Oracle OBIEE Reviews

Oracle OBIEE is useful for data solutions.

The solution is user-friendly.

Oracle OBIEEE's performance and licensing costs could be improved.

The solution is stable. I rate it an eight out of ten.

The solution is scalable. Currently, we have ten users. We plan to increase the usage by next year. Overall, I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I implemented the solution in-house.

There is a Return on Investment.

The licensing cost for Oracle OBIEE is expensive. We pay an annual licensing fee, and there are no additional costs beyond the standard fees.

Oracle is a globally recognized company, and its products are considered satisfactory. You can't go wrong with Oracle products. I rate the product an eight out of ten. 

Oracle OBIEE is a database tool that is comparable to many other databases. It is commonly used to demonstrate to clients how their business is performing. With the use of graphs and visual aids, companies can be shown their current and future performance.

The utilization of Oracle OBIEE enables businesses to track their cash flow and identify areas where costs can be reduced. The solution offers valuable insights into customers' businesses, which can be used to make improvements and drive progress.

The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are the ease of logging in, the dashboard, and showing the problems in the data. Additionally, the reports are well integrated and it has good technology.

There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful.

I used Oracle OBIEE within the last 12 months.

This solution is suited for larger-sized companies.

There are many community forums that can provide a lot of information. It is helpful for everyone. We have used it often to help us in many areas.

I rate the support of Oracle OBIEE a ten out of ten.

Positive

The price of Oracle OBIEE is expensive, it is difficult for a small business to afford.

I rate the price of Oracle OBIEE a seven out of ten.

My advice to experts that might use Oracle OBIEE is it's a good tool and has many features. You are able to make reports to display where a company is going overall for success.

The solution is useful for developers and regular business users.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Oracle OBIEE a nine out of ten.

Oracle OBIEE can be used for reporting. It also gets used for some analytics-related work, like dashboard reports and subject areas. Additionally, the solution's bursting options, scheduling and sending reports across while having some dashboards created on the reports on the subject area.

The solution's performance and the bursting options when you generate the reports, after which you want to burst it based on criteria, are two valuable features of the solution.

The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly. Oracle should include more videos rather than simple text. Also, adding some examples will help users with quick learning.

I have four years of experience with Oracle OBIEE. Since we use cloud services, it is the latest version of the solution we use in our organization.

In terms of stability, I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. However, there have been occasional issues with the reports crashing, although this happens rarely.

Both the vertical and horizontal scalability of the solution is good. In terms of scalability, I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. More than 300 employees in our organization are using Oracle OBIEE.

Once we work on implementing dashboard reports, the user base will likely increase.

The solution's initial setup is a bit complex. However, since it's only a one-time thing, it shouldn't be an issue.

The solution's deployment is something we do manually in our company. We were wondering if there is a tool for automated deployment.

For the solution's deployment and maintenance, we need three resources, including the deployment team in our organization. So, we don't need a manager for this.

The solution's implementation process was carried out by an integrator who helped us.

In our organization, we implemented it a year and a half ago, and I can say that the ROI is not that great. So, we are still trying to stabilize the system and improve it.

In our organization, we use a user-based license for Oracle OBIEE, and I've heard that the license cost is based on the number of users. Also, I cannot comment further since I am not involved in the solution's cost-related part.

Since we use Oracle, we have implemented ERP and then Oracle ERP Procurement Cloud, which is a cloud software. We also have a cloud database, including OCI infrastructure.

I can recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

My clients are using Oracle OBIEE to extract data from their applications and present it graphically to make decisions.

The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is it's designed for Oracle. It works well in the Oracle environment and can sit on top of any application.

Oracle OBIEE could improve by having better integration and compatibility with other vendors.

I have been using Oracle OBIEE for approximately four years.

Oracle OBIEE is a stable solution.

Oracle OBIEE needed some improvement in scalability. Up until now, it wasn't very scalable, but this is something that they are working on by moving to Cloud BI.

The support from Oracle OBIEE can be painful because Oracle manages its support around the globe. There are times you need to repeat yourself for the agent to understand.

I rate the support from Oracle OBIEE a two out of five.

Neutral

I have used other solutions, such as Power BI.

The initial setup of Oracle OBIEE is easy.

I rate the initial setup of Oracle OBIEE a five out of five.

Power BI is less expensive than Oracle OBIEE. A benefit to Power BI is having the option to work with concurrent licensing.

I rate the price of Oracle OBIEE a one out of five.

I rate Oracle OBIEE an eight out of ten.

We use Oracle OBIEE for reporting.

I like the cloud deployment feature. There are about 20 new features, and they are available on mobile and more. I haven't used any of them, but these features are highly attractive.

It could be more user-friendly. For example, the RPD layer could be more straightforward. From a user's point of view, the visualization, especially the graphs, are not as attractive when compared to other tools like QlikView and Qlik Sense.

I have been using Oracle OBIEE for about five years.

Oracle OBIEE is quite stable. 

I think Oracle OBIEE is scalable.

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.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Oracle OBIEE an eight.

Oracle OBIEE is the company's primary workhorse for financial and HR reporting. It is used globally for the company. Everyone uses it for those purposes. The cloud version is also used for account acquisition.

It serves its purpose. It doesn't have many frills and is definitely older technology, but it is undeniably a workhorse.

Rigidity and speed are areas that could be improved. Everything has to move quickly in today's world, especially in the data world. Everyone wants it right now.

Having a system is great, and when you code it correctly, it can get the job done. However, a modern solution takes a long time; it moves much slower than some other things. You have products such as Tableau, and there are other data science tools out there churning through just as much data. Obviously, that element is not intended to be a data science tool in and of itself. It's more of a reporting tool than anything else. Expanding beyond pure data reporting and into analytics, or expanding data science, would be areas for improvement.

I have been working with Oracle OBIEE for seven years.

We keep it fairly up to date. We would be using the most recent version or perhaps one back.

We have an on-premises system as well as a cloud system in our environment.

If it's coded correctly, it can be very reliable.

Oracle OBIEE is very stable, it is very dependable.

Oracle OBIEE is scalable, we are using it on a global level.

Given the size and scope of how we use it, every change requires significant effort, some of which is internal. It is managed by our IT department. To make large-scale changes and integrate new systems, I believe a small army is required. The heavy lifting is done once they're all set up, and once they're in there and running, the actual maintenance and minor tweaks are fairly simple. This requires a much smaller skeleton crew.

I was not a part of the initial setup.

I believe it will be about how well the tool they choose fits their company, their company culture, and how scalable it is.  Oracle OBIEE is fantastic, but it is intended to be used in the enterprise. It is meant to be a large-scale workhorse. As a result, make sure it's the right tool for your business.

In comparison to other things we have out there in the grand scheme of things, I would say six or seven. I would rate Oracle OBIEE a seven out of ten.

We use this solution for pulling data analytics from our source systems through the enterprise data warehouse provided by Oracle. We also use it to provide dashboard solutions for analytics and operations for the businesses from various departments; operational, finance, marketing, sales, legal, everyone. We are partners with Oracle.

This solution is very easy for people who are building ad-hoc things. It's an enterprise solution so it can be deployed for a lot of users. There are some great new features that come with the 12c like data visualization, desktop BI Publisher, automation and interactive dashboards. The product has good 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. I'd like to see additional features and performance can be improved too. 

I've been using this solution for 10 years. 

There are no issues with day-to-day activities so it's pretty stable. The new versions have improved and even with a lot of people logging in, it's solid. 

The solution is made for enterprise companies and is scalable.

When we have issues that need Oracle support we reach out to them. The response is sometimes very slow but better at other times. It's a mixed bag even though we have dedicated support. We recently did an upgrade and that went smoothly. 

OBIEE is definitely for enterprise customers. If you have a big user base of say 500,000, then this is the kind of solution you'd want to have. I would definitely advise people to go for the latest version rather than install an old version and then try to do an out-of-the-place upgrade. 

There's room for improvement so I rate OBIEE seven out of 10.

The centralized metadata model component is most valuable. 

We do like Oracle Visual Analyzer, but we do feel that it's quite immature in comparison to its competitors. There is still quite a lot of catch-up to be done, but it does still have some unique value add.

It is not very stable, and it is not consistently improved. There are a lot of gaps when it comes to design. The documentation and support from Oracle on the vision have been pretty bad over the last six years.

It is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. One of the major red flags we have at the moment against Oracle is that it doesn't support deployment on other cloud providers. We're quite heavily vested in AWS as our infrastructure, and Oracle is yet to formally support deploying on those virtual infrastructure instances. That's quite disappointing, and it also cuts them out of over 70% of the market.

Its deployment is complicated in comparison to other solutions.

I have probably been using it since 2005. 

We're using Oracle Analytics Server, which is the latest version of the solution on site. We have a trial OAC which is the cloud version, but we're primarily on 12.2.1.4 which is the previous release on site.

The platform could definitely be more stable.

It is scalable, but it is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. The biggest pain point is the alternative cloud support. They're very Oracle cloud-centric. If I need to do anything on our infrastructure that is AWS-centric or Azure-centric, there are loads of issues.

There are thousands of users, but right now, it's suffering from losing its users to Tableau and Power BI because of its various shortcomings.

The documentation from Oracle and the support have been pretty bad over the last six years. We also use Power BI and Tableau. Oracle is very poor in comparison to Power BI and Tableau with regard to user engagement, documentation, and roadmap.

They've got a lot of gaps in the community, support, and documentation. If I try and look up how to do something complicated in Oracle Analytics, I'd surely find it hard to find the information, whereas if I look up the equivalent in Tableau or Power BI, I'll find solutions pretty quickly.

I find their support model very outdated. In order to get support, I have to raise a ticket, and then I have to talk to someone who may or may not very quickly understand the problem, whereas quite often with the other products, the solution is in the community. That's where Oracle is falling behind. Their community is very poor when it comes to finding solutions, and their support is quite traditional. It's very old-fashioned.

The deployment can be done in a day. Once you understand it, the deployment isn't too bad, but the deployment complexity is still very high in comparison to other solutions. 

We did it ourselves. For its deployment and maintenance, we need a whole team of people. We probably have about three or four managers, and we've probably got 15 to 20 technical personnel or developers because many different business units are using it.

Its licensing is yearly.

I can recommend it under certain circumstances. It depends on your deployment, and whether you are starting from scratch. It is heavily dependent on what infrastructure you have and what your current people have. I would recommend it if you're a fully Oracle house. If you're not a fully Oracle house and you're heavily based on Azure or AWS, then I'd be hesitant. I'd need to do an architectural review.

As an end-user, I would rate it a seven out of 10. For an Oracle house, it would be a seven out of 10, and for a non-Oracle house, it would be a five out of 10.

We were disappointed with Oracle OBIEE, because of the performance.

In terms of an analytical tool, it is quite outdated. End-users want to receive results quickly and to be able to view millions of rows of data in a matter of seconds. OBIEE was unable of doing so because of the way it was modeled and developed. It requires it to go to the database, run the SQL, and then fetch the result for each query. That procedure took a long time to complete.

There are a variety of different in-memory tools available; the data is loaded into the server's RAM or memory, and all requests, including data requests, are served from the RAM, making it extremely fast.

If you look at Qlik Sense or Tableau, or perhaps some other products on the market, such as Power BI, you'll notice that they have all of the data in RAM.

The performance and the complex setup are the main reason for switching to Qlik Sense. 

We had been using Oracle OBIEE for around eight years when we decided to stop using it six months ago. We switched to Qlik Sense.

Performance was the primary reason for switching from OBIEE to Qlik Sense.

We have never had any contact with technical support.

Oracle has a number of products that we use. We are a large supporter of Oracle.

OBIEE's overall setup is really complex because it relies on Oracle Forms, the Oracle Fusion technology, which requires a middleware.

We require both the front-end and the back-end. It was really difficult to manage the entire setup. Dealing with OBIEE was tough in some circumstances when we had to make infrastructure-related modifications.

The entire setup is extremely complex, and troubleshooting any errors is incredibly difficult due to the large number of logs generated by the WebLogic Server.

Setup is really difficult, which is an area where they are lacking. 

If you only consider Tableau, Qlik Sense, or Power BI, where you will simply download the software, all you have to do is apply it if you have an enterprise license. It's incredibly simple to install and configure these products. It's very easy compared to OBIEE.

They were reasonable in terms of price. I wouldn't say they were expensive. Pricing was adequate. It's comparable to the current technology we're using, Qlik Sense.

We never had any issues with the pricing of Oracle OBIEE.

I would rate Oracle OBIEE a five out of ten.

We are a service-based company and we build reports for the PeopleSoft HRMS system that analyze workforce management or higher labor management. We have a partnership with Oracle and I'm a senior software developer.

The solution has good data visualization features and provides a lot of visualization reports from various data sources. We can also merge the data from different sources. You can get a lot of reporting through the application and I find it to be a good enterprise solution. 

Managing the OB applications requires a high level of experience, and in that sense, the solution is quite heavy. Although the solution offers some direct reporting, I'd like to see something on the database. The way things are now you need to go through an intermediate layer rather than connecting directly to the database which would enable you to immediately start building a report.

I've been using this solution for seven years.

The solution is quite stable and we're able to manage a lot of data. 

The scalability is good. In terms of performance and functionality, we can scale it out. We currently have over 3,000 users. We have three or four people dealing with maintenance on a daily basis. 

We don't have too many problems with technical support but at times there are delays getting a response from Oracle. Initially, they released good documentation but it's not so good anymore and it's often difficult to find what you're looking for. There is definitely scope for improvement. 

The initial setup is not completely straightforward but it's not overly complex either. It requires a lot of planning and a lot of effort to implement but it's okay. 

I'm aware of the other options in this market category. OBIEE is an enterprise solution whereas other products in this category are not robust enough at that level. There are other good products out there but they are not enterprise solutions. 

It's important to understand your source system and then fully utilize all the features because I've worked on projects where we have not utilized many of the powerful features that the product offers. We generally use no more than a maximum of 10% of the features.

I rate this solution seven out of 10.