Oracle BI Applications is a powerful suite designed for comprehensive business intelligence analysis. It integrates key functionalities to streamline data insights and decision-making, making it ideal for enterprises seeking robust analytics capabilities.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Oracle BI Applications | 2.7% |
| SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite | 10.4% |
| IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services | 9.7% |
| Other | 77.2% |
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| Title | Rating | Mindshare | Recommending | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) | 4.0 | 5.8% | 92% | 215 interviewsAdd to research |
| MuleSoft Anypoint Platform | 4.0 | 8.7% | 92% | 62 interviewsAdd to research |
Oracle BI Applications provides pre-built analytical solutions optimized for integrating with various Oracle and third-party data sources. It is crafted to help organizations better understand operational data, offering deep insights into numerous business processes. The applications support user-friendly dashboards and ad-hoc reporting, enhancing the ability to turn data into actionable intelligence across departments.
What are the key features of Oracle BI Applications?Oracle BI Applications are implemented across industries including finance, healthcare, and retail. In finance, they enable precise financial forecasting by integrating diverse data. Healthcare organizations use it for patient data analysis, leading to improved care initiatives. Retailers leverage it for inventory management and consumer behavior analysis, enhancing operational effectiveness.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| SubDirector of Project Management at DISH | 3.5 | I find Oracle BI's reporting and graphics valuable. However, integration and the initial setup were difficult due to incomplete data. I'd like improved integration with large data sources and rate it seven out of ten. |
| Senior Manager, Software Engineering Client Reporting at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees | 3.0 | I've found this solution stable with fast calculations, but it's cumbersome, expensive, and lacks modern visuals. Due to its limitations and lack of updates, we are phasing it out for a more flexible reporting platform. |
| Contractor Logistics Support IPT Lead with 5,001-10,000 employees | 4.0 | We replaced Oracle Discoverer with Oracle BI for ERP/EPM reporting, valuing its robust interactive dashboards and ad-hoc capabilities for financial insights. While initial setup was complex, I find it stable, scalable, and offers good ROI. |
| Oracle BI Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees | 3.5 | I've used this solution for three years. I value its stable, scalable reporting features, but technical support is poor. Initial setup is complex, requiring attention to functional configurations, and financial reporting needs improvement. |
| Database/Application Layer Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.0 | Oracle BI is stable, scalable, and users find it easy for data export and integration. However, its high cost is our primary concern, leading us to actively explore more affordable alternatives, despite user comfort and the system's good functionality. |
| Senior Vice President Of Operations at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees | 3.5 | I find this solution easy with great pre-built models and impressive scalability. However, initial setup was complex, and I've experienced instability and upgrade issues, especially if source systems are heavily customized, earning it a 7/10. |
I mainly use Oracle BI to provide information and business intelligence, including CRM, the billing system, and EIP.
The most valuable features are the reporting and the graphics.
One area for improvement would be integration. We've had problems with bottlenecks when creating the data warehouse because we didn't have all the information available. Integration also isn't as easy with Oracle BI as with other tools like Power BI or Tableau. In the next release, I'd like Oracle to include the ability to integrate with information that comes from large sources.
I've been using this solution for ten years.
The initial setup was difficult because not all the information was included in the implementation model.
For anyone thinking of implementing Oracle BI, be aware that you have to work with users in terms of the data, so they have to be able to work on the dashboards and with their own information. I'd give Oracle BI a rating of seven out of ten.
We are using it for the monthly reports for our business. These monthly reports are similar to the reports that you get from any utility company.
We use it for regulatory requirements. We need to send regulatory reports to a client every month, and we use this application and some other applications for that.
Calculations are a little bit faster. It can do the on-the-run calculations much better than other reporting platforms. You don't need any other specific tool. You can use Microsoft Office to start doing things with these reports.
It is very cumbersome and slow for making any changes. It doesn't have that many visuals to show different graphs and charts. It should have more visuals. It also doesn't support HTML5, which is useful for interactive sessions and reporting with dashboard etc. We are phasing it out because we need a newer platform that provides us more flexibility and more designs. Our use case is just to get the utility type of monthly reports, and we need visuals, customizations, columns, and certain sections on the report to show performance and other things.
They are not updating their BI Publisher product, which was known as XML Publisher before Oracle bought it. It could be because they don't have that many clients using it. We are using it because we have this solution for years.
We have been using this solution for the last 15 years. We have used its different versions.
It is stable.
It is not scalable on-premises. Because we don't have it on the hybrid or cloud, we cannot scale it to that level.
There is only one service ID that is running all the processes. We have an in-house front-end application with almost 4,000 to 4,500 users.
We have support, and they are good. Their response is good.
In this team, we are using Oracle BI Applications. In other teams, we are using Microsoft SSRS for reporting.
It is complex. Reporting is always complex, and it always requires some kind of customization. Deployment was very quick because we have all CI/CD components.
Oracle was involved in its implementation. Their consultants were working with us.
We have software engineers and field engineers. For maintenance, one person is enough, but for development, more people are required.
It is very hard to measure because some of the reports are mandatory, and you have to create them. There is no other way. There is a benefit, but we cannot measure something like this.
It is expensive. It is more than 100K for support. You pay for support on top of the standard licensing, which is on a yearly basis.
They should go for the modern way of reporting. All financial institutes have to look for tools that can give them better visuals as well. They cannot use only numbers.
The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that we should look for simplified solutions. If we cannot simplify a solution, it is going to give us a problem in the future. At the design level, we should do as much simplification as possible.
I would rate Oracle BI Applications a six out of ten.
We needed a reporting solution to replace Oracle Discoverer. Oracle Discoverer was going end of life. Our primary use case was ERP reporting and EPM reporting.
ERP reporting included accounts payable invoice and payment data, general ledger account data, supply chain purchase order and inventory data, fixed asset data, cost accounting data, and job costing accounts data.
EPM data included a full replacement of our financial reports to the interactive dashboard and ad-hoc reporting. Our past solution was PDF.
Oracle BI has improved our organization by having a more robust solution than Oracle Discoverer. Oracle Discoverer did not have interactive dashboard capabilities.
Our executives wanted a dashboard tool to keep track of our financials and data that would populate our financial statements. Oracle BI was a good fit.
It has a very robust dashboard and ad-hoc reporting. With the dashboard, our senior financial managers can easily slice and dice and drill up and down our financial data sets, which they leverage to make good decisions in the future.
The Power BI Transform user interface is very useful and easy to use.
For Oracle BI you have to use the Oracle data integrator, which ideally a software engineer would use. With Power BI, you can transform and clean your data with about the same knowledge curve as a power user of Excel. The chart interface with Power BI is easier to use.
I would improve the Oracle BI charting to make it easier.
I would also improve the process to develop ad-hoc reports. To view the development of an ad-hoc report, you have to pass a date parameter.
We have been using Oracle BI Applications for five years.
This is a very stable solution.
This product is very scalable.
Our experience with customer service has been good.
Previously, we were using Oracle Discoverer and we switched because it was going end of life.
The initial setup was complex and it took a lot of time to set up the infrastructure.
We used an in-house team and had assistance from the vendor. The vendor team's expertise was high.
Oracle BI provides good ROI.
We evaluated Birst and SplashBI.
I would suggest using Power BI if you have a small to medium size company and you do not do a lot of sharing reports. Otherwise, I would suggest Oracle BI.
Improving reports that users use today, providing better reports.
There is a multitude of already developed objects that allow you to create and/or improve existing reports in a reasonably easy way.
We did not encounter any issues with stability.
We did not encounter any issues with scalability.
Technical Support is not great. I do not have much to complain about, as I only had a few questions with no response.
I never used a different solution.
Initial setup is direct at times and complex at others, because without a doubt we constantly need the help of specialists in areas for some configurations.
I don't know about pricing and licensing.
I don't know whether other options were evaluated; I am just the implementer.
You need to pay SO MUCH attention to functional configurations. It makes all the difference in the results from BI APPS dashboards.
Since we're an Oracle shop, it's an integrated solution with our database.
It's web-based so that I can have multiple users accessing the same data. It provides ease of use and its formatting means we can use the data, export it to Excel, and we manipulate the data afterward if we need to.
As with any case study that we’ve ever done, it’s not so much a problem with the application or security or anything of that nature. It’s basically the cost infrastructure. Compared to other solutions, it’s one of the more costly solutions out there. It’s the biggest concern nowadays that upper management has.
As far as costs are concerned, as their current version of SQL Server is now on a Linux platform, it's now become something that we are starting to look at it. It is something that we would actually consider now as something that we migrate to.
If we go to the cloud, cost-wise, Microsoft is cheaper than Oracle. In the end, it goes back to cost.
We have no problems with stability. We are an Oracle shop.
As far as scalability, security, and all the infrastructure go, because we are not only an Oracle shop, we also run Oracle-engineered systems, we have no problems with the system itself. It’s a total package that we have. We have the product, the scalability, the expandability. We have all of that and even the ability to move it up to the cloud.
Their support is okay. Sometimes I have to run in circles to get to the correct person, depending upon what the problem is, because sometimes it may be database-driven, sometimes it is application-related. That's my only issue with support.
Since we are an Oracle shop, we have already paid for the cost of that support. My only issue is that sometimes I'm running around in circles to different departments because one refers to the other and then you have to play ping-pong between different parts of the maintenance, the application and the database.
As far as the application layer goes, reporting-wise, SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports are the ones that we're looking at, if we move from Oracle BI.
The only other thing that we're really looking at is what platforms they're available on. One of our goals is that it has to be on a Linux platform. Moving forward, as far as the end-user is concerned, we're looking for the lowest overhead for them. Because we already have BI, that already has its advantages built into it because the learning curve is lower for that versus other applications.
You need to know what your objective is, whether it's for reporting tools or databases. There are big differences in database structures between Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server.
Once you know which platform you want to be able to use as far as the database is concerned, the reporting tool is just a matter of what flavor you enjoy the most, in terms of ease of use and learning curve. Any of the above products work on any other platform, except maybe Microsoft SSRS. I'm not sure how well that works with NoSQL databases, but I know it works with the three that I'm looking at it. It's just a matter of the flavor of the tool that you're looking at with your databases and the end-user preferences in how they're going to be able to work with it.
Because we already use BI here, it’s a tool that our users are comfortable with and they already know how to use. So switching to another product may be a little more difficult if it doesn't have the same functionality and feel that our users currently have with the Oracle BI.
From my users' standpoint, they would probably rate Oracle BI at around an eight out of 10, because they like the way that it functions. We did have some instances of using Crystal Reports here, at times. We call Crystal Reports more of a presentation-type reporting tool. It looks good when you have to print it and show it but when you have to export it, it doesn't come out the greatest. You have to have things aligned correctly for that data to be exported correctly.
Oracle BI is more along the lines of what we do here because we're a government agency. It’s more of an engineering tool where users can export the data more easily into a drill-down format like Excel and they can manipulate the data again if they need to.
The performance of Oracle BI is fine. The application is fine. We have no problems with it.
It’s valuable because it’s easy. The pre-built data models are great, as is rapid implementation so that you can use all of the pre-developed Oracle features rather than doing the heavy lifting. For the most part, there is such a comprehensive amount of delivered reports with pre-built OBIA that we are finding it to meet 90% or better of the client requirements in relation to that functionality.
There are upgrade issues, but we have heard that they are being fixed. There are some JVMs in the product that are outdated as well, and there are some default configuration parameters that it would be nice for Oracle to fix instead of leaving them up to the implementers to tweak the settings after the fact. This is a known thing, so it is something that could easily be corrected in the future.
I have been using the product for three years now.
It was really unstable when it was first released on 11.1.1.7.1 back in May of 2013, but it has slowly become more stable over time. There are still some glitches right now. For example, if you implement on 11.1.1.8.1 and you want to upgrade to 11.1.1.2.1 or the current release, it is not a straightforward upgrade from 7.1 up. You have to stop somewhere in between. It’s a little bit of a disconnect to have to upgrade twice to get to your target. You basically have to approach it by doing a clean install and then export and bring all of your data back in.
The scalability is unbelievable. It’s unlimited, not only with the data warehouse, but also with ODI. With ODI, you can easily handle large transactions or batch processes bringing the data in.
They are very knowledgeable. We work with the internal development team because we were an early adopter, and it has been great.
It was pretty complex. You have to follow a very specific installation process; otherwise there can be a lot of issues. It became more complex last year with the critical security updates, so we had to add on a week to our installation process.
Look at your source systems. It is only pre-built to go with PeopleSoft applications, JD Edwards and Oracle eBusiness of SAP. If you're not running one of those, it doesn't make sense to buy the pre-built. You also need to consider is how heavily customized the resource system is because it's pre-built based off of the vanilla product sets. Any customizations you've made to the product after it’s delivered, you're going to have to account for in the pre-built data warehouse and even into OBIE. I would rate it a seven out of ten overall.
