Oracle OBIEE Reviews

The “Business Model & Mapping” layer in the Administration Tool, because the maintenance and evolution processes are greatly facilitated.

Now, we can better and rapidly answer the user’s reporting needs, even if it involves different sources of information (different applications, different databases, external sources, etc.).

Our actual needs are covered.

10 years.

Since 11g, no issues.

No, but no real experience.

Five out of 10. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.

Relatively straightforward.

Don’t hesitate, if you need this for enterprise reporting and BI needs.

It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources.

It allows us to control inventory and warehouse management (by using the features listed in the previous answer).

Supply chain and finance.

10 years.

Yes, in the previous release of the administration tool, there were a lot of issues, and compatibility issues that didn't work with OBIEE.

No, I can scale out horizontally and vertically.

Seven out of 10. There is not much technical support. Sometimes, I have to find the solution myself.

This is a pretty cool, enterprise BI tool. If you can, do a drill back against Oracle EBS.

The front-end.

It has helped to consolidate data and report on a single version of the truth.

The development effort takes longer than other BI tools currently on the market.

Three years.

No.

No.

Good.

Great product despite the amount of development effort required.

• Ease of use
• Strong calculation engine
• User-friendly look and feel

I am from a consulting background which normally works on projects. Many customers using this product have streamlined their planning process with analysts spending more time on analysis than data massaging.

Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported.

More than 10 years.

On-premise, when data grows exponentially, stability issues have been experienced.

Not applicable.

An eight out of 10.

Straightforward and easy to setup.

For financial planning with WorkForce and CapEx, it's definitely the product to go for.

• Data accessibility
• Easy to create ad hoc reporting for different solutions
• Excellent tool for defining and creating Executive and Operative Dashboard

I’ve used this product especially in the retail field. It’s been a huge initial effort creating reporting for monitoring business trends and retail KPIs, but once we did it we had a great return in terms of data reliability, time response and information sharing between internals and externals.

Retail, Finance, Wholesale

I've used if for about four years in the fashion industry.

Yes, especially when we’ve moved from one version to another. Most of the problems encountered have been solved quickly.

No broad impact

No

8/10

8/10

Designing and building the entire set up of Data Warehousing and Dashboard Reporting implementation has been challenging in terms of resources and time. It took at least six months to a year to see the first results of our hard work.

I can make a comparison with Business Objects and MicroStrategy. Even though these are excellent tools for business analysis, Oracle OBIEE has allowed the company to approach data analysis in a structured and shared way favoring the growth of analytical expertise across the entire company.

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.

I think it's a great tool for the retail, finance, and commercial industries.

ABC Sell Out Analysis

• Data Warehouse Application Console
• Analytics
• Inter Process Communication

Several KPI reports and different analytical reports can be generated for the operations team.

I have developed datamarts from scratch using OBIEE and ODI as well for a government department in charge of agriculture and food throughout Mexico.

Additionally, it was used to generate several KPIs for a nation-wide logistics company who were distributing all the medicines for government-provided social security insurance.

• DAC
• Siebel Analytics
• BI Server

I've used it for four years.

There is an issue with the handling of the cache in the BI server.

There was an issue upgrading from 10g to 11g.

9/10.

9/10.

I haven't used another solution.

It was complex because the installation of the product presented some problems, and there was not much information about it. The issues were with security for the BI server and the middleware.

We did it in-house.

It is high.

No other options were evaluated.

Be well prepared with the product details from installation to implementation. Be sure you have a support account.

It's easy to create fully-functional Dashboards.

We have been able to integrate different sources into one dashboard.

Essbase integration needs to be worked on.

I've used it for around five years.

No issues with the current version.

When using Essbase, queries accumulated in the BI server and degraded its performance.

No issues encountered.

It's satisfactory.

It's satisfactory.

We previously used Hyperion WebAnalysis, and we needed better RMDB and browser support.

It was straightforward.

We used a mixed team, and when the vendor team implemented it, they had satisfactory skills to do it.

It's ok.

It´s expensive.

• QlikView
• Tableau

Requires some database tuning and an expertise in OBIEE to perform as expected.

The advanced visualizations and the semantic layer. These allow for easy design of the warehouse.

We use the forecasting modules with financial data from the ERP system (EBS) and Hyperion.

This allows us to predict how the company will perform in the coming quarter and to take appropriate measures to mitigate the loss.

We also know the fast moving products. We know how to stock and market out products.

• OBIEE visualizations are still behind compared to Tableau and QlikView
• Visualizations, such as Gantt charts, are not available in OBIEE out-of-the-box: Needs a workaround to enable them

I’ve used OBIEE for six years.

The latest version of OBIEE is very stable, especially if it’s running on TimesTen for Exalytics.

OBIEE is designed to be scalable. It scales the best compared to all the other BI products.

I would give technical support a rating 3/5.

We did use previous solutions. The upgrade was a corporate decision. This was based on several factors, such as the new features, the approaching end of support, and the cost of maintaining an old system.

The initial setup is never simple. It was a long and difficult journey. It needed a lot of cooperation from the ERP consultants.

For enterprise BI, OBIEE is still one of the best products. Oracle does give a good discount and ensures a successful implementation.

We evaluated BusinessObjects, Cognos, and MSBI.

Understand your data and what information you want to gather from it before embarking on the BI journey. Ensure that you have a strong team to implement it. The best tools are useless when they are poorly implemented.