Oracle OBIEE Previous Solutions

RG
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

While Power BI may offer more visualization features, OBIEE excels in providing detailed query information and a straightforward backend-to-frontend analysis approach. However, Power BI's ability to hold data in the service or report itself for refresh control is a handy feature that OBIEE lacks. Overall, both tools have their strengths and it depends on the specific needs of the project.

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BK
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at a transportation company with 11-50 employees

I primarily worked with Crystal Reports.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

No we mostly concentrate on the Oracle technology stack though there are other groups within my company that look at other vendor solutons. Oracle Analytics cloud now provides similar functionality in a PaaS like platform. Going forward this may be the future path for obiee users.

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Oracle OBIEE
March 2024
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Swati-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant consultant at Tata Consultancy

I have previously used Microsoft Power BI. I have used different solutions due to the company's requirements I worked.

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VG
Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Oracle has a number of products that we use. We are a large supporter of Oracle.

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it_user521685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Business Intelligence at Enlivant

When I started at this organization, we had a Microsoft BI stack and a SAP BI stack in place. Both of them used the dashboard capabilities and kept all of the reports together in one place. Microsoft BI has a subscription facility where you can subscribe users to set up reports and get them by email.

Neither of these solutions was robust nor scalable. The ad-hoc reporting capability is one more area which was missing in these previous solutions. One of them has it, but it's very complex to configure it.

Another reason why we chose this tool is the ease of use. You don't have to know a lot of programming to deal with this product.

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it_user521748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at IEEE

We previously used a custom reporting solution, like Crystal Reports and so on, then we actually moved into this OBIEE a few years back, when OBIEE first came out. It's been a long journey with OBIEE.

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DM
Architect Team Lead at ITC Infotech

I've started working more with Oracle OAC.

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NM
Director- IT Strategy & Transformation at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We didn't use any other solution.

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it_user521892 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at Sony DADC

We previously used Excel, Microsoft Access and Discover. Everybody had their own report. They would save the open order report on 52 desktops of Microsoft Access. In 2006, we bought Oracle BI, eliminated all those different reports and were able to create a single source of truth. It changed their lives.

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it_user31188 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Application Development & Business Intelligence at BE Aerospace

We've been using it for a long time, so it's not like we recently went to it; it's been a long time.

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it_user521622 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Supply Chain Manager at Cisco

We were previously using some other software from a different company but we weren't able to find all the data. We were looking for PL/SQL data and this product was able to be get us a lot of data. We need a lot of data for hypnotics purpose, for this reason we chose the Oracle product.

The most important criteria while choosing a vendor would be that they should improve the performance and the product should be user-friendly. Most of the times, we want to use less data and the data should be improved.

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it_user302133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Analyst at a tech company with 51-200 employees

My organization has been using OBIEE for the duration I have been employed.

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SB
Regional Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

I have used other solutions, such as Power BI.

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it_user291066 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our customer choose OBIEE as their reporting tool before we assisted them with implementation. I used TIBCO Spotfire after this project, and it's quite a different product. It seems business users will use a so called "analytic tools" such as Spotfire more often than "BI tools" like OBIEE or BO. Since their requirements become much more dynamic, they may not even know what they are looking for, or what questions they suppose to answer. BI tools needs too much IT effort for ETL and modeling to enable users to read the report. However, some questions cannot wait that long, and users need to know the answer as quickly as possible. On the other hand, analytic tools just need raw data and users can those data to generate reports whatever they need for whatever questions/purposes (if they know what those data means well and have some basic knowledge with database).

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it_user461061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Professional Services Consultant Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Excel was the original solution. As the company was young and the quantity of data still relatively small, Excel was the obvious, easy and cheap choice. The growth of the company has now reached the point where the use of Excel is becoming problematic – the quantity of data needed to be downloaded, the size of the Excel file, maintenance of the VBA/Macro code in the sheets and access to the files by users out on the road were all issues that needed to be addressed.

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JH
Data Architect & BI Manager at RTBF
SW
Finance Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

When I used Cognos, it seemed as though it didn't cater to telling stories. It's like you've got to get the data out into something like Excel or another tool to do the visualizations. It can be done, but it's quite fiddly.

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Zubair_Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Veraqor

We're actually currently using Microsoft Power BI as opposed to Oracle.

Power BI is a good tool for every business. Microsoft Power BI, as compared to OBIEE, is much cheaper than OBIEE. OBIEE, as a product, is pretty expensive for a lot of these small organizations or small companies. Microsoft Power BI is the most useful tool as compared to cost. It's cost-effective for every organization, from small to large.

I've noticed that Microsoft is adding more visualizations and comparing themselves to Oracle in order to position themselves as competitive. Of course, they also have items like machine learning, etc., that Oracle offers.

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MD
Head of IT at Obegi Chemicals Group

We switched to OBIEE because Discoverer was very old and outdated. We migrated from Oracle databases 11G to 12C, and they found that Discoverer was not compatible with the Oracle database 12C. They decided to move to another platform, and the previous IT manager was very Oracle focused and orientated, which I don't agree with because Oracle is very heavy resource intensive and there are much lighter applications that you can plug into. The way they structured it wasn't very conducive to the business because OBIEE and the data that you compile on that is used for OBIEE. Now what I'm trying to do is, we're busy modeling the data for a data warehouse where we can plug multiple connections to that data. You can have mobile apps for different business criteria, business objectives, and business goals, and once you're with OBIEE your limited to that. That's the problem, that lack of research and insights causes.

When choosing a new solution, the most important factor is understanding the business goals and objectives and understanding what the business needs from that product. Once I've got all that information I then look at the different products and see what they can do. I look at the product and see how much of the business criteria it ticks off and I measure and compare it to other platforms. I rate it on a scale and see which one best suits the business.

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it_user522183 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vp at Ifusion solution inc

We were trying to use a custom based tool. That didn't work. Every time we had to make a minor change, a technical person had to be involved. A lot of different layers, and it was like product delivery. It was a continuous development. This was a big change for us. It was pretty much plug and play.

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it_user283479 - PeerSpot reviewer
OBIEE 11g Specialist at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

We used Business Objects XI, and we switched to Oracle for a more impressive view, and a more interactive dashboard. OBIEE is also better equipped for the data modeling functionalities tier, and integrations.

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DR
Presidente at EDR

We are also experienced using Tableau. We have the same application ruling in both technologies.

Tableau is deployed on the cloud.

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it_user514902 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI/DWH Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I used only open-source solutions before OBIEE, but the functionality of these tools is not even close to OBIEE.

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it_user522198 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Of Capital Improvement Program at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using Oracle for many years. We just needed to expand what we already had in Oracle. We have a solid database with Oracle.

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it_user429015 - PeerSpot reviewer
OBIEE Technical Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Microsoft Office products are great, but they don't scale to billions of rows.

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it_user291219 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - MIS Systems at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Other solutions have been explored before. My reasoning for recommending OBIEE for my organization was that apart from having previous experience working in older versions, and being aware of its scalability, was that most of the banks systems are Oracle based which meant seamless integration. We also wanted to explore deployment of the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Analytics Server which comes inbuilt with OBIEE.

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it_user164184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did use previous solutions. The upgrade was a corporate decision. This was based on several factors, such as the new features, the approaching end of support, and the cost of maintaining an old system.

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RS
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

I also use Microsoft BI, although I have more experience with Oracle.

With Oracle, we can implement column-level security whereas, with Microsoft BI, it cannot be done. However, Microsoft BI is more cost-effective.

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LS
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I had aready used Microsoft reporting services. I migrated to OBIEE  because my customer doesn´t use Microsoft tools for BI.

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it_user521598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Business Intelligence and Analytics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not look at any other products.

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it_user522120 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

My company has been using it as long as I have been with the company. I think we chose it because it was part of the Oracle implementation we did.

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it_user521751 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Engineer BI at IGT

We used to use another solution. In this company, I think they were using Cognos. It was pretty expensive and performance was not that great. We moved to this solution. Performance is okay here. It's not really that great but it's stable; it’s a stable product.

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it_user486576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

Initially, we were using all Oracle products and a program called GL1. GL1 is an external plug-in that we used with Excel to run reports with the database. It was not robust like the work we have with OBIEE, which led us to transition.

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it_user277659 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Development Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

-Yes, SAP BW (Business Explorer).

- We were looking for more user-friendly reports/charts and tools to speed up our development. OBIEE does that.

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it_user522180 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yeah, we were using an old product that Oracle sunsetted, I believe.

This product, OBIEE, they acquired, they didn't build it. This is now their choice of tools for reporting. Before, they were using an Oracle product which was not the greatest. It was Excel-type stuff.

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it_user313410 - PeerSpot reviewer
Reporting Analyst at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes – SAS. We shifted to Oracle as the SAS BI tools were not as slick (several other options were evaluated, but Oracle was chosen). SAS now has Visual Analytics – but it still looks a little clunky compared to OBIEE. And the business users love OBIEE look and feel.

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it_user522117 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using MicroStrategy. Before that we were using Oracle Discoverer. We moved from Oracle Discoverer to MicroStrategy, and we eventually came to OBIEE. I think that we probably switched because of the vendor, and that it is more scalable because Oracle supports this product. So the long-term investment is better than going with MicroStrategy.

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it_user521616 - PeerSpot reviewer
SSS3 at Caltrans

We just needed to upgrade our current environment.

I guess we decided to go with this solution because we already had experience with the product. We felt pretty comfortable using it.

When choosing a vendor such as Oracle, support and good service are my most important criteria.

It worked out very well for our environment.

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it_user510576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle BIEE Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not previously use a different solution, but I did dabble with Tableau after I started using OBIEE.

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it_user176937 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle OBIEE v12.x, v11.x SME Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

We previously used v11.x.

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it_user193542 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Finance Associate at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Previously we were using Peoplesoft based Nvision reports. The major reason for switching to OBIEE was that it was not a complete BI solution. Also, Oracle had stopped the support for Peoplesoft which made it more vulnerable.

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it_user154170 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Infosys Ltd.

The earlier scenario of data reporting was mainly based out of Excel, which was neither robust nor stable. There was no security setup and since everyone had his/her own copy of the Excel sheet, there was no single source of truth.

These issues prompted us to move towards OBIEE as a solution.

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it_user281964 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle BI Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

No previous solution was in place.

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KT
CEO & PRACTICE HEAD at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have experience with several solutions including Zoho and Microsoft BI.

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it_user436194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used to have Interactive Reporting which is an Oracle product. Hyperion Interactive Reporting.

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it_user196992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Intelligence Developer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

It was already in place when I joined the company.

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it_user79650 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
VB
BI/DW Consultant at Neit consulting

I have some experience with Microsoft Power BI.

Power BI is more self-service BI oriented. It originated in the era of self-service BI. That's both a plus and minus, depending on what you are looking for. For example, if you prefer more self-service oriented solutions, you get more freedom with Power BI. You provide your business users with more freedom and that could be good or bad. It depends on the situation. 

Oracle Business Intelligence comes from the era of more IT-driven business intelligence solutions. It's more metadata-driven. You can establish stronger governance with Oracle BI in terms of implementing policies and data, data filtering, data governance, and user rights, etc. Ironically, Power BI wants to have more options to be tightly governed, and Oracle is trying to be more self-service oriented. 

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it_user287709 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business intelligence consultant with 51-200 employees

We did use something previously, and we changed as we wanted better functionality and stability.

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it_user274917 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager with 51-200 employees

Yes, used Cognos (IBM) previously. Switch was due to management decision.

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it_user521640 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

I did not previously use a different solution. We kind of started this project from scratch. We use all Oracle products and Oracle support. We thought, OK, why use a different product if we can get a good product from Oracle?

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it_user326523 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

No solution had been used previously.

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it_user521787 - PeerSpot reviewer
HRIS Development Manager at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We didn't look at other data warehousing solutions as such, but we were looking at various other reporting solutions. As a data warehouse, we use a lot of Oracle products and are on Oracle VBScript. We also possess high level of Oracle expertise in our organization. Thus, we decided it was best to go with this product.

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it_user284388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I haven't used another solution.

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it_user521739 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager, HR Legal Payroll and GRC at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We did have BusinessObjects. We had it for many years, and it's very old. I don't think that it was scalable. It didn't have the performance that we were looking at and the capability of pulling in outside mixed data.

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it_user291216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

No solution was in place previously.

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it_user908196 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Integration and Business Intelligence Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We previously didn't have a BI solution.

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it_user288357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Hyperion Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We previously used Hyperion WebAnalysis, and we needed better RMDB and browser support.

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it_user859182 - PeerSpot reviewer
EPM Manager at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We did not have a previous solution.

The most important criteria when selecting a vendor include 

  • support - that is one of the important things 
  • availability of partners to help if we need anything
  • integration with ERP systems and the other tools that each company would have.
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it_user442254 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

I started with OBIEE, and I am still using it for References.

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it_user175956 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
it_user277731 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, we were switching from manual business processes.

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it_user643770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst System at AFDB

We used Microsoft BI in the past.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle OBIEE
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Oracle OBIEE. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.