Oracle OBIEE Reviews

We have an enterprise type of environment, where we have 80 applications. We are using OBIEE for our data reporting.

Oracle OBIEE improves our day-to-day, but it is not a very user-friendly tool, according to some of our users. In my opinion it is very user-friendly.

There is an enterprise type of repository; you can make changes in the repository and it will affect the whole application. Other tools don't have a combined repository.

From a business perspective, it's not user-friendly.

No stability issues.

I think it is scalable. Whenever we have a new patch or update, the old functions are also available after applying it.

I have not used tech support.

It's a good tool, but its overall organization as an analytical tool, the layout of OBIEE, is not very good.

I would rate it a seven out of 10, overall. OBIEE doesn't have audit logs. Also because, in our own organization each department gets its user own ID, in OBIEE if we provide rights to them, they are the administrators of OBIEE. That means there is no distinguishing between user management and administration.

It's the connectors, the adapters. Built in connectors with different ERPs, you can plug in XL, other sources of data. It's very easy to configure. It's very easy to use.

It's so easy for us to see everything on a single dashboard, instead of looking for the information, and then compiling it in some sort of spreadsheet. We can just go on the dashboard and measure our success while looking at our financial data, even our HR data. 

It's great. We are able to do a lot of analytics. We can set goals, annual goals, using this tool. It's very easy to create our dimensions and our facts and see which metrics are being hit and which are not.

I think Oracle has already come up with a couple of data visualization pieces, instead of just reporting. Today, I saw from a couple of versions of what they are coming out with. I think it's pretty cool. I think it satisfies all the business needs that we have.

Super stable. In the initial phase, 10 years back when we started using it, at that point, it was a bit finicky, but it's been perfect.

I think it was scalable enough.

I think, especially with Oracle OBIEE, we have not created any service requests that I know of. Maybe once or twice. 

We have used their ERP as well and we had to create a lot of service requests, tickets. But with OBIEE, it's very easy to use, and we have not had that much trouble. The tool has been in the market for a while, it's very stable.

We were trying to use a custom based tool. That didn't work. Every time we had to make a minor change, a technical person had to be involved. A lot of different layers, and it was like product delivery. It was a continuous development. This was a big change for us. It was pretty much plug and play.

We needed some technical expertise, including me - I have some background in using different business value tools - so I knew. It was not that hard after reading their documentation. It was easy.

The most important criterion when looking at vendors is their experience with bigger clients. That helps a lot. Lessons learned, they put it out there. They tell in their white papers. There's a lot of information out there to help you before you even decide to use a tool. That's great.

It satisfies 99% of the business measures related to analytics, reporting, and dashboard views; it satisfies all of those.

I would say first, analyze your business requirements and see if this is the right tool for you. There might be cheaper options, looking at your business requirements. Oracle is a big company. That's the most important piece of the puzzle, you have to look at your own requirements and see if everything meets your needs. Other than that, I think if your requirements are to have a tool which has dashboard capabilities, and you have analytical needs, and reporting needs, I think this satisfies pretty well.

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.

We're using it since 2010 or 2011. From a functional point of view, as well as implementation, setting it up, configuring it, updating. We have gone through the entire lifecycle.

In the beginning it had it's stability issues, but it became stable. It's better now. I think we are in more of a "cruising" stage in our product lifecycle.

We did hire consulting services to help us implement. Then our superusers took it from there and went to a lot of sessions and user groups to better understand.

We think it will meet our needs moving forward. 

Oracle support can be tricky. I would rate it as, maybe, six or seven out of 10. It's not the best.

Response time can sometimes take a little while. Redundant questions. As an experienced user, you can kind of tell what the problem is, versus... It's like they have a pre-written script, "Okay, this is what I need to ask you."

Yeah, we were using an old product that Oracle sunsetted, I believe.

This product, OBIEE, they acquired, they didn't build it. This is now their choice of tools for reporting. Before, they were using an Oracle product which was not the greatest. It was Excel-type stuff.

Surprisingly, this was straightforward. If you follow the implementation guide or installation guide, it was very well written, so we were good.

I would recommend that you get your end-users ready, because a lot of information is transparent with this tool, which gives them better insight regarding how their operations are running. They might find something that was not visible to them. It may mean negativity around improvement but take that as an opportunity. That's what my suggestion is. It's a powerful tool.

We are happy with it. I think that Oracle tried to compete, but they realized that there was a better product. Buying them (the better product) was a better choice (for Oracle), because it really provided a lot of users access to data quickly, and Oracle's former solution sometimes wasn't the greatest, so good stuff.

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.