Oracle OBIEE Room for Improvement

Yossi Belitasky - PeerSpot reviewer
BI manager at Clarivate Analytics

In our organization, we feel that data visualization for APIs is an area in which the solution lacks. So, API in data visualization could be better. Also, some other features that are available on the cloud are not yet available on the server. In short, some cloud features should be available on-premises on a server. Other areas include scheduling reports with digital visualization, which are missing the solution.

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MustansirManasawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at TK Elevator

They should make the dashboard more intuitive.

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Muhammad-Saad - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Systems Limited

I have witnessed some new features in Oracle OBIEE 12c related to functions like forecasting, clustering, outliers, and trends, despite the fact that such functions are difficult to use in the tool. It would have been easier to use such functionalities on Oracle Analytics Cloud. In Oracle OBIEE, users should be able to use the tool easily with the help of drag-and-drop functionalities. Though Oracle OBIEE might be helpful from a technical perspective, it is not a user-friendly product for business users, especially for those who are not aware of technical syntax.

Forecasting, trends, outliers, and other features should work like a drag-and-drop functionality since such functionalities are currently difficult to use.

The graphical representation and the alignment of the report should be very easy. The settings related to the properties of graphs, like lines and height, are areas where there are some difficulties, which can be hectic for the technical and business users of the solution, making it an area that should be made easy by Oracle.

The features that are available on OAC should be made available in Oracle OBIEE in future releases.

Oracle OBIEE should work to make areas like configuration settings and deployment easy for users. I have worked in an industry for six to seven years using Oracle OBIEE, where I have seen how the management was not happy with the product and wanted to go with some other tool. I had to convince my previous management that there are many good features in Oracle OBIEE and that it is important to use products related to Oracle, like OAC, and not opt for tools like Power BI. If you use Oracle products and Oracle Database, then it is important to try Oracle Analytics.

From an improvement perspective, the technical team should be able to provide more accurate answers by taking into consideration the context of the issues faced by users. The support team also needs to provide resolutions faster.

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Oracle OBIEE
March 2024
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MI
General Manager Information Technology at International Steels Limited

The pricing of the solution should be bettered. 

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AE
Process Engineering Manager at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oracle OBIEE is a product that is not easy to implement. The product is also not easy to use. The aforementioned details about the solution can be considered for improvement.

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Marijan Barbul - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Training is needed to be provided to Oracle OBIEE's potential users since it is a complicated tool. The potential users of Oracle OBIEE need to possess some IT awareness to be able to operate it. The drawback with the tool is that though it is well-created, its users are under-trained to use it.

Since Oracle OBIEE is an on-premise solution, I face many limitations, and this is also one of the issues that Oracle needs to address in the future. Moving to the cloud is a decision that would make the solution much more efficient than it is currently.

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RG
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

In terms of improvement, I would like to see enhancements in tracking, debugging, and flexibility. Additionally, features like exposing apps as services and generating PowerPoint presentations directly from reports could be beneficial. While OBIEE offers similar features to Power BI, there may be some functions that haven't been explored fully due to a lack of knowledge or ease of access compared to Power BI. 

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Azhar Azhar - PeerSpot reviewer
BI consultant at RajhiSteel

An area for improvement is that Oracle pushes more users to Oracle BI Publisher rather than emphasizing Oracle OBIEE for reporting. Oracle is promoting Oracle BI Publisher as a reporting solution while introducing Oracle OBIEE into the ERP side.

In terms of data warehousing and getting on-premises reports, you need to use the Oracle Analytics Server, for example, to fetch the data rather than doing it on Oracle OBIEE, which is another area for improvement.

Oracle has more control over the data grid on the cloud versus Oracle OBIEE deployed on-premises, which is a drawback because deploying on the cloud gives you less flexibility in terms of customizations, adding dimensions, etc.

The pricing for Oracle OBIEE could be improved.

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BK
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at a transportation company with 11-50 employees

When they converted to OAC, they made some changes that were good and some that were not so good. In terms of room for improvement, there is nothing that's perfect. One of the things that have been difficult with OBIEE during all the time that I've known it is that when something goes wrong, many times, the error messages are not specific, and you've got to spend a lot of time digging and digging and digging before you say, "Oh, okay. I figured out what it was." There should be more detailed error messages or troubleshooting messages.

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PK
Senior Erp Developer at CACI International Inc.

Improvements are something I think they have pretty much done. They have improved many areas, like adding visualization and all that, by making it easy. So, any business analyst can play around with it without much knowledge. I think Oracle OBIEE is going step by step.

Oracle needs to improve its technical support. If they can improve in that area, it will be nice. Oracle products have a lot of complications. And sometimes what happens is, especially since I work on Oracle ERP. So when they release some modules, I don't know what kind of testing they do, but there are a lot of complications. And we break our heads and eventually end up with Oracle support because only Oracle support can solve those issues because it's software-related. So when you open a ticket, it depends on where that ticket goes. Sometimes it goes to a knowledgeable person, and then your life becomes easy. Generally, it won't end up there. So those are the things that Oracle has to improve in its support area. They have to improve significantly in that area because I see a lot of guys moving away because of that reason.

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AK
Technical Consultant at AAK

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.

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Abdou Mohamadou - PeerSpot reviewer
Data warehouse analyst at Québec Government

The main problem we face is migrating all of the reports into the solution.

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AS
Senior Software Developer at Sopra

Managing the OB applications requires a high level of experience, and in that sense, the solution is quite heavy. Although the solution offers some direct reporting, I'd like to see something on the database. The way things are now you need to go through an intermediate layer rather than connecting directly to the database which would enable you to immediately start building a report.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

One significant improvement is the need for simplification. The set up could be more intuitive. An enterprise setup with HA and DR are pretty complex and to get a robust solution one has to play around with Real Application Cluster data sources and FAN notifications as well as WebLogic clustering and external load balancers. SSO also is not that simple to set up especially if you want all your Oracle systems to use the same SSO solution, i.e., no cheating with direct LDAP connectivity.


So there is no simple setup for HA deployment. you need to manually create a cluster deploy into the cluster , reconfigure the datasources to high availability data sources etc. Unlike hyperion for example which has automated configurator scripts that do a lot of the under covers work for the administrator and hence simplifies the ha installation.


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JK
Technical Team Lead at Rotary International

The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly. Oracle should include more videos rather than simple text. Also, adding some examples will help users with quick learning.

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Swati-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant consultant at Tata Consultancy

Oracle OBIEE can improve the ease of use. It is a lot to learn and it could be made easier.

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AE
Obiee HR Technologies Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Rigidity and speed are areas that could be improved. Everything has to move quickly in today's world, especially in the data world. Everyone wants it right now.

Having a system is great, and when you code it correctly, it can get the job done. However, a modern solution takes a long time; it moves much slower than some other things. You have products such as Tableau, and there are other data science tools out there churning through just as much data. Obviously, that element is not intended to be a data science tool in and of itself. It's more of a reporting tool than anything else. Expanding beyond pure data reporting and into analytics, or expanding data science, would be areas for improvement.

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HirutAsfaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Administrator at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial.

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SN
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

There are a lot of aspects of Oracle OBIEE that are exceptionally complicated, make things unnecessarily difficult for everyone who uses it. In terms of the integrations, Oracle needs to improve a little more, but I believe that they have tried to capture all those issues. The issues we are facing in the Oracle OBIEE 12C versions, in the Oracle Analytical Server Center or Analytical Cloud versions, Oracle has managed to overcome the challenges.

Oracle OBIEE could improve its marketing. There is no additional training, trials, or something else needed. Oracle has  Business partners, such as TCS and Cognizant. All the business partners for Oracle, I never saw that they ever tried to market the Oracle tools for visualization.  We can do visualization of data with it, large analytical data, and analytical analysis. They never try to market it in that way. All I understood as it is a tool for extracting large amounts of data. They need to improve on their outreach.

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Kevin Wanyonyi - PeerSpot reviewer
POS expert at JAVA HOUSE

The installation process and the ability to resume customer reports could be improved. 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.

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CM
Principal Business Intelligence Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We do like Oracle Visual Analyzer, but we do feel that it's quite immature in comparison to its competitors. There is still quite a lot of catch-up to be done, but it does still have some unique value add.

It is not very stable, and it is not consistently improved. There are a lot of gaps when it comes to design. The documentation and support from Oracle on the vision have been pretty bad over the last six years.

It is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. One of the major red flags we have at the moment against Oracle is that it doesn't support deployment on other cloud providers. We're quite heavily vested in AWS as our infrastructure, and Oracle is yet to formally support deploying on those virtual infrastructure instances. That's quite disappointing, and it also cuts them out of over 70% of the market.

Its deployment is complicated in comparison to other solutions.

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SV
Process System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution needs a better security management system and I think there is room for improvement in terms of giving access to people in a more effective way. I'd like to see additional features and performance can be improved too. 

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VG
Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We were disappointed with Oracle OBIEE, because of the performance.

In terms of an analytical tool, it is quite outdated. End-users want to receive results quickly and to be able to view millions of rows of data in a matter of seconds. OBIEE was unable of doing so because of the way it was modeled and developed. It requires it to go to the database, run the SQL, and then fetch the result for each query. That procedure took a long time to complete.

There are a variety of different in-memory tools available; the data is loaded into the server's RAM or memory, and all requests, including data requests, are served from the RAM, making it extremely fast.

If you look at Qlik Sense or Tableau, or perhaps some other products on the market, such as Power BI, you'll notice that they have all of the data in RAM.

The performance and the complex setup are the main reason for switching to Qlik Sense. 

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AS
IT manager at Farmatrejd

Oracle OBIEEE's performance and licensing costs could be improved.

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RG
EPM/BI certified Consultant, Oracle ACE and TeraCorp Consulting CEO at TeraCorp Consulting

It needs better parent-child dimension options that don't need to pass through OBIEE to build it. It's an easier way to update the model in case of a change of dimension size or sources.

Also, it needs better and more dynamic graphics. There are a lot of tools with better graphics and big part of BI is about this.

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it_user521685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Business Intelligence at Enlivant

The tool has everything I need right now, including mobile, geo-spatial, and data visualization. I would like to see better licensing in terms of data visualization.

Maybe they could include it as a part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, which would allow product users to take advantage of it. Otherwise, it's going to be an expensive product.

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it_user521748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at IEEE

They should focus more on performance. Basically, no one has the time. They also have to compete with big data analytics. They ought to keep that in mind and see how this product could eventually, down the line, be replaced. They should take some measures to actually make it stay.

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DM
Architect Team Lead at ITC Infotech

I find I prefer Oracle OAC over OBIEE. It's more advanced, has artificial intelligence, and there's more that we can do with it in general. OBIEE is lacking features.

The reporting could be better. We can only develop standard PDF reports. We don't have reports that show analytics. It doesn't generate barcodes at the top and it doesn't have the ability to show notes. The reporting system needs to introduce logic so that we can make the reporting more flexible.

Writing any code takes a long time. Merging data is also a long and tedious process. 

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NM
Director- IT Strategy & Transformation at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It should have more self-service capabilities.

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it_user521673 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at DMS

The product can definitely improve. It is a good product compared to Microsoft Power BI or other Microsoft products, the SAP BIs and other small BIs in the market. In comparison with the others, the Oracle BI product is much more advanced; it's a heavy product. However, the issue is the cost factor. If Oracle decides to improve the cost factor and provide facilities to the user where the user can benefit, then it will be good.

Apart from the cost factor, it is a good product. Now, they are moving to the Cloud with the BICS model and adding visualization features. They are heading the right way. For us, the mobile and visualization features are more beneficial; plus with the Big Data coming in, it will really benefit us on that scale.

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MA
Enterprise Performance Management Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

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.

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MI
General Manager Information Technology at International Steels Limited

In the on-premises version, the feature for connecting and selecting the data between the databases looks a bit cumbersome, but I am not sure. The person who is using it takes a lot of time to design a data warehouse. When I ask him why is it taking this long, I get a response that this is something that he has to design, and there are different tools that are available. He has to write the ETL and design the warehouse according to the customer's requirement, which takes a lot of time.

Its visualization should be enhanced, and there should be a feature where you can easily create your custom data warehouse.

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it_user521892 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at Sony DADC

Some of the new products they have with the mobile version and Day by Day look extremely good. I would like their mobile version to incorporate HTML5, and also go through some accessibility testing, which would incorporate new web standard features.

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it_user31188 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Application Development & Business Intelligence at BE Aerospace

In the next release, I would like to them to add or include data visualization and mobile, which right now is a separate product. If it were up to me, I would merge them together.

It has some shortcomings, but overall it's a good, stable product.

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RG
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Implementation is a little cumbersome and requires expertise. From the support perspective, it seems that they are a level behind. Another, thing is if you're working in the 12.2.1.3 version, fields don't come with proper venues and proper testing is lacking. For an additional feature, I'd like to see data science and functions added.

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MS
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

In the 11G model, there are restricted visualizations, whereas in Oracle Analytics Cloud we have multiple different variations of visualization. If there was a way of presenting the data in a pictorial way, it would be very helpful. Right now, the solution, at least in that deployment model, is lacking a number of visualizations.

The solution needs to be easier to scale.

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it_user521622 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Supply Chain Manager at Cisco

Some of the additional features required are that it should be more user-friendly. Sometimes, when we use the drag-and-drop feature it does not drag the object and needs to be user-friendly. It's not available today.

If it would be more flexible, that would be helpful.

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it_user302133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Analyst at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Overall OBIEE is a great tool; however, the architecture of implementation for IT folks, and ease of use for a not-too-technical audience has room for improvement.

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SB
Regional Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Oracle OBIEE could improve by having better integration and compatibility with other vendors.

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AK
Technical Consultant at AAK

There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office.

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CV
Siebel CRM OBIEE at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I would like more graphical charts.

While it is a user-friendly, data-driven tool, the data modeling should be easier to use. 

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it_user27945 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Database and Security at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It seems to be a little bit complex for an everyday user to grasp and get ahold of if they want to build their own reports. I think it takes a little bit more training for the users to get on board. It's not as intuitive as I think they would expect it to be. A lot of users like spreadsheets. I think if you give them a fancy tool, it will give them a little bit to adapt to that.

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JV
Policy and Planning Analyst with 10,001+ employees

I think there is a lot of room for improvement. This solution is weak in the data science perspective. I have past data science experience. And, I find that there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of incorporating more advanced statistical modeling into the product. 

I come from a data science background. I find that there is a lot of room for improvement to incorporate more advanced statistical modeling into the product.

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VG
Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

One feature I would definitely like to see is the ability to provide the in-memory data. Oracle might have some plugins but, as of now, that feature isn't available out-of-the-box. You might have to purchase that feature. This is the feature that is most lacking, which we would like to have in the next release.

Also, the overall architecture. Currently, it comes in an Oracle suite. We want to have it come as a separate product and which is very easy to install, migrate, deploy etc.

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it_user461061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Professional Services Consultant Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The IT developers for this client have struggled in two areas, setting up the repository and fine tuning the report formatting.

The repository in OBIEE provides a huge capability for bringing in table structures from a database, linking them together, mapping hierarchies, adding custom calculations and so on. However, to do much of the complex mapping they needed is very difficult without considerable experience. There is very little within the repository administration tool to guide you on how to achieve complex tasks and the documentation is quite brief. Improvements in this area would certainly help.

For the reports, the requirement was to replicate highly formatted reports in Excel and despite the cell-level formatting in Excel that obviously cannot be replicated within a reporting tool, we’ve gotten extremely close. However, as with the repository, experience has been key – the analytic report-building screen provides a wide range of functionality, but without someone with experience on hand to provide ‘tricks of the trade’, they would have struggled. Simplifying the interface to provide easier access to all of the functions would help greatly here.

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it_user7428 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Statistics and Analysis at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In today’s business intelligence environment, nimbleness and flexibility are valued on par with scalability and dependability. Historically, Excel was perfectly aligned with the former two while enterprise solutions held firmly to the latter two. It was the business analyst’s conundrum to work seamlessly between the micro- and macro-solutions. Now, BI entrants into the market are challenging that paradigm, providing tools that span all four characteristics and this is where OBIEE is looking somewhat dated. 

OBIEE requires a lot of metadata customization that can only be achieved by individuals with very specific skill sets. This includes Oracle developers, web developers (including XML), Siebel, and more. These skill sets may even reside in different departments yet the business user depends on each to ensure that their KPI dashboard is updated with the latest segmentations and that the drill-down reports open up quickly. These challenges may ease somewhat with the introduction of Oracle's Visual Analyzer, however it is too young a product to tell how fast it will move up the development curve.

As the BI space continues to evolve, many business analysts are focusing more on complementary solutions that, although they may not be as enterprise-worthy in scope, are extremely flexible, easy to customize, and can get the analyst the needed insight without having to overcome some of the development hurdles in OBIEE.

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TS
Senior Manager Analytic & Insights at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options.

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JH
Data Architect & BI Manager at RTBF

Migration on premisses should be easier (but is easier if you migrate to the cloud).

More self-services should be available for the users.

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AY
Big Data / Business Intelligence / Datawarehousing at DWgrain (Client Health BIS)

The WebLogic administration could be more intuitive or simplified especially when you are focused on OBIEE

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DS
Strategic Management Office Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

From the point of view of strategic management, I would like to have a feature, perhaps a form after we get to the KPI dashboard, to be used to note if something unusual happens in the operations. That way we could record extreme KPI situations, and track why a number is very low or too high.

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it_user521742 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Performance is a key point, but it's always a give and take with performance: What do you really want to achieve versus what you can really get, and what does that cost? That's the key, I think, from a performance perspective.

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it_user450624 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Oracle Technology/DevOpsManager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some of the main disadvantages of Oracle would be they don't give the whole privilege for the end user to customize the way they want. Some things can only be done by an admin or a business analyst, and then really only someone familiar with OBIEE would be able to do it. But unlike other product, like Domo or Tableau, irrespective of the database, you can write run-time reports by an end user. The interface is going to take care of it and, depending on the variables that they change, they would get the data. Data remains the same, but you are giving more to the end user to handle.

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SW
Finance Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The graphical capabilities could be better. They are also cumbersome, and they are limited compared to Tableau, Power BI, or even Business Objects to a certain extent and Cognos. The error logging isn't great either. The errors that come out when you schedule aren't easy to understand.

I find how they filter within a query quite cumbersome and difficult to debug if somebody else has done it. You can see as you build, and I think that's where the problem is. It doesn't lend itself to debug something. For example, if you create a formula that's quite complicated, it's not easy to understand what goes with what. 

It becomes spaghetti, and it's very difficult to unpick. That's really my gripe about it, and in some ways, it's too flexible. It tries to be a Jack of all trades when it's not. I think a lot of these products, if they concentrate on trying to produce your reports, then that's fine. But when they're trying to do all sorts of other things as well, then it isn't very easy.

We get lots of support from Oracle, but I think the problem is that we get many invalid file operations. Nobody understands why. It can be a multitude of reasons, but no one reason could cause it. That's just one of the issues we've had in the last year. But the scope of reporting has gone through the roof over the previous 12 to 18 months.

We want an end-of-life OBIEE in our environment because some of the infrastructure runs unclustered. We weren't allowed to go clustered for some reason, and we never knew why. Unfortunately, going down that route means that the platform we run it on, WebLogic, has now become non-standard within our organization.

Everything's been moved off it and onto other platforms. Unfortunately, our OBIEE runs on that platform, and we're being pushed down different routes, and we don't know where we're going at the moment. Within the next two years, I don't think we'll have OBIEE in our part of the business.

In the next release, I think having the capability of being able to develop and then promote to a production environment rather than having to have separate environments will help. I know that Tableau and Power BI can be created on a desktop application, and then when it's ready to go live, you can promote it. 

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Zubair_Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Veraqor

Thanks, Ms. Julia Frohwein for the review. I would like to explain the points which I had written in the first post.

The solution is too expensive for small firms. 

The solution is too expensive for small firms due to their licensing cost. Not every company has the budget to purchase the solution.

 I believe that the solution is beginning to integrate more security measures, however, more must be done.

The on-premises version does not have any AI or machine learning capabilities. They're saving those for cloud versions.

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MD
Head of IT at Obegi Chemicals Group

They should develop greater visualization because their visualization isn't industry leading at the moment. The way you pull the data and see the data compared to other platforms, they're lagging a little bit behind. Also, their cost. I've got Oracle account managers trying to persuade me every day to purchase these licenses. Once you purchase OBIEE, then you have to purchase the virtualization and then you have to purchase the mobile license to operate on the mobile. It's really expensive. 

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it_user521952 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Business Intelligence - Technical Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

I would say the biggest need for us is non-structured data. Most of the time, our users come up with an Excel file they want to integrate. It's pretty much impossible in OBIEE. I'll put it that way. When it comes to the BI world, maybe you can do that in SAP Business Objects, and as a company, we have OBIEE and Business Objects as parallel tools people use.

That is always one of the things that we always lag behind and maybe people think Excel, but that is not one of the most powerful things businesses use. If you cannot satisfy the Excel needs, it doesn't matter how cool or how technically focused, consistent, compliant data you have; you can't use that if you can’t integrate it.

There are a few things, like variables and other stuff. Maybe they could allow the editing of reports. Those are the basic features. You cannot copy and paste a report, a particular section, which a lot of people said to us that they have to go through.

A focus on the user experience is what OBIEE needs. As a technical guy, I understand why it works and why, but if it doesn’t sell the business? Make it more user friendly. I'll put it that way.

I rate a product based on how it allows me to help the organization and my role is to provide reports. Success comes only when my customer accepts it. Right now, it's unidirectional and the other piece; there are some things, which are a pushback. It could be a lot of factors, not specifically OBIEE, but OBIEE plays a major role.

Most of the time, we have issues we are facing.

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AnjanaPathare - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It could be more user-friendly. For example, the RPD layer could be more straightforward. From a user's point of view, the visualization, especially the graphs, are not as attractive when compared to other tools like QlikView and Qlik Sense.

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it_user522183 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vp at Ifusion solution inc

I think Oracle has already come up with a couple of data visualization pieces, instead of just reporting. Today, I saw from a couple of versions of what they are coming out with. I think it's pretty cool. I think it satisfies all the business needs that we have.

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it_user436188 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technology Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It would be beneficial to allow the user to further personalize their own page a little bit more instead of just being presented with data. I think the user interface still needs more fine-tuning. It needs to be easier to create user reports. People who first use it don't know where to get what they need as there are so many tabs and so many things you can do. It would be nice for it to be made more intuitive.

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it_user417408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analytics Developer at Tsavotech Inc

The Oracle installation instructions tell you to install the product and give it a name, a skimmer name would be dev. That way it's called dev because you’re doing the operation in dev. Call it dev BI platform, but even that is just a skimmer name. The best thing would be to just call it BI platform and leave it at that. That way, to move to any environment, from dev to test to prod without changing anything. In dev, it's great, but if your test environment is called test something, your users would be test something. Now your guys on the dev BI platform suddenly don't work here because it's dev. In production, you have to call it prod something. The bookshelf says call it dev, but you really shouldn't do that. Really it should be just BI platform.

If you have a lot of Oracle products, they would conflict if they are running the same box due to code names, code numbers, and pretty much use the same numbers. So, if you have Oracle Data Integrator and OBIEE in the same box, they would conflict. They would want to be in their own separate boxes to be able to work together. They don't work together, but they do help each other. ODI just makes the data available to how you want it. You need separate boxes, and once again, that means space and there's obligations with Oracle where you cannot have "something something" on the VirtualBox. There are licensing issues there, too.

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it_user283479 - PeerSpot reviewer
OBIEE 11g Specialist at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

The catalog tool (to create report and dashboard)is not intuitive or easy to use. There are also some low severity bugs (up the 11.1.1.7 release).

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SA
Oracle Application Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I think the schedule option where we schedule the dashboards has to be improved. When we have to send the dashboard to the ADS personnel based on some conditions, then it is not feasible to add those conditions and send it to different email addresses. Suppose a person does not have access to Sales Cloud, but the business wants emails to be triggered. Then we have to put in static emails while scheduling the reports or documents. We do not have any conditions where we can, from the existing fields, add some conditions, like the ones based on certain conditions regarding a person and then based on some other conditions regarding another person. So that's where I think I have faced backlogs personally.

Though Oracle did support us, the resolution wasn't quick. Oracle can improve its support.

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DR
Presidente at EDR

I would like to see Machine Learning included in this solution.

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it_user514902 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI/DWH Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Of course, there is some room for improvement, because a perfect BI platform does not exist in IT.

The following things would be welcomed:

  • Detailed editing of dashboard prompts: By this, I mean the appearance and localization. If I create a dashboard prompt, I cannot edit freely the columns and texts on the user interface of dashboard prompts. For example, I cannot insert individual text fields that are independent from columns; I cannot use CSS to emphasize my texts of columns and the localization is quite limited as well.
  • Smarter BI navigation using hierarchical columns: By this, I mean the navigation from a measure is quite difficult when I use hierarchical columns. When I use a hierarchical column in an analysis and expand the levels and click on a measure on the second level, for example, the BI does not know the appropriate level using navigation and it will result in wrong amounts. This is a known issue, according to the BI documentation, and there are other solutions, alternative ways to use navigation. Nonetheless, for hierarchical columns, it could be smarter.
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it_user522198 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Of Capital Improvement Program at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would like to see a little more flexibility in the configuration.

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it_user429015 - PeerSpot reviewer
OBIEE Technical Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Right now, there's no ability to add comments to the dashboards. We'd like to be able to do that.

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it_user293667 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Developer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

The UI needs to be updated. We had some people reference it as “1995” in ways of looks. The application itself does not work well with cross-dimensional reporting out of the box (there are no official documentation on how this can be implemented but unofficial online user blogs have provided us with some work-around solutions).

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it_user291219 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - MIS Systems at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
  • Tighter integration of BI Publisher with RPD/BI answers is essential
  • Enhanced big data tools will be valuable for industries like ours
  • Simplified analysis drill-down setups
  • Running BIP report once in the interactive view should not require a rerun when the view is switched, for example, to HTML or Excel
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it_user164184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • OBIEE visualizations are still behind compared to Tableau and QlikView
  • Visualizations, such as Gantt charts, are not available in OBIEE out-of-the-box: Needs a workaround to enable them
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it_user521955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Service Area Manager, India Delivery Centre at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I just saw somewhere, OBIEE on cloud: that could be the good thing. Right now, what we have is OBIEE on premise. Certainly, I cannot currently check the reports on my mobile. But that could be one advantage OBIEE would have on cloud, once they move.

Certainly the look and feel of the user interface is something should be improved further.

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it_user510615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Users find it difficult to understand which combinations of facts and dimensions are ‘allowed’ in a single report. The application does not provide feedback up front, but gives an error afterwards.

The user interface provides subject areas where the user can choose columns for a report. A column can be either a fact (measure) or a dimension (like company, or date).

It is not uncommon to have two measures that cannot be compared by the same dimension. The report will show a blank column, or give an error message saying something like ‘incomparable measures at this level’.

Most of the times, this is a design flaw in the underlying dimensional model, but this does not have to be the case. If a user could see the unavailable columns based on their selection - by greying out options that are not available - this would greatly help the user understand the underlying data model and prevent frustration.

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RS
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

For a beginner, this is a product that is difficult to learn. You cannot learn it quickly.

There are a few utilization-level limitations in Oracle OBIEE that can be improved. However, they are releasing another product called OAS, Oracle Analytics Server, which might include a few more utilizations.

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SK
BI Analytics-Tech Lead at StratApps

If I want to develop a new repository, any new table, any new schema that I want to incorporate into the RPD, then in my local schema, can't directly connect to the cloud. I do not have complete end-to-end access to it. In such cases, I need to install some local DV. I don't know if that is the right path or not, however, as far as I'm concerned, I'm just creating some tables, some sample space in my local DB and from the DB I just try to import into my local RPD in order to publish to the cloud. It is double work. If I'm in a non-cloud environment and I need not connect to the local DB, I need not re-import everything into my local space. I can connect to the available on-premise DB and connecting to that on-premise DB I can create the RPD.

In terms of linking to the cloud, there are many restrictions. From a business standpoint, it is a great way to approach things. That said, from a developer's standpoint, it's a bit tough to develop the code and progress the code to the next environment like that. 

There's a lot of redundancy, especially in relation to creating the code. Developers, in fact, have to deal with many hurdles, including security restrictions and vendor communications.

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LS
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I think there are some issues to be solved, and it needs some visual improvements, especially on the charts, but it is still the best solution in my opinion.

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JH
Data Architect & BI Manager at RTBF

Our actual needs are covered.

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it_user521598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Business Intelligence and Analytics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The visualizations and usability aspects in this product can be improved a lot. Even now, I constantly hear people comparing Tableau to OBIEE and how Tableau has a better UI and is easier to use compared to OBIEE, which is a bit difficult.

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it_user522120 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The user interface is rather clumsy, so to speak, compared to other reporting tools on the market where you have drag and drop, drilldown and all these nice user interface features. This product is more textual based.

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it_user521751 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Engineer BI at IGT

The web services are pretty weak. There are so many bugs in it and it doesn’t support that many features. That's weird. I think other kinds of solutions are meeting the market. If they improve it, then it would be really good. They could move into new companies in new markets.

Other than that, lots of open-source tools are coming up, which are competing. The licensing part is an issue. Open-source products are free. This tools is mostly used for non-revenue-generating functions, so its reports do not generate any revenue. People are always asking why they should pay a license fee. Why use a licensed tool when it does not make any money.

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it_user486576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

There should be additional features like planning and budgeting. It is pretty complex without having to run any additional ad hoc reports, so having built in reports like that would be nice.

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it_user436050 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I feel like sometimes it can be slow. It doesn't have the flexibility as some other BI tools like Tableau. There are other ones out there that have more flexibility. Its main area of weakness are the graphical aspects that it doesn't have.

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it_user277659 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Development Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

- Make the interactive dashboards more responsive

- Give the possibility to deploy multiple RPD productions

- Allow hot deployment of repository file (RPD) without restarting services

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VC
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have encountered certain performance issues which have required us to play around with and streamline the data. The performance could be better. 

Regarding the announcements, the data integration should be simplified, as the work is also with the clients. Since we have our different sources of data, those integrations must be maintained, which translates into a cost for our clients. Simplifying the process would save them a lot. 

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it_user1061496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist - Technology at Synechron
  • Visualization of OBIEE needs a boost. 
  • The data mashup functionality and ease of use for end users also need to be improved a lot.
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it_user521769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Business Intelligence Analyst at Jade Global

The big data visualization can be improved.

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it_user417126 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Director Enterprise Business Systems at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Interacting with other non-Oracle applications and sources is a little difficult right now. It needs to be easier, such as interactions with cloud resources.

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it_user313410 - PeerSpot reviewer
Reporting Analyst at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

BI Publisher can be a little unstable.

The mapping functionality in OBIEE is still quite immature. We started using it, but it doesn't really hold up compared to other GIS tools (although is very convenient as is packaged with OBIEE so would be great to have all the data visualisation/interrogation available on one tool).

A better searching/cataloguing system would be good. When you have too many reports/dashboards discoverability becomes an issue. Of course, good planning and documentation can get you around this, but it would be nice if the tool had some functionality to make this easy to do (the search function can be very slow and is not that user friendly).

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NH
Oracle Techno Sales consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Warehouse and business intelligence are two different things, but OBIEE also has some warehouse features in it. I would like to see some of those capabilities improved.

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Csongor Tőzsér - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle BI developer at Ulyssys Kft

Oracle OBIEE could improve the visualizations, such as diagrams, charts, and graphical user interface. Other tools on the market have better graphical visualizations this Oracle OBIEE.

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it_user315558 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analysis Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Retail, Finance, Wholesale

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it_user522174 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I think there should be a few more features like the other BI tools in the market, kind of like the self-service approach of gathering data and then integrating the information.

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it_user522117 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think that the system catalog. The system catalog is metadata not only for the OBIEE; it can also be communicated with other incoming sources. It doesn't matter what the source is that it's coming from, maybe from EBS, maybe from PeopleSoft. Then you can interface with the other source’s system metadata to complete the integration.

I think that in the data warehouse, you need to have an ETL layer for imported data, ODS layer, warehouse layer, an information layer. I would prefer that you could extract it complete from the source into the database, and stage it there.

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it_user521616 - PeerSpot reviewer
SSS3 at Caltrans

I would probably just like to see more integration with big data sources.

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it_user510576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle BIEE Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had a lot of users before that wanted customized user interfaces. This was one of the hardest things to customize in OBIEE. You had to have knowledge in other areas to provide user requirements.

With the popularity of self-service systems, our power users wanted more ad-hoc reports. We couldn’t provide this because that meant giving them administrator access, which was against the security guidelines of the company.

One requirement we also had was the ability for users to change passwords. Again, this meant that we had to give the users administrator access, which was against company protocol.

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it_user176937 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle OBIEE v12.x, v11.x SME Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Installing it is quite different now with the steps. Once the product becomes more mainstream with lots of blogs, the installation process will be easier to follow, but even with existing documentation it was quite a chore. Then, there's the issue of using it within a virtual server and the loop back challenge you have to hunt for on the internet to get it working correctly.

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it_user193542 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Finance Associate at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

One of the major areas for improvement on this product is that it should be made friendlier to the end user. Also, there should be a functionality added where we can provide a comprehensive user guide on the report itself rather than outside the dashboard.

Being a Business Intelligence Suite it provides some best in class features on paper, but after working upon its implementation in my organization for past year, I have understood that it has various technical limitations.

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SN
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The platform's interface needs improvement.

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it_user154170 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Infosys Ltd.

The ease of building reports can be improved in the product. In an era where strong visualization tools like Tableau and QlikView are becoming popular, it is very important that Oracle looks into this aspect.

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it_user486498 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect Hyperion at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dashboard reporting could be more dynamic and easier to drill down into.

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it_user419388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There is some room for improvement on the development side, older versions use a 32-bit administration studio. Some of the controls in this older studio are a little clunky and it can be easy to get lost as a new developer in the various wizards and windows.

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it_user436167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

When we went from version 10 to 11, Oracle changed some of the functionality for us, and ultimately for those few customers that use it. For example, with filters, it was like, "Okay, give me a filter. I want this and I want this." Now it's more like five or six clicks to do the same thing to get to where you're actually defining what the filter is going to do. In my opinion, we lost a little functionality there. We lost some of the streamlining, efficiency, and speed.

We've had some issues with one of the subject areas, in particular, where somehow, somewhere this analysis was built off of this subject area. That subject area got removed. The result was that this analysis still runs properly as it should, but we can't make any changes to it because it says I have an invalid subject area. You can create a new one with the same name, but the internal workings of OBIEE, it knows that it didn't come from here. I've asked several of the experts, and even Oracle, the product manager, and the technical side, they're like, "Wow, really?" That's an unsolved problem.

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it_user435981 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer/Analyst at Lidestri Foods

I wish there was a way you could implement real-time data easier rather than through the ETL process. I know that Oracle's got their own ETL process that does have that feature, though.

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it_user281964 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle BI Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some of the legacy BI publisher features have been discarded in the newer versions. Having them would help the product. The ability to provide column description upon hovering on the header would be of real help.

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it_user275139 - PeerSpot reviewer
Hyperion Applications Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Performance for large data sets.

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it_user5046 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees
Slow to market with visualizations, mobile functionality Ad-hoc analysis is tedious and lacks advanced capabilities View full review »
KT
CEO & PRACTICE HEAD at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The complexity of this product means that you need to have a technical team to develop the reports, although this is also true for products like Microsoft BI and Zoho.

Performance-wise, there may be some room for improvement.

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SA
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Even though we have a feature to enable the physical query to be seen in the log, in case of any issues, it is challenging to debug and see or identify where is the issue. For example, we designed the OBIEE repository and deployed it into the server, and we are now accessing and creating a report. For some reason, if the report is not working as expected, it is very difficult to identify the issue. 

We have a feature to see the physical query that is being generated in the central OBIEE server. I feel that this feature should have been available at the repository level so that while designing the repository, we can select the presentation columns and the query it is going to create. This will avoid the additional task of deploying a feature into the server and then testing the report. It will also make the implementation process friendly if, while designing the repository, we can see:

  • How is a feature working?
  • Are any of the presentation columns selected?
  • How is the query being generated?
  • Which query is being generated?
  • Are any joints used?
  • What kind of joints are used?

Having this kind of information will make Oracle OBIEE more powerful and developer-friendly.

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it_user436194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think in the older version, 11g versus 12c, Oracle has thought through so many things. I think the installation is a lot simpler. I think they have improved a lot. If you asked about the older one, maybe I would have given you many reasons, but not with the new one.

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it_user196992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Intelligence Developer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Enhancements to existing OBI Components -

  • Analysis
  • Connectors
  • Self-service BI
  • Performance
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it_user79650 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Self service BI. It's clear that Endeca tends to be integrated into BIFS and probably self-service functionality will be covered by Endeca. View full review »
VB
BI/DW Consultant at Neit consulting

There are pages about its limitations in Gartner documents. My understanding is they are working to improve themselves. There aren't any really big issues and they're already in the cloud, therefore, largely there isn't too much that's lacking.

The pricing model could be improved. Right now, it's quite confusing. Many customers have this feeling that it's a super-expensive option.

Currently, the solution is based on three pillars. The first is the BI publisher and it used to be a single product. The second is Oracle and Oracle Business Intelligence, the core component. It used to be a CBO product. Then, thirdly, you have this new Oracle visual analyzer. Now, all of these are wrapped into one Oracle analytics product. However, the integration between (or among) these three products is not 100% complete. This is the area where improvements can be made.

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DW
Data engineer at realestate.pingan.com

Metadata management function: Sometimes, our business requirements need to load reference data into the data model.

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it_user417348 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Architect at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

I think OBIEE is going to go away and I don't see new things to be added to it. If anything, it needs a diagnostic tool for looking at logs.

Also, Oracle needs to make WebLogic much simpler to use. With WebLogic you have a vast number of things in there. If you're not an OBIEE admin, then you don't know what you're doing. You can't have developers do the admin stuff and it needs to be a little simpler to navigate between. Also, you have an enterprise manager and then you have a console manager. Combining those two in one place would make it simpler.

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it_user287709 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business intelligence consultant with 51-200 employees

There is a need to improve on meta data definition, for instance we should have one Dat Dimension that allows heterogeneous definitions. At the moment, every subject area has a copy, this is repetitive effort. There is a need to easily report from different facts without having to circumvent the system's normal design.

Metadata management, more visualizations as there aren't many, i.e. heat maps. The Dashboard layout area could be enhanced to allow more intuitive designs, as the limitations of having Sections and Columns in the sort of order they can in can inhibit exciting designs. Exporting of related Physical Joins without having to go to each join to extract.

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it_user274917 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager with 51-200 employees

Better and more interactive visualizations.

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it_user109281 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
End users can't change their password on their own. View full review »
AP
Works

The ability to migrate from one version to another, such as doing so from version 11 to an upgraded 12 of Oracle business environment, can be difficult. The usage is not straightforward. 

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TM
BI Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

It takes a lot of maintenance to support the architecture, which is something that should be improved. Having a more simplified architecture would be better.

It should be easier to make changes or enhancements, as it is a long process to make a change in the system.

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it_user486600 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Team Leader & Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

They could improve the connection with the ASCP base. The integration is not so good. There are a lot of bugs, hangs and freezes. If the ASCP base goes down or hangs, the OBIEE server is down, and we have to restart the VI server for the whole company.

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it_user486588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd like to see easier paths for upgrades. We also have some technical difficulties that we are trying to work around.

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it_user326523 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

Reporting. While a novice or average user cannot see behind the scenes, a seasoned OBIEE developer can. A seasoned report writer would want the capability to over-ride the default query system to write complicated queries that can then be fired against the database to run more efficiently. Currently the tool does not have this ability.

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it_user6903 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at CloudBearings
However, OBIEE lacks support for deploying multiple RPD on one BI server, direct access to RPD schema or model layers. Also the overall solution is heavier relative to other products. View full review »
it_user109161 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company

The development effort takes longer than other BI tools currently on the market.

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it_user521787 - PeerSpot reviewer
HRIS Development Manager at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Data integration itself needs to be improved. We use ODI along with OBIEE for data integration. We find it very hard to go through this whole process. Once the data is there, it's very easy to report it on the OBIEE front end. However, just getting the data into data warehousing is difficult.

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SB
CEO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

I would like to see the data wrangling features enhanced.

This product is not easy to use and there is a steep learning curve.

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it_user284388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • DAC
  • Siebel Analytics
  • BI Server
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it_user521739 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager, HR Legal Payroll and GRC at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I’d like to see an easier way to go ahead and allow users to access other data, maybe to query it and so forth; maybe from a user, UI perspective. I've noticed, as I’ve mentioned, other tools that are out there. It's very much about the user experience, and I don't know if the current look and feel is lending towards that.

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it_user521994 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Analyst - Business Applications at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The only thing is: Upgrades are critical. They are migrating their business intelligence systems. They have introduced cloud-based analytical solutions. I like where it is going, but with what we have been using, we are facing difficulties in upgrading and so on.

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it_user486516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of New Media with 1,001-5,000 employees

They can always improve on the user interface, and the publisher could get some new features.

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it_user291216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • OBIEE maps
  • BI Publisher
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ER
Head of Analytics & Recommendation System, Video Products at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is not a good product for data visualization. And, its functionality is lacking.

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it_user908196 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Integration and Business Intelligence Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Now, we have more demands to load data somewhere quickly, not seeped into a model, like data warehouse model. We need to load it somewhere like a data lake and have a tool which can analyze the information very quickly without creating a model. So, our business has a need to have a sandbox, or something similar to it analyze unstructured data that does not fit into the data warehouse model, along with joining unstructured data with structured data from the data warehouse. However, I am not sure that the BI tool is the right tool to do this, it is more of a data discovery tool. 

With Oracle BI, we need technology to create the model, then the business uses this model to create reports. If they wanted to analyze data quickly which is not in the data warehouse model, then we cannot use Oracle BI for it, or it's not so suitable.

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it_user79425 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported.

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it_user288357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Hyperion Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Essbase integration needs to be worked on.

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it_user859182 - PeerSpot reviewer
EPM Manager at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are looking at Power BI and Data Visualization from Oracle, because it has more appealing graphics. This is going to be the next step, if we do move at all. 

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it_user175956 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

More reports views and enhance user interactivity.

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it_user277731 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Customer support and documentation.

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it_user643770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst System at AFDB

The functionality is in need of improvement. We find the graphs need to be upgraded. 

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it_user551229 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Supply chain and finance.

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PT
Associate Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It is complex for designing RPD, and it can be simpler. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time.

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it_user783000 - PeerSpot reviewer
RM at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

From a business perspective, it's not user-friendly.

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it_user521544 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Apps Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I think for ease of use, right now, OBIEE is a nice tool. Business users can use the reports nicely, but with a lot of the new reports, some IT guys are still required. If they could make that easier, because the business users don't understand the SQLs. If that could be some kind of GUI drag and drop for those fields, it would be quite awesome.

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it_user302115 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Applications Technical Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

Customers are expecting many out of box things, which, currently, OBIEE doesn't support. e.g. customers are expecting pop up boxes with messages, and navigation. There are lots of buttons for navigating, downloading and invoking etc. Just like in the current version of OBIEE, we are dragging sections, text boxes in building the dashboard, in the same way as we can get pop up boxes, and buttons, we don't need to write Javascripts. In the market, we are getting many additional tools.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle OBIEE
March 2024
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