It's not a tool for data discovery. If you want to do old-fashioned plain BI reporting and have a large company where you want your business users to have the possibility to have reports delivered to them automatically, then Oracle BI is a good tool. If you want to be more agile and do more data discovery on unstructured data which is not well-known, then Oracle BI would not be the best choice.

• Ease of use
• Strong calculation engine
• User-friendly look and feel

I am from a consulting background which normally works on projects. Many customers using this product have streamlined their planning process with analysts spending more time on analysis than data massaging.

Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported.

More than 10 years.

On-premise, when data grows exponentially, stability issues have been experienced.

Not applicable.

An eight out of 10.

Straightforward and easy to setup.

For financial planning with WorkForce and CapEx, it's definitely the product to go for.

It's easy to create fully-functional Dashboards.

We have been able to integrate different sources into one dashboard.

Essbase integration needs to be worked on.

I've used it for around five years.

No issues with the current version.

When using Essbase, queries accumulated in the BI server and degraded its performance.

No issues encountered.

It's satisfactory.

It's satisfactory.

We previously used Hyperion WebAnalysis, and we needed better RMDB and browser support.

It was straightforward.

We used a mixed team, and when the vendor team implemented it, they had satisfactory skills to do it.

It's ok.

It´s expensive.

• QlikView
• Tableau

Requires some database tuning and an expertise in OBIEE to perform as expected.

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.

• Dashboards
• KPIs
• Scorecards
• Analysis
• Reporting

Working as a BI Consultant, I have to develop different analyses, reports and dashboard documents to analyze the status of different business measures. We are using OBIEE and MicroStrategy for the purpose of enterprise performance management by defining and describing different business perspectives and objectives, Initiatives and results are analyzed on the basis of these defined attributes.

I've been using it for six months to a year.

Sometimes there is an issue of font size, spacing and other related formatting document issues.

We've experienced no issues with performance. However, the larger amount of number of selectors, filters etc. you have, the longer it will take to display an analysis.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

7/10

8/10

I started with OBIEE, and I am still using it for References.

It was straightforward.

We implemented it in-house.

We're also using MicroStrategy.

If you are looking for Purely Performance Management of a whole Enterprise, then you should choose OBIEEE, otherwise choose MicroStrategy.

Powerful, interactive and high performance reports and dashboards.

More reports views and enhance user interactivity.

Around 6 years, previously 10g but now 11g.

If you use Arabic reports names in the default reports path on windows you will face "Path too long" problem because all names are encrypted in hexadecimal format.

Immediate shutdown for services may crash the system.

No issues encountered.

No

Straightforward set-up.

No.

Go ahead it is a very good, stable and reliable product.

• 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.

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.