I use the solution for the dashboards and basic reporting.
Director - Data & Analytics at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Useful for visualizations and basic reporting but improvement is needed in user interface
Pros and Cons
- "Oracle Analytics Cloud's most valuable feature is its visualization."
- "The product should improve its user interface. It should be welcoming and modern. Developers should also find it easier to build data models. Oracle Analytics Cloud needs to have better visualizations and more options in the marketplace."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Oracle Analytics Cloud's most valuable feature is its visualization.
What needs improvement?
The product should improve its user interface. It should be welcoming and modern. Developers should also find it easier to build data models. Oracle Analytics Cloud needs to have better visualizations and more options in the marketplace.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for three years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the product's stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I used Tableau before Oracle Analytics Cloud. We switched to Oracle Analytics Cloud due to company decision.
How was the initial setup?
Oracle Analytics Cloud's deployment is straightforward. You need to create connections and ensure that proper syntax is made. Also, proper configuration is needed to be made in OCI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The tool's pricing is not unreasonable or non-competitive.
What other advice do I have?
You need to overcome a learning curve to utilize the tool's benefits. I rate it a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Head of Data Science Section at The National Bank PLC Palestine
User-friendly and competitively priced
Pros and Cons
- "The solution is user-friendly."
- "The scalability has room for improvement."
What is our primary use case?
We use a solution incorporating machine learning and diction to word instructions for student appointments.
What is most valuable?
The solution is user-friendly.
What needs improvement?
The CLEAR report has room for improvement.
The AI features can be improved.
I would like to have extra visualization such as geographical, more advanced org charts, and interactive charts and dashboards.
The scalability has room for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I give the scalability a six out of ten. The solution is not very scalable.
We have 20 people using the solution.
How was the initial setup?
I give the initial setup a seven out of ten. I had some difficulty with the query and the report flush. The deployment took one month.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was completed in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is not very expensive. I give the cost an eight out of ten.
We pay on a monthly basis and it is $10 per user each month.
What other advice do I have?
I give the solution an eight out of ten.
The maintenance requires one person.
Oracle Analytics Cloud is the gold standard, but new users need to also take into account the price.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Data Analytics Manager with 501-1,000 employees
Expensive, does not scale well, and there are issues around performance
Pros and Cons
- "It's great for consolidation and creating one source of truth."
- "When we have, for example, a table with low performance, we have several issues with drawing some graphics in the Oracle cloud."
What is our primary use case?
I have been using it only for reporting. I am trying to conduct some usage regarding the self-service BI, however, I haven't been able to implement it in that way. What I have been using is only BI reporting.
How has it helped my organization?
Previous to using Oracle Analytics Cloud, we had several issues consolidating information in one report. Using this tool, we were able to forget about using Excel and keep using it as the only source of data.
What is most valuable?
The main functionality is great and everything is pretty standard and easy to use.
It's great for consolidation and creating one source of truth.
The initial setup is pretty straightforward.
What needs improvement?
The user interaction with the solution could be better. It can be frustrating at times. Sometimes it depends on the database performance. When we have, for example, a table with low performance, we have several issues with drawing some graphics in the Oracle cloud.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution since 2018. it's been about four years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable. The only stuff I have some issues with was related to some communication with the database. I had some lack of communication that was an issue over there, however, most of the time, it was very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's not a scalable product. We have about 40 people using the solution and they are mostly data analysts.
There is only one business area using the product and we have no plans to expand the usage.
How are customer service and support?
We did not have a positive experience with technical support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Negative
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did assessments of other solutions. We were also trying to use Tableau and Power BI. The main difference was the self-service functionality.
How was the initial setup?
The solution is pretty straightforward and simple. I'd rate it a three out of five in terms of ease of setup. We did the full deployment twice and it took us about eight months.
We had a team of six people who handled the deployment and maintenance tasks.
What about the implementation team?
We handled the implementation with our in-house team. We didn't use outside consultants or anyone like that.
What was our ROI?
We have not yet witnessed any ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I cannot speak to the exact licensing costs of the solution. In previous experiences, however, I recall it being quite expensive. I would rate it five out of five in terms of the level of expense to expect. That said, beyond the licensing fee, there are no other add-on fees to expect.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
When I was onboarded for the project, I was told to use Oracle Analytics Cloud. The assessment of other options is being done right now.
What other advice do I have?
We have a hybrid cloud deployment and use both AWS and Azure. I tried to use the Oracle cloud, however, I was unable to due to the budget.
I'd rate the solution two out of ten. It really isn't the best.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Data Leader at Smart Applicatins International Limited
Simple to set up and user-friendly but very expensive
Pros and Cons
- "The solution can scale."
- "They could improve the ease of developing the dashboard and interacting with it."
What is most valuable?
It's rather user-friendly.
The solution can scale.
The stability is good.
It's easy to set up.
What needs improvement?
The cost factor needs to be improved. When you want to scale up and improve the computing power, it becomes extremely costly.
They could improve the ease of developing the dashboard and interacting with it.
They can also improve, quite critically, the user interface. It's not as intuitive as Qlik Sense.
There should be improvements in Auto ML, automated machine learning, and, if possible, even robotics process automation.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used Oracle Analytics Cloud for two years now. The company has been using it for close to five or six years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's quite stable and quite sustainable. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
While you can scale, it can get expensive.
When you want to scale it up, you eat resources in terms of computing power, storage, querying, and everything else. It becomes very expensive.
While It's possible to scale anytime upwards or downwards, the cost factor becomes an impediment.
How are customer service and support?
While technical support is quite good, it's slow. We need to raise a ticket. After that, it can take up to two to three or four hours for them to respond. For Qlik Sense, in contrast, it's just direct. We just call them or we just email them or even Whatsapp them, and they will immediately respond, set up a call, and that's it. They solve it.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We also are familiar with Qlik Sense. For Qlik Sense, we are proceeding to be ISA partners and have used it for six months.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. It's not overly complex. The deployment itself took about a year.
We have two people that are available to maintain the solution.
What about the implementation team?
We handled the implementation completely in-house, without the assistance of any integrators or consultants.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing could be a bit lower. it's a bit expensive right now, especially as you scale up.
We pay $50,000 on a yearly basis.
What other advice do I have?
We are an ISA partner.
We are using the latest version of the product.
If there is a simpler, faster, or cheaper solution, then a company should go for it. Look at the Gartner Quadrant, as, clearly, Oracle is not yet a leader. We have Microsoft, we have Qlik Sense. If a company can factor in other solutions first, it's best. The key advantage of Oracle is, that once you've got your account, at least you have access to the autonomous data warehouse and you have access to automated machine learning, (AutoML) and so on and so forth. Beyond that, it's just so expensive. I wouldn't advocate for somebody to go for it.
I'd rate the solution a six out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Vice President Credit Risk Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Good dashboards and reporting, secure, and the machine learning enablement is helpful
Pros and Cons
- "The AI/ML enablement is useful, as many reporting tools do not offer machine learning models as of now, without writing customized code."
- "At this time, dataflows cannot be shared, but I think that this should be enhanced."
What is our primary use case?
This product is used for reporting and visualization.
We are not using the latest version but rather, one version back.
What is most valuable?
From a financial or bank perspective, this product is secure enough.
The dashboards, analytics, visualizations, and different reports are valuable for business analytics.
The AI/ML enablement is useful, as many reporting tools do not offer machine learning models as of now, without writing customized code.
What needs improvement?
This product does not support custom charts in the visualization.
At this time, dataflows cannot be shared, but I think that this should be enhanced.
There are a couple of other limitations. For example, many reporting tools offer good features and oracle should learn from that.
There should be tool tech enhancements.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Oracle Analytics Cloud for approximately three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This is a stable solution and we plan to continue using it for at least another year.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I believe that this is a scalable product.
How are customer service and technical support?
We have been in contact with Oracle technical support and we are satisfied with it.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have worked with many reporting tools including SAS Visual Analytics, Spotfire, and Activu.
There was no specific reason for switching to Oracle Analytics Cloud. This was a decision driven by the priorities of the moment.
How was the initial setup?
The time required for deployment is almost an hour.
What about the implementation team?
Deployment requires a small team of people. One from admin, another from the development team, and one more.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Vice President Credit Risk Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Stable, reasonably-priced, good support, and the BAS and narrate features work well
Pros and Cons
- "The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization."
- "Sharing dataflows is not possible at this time, and the custom chart functionality is not available."
What is our primary use case?
I am a software designer and a part of the technical team and we create the dataflows for the end-user.
What is most valuable?
The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization.
What needs improvement?
Sharing dataflows is not possible at this time, and the custom chart functionality is not available.
I would like to see making abbreviations as per the user's needs.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Oracle Analytics Cloud is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's a scalable product.
How are customer service and technical support?
The technical support that we are getting from Oracle is pretty good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, I worked with Tableau, Spotfire, and SAS VA. Tableau and Spotfire are a little advanced when comparing with OACs (Oracle Analytics Cloud). The customizations and making the licenses to suit your needs is pretty easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price is reasonable; it's quite a bit lower than Tableau and Spotfire.
What other advice do I have?
Depending on the needs of business to business, but as far a visualizations are concerned, this is a good product. Anyone can update for Business Intelligence.
I would rate Oracle Analytics Cloud an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Independent Consultant - Oracle BI Applications at Desjardins
Complete product with excellent stability and scalability with no downtime
Pros and Cons
- "It's really an enterprise solution. It has a dashboard, like standard dashboarding functionality. It also has reporting capabilities for producing pixel-perfect reports, bursting large volumes of a document if you need to. It has interactive data discovery functionality, which you would use to explore your data, bring your own data, and merge it with maybe the data from an enterprise data warehouse to get new insights from the pre-existing data. It has machine learning embedded in the solution. If you're new to machine learning, it's a really good way to get into it, because it's all within this platform, and it's really easy to use."
- "As with most BI tools, the visualizations can be made much nicer. Currently, it has standard visualizations. They've been adding new visualizations, but we see animated visualizations from other vendors. It would be nice to have similar visualizations, such as the swarming visualizations, which are fairly new and very popular at the moment. I haven't seen that with Oracle. That would be nice."
What is most valuable?
It's really an enterprise solution. It has a dashboard, like standard dashboarding functionality. It also has reporting capabilities for producing pixel-perfect reports, bursting large volumes of a document if you need to.
It has interactive data discovery functionality, which you would use to explore your data, bring your own data, and merge it with maybe the data from an enterprise data warehouse to get new insights from the pre-existing data.
It has machine learning embedded in the solution. If you're new to machine learning, it's a really good way to get into it, because it's all within this platform, and it's really easy to use.
What needs improvement?
As with most BI tools, the visualizations can be made much nicer. Currently, it has standard visualizations. They've been adding new visualizations, but we see animated visualizations from other vendors. It would be nice to have similar visualizations, such as the swarming visualizations, which are fairly new and very popular at the moment. I haven't seen that with Oracle. That would be nice.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for about a year. We are using the most current version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I find the stability of this solution excellent. I haven't encountered any problems, but that would be my expectation.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's excellent. Its scalability is really what makes it stand out. You can on the fly increase the processing capacity of your instance for as long as you need it and then bring it back to whatever minimum setting you had. It's done on the fly with no downtime. That is very impressive. I love this.
How was the initial setup?
It's very easy to set up. It's extremely easy because it's in the cloud. You spin up your instance, which takes two minutes. You can also natively connect to an autonomous data warehouse.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I've given some thought to Power BI because it's so widely used, but my area of expertise is really around or has always been around Oracle. So, it was more of a natural choice for me.
What other advice do I have?
It really has everything that I want and need. It's very easy.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. It would be nice to see swarming kind of visualizations. Other than that, it's a complete product.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Oracle Solutions Architect at Viceri
The reports drive the company's strategic decision-making
Pros and Cons
- "Analytics Cloud allows you to merge various data types and structure data from multiple sources."
- "Analytics Cloud allows you to merge various data types and structure data from multiple sources."
What is our primary use case?
We use Analytics Cloud to generate reports about data other Oracle solutions produce.
How has it helped my organization?
Analytics Cloud generates reports that drive the company's strategic decision-making.
What is most valuable?
Analytics Cloud allows you to merge various data types and structure data from multiple sources.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Analytics Cloud is highly stable
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Oracle Analytics Cloud 10 out of 10 for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
Oracle customer service is perfect.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
Setting up Analytics Cloud was straightforward because I got help from Oracle.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Oracle is expensive compared to tools by AWS and other cloud providers.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Oracle Analytics Cloud 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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