We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy, Oracle OBIEE, and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."We are embedding multimedia content in our apps... You can embed streaming video from websites, or you can host the video files on your internal media servers. The video is clear, absolutely."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"Dossiers are going to change the name of the game for us. We want to be able to have the executive committee go into a meeting and tell a story. We want them to tell us a story, not us."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the various scenarios the product offers and its stability."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"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."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the lexical parameters and distribution."
"It has helped to consolidate data and report on a single version of the truth."
"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."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"Data preparation-wise, it was not so straightforward with respect to getting different sources. Preparing or transforming the data inside and then bringing it onto the dashboard was a bit difficult, and the experience could have been better."
"It would be better if it had a wide range of visualization options. For example, Microsoft Power BI has an extensive range of visualization options, but it's not available in OBIEE. There are also some conflicts because it's complicated, but the cloud application is easier. They added some features for ETL with the on-premises application, but we need a different or a separate application for ETL in the cloud. In the next release, I would like to have more AI features."
"The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly."
"Oracle OBIEE could improve by having better integration and compatibility with other vendors."
"It crashes when many people login simultaneously."
"Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported."
"When a large number of queries are running at the same time, the report fails."
"Essbase integration needs to be worked on."
"An area for improvement is that Oracle pushes more users to Oracle BI Publisher rather than emphasizing Oracle OBIEE for reporting. The pricing for Oracle OBIEE could be improved."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"The repository should be improved."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
