Oracle OBIEE Reviews

We use Oracle OBIEE for data visualization and analytical reporting.

Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting.

There are a lot of aspects of Oracle OBIEE that are exceptionally complicated, make things unnecessarily difficult for everyone who uses it. In terms of the integrations, Oracle needs to improve a little more, but I believe that they have tried to capture all those issues. The issues we are facing in the Oracle OBIEE 12C versions, in the Oracle Analytical Server Center or Analytical Cloud versions, Oracle has managed to overcome the challenges.

Oracle OBIEE could improve its marketing. There is no additional training, trials, or something else needed. Oracle has  Business partners, such as TCS and Cognizant. All the business partners for Oracle, I never saw that they ever tried to market the Oracle tools for visualization.  We can do visualization of data with it, large analytical data, and analytical analysis. They never try to market it in that way. All I understood as it is a tool for extracting large amounts of data. They need to improve on their outreach.

I used Oracle OBIEE within the last 12 months.

The solution is stable.

Oracle OBIEE is a scalable solution.

The technical support was good, I am satisfied.

The implementation of Oracle OBIEE was very complicated in the older versions, but now it has become much easier.

I was able to evaluate many other options before choosing Oracle OBIEE. When I was working for one of my clients in Africa, they wanted us to implement Microsoft BI in their environment for data visualizations. I felt bad about the Oracle OBIEE because Oracle never tried to market that product as a visualization tool, they always try to market it as an analytical tool, and people do not understand what Oracle OBIEE can do. In visualization, it can give the other contenders in the market a good fight, but Oracle never tried to market it in that way.

This is one of the biggest problems with Oracle. If Oracle would have marketed better then they would have had more customers. There are a lot of other clients people prefer, such as Tableau, ClickView, Qlik Sense, or Microsoft BI, because they want to see things in a graph, in a colorful way. The same can be achieved in Oracle OBIEE, but it was never marketed properly.

Oracle OBIEE has been tested and is a proven product and I would highly recommend Oracle OBIEE over any other solution.

I rate Oracle Database an eight out of ten.

I rated the Oracle OBIEE and eight because I haven't tried the newer versions of OBIEE which are in the market. Whatever I have been working in Oracle OBIEE  currently I rate it an eight. Additionally, Oracle might have added many other features that are not in the 12C version. The market is saturated with other visualization tools, such as Tableau, or Microsoft BI. People prefer Tableau and other solutions because they are much more user-friendly and very easy to work on.

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.

I use different servers in OBIEE that are reflected as different subject areas on the application, and I can use one of them. For example, I have one subject area for marketing, the second for finance, so I have two subject areas available. I can use one of them that's not available for designing each function. Each file has or also contains mobile options. If the best model is a different file, I have to import it.

I like that Oracle OBIEE comes with more options. For example, more options with data security, user security, and other security. It's more complicated than Microsoft, but it gives you more options. They also added the part for machine learning, which is good.

It would be better if it had a wide range of visualization options. For example, Microsoft Power BI has an extensive range of visualization options, but it's not available in OBIEE. There are also some conflicts because it's complicated, but the cloud application is easier. They added some features for ETL with the on-premises application, but we need a different or a separate application for ETL in the cloud. In the next release, I would like to have more AI features.

I've been dealing with Oracle OBIEE for about two years. 

The initial setup is complicated and time-consuming.

We are a very big organization with many different data sources. For large organizations like ours, I would recommend OBIEE. If we are speaking about a medium or small company with limited data sources, then I may recommend Power BI.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Oracle OBIEE a nine, especially for organizations using large datasets.

We use this solution as a BI tool for data analysis.

The most valuable feature is the reporting.

The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options.

I have been using Oracle OBIEE for approximately two years.

The solution is stable.

Oracle OBIEE is difficult to scale.

We have approximately 20 people using this solution in my organization.

The installation is complex and they could improve by making it straightforward.

I would not recommend this solution.

I rate Oracle OBIEE a five out of ten.

I use this BI solution for ad-hoc and complex reports for finance and HR.

The main features of this solution are that it is easy to use, intuitive, and user-friendly. When I retrieve the data from the database it is in a very raw form, then when I use the Oracle Report Builder it has advanced intelligence features to allow me to view and make changes to the data easily.

There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office.

I have been using this solution for approximately six years.

The solution is 100% reliable and stable.

The solution is scalable. I have extended many areas in the reports and in other areas of the tool. My colleague was doing a project report in which he had to make some divisions and multiplications, similar to analytical functions. However, he was not able to do it in the SQL language. He gave me to try it in this BI tool solution and we achieved accurate results.

I have not found any issue to contact the support about.

The solution was easy to deploy and install. However, I have used the solution for a very long time and I am familiar with the technology, this could be why it was extremely easy for me to install and configure but might not be for others.

I would recommend this solution.

I rate Oracle OBIEE a ten out of ten.

It is mainly used for dashboards and functional reports. It provides a standard operation report from transactional systems. We are using its latest version.

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. It is easy to navigate and easy to download reports into Excel to utilize them. 

It should have more self-service capabilities.

I have been using this solution for nine years.

Its stability is good.

It is scalable. It is a standard enterprise tool.

Its user base would be easily up to 2,000 users. The users that we have are spread across different functions. We have some people who handle the inventory and financials.  

We do get technical support from Oracle, and we are satisfied with it.

We didn't use any other solution.

It is pretty easy and very straightforward. It is just a web link that you click. After you have the access and everything is set up, you can just easily access it.

We didn't evaluate other products. It is something standard.

We plan to keep using it. It is not going to go anywhere. It is there. It doesn't have too many self-service capabilities, but it is good for the purpose that it serves.

I would rate Oracle OBIEE a seven out of ten.

We are using it for analysis purposes for different areas, such as sales, production. We are also using it for the financial data and quality module. We have customer complaint dashboards and all sorts of things.

It helps our senior management in reviewing the performance of sales, production, and customer complaints and taking decisions accordingly. These are the areas for which we have designed custom warehouses. All the data is available on a daily basis. They can see the performance on a daily basis. They can look at the performance of the Sales site, pending dispatches, and inventory status. All these things are available in custom dashboards, which helps them in making decisions easily.

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.

In the on-premises version, the feature for connecting and selecting the data between the databases looks a bit cumbersome, but I am not sure. The person who is using it takes a lot of time to design a data warehouse. When I ask him why is it taking this long, I get a response that this is something that he has to design, and there are different tools that are available. He has to write the ETL and design the warehouse according to the customer's requirement, which takes a lot of time.

Its visualization should be enhanced, and there should be a feature where you can easily create your custom data warehouse.

I have been using this solution for approximately seven years.

It is very stable. It is much stronger than any other solution that I've seen till now. I have heard that Microsoft's solution goes down, but Oracle is very stable.

Scalability is available. It depends on how you want to scale. Right now, we want to define our custom databases and custom warehouse. Therefore, we are creating customer data warehouses, and accordingly, we are designing our dashboards in a custom application. You can also connect it with any third-party software.

They are very good. We are on support right now, and they are providing support whenever we need it. They provide prompt support through their portal.

It is straightforward. Basically, if you look at the technical part of it, it is very simple. You can just follow a step-by-step process, and you can easily finish it.

It is reasonable, but it depends on how you're going to use it. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

I would rate Oracle OBIEE an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case of this solution is for public reporting, creating a dashboard for our users so they can create their own reports. If they're using Tableau and other things, we give them a dashboard to use. It provides a structure or enterprise solution or framework, which gives you a free hand to create your own reports. We have some form of partnership with Oracle and I'm an ABB.

The ability for a user to create their own reports is one of the valuable features. The solution also allows you to manage your access roles, like permissions, directly from the port. There is also a separate enterprise manager where groups and other roles can be created and given access. Finally, if we have certain scripts, we can add chipping into that scheduling function as well as a dashboard and the like. In the newer version, there's a visual analyzer which is more Tableau driven and gives you a free hand. From a user perspective, it's an advantage and will provide us with an additional asset if we do upgrade. 

Implementation is a little cumbersome and requires expertise. From the support perspective, it seems that they are a level behind. Another, thing is if you're working in the 12.2.1.3 version, fields don't come with proper venues and proper testing is lacking. For an additional feature, I'd like to see data science and functions added.

I've been using this solution for five years. 

Most of the time the solution is stable but it depends on who is doing the set up configuration. A senior person will know how much memory is required, without that there might be problems. So lots of configuration files need to be optimized according to the usage. There may also be other parameters that need to be set up and if you are aware of this then the system will be stable. 

This is a scalable solution. 

Customer service is sometimes very good. At other times it's very, very dense and they ask for irrelevant information. It could definitely be improved. 

The initial setup was quite complex and I didn't do it in one go because when we deployed something, there were some problems that needed sorting out and that took around five to six hours. Deployment probably took close to six hours. The deployment was carried out internally. In my department we have over 300 users and the solution is used on a daily basis. 

This is an expensive solution and I think people tend to stop using this product as a result. Cost is a major factor in companies choosing other solutions. 

It's important to have an understanding of your requirements because if people are looking for visualization and realization, this is a very good solution that can work with thousands of users generally and can work on billions and billions of records. 

I rate this solution a seven out of 10.