Oracle OBIEE Reviews

Our primary use case of this solution is for public reporting, creating a dashboard for our users so they can create their own reports. If they're using Tableau and other things, we give them a dashboard to use. It provides a structure or enterprise solution or framework, which gives you a free hand to create your own reports. We have some form of partnership with Oracle and I'm an ABB.

The ability for a user to create their own reports is one of the valuable features. The solution also allows you to manage your access roles, like permissions, directly from the port. There is also a separate enterprise manager where groups and other roles can be created and given access. Finally, if we have certain scripts, we can add chipping into that scheduling function as well as a dashboard and the like. In the newer version, there's a visual analyzer which is more Tableau driven and gives you a free hand. From a user perspective, it's an advantage and will provide us with an additional asset if we do upgrade. 

Implementation is a little cumbersome and requires expertise. From the support perspective, it seems that they are a level behind. Another, thing is if you're working in the 12.2.1.3 version, fields don't come with proper venues and proper testing is lacking. For an additional feature, I'd like to see data science and functions added.

I've been using this solution for five years. 

Most of the time the solution is stable but it depends on who is doing the set up configuration. A senior person will know how much memory is required, without that there might be problems. So lots of configuration files need to be optimized according to the usage. There may also be other parameters that need to be set up and if you are aware of this then the system will be stable. 

This is a scalable solution. 

Customer service is sometimes very good. At other times it's very, very dense and they ask for irrelevant information. It could definitely be improved. 

The initial setup was quite complex and I didn't do it in one go because when we deployed something, there were some problems that needed sorting out and that took around five to six hours. Deployment probably took close to six hours. The deployment was carried out internally. In my department we have over 300 users and the solution is used on a daily basis. 

This is an expensive solution and I think people tend to stop using this product as a result. Cost is a major factor in companies choosing other solutions. 

It's important to have an understanding of your requirements because if people are looking for visualization and realization, this is a very good solution that can work with thousands of users generally and can work on billions and billions of records. 

I rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

Oracle OBIEE is a database tool that is comparable to many other databases. It is commonly used to demonstrate to clients how their business is performing. With the use of graphs and visual aids, companies can be shown their current and future performance.

The utilization of Oracle OBIEE enables businesses to track their cash flow and identify areas where costs can be reduced. The solution offers valuable insights into customers' businesses, which can be used to make improvements and drive progress.

The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are the ease of logging in, the dashboard, and showing the problems in the data. Additionally, the reports are well integrated and it has good technology.

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.

I used Oracle OBIEE within the last 12 months.

This solution is suited for larger-sized companies.

There are many community forums that can provide a lot of information. It is helpful for everyone. We have used it often to help us in many areas.

I rate the support of Oracle OBIEE a ten out of ten.

Positive

The price of Oracle OBIEE is expensive, it is difficult for a small business to afford.

I rate the price of Oracle OBIEE a seven out of ten.

My advice to experts that might use Oracle OBIEE is it's a good tool and has many features. You are able to make reports to display where a company is going overall for success.

The solution is useful for developers and regular business users.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Oracle OBIEE a nine out of ten.

The primary use case of this solution is RPD.

I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together.

I find the most valuable feature of the solution is the RPD, so the BI Server component, and the building conformed structures across unconformed data.

I think there is a lot of room for improvement. This solution is weak in the data science perspective. I have past data science experience. And, I find that there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of incorporating more advanced statistical modeling into the product. 

I come from a data science background. I find that there is a lot of room for improvement to incorporate more advanced statistical modeling into the product.

I have not been using it long enough to pass judgment on the stability of the product.

I think to spread this across an enterprise will be a significant investment. Be prepared to spend a lot of time and money.

I have past experience with QlikView, Tableau and Sisense.

Oracle OBIEE can be used for reporting. It also gets used for some analytics-related work, like dashboard reports and subject areas. Additionally, the solution's bursting options, scheduling and sending reports across while having some dashboards created on the reports on the subject area.

The solution's performance and the bursting options when you generate the reports, after which you want to burst it based on criteria, are two valuable features of the solution.

The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly. Oracle should include more videos rather than simple text. Also, adding some examples will help users with quick learning.

I have four years of experience with Oracle OBIEE. Since we use cloud services, it is the latest version of the solution we use in our organization.

In terms of stability, I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. However, there have been occasional issues with the reports crashing, although this happens rarely.

Both the vertical and horizontal scalability of the solution is good. In terms of scalability, I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. More than 300 employees in our organization are using Oracle OBIEE.

Once we work on implementing dashboard reports, the user base will likely increase.

The solution's initial setup is a bit complex. However, since it's only a one-time thing, it shouldn't be an issue.

The solution's deployment is something we do manually in our company. We were wondering if there is a tool for automated deployment.

For the solution's deployment and maintenance, we need three resources, including the deployment team in our organization. So, we don't need a manager for this.

The solution's implementation process was carried out by an integrator who helped us.

In our organization, we implemented it a year and a half ago, and I can say that the ROI is not that great. So, we are still trying to stabilize the system and improve it.

In our organization, we use a user-based license for Oracle OBIEE, and I've heard that the license cost is based on the number of users. Also, I cannot comment further since I am not involved in the solution's cost-related part.

Since we use Oracle, we have implemented ERP and then Oracle ERP Procurement Cloud, which is a cloud software. We also have a cloud database, including OCI infrastructure.

I can recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The solution is offered as a PaaS - a platform as a service.

The setup isn't too difficult.

While technical support used to be quite bad, it's my understanding that it has gotten better.

I find I prefer Oracle OAC over OBIEE. It's more advanced, has artificial intelligence, and there's more that we can do with it in general. OBIEE is lacking features.

The reporting could be better. We can only develop standard PDF reports. We don't have reports that show analytics. It doesn't generate barcodes at the top and it doesn't have the ability to show notes. The reporting system needs to introduce logic so that we can make the reporting more flexible.

Writing any code takes a long time. Merging data is also a long and tedious process. 

I've been working with the solution for 13 and a half years so far. It's been a while. 

The solution isn't exactly stable. There are some reports, for example, in relation to email compliance or other policies that are not working as they should. We're actually migrating off of OBIEE's reports to Crystal Reports as some functionality is just not possible.

The scalability of the solution is fine. It's arranged per user. However, you need to pay more if you add more. 

There are no plans to increase usage as the solution is limiting in the features on offer and the client is leaning more towards Oracle OAC. 

I haven't tried to contact technical support in a long while. The last time might have been 2017 or 2018. I recall support not being very good. At the time, the application was new and we had questions, and we did not really get any response. It took them a long, long time to say anything. At that time, we were installing the application and facing some issues and it was a frustrating process. 

That said, their support may have stabilized and gotten better, however, I haven't really dealt with them since. 

I've started working more with Oracle OAC.

The solution is a platform as a service. We pick and choose our requirements as we like. If we need more CPU or RAM or hardware, we make sure we have that in the setup. We decide how many users we want, et cetera, and the system is set up to accommodate for that.

Oracle can help set up the solution.

OAC has a more reasonable price point than OBIEE. OAC gives you more options and choices. It's more flexible.

I'm a consultant. I'm not a partner of Oracle. I have no business relationship with the company.

There is a lot of competition in the market right now and there are so many cloud applications that users can look at, including Power BI. Some have more features and are more user-friendly. This product needs to advance its technology and catch up. It needs more advanced features.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

We are in a restaurant business and our primary use case is for analytics, specifically for areas such as sales forecasting, sales reporting, and measuring key performance indicators.

I am highly satisfied with Oracle OBIEE as it delivers the desired results for our business. We found it to be effective for our needs.

The installation process and the ability to resume customer reports could be improved. The functionality to customize and modify reports has been removed, and it would be beneficial to reinstall it, as it allows greater customization and flexibility in creating reports.

We have been using it for four years.

It provides excellent stability. I would rate it nine out of ten.

I would rate the scalability six out of ten.

The initial setup was straightforward. We haven't had any issues.

The installation process was quick. The deployment was handled by the vendor.

It helps to remove inefficiencies and improve the decision-making process, so it does deliver a return on investment.

It is an expensive solution. We have an annual license with Oracle.

It offers impressive functionality and it is an intuitive and beneficial tool. However, the pricing is quite high. I would rate it eight out of ten.

We use Oracle OBIEE for data visualization and analytical reporting.

Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting.

There are a lot of aspects of Oracle OBIEE that are exceptionally complicated, make things unnecessarily difficult for everyone who uses it. In terms of the integrations, Oracle needs to improve a little more, but I believe that they have tried to capture all those issues. The issues we are facing in the Oracle OBIEE 12C versions, in the Oracle Analytical Server Center or Analytical Cloud versions, Oracle has managed to overcome the challenges.

Oracle OBIEE could improve its marketing. There is no additional training, trials, or something else needed. Oracle has  Business partners, such as TCS and Cognizant. All the business partners for Oracle, I never saw that they ever tried to market the Oracle tools for visualization.  We can do visualization of data with it, large analytical data, and analytical analysis. They never try to market it in that way. All I understood as it is a tool for extracting large amounts of data. They need to improve on their outreach.

I used Oracle OBIEE within the last 12 months.

The solution is stable.

Oracle OBIEE is a scalable solution.

The technical support was good, I am satisfied.

The implementation of Oracle OBIEE was very complicated in the older versions, but now it has become much easier.

I was able to evaluate many other options before choosing Oracle OBIEE. When I was working for one of my clients in Africa, they wanted us to implement Microsoft BI in their environment for data visualizations. I felt bad about the Oracle OBIEE because Oracle never tried to market that product as a visualization tool, they always try to market it as an analytical tool, and people do not understand what Oracle OBIEE can do. In visualization, it can give the other contenders in the market a good fight, but Oracle never tried to market it in that way.

This is one of the biggest problems with Oracle. If Oracle would have marketed better then they would have had more customers. There are a lot of other clients people prefer, such as Tableau, ClickView, Qlik Sense, or Microsoft BI, because they want to see things in a graph, in a colorful way. The same can be achieved in Oracle OBIEE, but it was never marketed properly.

Oracle OBIEE has been tested and is a proven product and I would highly recommend Oracle OBIEE over any other solution.

I rate Oracle Database an eight out of ten.

I rated the Oracle OBIEE and eight because I haven't tried the newer versions of OBIEE which are in the market. Whatever I have been working in Oracle OBIEE  currently I rate it an eight. Additionally, Oracle might have added many other features that are not in the 12C version. The market is saturated with other visualization tools, such as Tableau, or Microsoft BI. People prefer Tableau and other solutions because they are much more user-friendly and very easy to work on.

This is an enterprise analytics platform that allows you to do both analytical and real-time reporting. It has a large fleet of products within itself, such as Oracle BI Publisher.

You don't need a lot of time to build and deploy these tools. For the analytical needs, you have OBIEE as a platform where you can build the requirements. You model it, build dashboard reports, and then use it.

Oracle covers all of your reporting needs from an organization standpoint. This application also has a self-service BI, which is an ad-hoc service. It allows businesses to generate their own reports. They don't have to wait for IT to come and do it for them.

It saves a lot of time from a scheduling capability standpoint. If C-level executives want to create more billable reports, they can go down to the granular level of details.

This solution is a self-service BI. It makes it much faster for the business. The tool helps the organization by not having to maintain the infrastructure, nor worry about infrastructure and performance issues.

It also has the enhancements such as new data visualization capabilities and other robust features. The tool can be deployed quickly, is easy to use, and is scalable.

The tool has everything I need right now, including mobile, geo-spatial, and data visualization. I would like to see better licensing in terms of data visualization.

Maybe they could include it as a part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, which would allow product users to take advantage of it. Otherwise, it's going to be an expensive product.

The solution is very stable. I've been involved in this product for close to 14 years now, even before Oracle acquired Siebel. The initial Siebel Analytics did some good generation of BI.

There wasn’t a lot of advancement made initially, but later the architecture changed and it was taken to the next generation with a lot of new, rich, and cool features like mobile, geo-spatial integration, and integration with new data sources. It's been great.

Scalability-wise, it's pretty good. When you use it with an ERP system or with CRM applications, it integrates with SAP, Oracle-based e-business applications, and even the Microsoft stack.

Scalability-wise, you can leverage this product, and not only with an Oracle database. It can work with any database and with any heterogeneous source. It's very scalable and easy to maintain.

I do use technical support with this subscription on any issues that we encounter, except for cloud-based systems. We already gave them product bugs. They are addressing them in patches. I think they are pretty good. Oracle always has someone who will respond to you, depending upon the severity levels involved.

When I started at this organization, we had a Microsoft BI stack and a SAP BI stack in place. Both of them used the dashboard capabilities and kept all of the reports together in one place. Microsoft BI has a subscription facility where you can subscribe users to set up reports and get them by email.

Neither of these solutions was robust nor scalable. The ad-hoc reporting capability is one more area which was missing in these previous solutions. One of them has it, but it's very complex to configure it.

Another reason why we chose this tool is the ease of use. You don't have to know a lot of programming to deal with this product.

I did the setup by myself in my organization. I did the delivery destination production from scratch, with the help of the documentation logs from various forums. You just have to follow the instructions which are straightforward. As long as you follow the instructions, it was easy to use.

We looked at IBM Cognos, QlikView, and Tableau. From an IT standpoint, we look at self-service BI, integration, and scalability. When it comes down to the senior, C-level executives, price is also another factor.

Tableau is a product which can be used for data discovery, but not for organizational analytical needs. That is the missing part.

Cognos is missing a lot of important features like self-service BI and many other dashboard capabilities.

I've seen other data analytics platforms like IBM's suite of products, SAP Business Objects, and Microsoft BI stack. All of them are good, but when it comes down to the collaboration of functionalities, on the business or IT side, OBIEE is the best for the organization. That's the reason we deployed Oracle Business Intelligence for our organization.

If your requirements are for an enterprise reporting platform, Oracle would be able to satisfy your needs. From an analytical standpoint as well, this product will address your real-time data operational report needs.

If you are only looking for data discovery, or just looking at flat files and the patterns of the data, then Tableau or QlikView will do the job.

Whenever I select a vendor, I look at multiple things:

• Scalability
• The integration of the products with other important applications within an organization
• Data integration
• A database application with Excel-based files