Oracle OBIEE Reviews

It's mainly used in the banking sector. It handles very large datasets and prints extensive reports. We recommend it for that purpose, utilizing features like OBIEE Publisher reports, analytical reports, and others available in OBIEE.

We work with clients who are mostly using Oracle Analytical Services and Oracle Analytical Cloud. We are able to fulfill their requirements, but in some scenarios, we inform them that out-of-box support is not present for certain features.

I have used Oracle OBIEE for a single banking client, but that bank has been merged into another bank, and I took care of the technical part of the merger. To be more specific, more than a bank, it was a mortgage company. All the banking reporting was done through Oracle OBIEE. Oracle OBIEE was already with the customer for whom I was working. The customer I was working for was Oracle's clients.

The solution's most valuable feature is that it is a very comprehensive tool. Oracle OBIEE is a really robust tool for a very large enterprise implementation. Its features in terms of physical data model to logical data model building are all really robust. Though somebody else had developed the tool for the client for whom I used the tool, it was very well done. The data modeling was very well done, and it depends on the person who is executing it, as I hadn't developed it. I had just enhanced it. I had seen whatever my role was, but somebody had initially developed it. It was developed very well. It has a fantastic feature of documenting. When you work with many clients, you see the documentation is always missing, and you end up taking up some other vendor's job. It is usually very hard to figure out technically what was done, what was not done, and where the data is, so the data dictionaries are not up to date, and information documentation is always very poor. Oracle OBIEE has a built-in feature where you can actually create entire documentation of all the data elements and how they are linked, and it throws out HTML documents that are all interlinked, so if you have an entire directory structure, it helps create the document. You can find out which logical model links to which physical table, and it is very easy to identify. There are multiple combinations if you want to identify one particular table and how many models are involved. You just need to click a hyperlink click, and it gives you all the information. If somebody has made any enhancements, you can just regenerate the document as there is a component of the tool that generates the documentation automatically, which is brilliant, I think.

Integration capabilities with other data sources or systems are on par with other tools for integration. 

It can integrate multiple sources of data and databases, accommodating them within the RPD. Moreover, Oracle is building some advanced analytics capabilities in OBIEE, like predictive analysis.

The data security in OBIEE is superior to other reporting and visualization tools. 

Additionally, the complexity that OBIEE can handle in the form of RPD is unmatched. I haven't found this level of complexity in other reporting tools, especially when dealing with complex calculations that are not readily available in the reporting layer. In OBIEE, you can do it in RPD. 

So, the two standout features are data security and the ability to handle complexity.

In our BAE project, we use Oracle OBIEE as our internal reporting tool. It helps us generate reports and dashboards for various departments and subject areas within our organization. We rely on OBIEE to access, analyze, and share insights from our data sources.

The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ability to handle large volumes of data and provide traditional BI functionalities that developers can easily understand. I appreciate how it allows me to view and analyze backend queries, which is helpful for debugging and troubleshooting. 

I use the solution in my company to deal with areas like data warehousing, dashboards, KPIs, reporting, and dimension types.

There are a lot of functions in the product, including a drill-down functionality and level-based hierarchies that are very attractive. Though the tool offers a parent-child hierarchy, I use level-based hierarchies as they have very good functionality. The tool offers a good option known as action links to help with the linking of reports and to deal with master-detail reports. If you want to see the sales from the last year, the previous month, the previous quarter, or a day ago, the tool is helpful with the very good functionalities it offers. In the area of ML, functionalities like forecasting and other features should work properly.

We mainly use Oracle OBIEE mainly for business purposes, which include analysis and intelligence-based decision making.

I have not personally used any such products related to this service, however based on the popular opinion, Microsoft Power BI is more popular. We have never switched from this software due to infrastructure and license related costs. However, my team acknowledges that the Power BI is much more enhanced and includes features that are easier to use, including its drag and drop features. I am not sure, if OBIEE has these features, due to lack of updated versions.   

Most of the use cases were related to financial reporting, project management, and operations.

One of its main features, which is a feature in pretty much every enterprise product these days, is the ability to see a single source of truth (SSOT). It means that of all the different pieces of information in today's contemporary enterprise, you can identify one set of financials, one set of production data, one set of sales, and one set of marketing data, and you can call that the truth or the gold standard. Everybody who accesses the application can refer to the same truth. This is a major benefit of not only OBIEE but many other products, but OBIEE has been doing that for a long time. Being able to access multiple data sources, being able to pull them all together, and being able to establish the same information that everybody can refer to are some of its benefits.