Manager of Data Analytics at Tata Consultancy Services
Real User
2014-06-17T09:21:17Z
Jun 17, 2014
I used both products rather briefly. In my experience, OBIEE is better product than MSBI. While both products have limitations in ETL, reporting performance is better in OBIEE. Further, Oracle has proven credentials in handling large volumes of data, whereas MS SQL Server Suite struggles in processing large volume (and complex) of data. Oracle offers many features at database level and reporting level to enhance performance as well as usability experience. MSBI lags providing similar degree of capability to both the developer or the user.
I would concur with Reviewer78465 above, and suggest you strongly consider Information Builders - a vastly superior platform and much easier to work with as a company.
Architect at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
2014-06-12T12:12:22Z
Jun 12, 2014
I think OBIEE isvery powerful when it comes to huge data volumes. You can set up a so called aggregate content, which means that if you have a for example a materialized view, you can configure OBIEE to use your fact table for low level data, and your MV for aggregated data. Your aggregate content can even be in a separate database.
Also a huge advantage is that you are not restricted to the MS world. If for example you use a different LDAP server than MS AD, you can very easily connect it to OBIEE. And this is not a pathological example, that can be a real world and license sensitive question.
You can also run OBIEE over Linux (Red Hat or Oracle Linux).
You can scale OBIEE both vertically and horizontally for availability and performance improvements.
These are my first thoughts, there are probably other advantages as well.
Kind regards:
I don't have any experience with these two BI solutions, but just came back from a Information Builders Users Summit, in Orlando, FL yesterday, and they are doing some tremendous things in the BI space!
Hello community,
I am currently researching BI tools.
I'm looking for a comparison between Sigma and Power BI in terms of costs, performance, and ease of use. Which of these solutions do you prefer and why?
Thank you for your help.
The two are similar, it is cars but of different brands; I ask 1-) the users use Windows 2-) you have Office 365 3-) They will use Excel for the data. If you answer yes to the 3, better BI due to integration, and learning is easier for the user. If they are non-Microsoft databases, investigate on the provider's side, for example, SAP, IBM, etc. I have trained end users in Power BI. I know that Power BI has the majority of connectors. I hope my comment is helpful. Regards
Hello peers,
I am looking into extracting reports, dashboards, and data from Oracle Fusion into Power BI. It is easy to do? What is the best practice for this?
Thank you for your help.
Financial Systems Advisor - US Controller Group at McDonald's
Apr 19, 2023
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.
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
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I used both products rather briefly. In my experience, OBIEE is better product than MSBI. While both products have limitations in ETL, reporting performance is better in OBIEE. Further, Oracle has proven credentials in handling large volumes of data, whereas MS SQL Server Suite struggles in processing large volume (and complex) of data. Oracle offers many features at database level and reporting level to enhance performance as well as usability experience. MSBI lags providing similar degree of capability to both the developer or the user.
I would concur with Reviewer78465 above, and suggest you strongly consider Information Builders - a vastly superior platform and much easier to work with as a company.
Thank you all.
I'd suggest you look at these links:
http://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/obiee_vs_microsoft-bi
http://www.itcentralstation.com/products/obiee
Thanks,
Biswojit Sen
OBIEE is very powerful when it comes to huge data volumes
I think OBIEE isvery powerful when it comes to huge data volumes. You can set up a so called aggregate content, which means that if you have a for example a materialized view, you can configure OBIEE to use your fact table for low level data, and your MV for aggregated data. Your aggregate content can even be in a separate database.
Also a huge advantage is that you are not restricted to the MS world. If for example you use a different LDAP server than MS AD, you can very easily connect it to OBIEE. And this is not a pathological example, that can be a real world and license sensitive question.
You can also run OBIEE over Linux (Red Hat or Oracle Linux).
You can scale OBIEE both vertically and horizontally for availability and performance improvements.
These are my first thoughts, there are probably other advantages as well.
Kind regards:
Gyuri
I don't have any experience with these two BI solutions, but just came back from a Information Builders Users Summit, in Orlando, FL yesterday, and they are doing some tremendous things in the BI space!
I haven't used either, but I can Imagine that if you already have an Oracle 12g database established maybe OBIEE will be best bet for integration.
By the way, if you need to BI something from (say) SAP (SAP-PS or SAP-PM) then you won't gain much of an advantage from using OBIEE compared to MS BI.
Of course if there is no other restrictions (say financials)…