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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/oracle-bi-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/oracle-bi-profile/alternatives/) # Oracle Business Intelligence User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.1/5 - Total reviews: 90 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.7/5 - Customer support: 3.6/5 - Value for money: 3.8/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 33 reviews (37%) - 4 stars: 38 reviews (42%) - 3 stars: 15 reviews (17%) - 2 stars: 3 reviews (3%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (1%) ### Most mentioned pros - I like that it's easy to create ad hoc analysis report using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence report using drag and drop feature. - After we moved from old software to Oracle Business Intelligence our company achieved many benefits, The work became more organized and users authorization more specified, And the transactions with more details, In the same time the reports became more easy to customize and export as Excel file or many others integrated software. - The feature of allowing results to be saved in many formats makes reporting and information sharing easy ### Most mentioned cons - Reports not populating the actual data from Oracle and the reporting interface doesn't have the best user experience. - there is nothing but sometimes the software annoys to perform the task. ## Oracle Business Intelligence customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 90 (page 1). ### my experience as administrator of the software is very good - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Marcelo B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. the business likes because they have a products to make analitics of the sales that the companie makes and we can integrates with other systems of the company #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros the pros is the way how you administrate the product is a standard of fusion middleware products so is very easy the administrations #### Cons maybe can be the utilization of memory that is very high so i have to buy alot of memory for the hole environment if i have 200 user connected --- ### Review of Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) Tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence to create ad hoc analysis reports are positive to pull data from a single subject area. If it's more than one subject area, it's better to create a BI Publisher report instead. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like that it's easy to create ad hoc analysis report using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence report using drag and drop feature. You'll need to know which subject area to use and it's important to validate the data against the front end of the user interface as well before you fully rely on the data from the ad hoc analysis report you create. #### Cons The ad hoc analysis report in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence is not as user friendly when it comes to combining data from multiple subject areas. Oracle specialists suggest to use Business Intelligence Publisher report instead when combining data from multiple subject areas or consider using Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse. --- ### "Oracle BI", a Complete BI solution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Happy and Satisfied with this product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Right investment will always help you generating higher revenues. Oracle BI Suit stands on it !! Good work guys !! 1. Ease of installation and configuration: Starting from 11g to 12c now, OBIEE has a well structured and easy installation. 2. Scalability: OBIEE is easly scalable across environments. Starting from small numbers the users can range upto thousands to millions. The system can be scaled horizontal and vertical based on requiremnts. 3. Ease of maintenance: OBIEE systems are very easy to maintain. Since it is o top of weblogic platform, any admin with basic weblogic knowledge can maintain the system easly. 4. Logging and auditing: The environments are well structured. every component can be monitored individualy with a veriety of log levels 5. Integration with other applications: Since OBIEE is oj weblogic platform, any jar/war applications can be integrated with ease. 6. Connection to a verity of datasources: OBIEE gives options to connect to around 100+ datasources both structural and non structural 7. Queries accross technology. OBIEE engine can cross query between multiple type of databases based on the 3 layer architecture of OBIEE RPD 8. Star and Snowflake design: OBIEE follows industry's best query building methodology of Ralph Kimbal #### Cons This is a bit costly product as we have to purchase it per user basis, however quality always comes with cost only. --- ### Oracle BI EE - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The product has evolved quite nicely with the customer demands and the developing technologies. From a designer and administrator point of view, the key benefits are the variety of components available for different tasks, e.g. BIPublisher, Data-visualization-desktop, Agents, Action framework and Interactive dashboards. There is a rich visualization library and the option to integrate with third party libraries as well. #### Cons When compared with other BI tools, OBIEE requires a significant infrastructure and detailed planning to implement and manage over time. That is true for the on-premise version. Not necessarily for the Cloud version, which is much more quick to setup and use. --- ### i stress-tested this software to understand its peculiarities to sell it to customers - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is easy to analyze the reports thanks to its ability to show the large amount of data in an attractive way #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Integrates completely with the rest of the oracle suite, excellent possibility to automate schedules for notifications and static reporting (by sending them via email). Relatively easy to create data clouds, and model them. Beautiful dashboards, interactive and easy to customize. It is easy to administer the permissions and to create access groups for consulting the analysis #### Cons High initial cost, but turns into an excellent investment. Requires training sessions to be used independently (especially on the back end developer side that user, front end). The language used to connect all data sources is not very easy, not suitable for small and medium-sized businesses. It isn't as good as QlikView how about upgrade, OBI it is not easy to update. --- ### Oracle OBIEE - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Muhammad T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My over all experiences is not bad with product, because it's completely user friendly. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Yes, it's very nice analytical tool, we can easily manage our dashboard board and reports and also very good graphical interface (GUI). #### Cons I am currently facing a single issue in this product, why slide view feature not in this product. #### Reasons for choosing Oracle Business Intelligence Cost saving. --- ### Easy to use Analytics Tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Isley U. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Primary/ Secondary Education - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Powerful analytic tool that can model any set of data you can think of! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love how easy it is to integrate this with other products in the oracle suite. The dashboards are excellent and, being customizable, they let me have a host of options for data modelling. The options for visualizing data are excellent, and really add to the value when you consider all the capability this product has for reporting. #### Cons It can be annoying to update Java before the latest vendor patch will work. And, while I haven't experienced it, others on my team have reported browser issues, though that could have been due to their being lax on updates. --- ### Great tool for OCloud BI Developers - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Rohit K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good tool for interfacing with OCloud but opportunity to improve user experience with a better UI interface and smart auto-complete capabilities. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Great way to view and extract data from Ocloud using the BI publisher tool. Simple, intuitive UI with the ability to create and schedule extracts by building data models. For recurring extractions, the scheduler is fairly powerful and easy to use. Users have the option to extract data in different formats and store it locally, or load it on an FTP server using saved credentials. #### Cons Smart auto-complete option is missing and you have to manually type in full table names and field names. It would be great to have smart capabilities to auto-fill field/column names or the table names at the very least. --- ### Outdated, slow and unintuitive - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Chris D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Staffing and Recruiting - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The number of options to chose from when preparing data breakdown #### Cons Super slow speed, not intuitive when filtering and navigating through --- ### Oracle Business Intelligence. The largest and most complete tool for data analysis. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Software adapted to the basic needs of storage and qualitative and quantitative analysis of data. The analytical extraction applied to data masses, in Oracle BI is simple, its options are not very complex. #### Cons When you start the Oracle BI application, different customization options are presented. You must have a high degree of administration of the tool to extract its greatest potential, and for that you can spend a lot of time. --- ### Fantastic Visuals and Stunning Analytics - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Siva K. - Industry: Computer Networking - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Power visual analytics for the entire organization. Users could develop their own reports, dashboards instead of relying on IT. Actionable business intelligence. Boardroom ready reports. Able to generate and analyze financial statements. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Oracle Business Intelligence is available in both on premise and cloud. It comes with in built adaptors for easy integration with various Enterprise products like SAP. It is tightly integrated with Oracle's products like Oracle EBusiness Suite, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Oracle Fusion Products, Hyperion etc. For faster time to value, one can purchase Oracle Business Intelligence Applications which comes with commonly used dashboards, reports in various verticals like Financials, procurement, Manufacturing, Human capital management, Sales, CRM etc. Oracle BI is tablet and mobile friendly. Oracle is investing heavily in Big data, in memory processing, voice enabled talk to your data, kind of cutting edge features. In summary, the advantages of oracle cloud are, Tight integration with all Oracle products Availability of ready made reports, dashboards, analytics in form of OBIA ( oracle business intelligence applications ) which will save time and effort if you develop yourself. Stunning and smart visualizations. Improved user experience. Secure sharing and collaboration. Adaptive design for various devices like mobile,tablet etc. #### Cons Oracle has to improve on customer service. A service request with oracle may take long time to get resolved. Integration of the customers in house products with the oracle dataware house may be a challenge. --- ### Strong and user friendly - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Aida G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The software is very complete and easy to use. #### Cons I would like the programming to be more flexible. --- ### Oracle Business Intelligence - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. In my experience i have the oportunity in the implementation in other companies this product. Because another way to work with virtual create directly in oracle is stable and work fine. on the other hand have cloud its the same way to create dashboard, analysis, metrics etc. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros is the way to do a analysis, dashboards, create metrics and transform data from the data with graphics and administrative user, roles and other things #### Cons i don't have nothing that i didn't like in this moment --- ### My favorite local BI tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Patrick W. - Industry: Computer Hardware - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Just an easy way for users to get introduced to SQL and building queries. Very powerful for regular repeated processes that need to be run and reviewed by business users, especially ones who don't actually have SQL experiences. Only complaint is it seems that Oracle has abandoned really supporting it and promoting it as a product. Haven't seen a meaningful update in years. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use and powerful. #### Cons Needs 64-bit support--no major updates in years. Oracle just bought it and kept it steady state. --- ### Do not use unless you are forced to - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros Has been around for ages so easy to find consultants to implement and maintain #### Cons At least 10 years behind it's more modern end-user focussed competitors like Tableau. --- ### Powerful tool for collecting data warehouse information and providing reporting - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros One of the suite of tools provided by Oracle, Oracle BI is a powerful tool for data warehouse reporting and related queries. #### Cons Requires technical staff for configuration and query development, so it's not a simple user interface effort for anyone. --- ### works well but a bit slow - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lindsay B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The software does what it needs to do and helps me easily pull film-showing stats for my reports. I just wish it could load faster. Maybe one day! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros My company uses this software to track statistics of specific film showings in particular languages. It tracks plays from our app and online views of our films. It's accurate and up to date when I pull stats during the week. #### Cons My only complaint is that the platform is a bit on the slow side. When I pull stats for my reports some weeks, I find myself waiting a while and having to come back a little later to see if it loaded. --- ### one of the best software for business - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: KALA MALLIK M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Farming - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. it is a good product in the current situation and preferred for small scale business #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros it gives the predictive analysis of the historical data and also performs end-to-end business performance management tools, which is very user-friendly. #### Cons there is nothing but sometimes the software annoys to perform the task. Sometimes, An unnecessary error pops up. --- ### Easy to create reports using rtf templates, simple reports and dashboards are easy to create. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: beena a. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Simple list reports and dashboards were easy to create. Data modeling is easy. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Rtf template creation, basic data modeling is easy, prompts and cascading prompts are easy to implement #### Cons It would have been nice if it has inbuilt functions for arithmetic operations, data functions and oracle functions. Conditional blocks and rendering pages based on the variables are not easy. --- ### Review DRivera Oracle BI - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Denis R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Having the option to design and modify report layouts as needed has been a good experience #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It has always seemed fantastic to be able to easily model management and control reports, without depending on a technical team to do them. #### Cons maybe the need to have a good internet speed so that the reports can be generated efficiently and avoid delays --- ### Not my preferred data visualization tool - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Sasha H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Because my organization stores data in other Oracle products, it made pulling our information into the queries very simple. Not much data manipulation was required. #### Cons Some queries can take long to run and do not come out in a very user friendly manner. --- ### A powerful and complete BI tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Roberto B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered A powerful and complete BI tool, with great integration with other ERP platforms, with hybrid premise as promised and a robust mobile platform. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The tool has easy and simple integration with the other products used in the Oracle platform company. #### Cons The customer service could be improved, because some problemas take a long time to get solved. --- ### Oracle BI Standard Edition One - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Yoga V. - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Good for big scale companies with large amount of data set, Reliable & Consistent, lot of features and functionalies. #### Cons Hard to learn, Need training for sure, way to expensive product, Not worth for small to medium size company --- ### Enterprise Edition - Try Before You Buy - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Andy H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am going to be frank here, I hate OBIEE. I've spent hours configuring dashboards. It is very complicated from a user perspective, although you can change almost all the fonts and stuff like that. It's got all the features you want when it comes to some things, but then it doesn't do the most random things you would assume any modern BI platform could do. For instance, searching subsets of data is not easy. Creating / Saving ad hoc filters is impossible unless you create copies of dashboards. This is very much a platform designed for IT people to administer, which is my IT group 'loves' this crap. But from a business user perspective it sucks. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 --- ### Oracle Business Intelligence - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Brian B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Tons of capability. All-in-one solutions #### Cons The whole interface needs a face lift. Very dated. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/oracle-bi-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Oracle Business Intelligence Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice