Calculations are a little bit faster. It can do the on-the-run calculations much better than other reporting platforms. You don't need any other specific tool. You can use Microsoft Office to start doing things with these reports.

The most valuable features are the reporting and the graphics.

It has a very robust dashboard and ad-hoc reporting. With the dashboard, our senior financial managers can easily slice and dice and drill up and down our financial data sets, which they leverage to make good decisions in the future.

The Power BI Transform user interface is very useful and easy to use.

It's web-based so that I can have multiple users accessing the same data. It provides ease of use and its formatting means we can use the data, export it to Excel, and we manipulate the data afterward if we need to.

It’s valuable because it’s easy. The pre-built data models are great, as is rapid implementation so that you can use all of the pre-developed Oracle features rather than doing the heavy lifting. For the most part, there is such a comprehensive amount of delivered reports with pre-built OBIA that we are finding it to meet 90% or better of the client requirements in relation to that functionality.

There is a multitude of already developed objects that allow you to create and/or improve existing reports in a reasonably easy way.