Oracle OBIEE Valuable Features

Yossi Belitasky - PeerSpot reviewer
BI manager at Clarivate Analytics

Currently, we are in the process of getting to know about database visualization and understanding its benefits for users. Our goal is to spread awareness about its capabilities among our customers, enabling them to access self-service BI and other valuable features. Additionally, we are exploring the use and relation of machine learning in database visualization, an area of focus for our team.

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

The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ability to handle large volumes of data and provide traditional BI functionalities that developers can easily understand. I appreciate how it allows me to view and analyze backend queries, which is helpful for debugging and troubleshooting. 

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MustansirManasawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at TK Elevator

The solution's most valuable feature is interactive analysis. Also, the layout or design of the report is easy to understand as it is similar to Excel.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle OBIEE
April 2024
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Muhammad-Saad - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Systems Limited

There are a lot of functions in the product, including a drill-down functionality and level-based hierarchies that are very attractive. Though the tool offers a parent-child hierarchy, I use level-based hierarchies as they have very good functionality. The tool offers a good option known as action links to help with the linking of reports and to deal with master-detail reports. If you want to see the sales from the last year, the previous month, the previous quarter, or a day ago, the tool is helpful with the very good functionalities it offers. In the area of ML, functionalities like forecasting and other features should work properly.

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MI
General Manager Information Technology at International Steels Limited

I have not personally used any such products related to this service, however based on the popular opinion, Microsoft Power BI is more popular. We have never switched from this software due to infrastructure and license related costs. However, my team acknowledges that the Power BI is much more enhanced and includes features that are easier to use, including its drag and drop features. I am not sure, if OBIEE has these features, due to lack of updated versions.   

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AE
Process Engineering Manager at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable features of the solution are the various scenarios the product offers and its stability. Oracle Financial Services Risk Management is a useful area in Oracle OBIEE.

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Azhar Azhar - PeerSpot reviewer
BI consultant at RajhiSteel

The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is interactive reporting because it allows better analysis versus conventional reporting, especially in the data warehouse side, where my company has more than ten years of experience.

I also found the dashboards, KPIs, and data utilization better in Oracle OBIEE.

Oracle OBIEE is also more flexible because you can add dimensions and customizations to it on-premises versus cloud solutions.

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

Its robustness is most valuable. It can handle massive amounts of data quickly. If it's properly configured and tuned, it can handle massive amounts of data very quickly to produce results. That to me is the number one feature. Everything else after 10 years becomes like second nature. 

I find it user-friendly, but some people would argue this point. It's user-friendly in the sense that if you have someone who's properly trained, then it has a user-friendly interface for self-service BI. I used to do training on that product. For someone who is not properly trained, it's difficult. 

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PK
Senior Erp Developer at CACI International Inc.

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. Also, I don't have experience with really other products in the market.

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Shubham Sethi - PeerSpot reviewer
Software developer - OBIEE at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Some of the product's most valuable features include the ability to automate tasks through the agent option, which enables us to schedule reports according to specific requirements. Additionally, features such as pivot tables, charts, and tables have proven invaluable for analyzing and visualizing data effectively.

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AK
Technical Consultant at AAK

The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are the ease of logging in, the dashboard, and showing the problems in the data. Additionally, the reports are well integrated and it has good technology.

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Marijan Barbul - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oracle seems to be a better-developed and well-created tool than Microsoft Power BI. However, Oracle is a bit complicated, especially for its users. So. I'm a part of the IT team that is involved in the configuration of these BI tools. As a member of the IT team responsible for configuring these BI tools, we aim to cater to both management and KPI areas where users only need to view data on their screens and those who require BI solutions like Oracle OBIEE for their daily tasks. While Microsoft's tool is comparatively easier to use, we are struggling to train or show users how to use the Oracle tool. Nonetheless, Oracle is a tool closer to our company's management.

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Abdou Mohamadou - PeerSpot reviewer
Data warehouse analyst at Québec Government

I have found the most valuable features are business intelligence and reporting.

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AS
Senior Software Developer at Sopra

The solution has good data visualization features and provides a lot of visualization reports from various data sources. We can also merge the data from different sources. You can get a lot of reporting through the application and I find it to be a good enterprise solution. 

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

The most valuable feature is the ability to run it in Exalytics with in-memory caching 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.Previously we only had the option of using times ten caching bunt now we have the otion of using DBIM facility. We were one of the first SIs to adopt this technology in one of our customer implementations.

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Swati-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant consultant at Tata Consultancy

The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the security of the solution.

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AE
Obiee HR Technologies Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It serves its purpose. It doesn't have many frills and is definitely older technology, but it is undeniably a workhorse.

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HirutAsfaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Administrator at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are ease of use, the graphical user interface is simple to understand, and the reports can be done without problems. There are many tutorials and training materials available if needed.

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SN
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting.

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Kevin Wanyonyi - PeerSpot reviewer
POS expert at JAVA HOUSE

I am highly satisfied with Oracle OBIEE as it delivers the desired results for our business. We found it to be effective for our needs.

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CM
Principal Business Intelligence Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The centralized metadata model component is most valuable. 

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SV
Process System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is very easy for people who are building ad-hoc things. It's an enterprise solution so it can be deployed for a lot of users. There are some great new features that come with the 12c like data visualization, desktop BI Publisher, automation and interactive dashboards. The product has good features. 

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AS
IT manager at Farmatrejd

The solution is user-friendly.

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RG
EPM/BI certified Consultant, Oracle ACE and TeraCorp Consulting CEO at TeraCorp Consulting

It's a great tool for the businesses as it's easy to manipulate and to create new dashboards. For the development side, it requires a good datamart to make things easier. It's very robust with a lot of resources.

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it_user521685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Business Intelligence at Enlivant

This is an enterprise analytics platform that allows you to do both analytical and real-time reporting. It has a large fleet of products within itself, such as Oracle BI Publisher.

You don't need a lot of time to build and deploy these tools. For the analytical needs, you have OBIEE as a platform where you can build the requirements. You model it, build dashboard reports, and then use it.

Oracle covers all of your reporting needs from an organization standpoint. This application also has a self-service BI, which is an ad-hoc service. It allows businesses to generate their own reports. They don't have to wait for IT to come and do it for them.

It saves a lot of time from a scheduling capability standpoint. If C-level executives want to create more billable reports, they can go down to the granular level of details.

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it_user521748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at IEEE

It has good dashboarding. Also, being an Oracle product, it's good for ETLing in and out. It has a very good ETL process to get the data in and out of the data warehouse system. Also, it does have very good integration points to different products, such as Big Data, Hyperion, or Financials. You can pull everything up, project it and dashboard it. It's a good business intelligence platform.

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JK
Technical Team Lead at Rotary International

The solution's performance and the bursting options when you generate the reports, after which you want to burst it based on criteria, are two valuable features of the solution.

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DM
Architect Team Lead at ITC Infotech

The solution is offered as a PaaS - a platform as a service.

The setup isn't too difficult.

While technical support used to be quite bad, it's my understanding that it has gotten better.

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

Some of the dashboard capabilities are good. The dashboard capabilities that tell you what kind of reports are available and provide you a summary of the reports are valuable. It is easy to navigate and easy to download reports into Excel to utilize them. 

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it_user521673 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at DMS

The best feature of this product is the reporting capability and customization. It lets the users do their own reporting, slicing and dicing, and getting the visual outputs rather than depending on a partner or developer to get reports or produce management reports.

It's much easier to get different outputs rather than relying on a partner or another developer who has some experience in development, but with this product you don't need that as such.

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MA
Enterprise Performance Management Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

I like that Oracle OBIEE comes with more options. For example, more options with data security, user security, and other security. It's more complicated than Microsoft, but it gives you more options. They also added the part for machine learning, which is good.

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MI
General Manager Information Technology at International Steels Limited

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.

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it_user521892 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at Sony DADC

The most valuable feature of Oracle Business Intelligence is the ability to drill down and show business value for your customers with the different subject areas they have implemented.

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

It's a generic BI tool and all of the BI features are good.

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RG
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The ability for a user to create their own reports is one of the valuable features. The solution also allows you to manage your access roles, like permissions, directly from the port. There is also a separate enterprise manager where groups and other roles can be created and given access. Finally, if we have certain scripts, we can add chipping into that scheduling function as well as a dashboard and the like. In the newer version, there's a visual analyzer which is more Tableau driven and gives you a free hand. From a user perspective, it's an advantage and will provide us with an additional asset if we do upgrade. 

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MS
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that hierarchies are centralized. 

The solution offers a condition-based analysis. For example, if the user wants to see two reports on the dashboard based on different categories or different attributes, but they want to see one report at a time, using the condition-based development, they can do so. 

From version 11G to 12C the solution has made a lot of improvements.

The solution is easy to use and very flexible.

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it_user521622 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Supply Chain Manager at Cisco

We mainly use it for reporting purposes, i.e., generating reports especially for the business. We use it for the business data analysis and metrics purposes as well. For this, we have been using OBIEE for quite a long time.

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

Just as any business intelligence tool, the top five core expectations of any BI tool is to be able to:

  1. Build adhoc reports (drag & drop) - for data discovery/exploration as well as to drive insight
  2. Schedule set cadence reports - to avoid manual running of the report as well as including a broader audience to share with to further avoid any manual bottleneck processes, if this feature were not available
  3. Visualization and Dashboards - basic & advanced (OBIEE offers both) - adhoc reports/data is great when one has enough time at hand to build great charts. What if the effort can be done just once and used many times? OBIEE out-of-the-box has a great selection of visualization choices, and others can be greatly customized with the right technical expertise
  4. Offline data availability - OBIEE Briefing Book offers the data to be available even offline, and when connection is available can easily update to get the latest information; as suppose to the alternative of downloading PDF before going offline, and re-downloading when data refreshes
  5. Customization - I simply cannot think of anything in OBIEE that cannot be customized, not to mention that APIs can also be built on-top for easy data communication with other tools
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SB
Regional Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

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.

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AK
Technical Consultant at AAK

The main features of this solution are that it is easy to use, intuitive, and user-friendly. When I retrieve the data from the database it is in a very raw form, then when I use the Oracle Report Builder it has advanced intelligence features to allow me to view and make changes to the data easily.

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CV
Siebel CRM OBIEE at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It mostly supports enterprise level data. We have millions of records on a daily basis.

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it_user27945 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Database and Security at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature for us is that it gives us the ability to provide our business users with daily real-time reporting on sales and inventory. This is obviously important for them to keep their finger on the pulse of what's being sold and how much of it.

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JV
Policy and Planning Analyst with 10,001+ employees

I find the most valuable feature of the solution is the RPD, so the BI Server component, and the building conformed structures across unconformed data.

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

The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE, for me, would be the Web Catalog. From a development perspective, I do not need any client or any software to be installed on my laptop or desktop. Everything is browser-based, so I just open the browser and start development.

Similarly, for the end-user, it provides self-analytics services where the end user can drag and drop various fields, facts, and dimensions and prepare their reports. They can have them in the form of charts, etc. Then they can save them in the Web Catalog.

I have not seen this Web Catalog in any other tool. Web Catalog is kind of like Windows Explorer, where you can define your own folder and whatever analysis you are doing and you can save the analysis for future reference. 

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

The client required the ability to produce the same reports that they currently produce in Excel (replicating as close as possible to the format as the users were used to this), but distributed via a dashboard/mobile front-end rather than relying on emailing Excel files.

For them, the most important features were the ability to build complex and highly formatted analytic reports, to publish them on dashboards, to build mobile apps to allow access whilst out and about, but still be able to email reports out for those users who still wanted them that way. Including the report in the body of the email to avoid having to open attachments was also desired.

The ability to directly access data in their warehouse rather than downloading into an Excel file was also an important consideration. This is a small company, but growing fast and the amount of data was becoming unwieldy in Excel and would just get worse.

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it_user7428 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Statistics and Analysis at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some of the most outstanding features of OBIEE is both its scalability and dependability. OBIEE is worthy of its ‘Enterprise’ moniker as it can handle any amount of end-to-end data thrown at it. But these strengths can only be realized if the business and engineering teams work diligently to define not only the various levels of data aggregation, but also clearly define the meta-data in order to establish efficient drill-down hierarchies and relationships. 

With proper table design plus good data governance, OBIEE can serve as the central delivery mechanism that brings insight into the business layer of almost any size of company.

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TS
Senior Manager Analytic & Insights at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the reporting.

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JH
Data Architect & BI Manager at RTBF

The most valuable features are the logical datawarehouse (business model) and distribution.

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AY
Big Data / Business Intelligence / Datawarehousing at DWgrain (Client Health BIS)

OBIEE is an enterprise Business Intelligence tool, the semantic layer is very organized which helps to provide the subject areas and how the end-user visualize the data.

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DS
Strategic Management Office Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the reporting.

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it_user521742 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features are what you can do with it. It's the insight of the data that really gives the management the capability of looking beyond what they probably currently have within the transaction system.

Now with 12c, there’s also data mash-up, which gives them the capability to look at different data, join them on the fly and look at the key indicators, which can probably give them insight into the business.

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it_user450624 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Oracle Technology/DevOpsManager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features of OBIEE for me are definitely the graphs and reporting that it provides. The data it displays look really great and they're easily customized.

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SW
Finance Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I like the scheduling feature. It has an inbuilt scheduler which is very good, and it allows us to create agents, and those agents can be scheduled. It's quite flexible in that respect and goes into our IT infrastructure. The outputs are sent encrypted to various endpoints. Some are internal, and some are our clients, and it's encrypted at a high level.

I do find Oracle OBIEE flexible. If there is stuff that's not in your model or schema, it's very flexible to create SQL scripts and create the data you want. It's quite nice to create a dashboard in OBIEE, and that's pretty straightforward in the way you drag and drop everything. You can create sections, and you can add elements to your page. That bit of the interface is relatively straightforward.

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Zubair_Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Veraqor

Overall, it's a very good tool.

We have implemented the solution effectively in large organizations, like utility companies or banks. Their budgets are pretty high and they can pretty much afford the costs involved in the solution.

For their OLTP reports, like online transaction reports, we use BI Publisher, and for warehousing, we use OBIEE to populate the dashboards for the business. That's why it's so useful for us. Oracle gives us lots of features and visualizations. In the recent version of 12c, they had introduced many features in visualization as well as dashboards. 

They introduced AI and forecasting in their latest versions and they are now working on the cloud. They are also giving the latest version of OBIEE with cloud, called Oracle Analytics Cloud enterprises.

They have a new security mechanism that is very strong. 

They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning.

There's great forecasting features both for on-premise and cloud deployment models.

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MD
Head of IT at Obegi Chemicals Group

Flexibility, scalability, and the speed that you can pull these reports are the most valuable features. Accuracy is also a huge factor because if it's junk in, it's junk out. I'm leading a big data modeling project at the moment. We've been modeling the data properly into a data warehouse. Currently, we've just been using an ETL database and that doesn't really work. The data is not live, it's not instant. The tools plugging into the data warehouse need to produce the results quite quickly and I know the tool is only as good as your data warehouse.

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it_user521952 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Business Intelligence - Technical Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

It's one of the common integrated recording tools. I have been in the OBIEE world for quite some time. It's another powerful tool with certain aspects that are like no other tool. Three categorization layers gives us a lot of flexibility, which I didn't realize was possible on other reporting tools.

Prior to this, I was on the ETL side and slowly transferred to the reporting layer side and OBIEE was another good planning factor for me on that.

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AnjanaPathare - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I like the cloud deployment feature. There are about 20 new features, and they are available on mobile and more. I haven't used any of them, but these features are highly attractive.

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it_user522183 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vp at Ifusion solution inc

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.

It's so easy for us to see everything on a single dashboard, instead of looking for the information, and then compiling it in some sort of spreadsheet. We can just go on the dashboard and measure our success while looking at our financial data, even our HR data. 

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it_user436188 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technology Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Obviously the most valuable feature is the data, both in the way it's presented visually with graphs and just the accessibility to that data.

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it_user417408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analytics Developer at Tsavotech Inc

It's just drag-and-drop, versatile, very user-friendly, and intuitive. OBIEE makes data analytics easy.

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

The data modeling tier (called repository in Oracle BI technology) lets the user build and manage flexible, stable solutions for a large number of data sources, and business reporting areas.

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SA
Oracle Application Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is easy to use. We have all the fields available to try and drop to create analytics.

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DR
Presidente at EDR

The dashboard and analysis are the most valuable features of this solution.

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

There are many valuable features. For example:

  • Multiple data sources: I can easily combine multiple data sources and organize them into a common business model.
  • Three-layer repository: With the three-layer repository, the development and interpretation are very simple. The three layers are divided from each other well both in logical and physical meaning. The physical layer is used for importing data, creating aliases, building physical joins, setting up connection pools, managing cache and hints for tables. The business model and mapping layer is used for creating logical columns, fact and dimension tables, hierarchies, measures, using fragmentations and filters, applying business logic. The presentation layer is used to prepare, group and organize the data for users to view.
  • Security management: Security management is very detailed, complex and well defined in OBIEE. I can set up everything that I want; user security, object security, row-level security, etc. For example: I can easily connect users with application roles, different application roles with different privileges or set up data filters, other restrictions for users / application roles or manage subject areas/tables/columns access for users / application roles, etc.
  • Smart cache management: I can easily manage cache and cache settings. I can use it for common tables only, I can purge it in a scheduled way, etc
  • Interactive dashboards and analyses: Lots of rich visualization (dashboards, analyses, graphs, maps, etc); user interactions: drilling, pivoting, filtering, prompting, sorting, navigation and more.
  • Spatial integration: Lots of rich map visualizations, many supported map suppliers and a wide range of possibilities to use map data.
  • Individual customization using CSS and JavaScript.
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it_user522198 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Of Capital Improvement Program at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like the solution's ability to query all of the data and pull it into a very user-friendly interface. We are using this as part of the Oracle Primavera suite.

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it_user429015 - PeerSpot reviewer
OBIEE Technical Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Dashboards - Thousands of users get the exact information that is relevant to them.
  • Agents - The system automatically sends information when you need it.
  • Answers - Power Users (aka Data Scientists) investigate the data.
  • Integration - Analyse any data and present it in any format.
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it_user293667 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Developer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

It provides our customers the ability to build simple or complex reports effortlessly. The existence of the Business Model and Mapping (BMM) layer is critical in providing numerous ways to model our data to fit a given project/set of requirements.

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it_user291219 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - MIS Systems at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
  • BI Dashboards
  • BI Publisher
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it_user164184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The advanced visualizations and the semantic layer. These allow for easy design of the warehouse.

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it_user521955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Service Area Manager, India Delivery Centre at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

What I like about OBIEE is the kind of interface we have at OBIEE gives us all the financial reporting, all the operational reporting, as well as the delivery reporting. All of these reporting modules are quite good at OBIEE, and they actually help us.

It's quite faster, the way it is integrated with the whole Oracle ecosystem. Speed is one of the key issues. You don't like clicking on something and just waiting for even a few minutes. It becomes a pain; so performance is the key when it comes to using OBIEE.

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it_user510615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Ad hoc analysis
  • Dashboarding
  • Dimensional modeling (Administration tool)
  • Security and permissions

For me as a consultant, these are the most valuable features of the product. By using the Analytics feature, users (and consultants) are able to build both simple and complex reports / graphs. The user is able to add complex calculations and to create almost any column he desires.

The Administration tool is the workbench for the implementation consultant; this is where the data warehouse is called, and facts and dimensions are defined and joined. Here we transform data into a business model and make it accessible to the end user. It is possible to join multiple physical sources and combine their data into a single business model. So, if sales are recorded in a sales application and inventory is recorded in a different system, it can be combined right here.

Security and permissions are important when, within a company, specific roles are defined that are (not) allowed to certain areas of data. OBIEEprovides roles and groups and data shielding by role or even user-level to cope with almost any business requirement at this point.

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

The security is good. For example, we can implement column-level security.

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SK
BI Analytics-Tech Lead at StratApps

The flexibility to work with this on the cloud only if you would like is very helpful. There are fewer log-ins required. It's easy to connect to the live system.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The solution is stable.

We've found the technical support to be very helpful.

The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities.

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

The easy integration with different database sources and the strength when working with complex data. It’s possible to integrate different data sources and show the information in the same place with a very good performance.


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JH
Data Architect & BI Manager at RTBF

The “Business Model & Mapping” layer in the Administration Tool, because the maintenance and evolution processes are greatly facilitated.

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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

The cost factor is the most valuable feature. It's very cheap to deploy it enterprise-wide without having to worry about breaking the bank.

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

The scheduling function is the most valuable feature. We can schedule at specific times to generate specific reports and email them to the mailbox of the end users.

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it_user521751 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Engineer BI at IGT

The reporting is the most valuable feature. Also, the look and feel of the reports is really good. You can visualize the data in a user-friendly way. That's the main value.

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

We have been using Essbase. We run a lot of smart view reports, which have been valuable to our business.

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it_user436050 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature for us is the flexibility for somebody who's not in IT to be able to create a report. They can change fields around or add or remove things, customize the information that we get.

In our company, we've got finance, HR, operations, and then CRM, which is what I represent, all using it. They're all able to use BI in a non-technical way.

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it_user285933 - PeerSpot reviewer
OBIEE 11g Certified Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  1. Security (authentication, policy, credentials)
  2. Simplicity in data modelling
  3. Visualizations are better than other BI solutions
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it_user277659 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Development Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

- Web-based features and the possibilities it offers to analysts and developers to design reports and access the dashboard from a web browser. No need to install an application onto your laptop.

- Self-serve interactive reporting

- Map-based visualizations (MapViewer)

- Mobile app designer

- Mobile security toolkit (you can download the sources and customize it and generate your enterprise iOS application)

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VC
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I like the solution's stability. 

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it_user1061496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist - Technology at Synechron
  • Union reports, pivot views, column selectors, action frameworks and write back reports.
  • The RPD is also very useful in changing and creating models as per requirements.
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it_user522180 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For me, it makes the difference is in terms of our users being able to take advantage of a product which allows you to get access to data, reports, make decisions quickly, and have better insights regarding operations.

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it_user521769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Business Intelligence Analyst at Jade Global

The solution is robust and it's so easy to understand, use, and visualize the data. Even a newbie can understand reporting. However, when it comes to coding in the back-end, you need some knowledge.

I like its capability of utilizing big data volume.

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

Interactive dashboards are fantastic (business users love them) and BI Publisher – it creates great 'pixel perfect' reports which have a lovely professional look (compared to some other BI products out there), and it is also a very efficient way of delivering CMS data to the user while hiding the complexity from them.

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NH
Oracle Techno Sales consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I like the data analyzer introduced in OBIEE version 10. Previously, there was no data analytics tool, but the data analyzer allows you to visualize your data on the fly. I also like the voice recognition tool. With voice recognition, the data visualization tool will flip the charts and diagrams left, right, center.

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Csongor Tőzsér - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle BI developer at Ulyssys Kft

The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ease of use.

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it_user315558 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analysis Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Data accessibility
  • Easy to create ad hoc reporting for different solutions
  • Excellent tool for defining and creating Executive and Operative Dashboard
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it_user522174 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I think Answers, the ability to create ad hoc reports for the business, is the most valuable feature. They really like that.

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

It is flexible, which is important. It has a previewing script, so it's easy for us to convert from Oracle Financial to OBIEE.

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it_user521616 - PeerSpot reviewer
SSS3 at Caltrans

The most valuable feature is its stability to connect with other data sources, other than Oracle.

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

Caching is a valuable feature. We can simply schedule the report to run before the users get to work. This reduces the time it takes for the users to load data-heavy dashboards.

I only realized this after using Tableau, but I really appreciate the re-usability of reports in OBIEE. I liked this because I don’t need to re-do reports that have to be in different dashboards and it makes my folder structure organized.

Another feature I love are the functions readily available in the RPD. This makes life so much easier when computing for example, year ago, month ago, rolling months, percent growth, etc.

Variables also give us a little flexibility with the formulas, titles and column names.

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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

Visual Analyzer is a nice feature that gives us options on how to view our data.

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

The features of OBIEE most important to me and my organization are Interactive Dashboards, Ad-hoc Analysis & Enterprise Reporting. We also extensively use the Repository services to create Data layers.

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SN
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The product has valuable reporting features.

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it_user154170 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Infosys Ltd.

The capability to implement business and data manipulation logic in the RPD provides a very powerful interface for the developers to work on.

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it_user486498 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect Hyperion at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We got OBIEE for its dashboard reporting and for getting mining data out. OBIEE was a good fit with the Hyperion products we already had. We love it.

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it_user419388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Self service analytics is an amazing feature with OBIEE. Users are empowered to get at the information they need without the need to ask for new views from IT. Through the development of the application, the data is arranged using business terms that those users can understand. 

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it_user436167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of OBIEE, for me, is the speed with which we can get a solution to the customer. It takes a lot of work upfront on our side, but once that's done, it's a matter of clicking here, there, and we've pretty much got a solution for them.

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it_user435981 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer/Analyst at Lidestri Foods

The most valuable feature for us is the ability for endusers and superusers to do some deeper dives without IT intervention. It allows our users to be more responsible and to manage their data a little more responsibly without IT interference.

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it_user281964 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle BI Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Integrated search options
  • Oracle scorecards
  • Pivot tables
  • Map views
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it_user275139 - PeerSpot reviewer
Hyperion Applications Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dashboards, Alerts, BI Publisher. Together these 3 features make this product a great tool to present data. Users can also create ad hoc analyses easily. Integrates very well with a wide variety of data sources making it easy to present data from multiple sources in a single place.

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it_user5046 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees
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KT
CEO & PRACTICE HEAD at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature is the user-friendly set of tools that the customer can use to develop their own business dashboards.

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SA
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I like the architecture of this solution. RPV is a powerful feature in Oracle OBIEE. It lets us design as per the needs of the organization. I can have multiple presentation folders and presentation layers. I can have customization in a single node in VMware, which is a very good feature of Oracle OBIEE. It helps customers in designing as per their requirements.

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

Basically reporting, and we have a couple of modules which we bought. OBIEE, which is used financial procurement and reporting purposes.

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it_user196992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Intelligence Developer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
  • Oracle Analysis
  • Dashboard
  • Agents
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it_user79650 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Exalytics combined with Exadata server makes it possible to query ~ 50TB of datamart data (uncompressed size), that's really great and ~ 1000 of simultaneous requests. View full review »
VB
BI/DW Consultant at Neit consulting

The visualization is very good.

From an end-user perspective, it's a very user-friendly environment.

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DW
Data engineer at realestate.pingan.com
  • It's easy to use for business analysts.
  • Can utilize SQL queries to generate reports directly.
  • Access and permission management.
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it_user417348 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Architect at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

The upgrade from version 10 to 11 drastically changed the perspective of our company's users from the perspective of the data analysis they can do. It's now much easier for our developers to mash up their repositories from different data sources, create new dashboards, create graphs, and send emails via agents.

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

It has easy integration with Oracle DB for clients who run an Oracle Warehouse.

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it_user274917 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager with 51-200 employees
  • Governance
  • Centralized metadata model
  • Integration (security, external visualizations, etc.)
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it_user109281 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dashboard capability along with tightly integrated enterprise level security are really the most used features for me in OBIEE. It's also capable of delivering Scorecarding, Geo Mapping & multi source capabilities. View full review »
AP
Works

The solution offers a wide range of software tools to meet various needs, such as those concerning reports, developer solutions like APEX and the integration of data. 

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TM
BI Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the ability to set up the automated delivery of reports. It is a feature that is nice, as well as easy to do.

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

Oracle OBIEE came out very early, compared to the other BI products, the other competitors’ products. It was pretty much the first in the market. It grabbed a good portion of the market. That's one important feature: They have been there forever.

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it_user486600 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Team Leader & Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The ability for users to generate analytics without developer involvement is valuable. The best feature of the Virtual C, of course, is data visualization.

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it_user486588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The way we are able to send data out to users and the ability for them to do acquiring themselves are valuable features.

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it_user326523 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Consultant with 501-1,000 employees
  • Reporting
  • System & data security
  • Web services
  • Scalability
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it_user6903 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at CloudBearings
Oracle Business EE has a futuristic vision for BI Server capabilities with support for answers, flexible dynamic dashboard, intelligent untime query engine, web and mobile analytics and support for structured and unstructured data. OBIEE provides out of the box supports for Oracle ATG commerce catalogs and also have sample applications which enable users to come up with nice dashboards in relatively lesser time frames. View full review »
it_user109161 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company

The front-end.

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

The reporting capabilities are good. The other valuable features are the dashboard capability and the ease of report creation.

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SB
CEO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature is the visualization.

The data warehousing, data storage, and data wrangling are all features that are in there, and it's one of the better products out there.

A good thing is that for large datasets, it's very stable, especially when you have an Oracle database.

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it_user284388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • Data Warehouse Application Console
  • Analytics
  • Inter Process Communication
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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

I believe the most valuable feature is the ETL, the component to extract the data from the source system.

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it_user521994 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Analyst - Business Applications at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is that we don't have to do anything. They give the code by themselves. We just have to do minor customizations. Its usability is really good. When we implement the tool, we can implement it in a short span of time and start doing enhancements on the basis. It's really good; a good tool.

They offer multiple database support. We can import data from Excel files, CSV files, along with our ERP systems. I just think that’s a cool thing.

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it_user486516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of New Media with 1,001-5,000 employees

We do all of our reporting out of OBIEE, and the analysis is valuable. Moving clients over has been a big step for us. Coming into web, we segregated our web interface data entry as opposed to just reporting to OBIEE Analysis. We also have publishers on great front-end tools for the presentation side of it.

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it_user291216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • BI Publisher
  • Oracle Maps
  • MS Office integration
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it_user908196 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Integration and Business Intelligence Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The performance can issue queries to work in the Oracle database in Oracle's native language. There are a lot of visualizations which suit our business.

It shares quite a lot of features which suit us. For example, we have scheduled reports delivered automatically to our business users using enterprise features.

It is easy to create a report quickly. It does not take much time to create an ad hoc report.

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it_user79425 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Ease of use
  • Strong calculation engine
  • User-friendly look and feel
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it_user288357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Hyperion Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's easy to create fully-functional Dashboards.

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

I think the most valuable features are the ability to drill down, the graphs, and the scheduling for the reports to be received in Excel on a daily basis. Users like Excel, so it's good for them that they receive the reports by email, that they don't have to specify the schedule.

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it_user442254 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
  • Dashboards
  • KPIs
  • Scorecards
  • Analysis
  • Reporting
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it_user175956 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Powerful, interactive and high performance reports and dashboards.

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it_user277731 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Delta extracts
  • Scheduler
  • Multiple delivery options
  • Word and Excel integration to create report templates
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it_user643770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst System at AFDB

The most valuable feature is the openness of the solution. It helps us integrate some of our clients. 

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it_user551229 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources.

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PT
Associate Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

In terms of features, everything is good. It is also stable and scalable.

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it_user783000 - PeerSpot reviewer
RM at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is an enterprise type of repository; you can make changes in the repository and it will affect the whole application. Other tools don't have a combined repository.

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it_user521544 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Apps Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The best features are the dashboard and the analytics. The report generation is very fast.

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it_user302115 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Applications Technical Consultant with 501-1,000 employees
  • Charts
  • Navigation
  • Drill Downs
  • Variables especially- session variables
  • Maps
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Buyer's Guide
Oracle OBIEE
April 2024
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