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Information Technology Manager at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
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Interactive analysis and easy-to-read report layouts are the most valuable features of the solution
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a stable and scalable solution."
  • "They should make the dashboard more intuitive."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for reporting purposes. We use it to generate interactive and format-based reports and to print and export them in an Excel file.

What is most valuable?

The solution's most valuable feature is interactive analysis. Also, the layout or design of the report is easy to understand as it is similar to Excel.

What needs improvement?

They should make the dashboard more intuitive.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using the solution for 15 years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution. But, once in a while, it needs to restart due to memory issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution. We have 120 users of the solution in our organization.

How was the initial setup?

The solution's initial setup is straightforward. It takes a day for deployment and requires a small team of two.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented the solution in-house while doing the proof of concept.

What was our ROI?

The solution's ROI is good if you have published it on WebLogic, as it needs a very slim setup to work fine.

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

We have to pay for the licenses. But, if developers want to try out technology to get proof of concept, they allow them to do it. There are no additional costs, but there might be some charges for the Java feature.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend the solution to others as it is a good product. It's an antique product from the Oracle vendor, and they are known for being one of the top IDBMS.

I rate the solution as an eight out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Policy and Planning Analyst with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Having the conformed structures makes it easier for end users to pull reports. There is a lot of room for improvement to incorporate more advanced statistical modeling into the product.
Pros and Cons
  • "I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case of this solution is RPD.

How has it helped my organization?

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

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

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

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

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have past experience with QlikView, Tableau and Sisense.

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March 2025
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Shubham Sethi - PeerSpot reviewer
Software developer - OBIEE at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 20
Helps to automate tasks and has valuable analysis features
Pros and Cons
  • "Dashboards provide us with various views and perspectives on our data, allowing us to analyze metrics such as revenue, occupancy rates, etc."
  • "The platform's data visualization features need improvement."

What is most valuable?

Some of the product's most valuable features include the ability to automate tasks through the agent option, which enables us to schedule reports according to specific requirements. Additionally, features such as pivot tables, charts, and tables have proven invaluable for analyzing and visualizing data effectively.

What needs improvement?

The platform's data visualization features need improvement. In comparison, Tableau and Power BI have more powerful features for this particular area.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Oracle OBIEE for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable platform. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Accessing information about the platform can be challenging, and acquiring knowledge often requires purchasing training courses. This can make scalability seem difficult at first. However, it becomes much easier to scale once you grasp the complete structure and understand how Oracle OBIEE works.

I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup could have been more straightforward and presented some complexity, especially concerning hardware requirements. However, once you understand the system, it becomes quite easy. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I tried learning Tableau and Power BI.

What other advice do I have?

The process of managing reports and data was straightforward. We were able to automate our reports and deliverables efficiently. For instance, regarding hotel sales, we could easily determine metrics such as the number of occupied and available rooms and make informed decisions about investment in specific regions.

Dashboards provide us with various views and perspectives on our data, allowing us to analyze metrics such as revenue, occupancy rates, etc. Having multiple views available simultaneously on a dashboard enables us to compare data and identify trends or variances easily. We can concurrently assess revenue against occupied rooms, simplifying our analysis process.

I recommend Oracle OBIEE to others, but the recommendation depends on the specific requirements and resources available. For individuals or small companies, Power BI or similar tools might be more suitable due to the accessibility of resources. However, it is quite a good tool if one has the expertise to use all of the capabilities. It is complicated to use compared to competitors.

I rate it a nine out of ten.

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Architect Team Lead at ITC Infotech
MSP
Not too difficult to set up, and offers improved technical support, but needs better reporting
Pros and Cons
  • "The setup isn't too difficult."
  • "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."

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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. 

For how long have I used the solution?

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

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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. 

How are customer service and technical support?

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. 

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

I've started working more with Oracle OAC.

How was the initial setup?

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.

What about the implementation team?

Oracle can help set up the solution.

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

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

What other advice do I have?

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.

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Kevin Wanyonyi - PeerSpot reviewer
POS expert at JAVA HOUSE
Real User
Top 10
Intuitive and stable analytics that facilitate the decision-making process
Pros and Cons
  • "It provides excellent stability."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

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.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using it for four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate the scalability six out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

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

What about the implementation team?

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

What was our ROI?

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

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

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

What other advice do I have?

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.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Consultant
Top 20
It's easy to manipulate and to create new dashboards.

What is our primary use case?

Very large and complexes environments implementation, 10000+ users with 24x7 global operation and multiple EPM tools working in sync.

How has it helped my organization?

With a good model implemented, businesses can easily take decisions to improve anything they want.

An example I like to give is a retail company for which we developed online BI for sales. With this model, the managers follow the sales in real-time and can make decision like when, how much, and where to start a sales campaign during the day. This helps all managers to fulfill their quotas easily.

What is most valuable?

It's a great tool for the businesses as it's easy to manipulate and to create new dashboards. For the development side, it requires a good datamart to make things easier. It's very robust with a lot of resources.

What needs improvement?

It needs better parent-child dimension options that don't need to pass through OBIEE to build it. It's an easier way to update the model in case of a change of dimension size or sources.

Also, it needs better and more dynamic graphics. There are a lot of tools with better graphics and big part of BI is about this.

For how long have I used the solution?

More than 12 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There were issues mainly because of a Java memory leak.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is limited because of WebLogic.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support for EPM is bad. I don't remember anytime that the service support help me in something. The problem is bigger when you have a environment with more than one product like Hyperion Planning and ODI. This happens because the products have different owners within Oracle and then different supports and because this if, you open a trouble ticket of loading data to planning and you say the words ODI, you'll be pushed around the two separate support teams indefinitely, even if your company has an Oracle support director just for you.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

EPM is an enterprise suit that is made of some independent tools and to have all working together it makes it complex no matter your level of knowledge. The bigger the environment the bigger is the challenge you need to face. Maybe one day Oracle will integrate all their tools. It'll be easier and the good thing is that I saw a lot of improvements over the years.

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

Always talk with a Oracle representative and negotiate a discount. I already saw 99% of discounts and a free licence once.

Some times is cheaper if you get a hardware together (helps to negotiate a discount)

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I'm a consultant and my only evaluation was on the database. I decided on Oracle because of the database and, during my career, their other tools are starting to come naturally.

What other advice do I have?

Because Oracle products are development frameworks, your final results are as good as the people who implemented it. Make sure that your implementation team is the best it could be, at least for the first implementation. If something is implemented incorrectly at the start, it'll cost you a lot more to fix than to build a new system from scratch. Sometimes it can be so badly designed that it is impossible to fix.

I've been working on implementation for 20 years and I have seen bad implementations everywhere. In fact, I have seen the same tools implemented in the same team by two different people, with one being a success and the other a failure. In the same company, one department says that the tool does not work for them and another says that the tool is the best. The only difference was the implementer. Make sure you get a good team to implement it. The tool has its flaws, but most of time (99%) it is the implementer's fault that you have a bad or slow model.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Carlos Mardinotto JuniorBI Expert at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Top 5Real User

Oracle OBIEE, came from the old versions of Brio Intelligence, acquirided by Hyperion and later by Oracle. The accessibility of Brio was light and powerful because it was developed all in Java, which didn't require the construction of a semantic layer, leaving the application fast, allowing the Dashoboard fastly

reviewer1782720 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Helpful support, highly stable, and beneficial data visualization
Pros and Cons
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

We use Oracle OBIEE for data visualization and analytical reporting.

What is most valuable?

Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

I used Oracle OBIEE within the last 12 months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Oracle OBIEE is a scalable solution.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support was good, I am satisfied.

How was the initial setup?

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

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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.

What other advice do I have?

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.

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it_user521685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Business Intelligence at Enlivant
Vendor
You can do both analytical and real-time reporting. It has mobile, geo-spatial, and data visualization.

What is most valuable?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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.

How are customer service and technical support?

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.

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

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.

How was the initial setup?

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.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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.

What other advice do I have?

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
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Franco Fontana - PeerSpot reviewer
Franco FontanaBusiness Intelligence at UTE
Top 20Real User

Sorry, but I not agree with your point of view.


I've been using OBIEE 10 and 11 for 4 years after Microstrategy 9 and the difference is abysmal.


OBIEE is hard to install, without a unified metadata, with many errors that Oracle support don't resolve, little flexibility, uncofortable for the developer, the final user and more.


The change from Microstrategy to OBIEE was like go from day to the night.

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