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."Oracle OBIEE is very easy to use. Looking at analytics, I think they have come a long way by adding new features like visualization, which is really cool."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"It provides excellent stability."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"There are a lot of functions in the product, including a drill-down functionality and level-based hierarchies that are very attractive."
"The security is good. For example, we can implement column-level security."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is it's designed for Oracle. It works well in the Oracle environment and can sit on top of any application."
"User-friendly look and feel."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The scalability is there."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly."
"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."
"In our organization, we feel that data visualization for APIs is an area in which the solution lacks."
"From the point of view of strategic management, I would like to have a feature, perhaps a form after we get to the KPI dashboard, to be used to note if something unusual happens in the operations. That way we could record extreme KPI situations, and track why a number is very low or too high."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office."
"While it is a user-friendly, data-driven tool, the data modeling should be easier to use."
"Retail, Finance, Wholesale"
"The functionality to customize and modify reports has been removed, and it would be beneficial to reinstall it, as it allows greater customization and flexibility in creating reports."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in Reporting with 154 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, IBM Cognos, Tableau and SAP Crystal Reports, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. See our Oracle OBIEE vs. QlikView report.
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