We performed a comparison between Oracle OBIEE, QlikView, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."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."
"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."
"We do you use Oracle support. We've been paying for an Oracle support subscription for four or five years, and not one ticket has ever been logged. When I came in, I've encouraged the team to ask Oracle questions. They do get back quite quickly. Their support is good. Working with our account managers, if I need to escalate anything, I can speak to them and they escalate the call. I've got that ecosystem working quite well. That does work for us."
"They were reasonable in terms of price."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the various scenarios the product offers and its stability."
"The most valuable feature is the visualization."
"The scalability is there."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"You can switch views easily."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"Tableau is good for routine dashboards, and it has integration with Slack, through which it can send you daily updates."
"Tableau is easy to use and it has great predictive features."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"It's easy to use."
"Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose making it very easy to use."
"From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics. We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like."
"You are able to see and follow trends."
"I would like to see Machine Learning included in this solution."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"Oracle OBIEE only displays KPIs, but it does not include strategic objectives or display risk in a strategic map."
"The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options."
"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."
"The pricing of the solution should be bettered."
"The solution is too expensive for small firms."
"When a large number of queries are running at the same time, the report fails."
"The solution is quite costly."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Lacks customization in some areas."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"I have used Power BI as well as Tableau. There are a couple of interesting features that I like in Power BI, but they are not present in Tableau. For example, in Power BI, if I am looking at country-wise population, I can type and ask for the country that has the maximum population, and it will automatically give an answer and address that query. This kind of feature is not there in Tableau. Similarly, in Power BI, for integrating with the latest ML algorithms, we have decision trees and primarily multiple machine learning algorithms. The decision tree essentially visualizes the patterns in the data. We don't have such a feature in Tableau. If Tableau can integrate with the machine learning algorithms and help us to do visualizations, it would be a wonderful combination. Most of the people are going for Tableau primarily for visualization purposes. However, in the data science industry, users want to do model building as well as tell a story. As of now, Tableau is fulfilling the requirements for visualization purposes. If they can bring it up to a level where I can use it for machine learning purposes as well as for visualization, it would be very helpful. Many people who want to do data science don't want to write a code. Tableau is anyway a drag and drop tool, and if they can provide those options as well, it will be a powerful combination."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time. We have done some initial tests and some of the delays could be from bandwidth issues. However, the whole installation process should be simplified."
"The user experience for less savvy or non-technical people (from my experience)."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
