We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Oracle Fusion Middleware based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The initial setup is straightforward."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"It is good for us for onboarding the data. We can connect to multiple data sources, do transformations to make the data usable, and then model it within the transformation. Someone who has come from a Microsoft Excel environment will easily be able to use this solution. Power query and report modeling are easy to understand in this solution. Their technical support is very good. They are extremely responsive, helpful, and hands-on."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"The solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial."
"The most valuable features are Oracle Unified Directory and unified identity access management."
"Data integrity."
"The solution is quite good for applying patches or performing upgrades."
"Fusion Middleware's main feature for me is that it is quite flexible, and, as middleware, it provides us with all sorts of technology and application adapters, which makes it very handy to use."
"The scalability is good."
"Oracle Fusion is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the structure of the product. We use Oracle Fusion Middleware to manage the Oracle database. Registered users can go to each product if sign-on credentials match each user's identical framework."
"Oracle Service Bus is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"In an upcoming release, the solution could be simplified and have a more complete product package rather than a suite of products that we have to put together."
"Microsoft has made a lot of progress with Power BI in the past couple of years, but there is still some room for improvement. For example, Integration is one area they could work on. They are adding more integration with other Microsoft tools, but I would like it if they sped up the process."
"I cannot comment on the stability as we haven't yet used it for a big project."
"I would like to see integration with Excel."
"When we have a big report with lots of data, the solution slows down quite a lot."
"Microsoft BI comes under pressure when there is a lot of data to be crunched. It gets slower and slower, and the functionality becomes a bit of a problem. The performance goes down with data being fed into the system. The infrastructure requirement also increases if you have to increase the performance. This is the area that can be improved in my opinion. Initially, the product is good, but over the years, when data gets accumulated, it becomes a problem unless the old data is kind of archived and is no longer shown on the visualization. It has a feature by using which a user can query for a report through simple questions to a bot. So, if I want to look for the customer share of revenue by geography, I just simply state that in the chatbot. If I wanted it in a pie chart, then you say, "Please show it to me in a pie chart." It comes out well for basic charts. This feature should be improvised more so that people can very quickly get customized reports on the go."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"Its price can be improved. We are currently looking for more cost-efficiency. It should also have a little bit more flexibility for customizations. The customizations should be quicker."
"The product should improve BPEL features."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten because we did have multiple breakdowns and crashes."
"Oracle Fusion Middleware is based on the regulations in Saudi Arabia and the legislation changes. There is a need to be improvements all the time. It needs to adapt quickly in this market. Additionally, there could be some improvements in the construction sector."
"Oracle Fusion Middleware could improve by offering enhanced and customizable business-related features, particularly in supporting individual businesses or custom applications."
"Technical support should resolve issues more quickly."
"An improvement for Oracle's Fusion Middleware could definitely be found in the SOA component. It's a heavyweight container and, if you ask me, if a product is available as a docker image where we can easily port it in to another Kubernetes platform, that would be perfect. But as for the current situation in the market, nobody is really willing to deploy this on premises."
"One thing that I would like to see is if this product can be containerized. We are moving away from virtual servers and moving more towards containerization to be able to quickly set up environments or have the flexibility of scaling them. It would be good if it can be containerized, and it works well in containerized platforms."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Oracle Fusion Middleware is ranked 6th in Application Server with 12 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Oracle Fusion Middleware is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Fusion Middleware writes "Maintains top database performance and includes a very good ATB feature". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Oracle Fusion Middleware is most compared with Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IIS and JBoss.
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Hi Ross,
Good news! The BI Connector, a Power BI-certified connector is created exactly for this purpose!
With BI Connector, it's possible to extract your Oracle Fusion data directly to Power BI. Please check it out below:
https://www.biconnector.com/po...
The connector works seamlessly with both Power BI Desktop and Service (or Report Server) and supports Import and Direct Query modes. It also retains the underlying table joins in the Oracle Fusion Cloud, so you don't have to recreate them from scratch in Power BI.
Thanks,
Dinesh
Hi Ross,
Easy is a tricky description...We are going through this effort too. We are 'grappling' with the governance of this type of access as well as the technical journey. So you are not alone.
Fusion Middleware applications include a number of connectivity options including native client or Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC), with OLEDB, JDBC, etc., on top. Each has its own quirks.
This is the 'plumbing' between the analytic tool and source.
Adding to that is the cloud and database level security of the data source.
A good way to start is to use Oracle's SQL Developer to connect to your data source. It gives developers a great query tool for Oracle and other databases. (https://www.oracle.com/databas...)
Once you understand what you can access, you can easily migrate that connectivity to Power BI.
Moreover, you will have validated queries that you can test directly or simply bring in the tables using the PBI Navigator.