Oracle OBIEE Reviews

Caching is a valuable feature. We can simply schedule the report to run before the users get to work. This reduces the time it takes for the users to load data-heavy dashboards.

I only realized this after using Tableau, but I really appreciate the re-usability of reports in OBIEE. I liked this because I don’t need to re-do reports that have to be in different dashboards and it makes my folder structure organized.

Another feature I love are the functions readily available in the RPD. This makes life so much easier when computing for example, year ago, month ago, rolling months, percent growth, etc.

Variables also give us a little flexibility with the formulas, titles and column names.

The company I was assigned to is a utilities company, so they heavily rely on daily reports to monitor the situation. Customer feedback is very crucial to them. Working both as their business analyst and developer, I get to communicate with the people responsible for reporting to top management. Based on their feedback, some are able to see if pending items have been delivered and if not, they can easily identify which group to go to. This assures that their customers are satisfied with the service.

Some have also said that with the reports readily available via OBIEE, they can immediately download and present them to their bosses. No more use of spreadsheets to compute for the KPIs.

We had a lot of users before that wanted customized user interfaces. This was one of the hardest things to customize in OBIEE. You had to have knowledge in other areas to provide user requirements.

With the popularity of self-service systems, our power users wanted more ad-hoc reports. We couldn’t provide this because that meant giving them administrator access, which was against the security guidelines of the company.

One requirement we also had was the ability for users to change passwords. Again, this meant that we had to give the users administrator access, which was against company protocol.

I have used it since 2010, almost six years.

I am not sure if this is relevant, but there was one time when we configured the SSL for OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and we were unable to create new users. We did this to two servers, but the issue only happened to one server. The Oracle Support consultant we talked to wasn’t able to resolve this. I’ve since left the organization and am not sure if it has been resolved.

There were no scalability initiatives that I was a part of, just upgrades to new machines, which are simple new installations.

I rate technical support 5/10. I am not sure about others, but the technical support I had from Oracle Support was often delayed or they couldn’t solve the problem.

I did not previously use a different solution, but I did dabble with Tableau after I started using OBIEE.

Initial setup was straightforward. By the way, I’ve only worked with Windows installations.

The organization was already using this product when I got there, so we just maintained it.

Google is your best friend! Some documentations do not contain everything, so it is good to be patient when looking for solutions, even outside Oracle Support.

1. Security (authentication, policy, credentials)
2. Simplicity in data modelling
3. Visualizations are better than other BI solutions

• It allows us to providing our customers an excellent solution for their business requirements.
• It's easy to use for any type of user.

I've been using it for two years, 11 months as a business analyst generating reports for our customers.

Some little issue with a network port, but this is solved in a very few minutes.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

9/10 - Excellent support from the Oracle team.

9/10 - They're excellent.

It's pretty straightforward if we have the right requirements.

No other options were evaluated.

It's a good tool and has lots of features to meet customers' typical requirements. One should have thorough knowledge of it.

We use Oracle OBIEE for reporting.

I like the cloud deployment feature. There are about 20 new features, and they are available on mobile and more. I haven't used any of them, but these features are highly attractive.

It could be more user-friendly. For example, the RPD layer could be more straightforward. From a user's point of view, the visualization, especially the graphs, are not as attractive when compared to other tools like QlikView and Qlik Sense.

I have been using Oracle OBIEE for about five years.

Oracle OBIEE is quite stable. 

I think Oracle OBIEE is scalable.

If you compare Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE licensing, then Oracle products are much better. With Qlik Sense, you have to pay per client and per use. But we get Oracle OBIEE along with the Oracle database, making it much more cost-effective in the long term.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Oracle OBIEE an eight.

• Data accessibility
• Easy to create ad hoc reporting for different solutions
• Excellent tool for defining and creating Executive and Operative Dashboard

I’ve used this product especially in the retail field. It’s been a huge initial effort creating reporting for monitoring business trends and retail KPIs, but once we did it we had a great return in terms of data reliability, time response and information sharing between internals and externals.

Retail, Finance, Wholesale

I've used if for about four years in the fashion industry.

Yes, especially when we’ve moved from one version to another. Most of the problems encountered have been solved quickly.

No broad impact

No

8/10

8/10

Designing and building the entire set up of Data Warehousing and Dashboard Reporting implementation has been challenging in terms of resources and time. It took at least six months to a year to see the first results of our hard work.

I can make a comparison with Business Objects and MicroStrategy. Even though these are excellent tools for business analysis, Oracle OBIEE has allowed the company to approach data analysis in a structured and shared way favoring the growth of analytical expertise across the entire company.

From my experience as Retail Planner and Business Analyst in fast paced companies, I would suggest this solution to anyone who wants to improve data analysis in terms of data read, performance, analytical culture throughout the company.

I think it's a great tool for the retail, finance, and commercial industries.

ABC Sell Out Analysis

I'm mostly using OBIEE in the context of regulation by the national central bank. The regulatory authority floats many reports required daily, monthly, weekly, and yearly. So, for example, there'll be a stream of reports at the end of the year, and the banking regulator requires banks to comply. It's challenging for banks to develop these reports constantly, so we develop these regulatory or statutory reports for the regulatory authority and put them in the BI.

I like the data analyzer introduced in OBIEE version 10. Previously, there was no data analytics tool, but the data analyzer allows you to visualize your data on the fly. I also like the voice recognition tool. With voice recognition, the data visualization tool will flip the charts and diagrams left, right, center.

Warehouse and business intelligence are two different things, but OBIEE also has some warehouse features in it. I would like to see some of those capabilities improved.

I've been using OBIEE for five or six years.

Oracle products are all stable. We deployed Oracle OBIEE version 11 at the national revenue authority four years ago, and since then we've run more than 400 reports on an Oracle X5 server. It still runs smoothly with no issues.

The customer wanted Valtix, an internet BI system, but couldn't afford it. We advised him to go with OBIEE and the X5-4. I'm also fully certified in BGIF, and part of my job in that deployment was to deploy BGIF was challenging because it's an arm of the government. Still, we finally got some of the data into BGIF that wasn't mission-critical for the government. The rest of the data sat inside OBIEE.

I rate OBIEE 12 out of 10. For me, OBIEE is king.

We use this solution as an adjudicator for an insurance company.

We are a development enterprise, and we sell the solutions we have to our customers. We have several customers that use our solutions in Oracle OBIEE. We are resellers.

The dashboard and analysis are the most valuable features of this solution.

I would like to see Machine Learning included in this solution.

We have been using Oracle OBIEE for almost ten years.

Oracle OBIEE is a stable product.

The scalability of Oracle OBIEE is good.

If you combine all of your customers there are almost 150 users.

Technical support is fine.

We are also experienced using Tableau. We have the same application ruling in both technologies.

Tableau is deployed on the cloud.

Pricing is an area that could be improved.

I would rate Oracle OBIEE a nine out of ten.

Implementations were focused on reporting and centralizing all data delivery and access to the Business.

End-users can cross the data from dimensional models with external Excel spreadsheets, while from a BI strategy point of view this is not ideal since that Excel data should be incorporated in the DW, but from the end-user perspective, they gain some empowerment to explore and integrate the data

OBIEE is an enterprise Business Intelligence tool, the semantic layer is very organized which helps to provide the subject areas and how the end-user visualize the data.

The WebLogic administration could be more intuitive or simplified especially when you are focused on OBIEE

More than five years.

OBIEE requires a whole ecosystem to run smoothly, it requires a stable infrastructure with minimum compute power standards, and  Besides of having the right infrastructure(for the OBIEE application), the database setup (init params) is also important.

 It is as stable as the knowledge the team has about the product and how to manage that,

Every project is has its own challenges, sometimes technical, sometimes acceptance, different environments , different approaches, different perceptions .

From a infrastructure perspective, from 11g version onwards OBIEE runs under weblogic where we have the DOMAIN concept, by default, after installation OBIEE runs under one node which represents the server where it is installed, and you have an option to scale up to other nodes, thus increasing the compute power .

The installation and initial setup requires specialist knowledge .

I have implemented through consulting companies . 

not cheap but it is worth it