We performed a comparison between Oracle OBIEE and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's easy to create fully-functional Dashboards."
"Provides good data visualization features, and provides a lot of visualization reports from various data sources."
"Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting."
"The setup isn't too difficult."
"The most valuable feature is the openness of the solution. It helps us integrate some of our clients."
"The primary reason for using OBIEE is connectivity with Oracle E-Business Suite. It makes it easy to connect with our Oracle E-Business Suite. There are the standard dashboards available, which we sometimes use, and now we are looking for customized dashboards."
"Easy to create ad hoc reporting for different solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to run it in Exalytics within memory coupled to a Repository on Exadata is where it flies. So it's not meant for mom and pop shops, but if you are a global 500 fortune 1000 company, this is a tool that can get you what you need on time and even in real time."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Expanding beyond pure data reporting and into analytics, or expanding data science, would be areas for improvement."
"The pricing model could be improved. Right now, it's quite confusing. Many customers have this feeling that it's a super-expensive option."
"The graphical capabilities could be better. They are also cumbersome, and they are limited compared to Tableau, Power BI, or even Business Objects to a certain extent and Cognos. The error logging isn't great either. The errors that come out when you schedule aren't easy to understand. I find how they filter within a query quite cumbersome and difficult to debug if somebody else has done it. You can see as you build, and I think that's where the problem is. It doesn't lend itself to debug something. For example, if you create a formula that's quite complicated, it's not easy to understand what goes with what. It becomes spaghetti, and it's very difficult to unpick. That's really my gripe about it, and in some ways, it's too flexible. It tries to be a Jack of all trades when it's not. I think a lot of these products, if they concentrate on trying to produce your reports, then that's fine. But when they're trying to do all sorts of other things as well, then it isn't very easy. We get lots of support from Oracle, but I think the problem is that we get many invalid file operations. Nobody understands why. It can be a multitude of reasons, but no one reason could cause it. That's just one of the issues we've had in the last year. But the scope of reporting has gone through the roof over the previous 12 to 18 months. We want an end-of-life OBIEE in our environment because some of the infrastructure runs unclustered. We weren't allowed to go clustered for some reason, and we never knew why. Unfortunately, going down that route means that the platform we run it on, WebLogic, has now become non-standard within our organization. Everything's been moved off it and onto other platforms. Unfortunately, our OBIEE runs on that platform, and we're being pushed down different routes, and we don't know where we're going at the moment. Within the next two years, I don't think we'll have OBIEE in our part of the business. In the next release, I think having the capability of being able to develop and then promote to a production environment rather than having to have separate environments will help. I know that Tableau and Power BI can be created on a desktop application, and then when it's ready to go live, you can promote it."
"Oracle OBIEE only displays KPIs, but it does not include strategic objectives or display risk in a strategic map."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"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."
"Its overall organization as an analytical tool, the layout of OBIEE, is not very good."
"Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"The pricing is high."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"Error handling."
"They could improve the speed."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in Reporting with 153 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Cognos and Amazon QuickSight, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. See our Oracle OBIEE vs. QlikView report.
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