Oracle BI Applications Other Advice

RM
Senior Manager, Software Engineering Client Reporting at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

They should go for the modern way of reporting. All financial institutes have to look for tools that can give them better visuals as well. They cannot use only numbers.

The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that we should look for simplified solutions. If we cannot simplify a solution, it is going to give us a problem in the future. At the design level, we should do as much simplification as possible.

I would rate Oracle BI Applications a six out of ten.

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RP
SubDirector of Project Management at DISH

For anyone thinking of implementing Oracle BI, be aware that you have to work with users in terms of the data, so they have to be able to work on the dashboards and with their own information. I'd give Oracle BI a rating of seven out of ten.

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AM
Contractor Logistics Support IPT Lead with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would suggest using Power BI if you have a small to medium size company and you do not do a lot of sharing reports. Otherwise, I would suggest Oracle BI.

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Database/Application Layer Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

You need to know what your objective is, whether it's for reporting tools or databases. There are big differences in database structures between Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server.

Once you know which platform you want to be able to use as far as the database is concerned, the reporting tool is just a matter of what flavor you enjoy the most, in terms of ease of use and learning curve. Any of the above products work on any other platform, except maybe Microsoft SSRS. I'm not sure how well that works with NoSQL databases, but I know it works with the three that I'm looking at it. It's just a matter of the flavor of the tool that you're looking at with your databases and the end-user preferences in how they're going to be able to work with it.

Because we already use BI here, it’s a tool that our users are comfortable with and they already know how to use. So switching to another product may be a little more difficult if it doesn't have the same functionality and feel that our users currently have with the Oracle BI.

From my users' standpoint, they would probably rate Oracle BI at around an eight out of 10, because they like the way that it functions. We did have some instances of using Crystal Reports here, at times. We call Crystal Reports more of a presentation-type reporting tool. It looks good when you have to print it and show it but when you have to export it, it doesn't come out the greatest. You have to have things aligned correctly for that data to be exported correctly.

Oracle BI is more along the lines of what we do here because we're a government agency. It’s more of an engineering tool where users can export the data more easily into a drill-down format like Excel and they can manipulate the data again if they need to. 

The performance of Oracle BI is fine. The application is fine. We have no problems with it.

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Senior Vice President Of Operations at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Look at your source systems. It is only pre-built to go with PeopleSoft applications, JD Edwards and Oracle eBusiness of SAP. If you're not running one of those, it doesn't make sense to buy the pre-built. You also need to consider is how heavily customized the resource system is because it's pre-built based off of the vanilla product sets. Any customizations you've made to the product after it’s delivered, you're going to have to account for in the pre-built data warehouse and even into OBIE. I would rate it a seven out of ten overall.

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MF
Oracle BI Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

You need to pay SO MUCH attention to functional configurations. It makes all the difference in the results from BI APPS dashboards.

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