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Oracle OBIEE vs Targit Decision Suite comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle OBIEE
Ranking in Reporting
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
159
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (12th)
Targit Decision Suite
Ranking in Reporting
41st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (22nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Oracle OBIEE is 2.9%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Targit Decision Suite is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle OBIEE2.9%
Targit Decision Suite0.8%
Other96.3%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

AA
Analyst at Equifax Inc.
Unified semantic layer has driven informed credit risk decisions and real-time analytical insight
Performance-related issues are a concern, as in multiple reports I have seen, some reports were poorly performing. We can focus on implementation of performance so that reports are delivered within seconds. The user interface and self-service experience can be improved through modernization of the UI, addressing self-service limitations, and integrating with mobile. Technical and administrative complexities can also be addressed. Complexities such as system configuration require attention. In the initial setup of Oracle OBIEE, there are multiple things starting from infrastructure provisioning, database schemas, and WebLogic server installations. However, the RPD, the semantic layer, is the steepest hurdle. Security integration, integrating with LDAP or Active Directory, is rarely plug and play and requires deep knowledge of WebLogic. Deep knowledge is necessary when starting with the initial setup of Oracle OBIEE. Other dependencies include Java middleware and client tools. Since Oracle OBIEE deals with huge data, report performance is the biggest concern. The out-of-the-box setup is rarely optimized, so we need to manually check configuration files, such as nqsconfig.ini file settings. For recommendations in Oracle OBIEE, from what I have seen, we work with star schemas in the RPD. I always aim for the star schema in the business model, even if the physical source is normalized. This approach will impact the performance, speed of the data, and accuracy. Oracle OBIEE could improve to allow other schemas as well. Performance is a major area for improvement, and they should work on aggregating the persistence and improve the persistence wizard where we implement aggregations. Caching features have been given, including event polling tables where we can do purging and seeding, but the main focus should be with respect to schema designs.
it_user289458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Intern at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I can now create more meaningful charts--radar, donut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc., but it doesn't support Linux or commodity hardware.
* The tool is very easy to use, we got on-premise training from Panorama, within days we were proficient enough to play with the tool. * The customer service is very responsive, they answered our queries. * I saw lot of people complaining about the lack of community forum, but they do have a forum which is quite active. * The tool is extremely easy to use, with a click you can import data and create the visualizations. * The things I like most is it supports variety of charts, I was quite bored with my previous BI tool which mostly supported bar, line and pie charts. I can now create more meaningful charts radar, donut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"From my experience as Retail Planner and Business Analyst in fast paced companies, I would suggest this solution to anyone who wants to improve data analysis in terms of data read, performance, analytical culture throughout the company."
"User-friendly look and feel."
"Technical support is excellent; there are many companies specialized in delivering technical support for OBIEE."
"For me, it makes the difference is in terms of our users being able to take advantage of a product which allows you to get access to data, reports, make decisions quickly, and have better insights regarding operations."
"The main benefits of Oracle OBIEE include helping in taking decisions based on report results, and the primary enterprise benefits include unified semantic layers, with Oracle OBIEE's core strength being its common enterprise information model, which abstracts complex physical data into a simplified business model, ensuring all departments use consistent definitions of key metrics."
"It's just drag-and-drop, versatile, very user-friendly, and intuitive."
"This solution has had a huge impact agency wide."
"I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together."
"The tool is extremely easy to use, with a click you can import data and create the visualizations."
 

Cons

"There are a lot of aspects of Oracle OBIEE that are exceptionally complicated and make things unnecessarily difficult for everyone who uses it."
"There were some issues encountered with scalability."
"I wouldn't recommend it as there are many other product out there, as long as your database is covered with RDBMS or other warehousing database."
"One significant improvement is the need for simplification. The set up could be more intuitive."
"I find I prefer Oracle OAC over OBIEE. It's more advanced, has artificial intelligence, and there's more that we can do with it in general. OBIEE is lacking features."
"This solution needs a better security management system and I think there is room for improvement in terms of giving access to people in a more effective way."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"The technical support is not as good as before. They used to have very good support five to six years ago, but the support is now hectic and takes too much time to resolve issues."
"No support for Linux or commodity hardware. Limited support for big data analytics."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think to spread this across an enterprise will be a significant investment."
"Oracle products are extremely expensive."
"If you compare Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE licensing, then Oracle products are much better. With Qlik Sense, you have to pay per client and per use. But we get Oracle OBIEE along with the Oracle database, making it much more cost-effective in the long term."
"I would rate it a 4 out of 5 in terms of pricing."
"Pricing is an area that could be improved."
"Compared with the other products in the market, I feel Oracle OBIEE is an expensive product."
"It is an expensive solution."
"All products from Oracle are very pricey."
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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - BI Head with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 4, 2015
Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho
1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise34
Large Enterprise103
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Questions from the Community

How does Oracle OBIEE compare with Microsoft BI?
Oracle OBIEE is great in allowing design and creativity per the individual needs of the organization. Dashboards are fully customizable and very user-friendly. This solution is very stable. Oracle ...
Which Oracle product is better - OBIEE or Analytics Cloud?
Oracle OBIEE is designed to be relatively easy to set up and has a helpful customer support staff at the ready to assist customers. These are two attributes that make this system quite valuable. OB...
What do you like most about Oracle OBIEE?
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.
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Also Known As

OBIEE, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle BI, Oracle BI EE 11g
Targit BI Suite
 

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Sample Customers

Banca Transilvania, BeckmanCoulter, Hong Kong Housing Society, HealthShare, Ivanhoe Cambridge Unifies, and Home Credit, and Finance Bank.
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