We performed a comparison between Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, and Teradata Data Lab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."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."
"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."
"The setup isn't too difficult."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting."
"They were reasonable in terms of price."
"It is easy to create a report quickly. It does not take much time to create an ad hoc report."
"The most valuable feature is the openness of the solution. It helps us integrate some of our clients."
"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."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"The most valuable feature is the drag and drop, then the simplicity to build dashboards which allows us to provide more usable data to our customers."
"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."
"I have found Tableau easy to use and the features are superb."
"It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly."
"I believe one of the most valuable features of the solution is trend analysis."
"Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard."
"In Data Lab, you can schedule any testing you want to do in production. You can take a small subset of data from production, copy it there, and run all your tests. It reduces your testing costs because it's all in the lab."
"It has increased the speed of reporting."
"We needed some technical expertise during setup."
"In terms of tech support, we have our own technicians. But, we did register for their help. When we register a call, it takes time for them to respond to us."
"Essbase integration needs to be worked on."
"Expanding beyond pure data reporting and into analytics, or expanding data science, would be areas for improvement."
"OBIEE doesn't have audit logs."
"The solution needs to be easier to scale."
"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 drawback with the tool is that though it is well-created, its users are under-trained to use it."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."
"An area needing improvement involves the complexity of the product should you need to alter a lot of parameters. If you have technical servers, much interface, different providers and more serious processes, that will be time consuming."
"Firstly, the high cost of Tableau licenses makes it inaccessible for many mid-scale clients. Secondly, the server requires at least 128GB of RAM, which can be impractical for some systems. We need a dedicated system to use Tableau."
"Tableau's automatic insight could be improved. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data, but I think they need more. Customers need more insight automatically from data—they don't want to discover them, they want to get the forecast automatically. The data preparation should also be improved because it's not easy. Tableau tries to focus on the business side, but the backend side has not improved much. They also have an ETS solution, but it's limited."
"The user story model is the most deceptive part of Tableau. It is a big marketing option, however, the reality is that it is not enough."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"If I want to implement an upgrade, I'd like to see how it will be different. Ideally, Data Lab should help me test production items and also do future things. Future releases should be downloadable and testable in Data Lab."
"The initial setup was complex as we had to rewrite a lot of the code."
"Their level of technical support is adequate. It could be better."
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