Oracle OBIEE and Birst are competing products in the business intelligence market. Birst seems to have the upper hand with its feature-rich platform appealing to organizations focusing on advanced capabilities over cost considerations.
Features: Oracle OBIEE offers comprehensive data integration, enterprise-level security features, and powerful interactive dashboards, benefiting large organizations with significant governance needs. Birst provides advanced analytics, self-service capabilities, and agile data discovery, which appeals to businesses requiring user-friendly and flexible visualization tools.
Room for Improvement: Oracle OBIEE could enhance ease of deployment, reduce the need for extensive IT involvement, and streamline user interface complexity. Birst might improve its complex data accuracy, allow for more customizable ETL processes, and optimize its built-in connectors for broader data source compatibility.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle OBIEE's deployment demands substantial IT resources but benefits from robust customer support. Birst offers a more straightforward cloud-based deployment for quicker implementation with consistent customer support, ideal for organizations seeking rapid deployment.
Pricing and ROI: Oracle OBIEE involves a higher initial setup cost with promising long-term ROI for larger enterprises. Birst has lower upfront costs and ensures a faster path to ROI, making it suitable for smaller enterprises or businesses seeking agile solutions.
The tendency to route users to sales personnel with limited technical expertise detracts from the support experience.
While Oracle OBIEE is scalable, it is more of a niche product designed to work specifically with Oracle systems.
Oracle OBIEE has a steep learning curve compared to tools like SQL Server or Power BI.
Oracle OBIEE is quite expensive, especially when compared to Microsoft's solutions.
A valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ability to automate some tasks, such as invoice analysis, saving a significant amount of clerical work.
Birst Networked BI and Analytics eliminates information silos. Decentralized users can augment the enterprise data model virtually, as opposed to physically, without compromising data governance.
A unified semantic layer maintains common definitions and key metrics.
Birst’s two-tier architecture aligns back-end sources with line-of-business or local data. Birst’s Automated Data Refinement extracts data from any source into a unified semantic layer. Users are enabled with self-service analytics through executive dashboards, reporting, visual discovery, mobile tools, and predictive analytics. Birst Open Client Interface also offers integration with Tableau, Excel and R.
Birst goes to market in two primary ways: as a direct sale, for enterprises using Birst on internal data to manage their business; and embedded, for companies who offer analytic products, by embedding and white-labeling Birst capabilities into their products.
Birst’s is packaged in 3 available formats: Platform and per-user fee; by Department or Business Unit; by end-customer (for embedded scenarios).
Oracle OBIEE (Oracle Business Information Enterprise Edition) is a business intelligence (BI) tool developed by Oracle. OBIEE will gather, store and analyze an organization's network data and compile the information to create reports, dashboard graphs, and performance analysis. OBIEE’s unique platform allows clients to discover new awareness and improve the speed of completing important business decisions by providing robust visual tools and intuitive realization coupled with the latest unmatched enterprise analytics available. OBIEE helps IT enterprise organizations to experience an intelligent view of all enterprise data from across all sources and empowers trusted users with increased levels of reliable, dependable access, interaction, and the ability to utilize the data to increase the overall effectiveness and productivity of the organization.
OBIEE provides unique immediate mobile access, intuitive dashboards, robust reporting, real-time alerts, metadata search, procedure management, direct access to Big Data resources, enlightened in-memory computing, and seamless systems management processes. These features seamlessly combine to make Oracle OBIEE a complete, top-of-the-line broad solution that is cost-effective, minimizes TCO, and provides a competitive, quick ROI for the entire organization.
Oracle OBIEE Top Features
Reviews from Real Users
Sandeep V., Process System Engineer at a comms service provider, tells us, “This solution is very easy for people who are building ad-hoc things. It's an enterprise solution so it can be deployed for a lot of users. There are some great new features that come with the 12c like data visualization, desktop BI Publisher, automation, and interactive dashboards. The product has good features. “
A user who is a CEO at a consultancy relates, “The most valuable feature is the visualization. The data warehousing, data storage, and data wrangling are all features that are in there, and it's one of the better products out there. A good thing is that for large datasets, it's very stable, especially when you have an Oracle database.”
A user who is a Principal Business Intelligence Architect at a computer software company suggests, "It is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. One of the major red flags we have at the moment against Oracle is that it doesn't support deployment on other cloud providers. We're quite heavily vested in AWS as our infrastructure, and Oracle is yet to formally support deploying on those virtual infrastructure instances. That's quite disappointing, and it also cuts them out of over 70% of the market."
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