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BIME Analytics [EOL] vs Oracle OBIEE comparison

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Categories and Ranking

BIME Analytics [EOL]
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle OBIEE
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
159
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (17th), Reporting (12th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user370584 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Solutions Officer at Treehouse Technology Group
It's given us the ability to quickly plot data with an expansive set of graphs and data blending capabilities.
For this product, we actually incorporated the dashboarding capabilities into an application we are building for one of our clients. Our clients love the dashboarding and analytics capabilities that it provides. BIME has allowed our organization to quickly chart data after we built a successful data management and warehousing capability. Essentially, it is the tip of the iceberg, but an essential one nonetheless.
AA
Analyst at Equifax Inc.
Unified semantic layer has driven informed credit risk decisions and real-time analytical insight
Performance-related issues are a concern, as in multiple reports I have seen, some reports were poorly performing. We can focus on implementation of performance so that reports are delivered within seconds. The user interface and self-service experience can be improved through modernization of the UI, addressing self-service limitations, and integrating with mobile. Technical and administrative complexities can also be addressed. Complexities such as system configuration require attention. In the initial setup of Oracle OBIEE, there are multiple things starting from infrastructure provisioning, database schemas, and WebLogic server installations. However, the RPD, the semantic layer, is the steepest hurdle. Security integration, integrating with LDAP or Active Directory, is rarely plug and play and requires deep knowledge of WebLogic. Deep knowledge is necessary when starting with the initial setup of Oracle OBIEE. Other dependencies include Java middleware and client tools. Since Oracle OBIEE deals with huge data, report performance is the biggest concern. The out-of-the-box setup is rarely optimized, so we need to manually check configuration files, such as nqsconfig.ini file settings. For recommendations in Oracle OBIEE, from what I have seen, we work with star schemas in the RPD. I always aim for the star schema in the business model, even if the physical source is normalized. This approach will impact the performance, speed of the data, and accuracy. Oracle OBIEE could improve to allow other schemas as well. Performance is a major area for improvement, and they should work on aggregating the persistence and improve the persistence wizard where we implement aggregations. Caching features have been given, including event polling tables where we can do purging and seeding, but the main focus should be with respect to schema designs.

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Pros

"I can recommend using BIME Analytics as it's definitely a very useful and powerful tool."
"Ability to connect all data sources (databases, online services, files, BigData)"
"The ability to paint a picture in any shape or form the user wants which can empower decision-making."
"Data importing from multiple sources was particularly useful for combining online and offline data, as well as across different analytical platforms (Google Analytics and Omniture)."
"Our business is very fast pace, so live numbers help us on a daily basis figure out how to spend our time."
"BIME has accelerated Treehouse’s ability to execute on high visibility products by significantly decreasing the time to market for our products, especially during periods of rapid prototyping."
"It provides our customers the ability to build simple or complex reports effortlessly."
"The primary reason for using OBIEE is connectivity with Oracle E-Business Suite. It makes it easy to connect with our Oracle E-Business Suite. There are the standard dashboards available, which we sometimes use, and now we are looking for customized dashboards."
"I like the cloud deployment feature."
"I like the architecture of this solution. RPV is a powerful feature in Oracle OBIEE. It lets us design as per the needs of the organization. I can have multiple presentation folders and presentation layers. I can have customization in a single node in VMware, which is a very good feature of Oracle OBIEE. It helps customers in designing as per their requirements."
"Some of the dashboard capabilities are good; the dashboard capabilities that tell you what kind of reports are available and provide you a summary of the reports are valuable, and it is easy to navigate and easy to download reports into Excel to utilize them."
"It empowers users to perform ad hoc analyses themselves rather than having to go to IT or somewhere else."
"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 most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ease of use."
 

Cons

"I wish that it had better database management mapping features."
"Currently, I have to download the data-set for analysis and it is difficult to deliver outputs with BIME concurrently."
"The V6 should be better in terms of navigability and ergonomy"
"Although we were able to provide dashboards to our customers, it required that we create the dashboards with the essential analytics."
"Customer Service is non existent."
"Whereas BIME clearly surpasses Excel on many fronts with regards to interactive charting, there are areas where small formatting features are not available."
"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."
"It becomes spaghetti, and it's very difficult to unpick. That's really my gripe about it, and in some ways, it's too flexible."
"It's not so flexible to do BI reporting directly from the data source without models. It is not that agile."
"The initial setup is never simple. It was a long and difficult journey."
"I would like to see Machine Learning included in this solution."
"When using Essbase, queries accumulated in the BI server and degraded its performance."
"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."
"There is very little within the repository administration tool to guide you on how to achieve complex tasks and the documentation is quite brief."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It's expensive."
"There are no additional costs, but there might be some charges for the Java feature."
"The price of Oracle OBIEE is expensive, it is difficult for a small business to afford."
"This was not an expensive product for us, although the price varies depending on conditions for each company."
"The cost of this solution is a little bit high compared with other products like Zoho, so reducing it would make OBIEE more competitive."
"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."
"The licensing cost is based on the number of users using it."
"The company had twenty-five Oracle OBIEE licenses and never expanded. Price-wise, the solution is expensive."
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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - BI Head with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 4, 2015
Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho
1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…
 

Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise34
Large Enterprise105
 

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How does Oracle OBIEE compare with Microsoft BI?
Oracle OBIEE is great in allowing design and creativity per the individual needs of the organization. Dashboards are fully customizable and very user-friendly. This solution is very stable. Oracle ...
Which Oracle product is better - OBIEE or Analytics Cloud?
Oracle OBIEE is designed to be relatively easy to set up and has a helpful customer support staff at the ready to assist customers. These are two attributes that make this system quite valuable. OB...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle OBIEE?
Oracle OBIEE is quite expensive, especially when compared to Microsoft's solutions.
 

Also Known As

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OBIEE, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle BI, Oracle BI EE 11g
 

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