We performed a comparison between Birst and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"I have found the most valuable features are business intelligence and reporting."
"Oracle OBIEE is a scary and stable product since it is a strong and well-created tool... In short, the solution is stable since it works properly every day."
"It doesn't have many frills and is definitely older technology, but it is undeniably a workhorse."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"It is easy to create a report quickly. It does not take much time to create an ad hoc report."
"Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting."
"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."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"It would be better if it had a wide range of visualization options. For example, Microsoft Power BI has an extensive range of visualization options, but it's not available in OBIEE. There are also some conflicts because it's complicated, but the cloud application is easier. They added some features for ETL with the on-premises application, but we need a different or a separate application for ETL in the cloud. In the next release, I would like to have more AI features."
"An area for improvement is that Oracle pushes more users to Oracle BI Publisher rather than emphasizing Oracle OBIEE for reporting. The pricing for Oracle OBIEE could be improved."
"There are a lot of aspects of Oracle OBIEE that are exceptionally complicated, make things unnecessarily difficult for everyone who uses it. In terms of the integrations, Oracle needs to improve a little more, but I believe that they have tried to capture all those issues. The issues we are facing in the Oracle OBIEE 12C versions, in the Oracle Analytical Server Center or Analytical Cloud versions, Oracle has managed to overcome the challenges."
"The complexity of this product means that you need to have a technical team to develop the reports, although this is also true for products like Microsoft BI and Zoho."
"The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options."
"If the data is large, the dashboard takes a really long time. So, based on the database, if you have around a million cost contacts, the load time is very low, and the dashboard fails."
"When a large number of queries are running at the same time, the report fails."
"In our organization, we feel that data visualization for APIs is an area in which the solution lacks."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in Reporting with 154 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud.
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