Oracle Business Intelligence a great tool for any enterprise sizes

I was involver in projects where OBIEE solution reporting needs for finantial enterprise, you can do a ODI integration for ETL solution to help data/information can be available in the way the thematic areas for reports pupulation needs.

Pros

Oracle Business Intelligence is a kind of scalable solution, you can start from a suit module and then scalate to add more components. It provides a relative easy to use GUI for auto-service analysis and with the last OBIEE versions you can get the last graphs and animations. Im my experience migrations from previous versions is relative easy to perform, Oracle brings good documentation about the proccess and a lot of blogs about any issues on the process. The main products I used on this tools are: * Interactive Dashboards: brings analytics solution for managers, we can put on dashboards any kind of analysis, reports, graphs, including geo-locations. * OBIP: Publisher offers a strong reporting tool, for formatted documents, and the hability to exports to a variety of formats such pdf, word, xml, html, etc. * Ad-hoc querys: a good solution for auto-services, managers as ends users can build their own answers for business/operative questions, just pulling the business variables and combining graphs and customs in a intuitive tool. * Delivers: helps to schedule analysis, alerts and delivers content to filter configured targets.

Cons

Oracle bring a complete tool, the cons is just limitated to improve user experiencie when working with time-dimensions, Oracle can work in to reduce the effort for this.

Good product potential which has been assimilated and developed into Oracle stack.

Works well with Oracle products due to effort made to assimilate into the Oracle stack. Graphical display on desktops to mobile devices and automated scheduled reporting provide ability to push and pull information via appropriate mediums for users.

Pros

Graphical interfaces and ability to sit above multi-faceted cubes can produce strong reporting and dissection opportunities to mine and exploit data. Much of the Oracle BI is from third party acquisition (e.g. Hyperion), and while this has it's own issues, it does provide opportunities where it can interface across the Oracle family of products and be interfaced with Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards ERP. Such capability supports large enterprises that may have a mix of Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft HR (utilising specific strengths of each product set) where underlying cubes of data can mix, match, and slice data to inform and forecast effect and impacts. Certainly strides have been made in the graphical interfaces of the Oracle BI stack, from display on desktops, to reporting, and more recently mobile devices. Display of information is relative to the form factor, relatively responsive (dependent on comm. links) and can be paired with scheduling tools for automated notifications and reporting. This has advantages of not only ad-hoc reporting for users, but can also simplify regular reporting cycles such as month and quarterly end reporting.

Cons

Overheads of management of underlying cubes can be troublesome due to the nature of products in the Oracle suite. Due to the acquisition of rival or complimentary products from other vendors and partial assimilation into the Oracle stack, and a reliance on old code as the base level of many Oracle products (including PeopleSoft); a strong knowledge of tables and inter-relationships is imperative. unfortunately in my experience a number of clients will also customise tables and fields which can further complicate maintenance and understanding. Creating an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) for your BI, whether Oracle or other products, to inform your Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB) can be most beneficial over the life cycle of products and BI overlays. Due to the nature/origin of the Oracle technology stack, the major drawback is often the need to employ (directly or via third party) specialists to configure, manage and maintain the BI stack. This is not just for knowledge or changes needed to BI to ensure effective operation, but also where institutional knowledge is required in the configuration and scripting required to ensure that source tables are appropriate and populated to support the BI outcomes desired.

Robust system

Pros

Oracle has a wide verity of options and functions which allows for robust reporting and detail. The system can be customized to meet most needs.

Cons

You made need to purchase various modules in order to have a full integrated business solution. Investment may escalate quickly.

Oracle OBIEE

My over all experiences is not bad with product, because it's completely user friendly.

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.

Easy to use Analytics Tool

Powerful analytic tool that can model any set of data you can think of!

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.

Technical consultant

My experience was excellent, I got to learn a lot with it. Projects I covered were across financial solutions, HRMS and supply change modules

Pros

The functionality and in-depth analysis with ease is the most prominent feature for me. Its fast, its robust, customizable to suit clients' needs and requirements. Easy to implement new features.

Cons

For a starter it will be a little hectic to grasp the functionality oracle business intelligence solution provides.

Flexible, Robust, Value for money but a bit laggy

As a BI solution, it is pretty decent, considering the more expensive options. Oracle's main draw has always been it's flexibility, and this solution is no different from its other products in that aspect. You get what you pay for.

Pros

Out of the box, it is all ready for use. It's role-based so is pretty secure. It's flexible/extensible. It is pretty intuitive.

Cons

It sometimes lags a bit, the user interface is not as slick, and looks a bit dated.

Its an ok BI tool

As a user its a great tool, but lots of things break all the time with it and then IT needs to fix it

Pros

Lots of filters and drill down reports Can customize from top level to bottom Gives great detail when setup right

Cons

Doesn't really allow you to visualize the information Graphs etc are just non existent Heard it is quite expensive Lots of time needed for company to setup reports correctly

A complete analytics solution

We use it for our data analytics and reporting needs. Oracle has always amazed us with its robust features.

Pros

Slight learning curve. User friendly interface. Robust data processing engine, quite capable to handle huge amount of data with ease.

Cons

One of the con's that I see is its price. The price seems to be quite high than its rivals. Apart from price, I don’t see any issues with the tool.

Customer Service Program

Overall, Oracle got the job done.

Pros

Oracle was one of the main programs I used while working for a telecommunications company. It was pretty easy to learn, and there are a lot of functions personalized for your company.

Cons

Sometimes the program would lag, which would ruin the flow with the customer I would be speaking with at the time.

Fantastic Visuals and Stunning Analytics

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.

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.

All the trimmings at a fraction of the cost

My company is what you would consider small about 200 + employees, but they have big expensive needs. BI Edition One allows us to get what we need without buying the whole cow [Enterprise]. If we every needed more, then we can upgrade without throwing out our initial investment. I won't go into all it does you can read the feature listings but suffice it to say if you use the PeopleSoft platform you will want this product. No more wasting time creating or generating reports for management. They can do for them selves and with a little training ad hoc reporting is at their finger tips. This leaves you with more time to work on leveraging all that you can from this wonderful robust platform.

Pros

1. Comprehensive BI functionality — 2. Flexible Interactive Dashboards 3. Highly customizeable reports 4. Self-service and ad hoc analysis, 5. Data integration with simple server administration

Cons

Cost - don't buy if you can't find a way to use it all. Its cheaper but not cheap, this platform is primarily for the PeopleSoft users its set to be of most use on that platform.

"Oracle BI", a Complete BI solution

Happy and Satisfied with this product.

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

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

It is easy to analyze the reports thanks to its ability to show the large amount of data in an attractive way

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.

Great software for large companies

Love this product and would recommend it to other companies.

Pros

This was a brand new program introduced to my company. I loved how easy it was to learn to navigate around. It also has a endless amount of possibilites on for what it is capable of. The service desk was also amazing. They had quick response times and if they were unable to answer my question they found someone who could!

Cons

The software can be very pricey but in my opinion the ability the system has far out weighs the price of it.

Oracle BI publisher to OBIEE

I do not recommend Oracle BI publisher. OBIEE is a better option option. But still its capabilities are limited. Oracle needs to improve its Customer support services.

Pros

I started with Oracle BI Publisher and migrated the project to OBIEE in Oracle Cloud. For Oracle BI publisher i used MS word. I am happy with OBIEE which is easy to use and got much more features than Oracle BI publisher. OBIEE dashboards and reports are easy to create and schedule.

Cons

Oracle BI publisher does not have any advanced features. OBIEE should improve the data modeling and security capabilities. Oracle cloud is not stable and we received emails about the server unavailability the last minute. Customer service is not good, it takes a long time to respond to the tickets. Oracle provided specialists to help us but for whatever questions we asked they just shared some links from oracle website. The tool is pricey.

Oracle Business Intelligence

Excellent reporting capabilities and polished data visualization.

Pros

The interface is easy to use and reports are very easy to schedule. The variety and quality of data visualization options add fantastic value for an already great product.

Cons

Vendor patches necessitated Java updates more often than I would expect out of the product. There were a few browser compatibility issues (though Internet Explorer worked fine).

Deployed in addition to Oracle Business Suite for Global reporting

Pros

A lot of tools to build environments and dashboards for users. Require an acceptable IT support without creating a botleneck when you need adjustment. We deployed it in replacement of BUsiness Objects where the environment and price became not acceptable

Cons

Complex to design and deploy if your company has a complex structure across multiple geographies and multiple currencies

Easy way to take advantage of information using Oracle BI Analytics, Publisher and so on.

Easy integration with other oracle prodcuts.

Pros

Integration with all oracle solution, besides of the complete visual components for creating business dashboards for my organization

Cons

I can't have more than one RPD as Business Area for creating my analysis. I must to modify my RPD in BI administration tool and then, load it again. It's a bit confusing for me (compared with other solutions in market)

It has a high user friendly and native understandable interface with great functionality for analytics.

It is very powerful tool for analytics and for business users that gives a great possibility to visualize all the processes in the company.

Pros

Great visibility, easy model and reports building. Easy administration process and creating access groups, speed of reports rendering.

Cons

Installation process is very hard for users that doesn't have an experience with oracle products, license price.

Oracle BI - Could use an update

I would recommend this system for businesses specializing in data analytics. However, I wish the interface was simpler looking, and I wish the system looked more modern.

Pros

The functionality of this software is unparalleled - it is very easy to keep data organized here through the system of folders.

Cons

This software is seriously lacking in visual appeal. When compared to similar systems, this one has the functionality of a modern one, but the look and feel of one that is ten years old. I wish the interface looked more modern and minimalistic - it is currently incredibly cluttered and at times hard to navigate.

In total, I have used a version of Oracle for approximately 10 years.

It's the best ERP software that I have used to date.

Pros

I like that it is very user friendly. Out of the 5 different ERP systems that I have used, Oracle is the best.

Cons

Unlike Lawson, Oracle does not provide visibility to the outcome of journals prior to actually posting the journals.

Great to use program, but expensive to initially implement.

Pros

Their customer support team is wonderful and very accessible. I like the user portal they have that allows you to get tech support but more importantly, allows you to speak with other customers of the software. The training they offer is also really helpful, as is the discount that they offer for training if you bundle it with other offers in a package.

Cons

It seems to be limited when you try to calculate percentages and rates and the training, while helpful, is definitely more complex (presumably for a more complex system).

Oracle BI

Excellent

Pros

Ease of access, switching responsibilities, drilling between modules, web based, variety of various standard program runs and reports

Cons

Needs extensive training for users for some specific fields

Powerful Tool

Pros

This is a very powerful tool useful for any Oracle user

Cons

Like any Oracle product it can be very difficult to use

Lots of great info in one area

Oracle is great in the sense that you can drill down and see almost anything you need to. It has the capacity to display a vast variety of information. There are very many filters that sometimes makes the ease of use a little difficult but once you figure that out, youre golden.

Pros

The accessibility of so much info and the ability to be able to drill down to specifics. You are able to view the data in a variety of ways which fit your needs.

Cons

Can sometime be difficult with navigation - lots of filters that sometimes make things confusing

Strong and user friendly

Pros

The software is very complete and easy to use.

Cons

I would like the programming to be more flexible.

Once you have information in Oracle BI, it is the only truth.

We are able to charge fairly rates to our customers. They are happy with the reporting. We can plan better and monitor better our business.

Pros

One version of truth . Share the same information trough the company is the key to start productive meetings.

Cons

It´s sometimes hard to add new information to the models. Sometimes the changes require too much IT work (building cubes). Data Visualization solve those problems partially.

Still learning

Pros

Still fairly new to the software but is a great product that has much to offer

Cons

Nothing that I can think of at this point other than it being sometimes difficult to find things

Easy to use and appealing interactive graphs

I have built over 5 reports and dashboard via Oracle BI. almost all of them are liked by my supervisers and C-level persons. Once I have realized all of the SQL, automation and etc., my reports are updated weekly without interfering.

Pros

I like to interactivy of Oracle BI. You can directly connect any database, pull data and visualize it in seconds. It is really fast and changing of graphs is smooth.

Cons

I would like to adjust the color, shape and other visualization styles easily. To make custom style, you need to know some javascript.

Oracle Business Intelligence

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.

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

Oracle Business Intennligence is helpfully dynamic

Pros

Oracle Business Intelligence has been great tool for us in tracking and trending the data that we've needed to!

Cons

Oracle Business Intelligence is not the most user friendly software out there, but with what it's for I'm not sure it really could be that much more.

A powerful and complete BI tool

A powerful and complete BI tool, with great integration with other ERP platforms, with hybrid premise as promised and a robust mobile platform.

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.

This powerful tool allows you to monitor business performance.

The benefit is the help in extracting information from the company for strategic purposes.

Pros

With the implementation of Oracle BI the company data can be used to obtain a competitive advantage, thanks to the extraction algorithms that apply to the database. In addition to the above, this tool offers us the power of the real information of the company and gives the opportunity to react more quickly to market changes.

Cons

It only offers open integration with the rest of the product portfolio of the ORACLE company. The cost of the investment is high, however the business tool is so efficient that the return on investment will be quick thanks to the many benefits it offers.

Oracle Business Intelligence. The largest and most complete tool for data analysis.

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.

It's good to construct specific reports with a any oracle database.

the facility to compose the data to obtain a very informative report, with the required information on it.

Pros

the posibility to agregate a lot of data in a single query which let you to make a report with key information, with the posibility to format that data and show them as in tables and graffics

Cons

Uploading data to the cloud can be slow and space is limited at 40Gigs. It' s not easy to configure the report.

Powerful tool for collecting data warehouse information and providing reporting

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.

No matter how complex your task is, this tool makes it simple.

Pros

Intuitive .. step by step, point by point, data by data, this tool allows you to create and respond competently to complex structures / Reports / analysis.

Cons

the interface or user experience should be able to have more simplistic, more customizable options, the more complex the screen becomes slower the tool.

Finally a tool to keep up with the competition

A good product, still improvable

Pros

With the latest versions it has become easier to extract and analyze data

Cons

The architecture is still very complex, but recently it has slimmed down a lot

my experience as administrator of the software is very good

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

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

Easy to create reports using rtf templates, simple reports and dashboards are easy to create.

Simple list reports and dashboards were easy to create. Data modeling is easy.

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.

Overwhelmed

At the beginning I was sceptic but I realized that was good to trust

Pros

I liked the fast sign up process and the customer service

Cons

I don’t have anything to say about what I didn’t like the most N/A I don’t have any complaints

Not my preferred data visualization tool

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.

Powerful tool for business decision makers

We use Oracle BI for making sense of huge amounts of dates that guides our business strategy and helps decide where to allocate resources.

Pros

It integrates well with enterprise software such as SAP and delivers multiple dashboards and reports that help managers make informed decisions.

Cons

Once the dashboard is created, there is limited functionality for an end user to change the input parameters.

I would expect more from Oracle

Pros

Oracle BI has many features and functionality which allow to create a wide reporting starting from many data source.

Cons

The architecture is very farraginous, the customer support is very poor, costs of licence and implementation are very expensive. In my OBI is a step backwards compared to other players

Oracle BI Standard Edition One

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

Oracle BI is the best tool for reporting.

Developed complex report using BI intelligence integration to OTM.

Pros

Ease of use and flexibility to use this tool

Cons

Customer support and integration with other systems

Do not use unless you are forced to

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.

Oracle BI as Reporting Solution

We use Oracle BI as our reporting solution in the Retail Company I currently work for,

Pros

It is very stable, we have not detected any bugs and so far we haven´t had any performance issues.

Cons

I think there are cheaper alternatives for Reporting: SQL Server Reporting Services is a great solution and its cheaper, but if your company is very much into Oracle products I guess it's ok to use this Oracle BI software.