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What is Oracle Analytics Server?
Oracle Analytics Server, replacing the former Oracle BI Foundation Suite is a business intelligence reporting and analytics platform. It provides users with a series of integrated tools for ad-hoc query and analysis, dashboard and scorecard creation, enterprise reporting, mobile analytics,…
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What is Oracle Analytics Server?
Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) supersedes the Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Foundation Suite. It is an on-premises self-service visualization and augmented AI analytics platform. It provides a full range of capabilities including AI that surfaces key insights in datasets, data enrichment features that automatically recommend new elements for analysis, machine learning capabilities for both traditional and citizen data scientists, data visualizations for dashboards and reporting.
Customers that choose this self-managed on-premises or private cloud deployment can manage upgrades on their schedule and implement customization options such as custom skins/styles, metadata, messaging and more.
Key features
- Easy to use ad-hoc query and analysis
- Comprehensive suite of data visualizations
- High quality enterprise reporting
- Scalable multidimensional OLAP server for forward-looking analysis
- Mobile app optimized for touch interactions
- Geospatial mapping and visualization
- Integrated scorecard and strategy management
- Ability to act on insight by invoking business processes from within BI
- Common Enterprise Information Model
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Query
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
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Oracle Analytics Server, replacing the former Oracle BI Foundation Suite is a business intelligence reporting and analytics platform. It provides users with a series of integrated tools for ad-hoc query and analysis, dashboard and scorecard creation, enterprise reporting, mobile analytics, multidimensional OLAP, and predictive analytics.
Microsoft BI (MSBI), MicroStrategy Analytics, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence are common alternatives for Oracle Analytics Server.
Reviewers rate Report Delivery Scheduling highest, with a score of 9.8.
The most common users of Oracle Analytics Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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May 24, 2017
Oracle BI Foundation Review
Oracle’s Business Intelligence Foundation Suite has a wide variety of features, some of which are indicated below. However, we want to note that Oracle is one of the few vendors that supports big data capability. Big data refers to a collection of large data sets that are complicated to analyze by traditional software. One of the benefits of Oracle’s Exalytics component is that it can analyze large sets of data in a short time.
- Ad Hoc Analysis, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), Predictive Analysis, Profit Analysis, Trend Indicators
- Ad Hoc Reporting, Automatic Scheduled Reporting, and Customizable Dashboard
- Ad Hoc Analysis
- Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
- Automatic Scheduled Reporting
- Profit Analysis
- Trend Indicators
March 06, 2017
Keep connected and all in there same place
Oracle BI Foundation suite had been exceptionally helpful to me and co-workers because it helps us to build better reports for senior management teams and help us with budget planning and task management while keeping everything in one place.
- I love that there are so many different programs all rolled into one suite. It makes it easier than having to switch formats or applications all the time.
- Interface could use a face lift as it feels a little clunky, but still very usable!
I am a trainer for the OBIEE part of Oracle BI Foundation Suite. I find the suite of tools to be a great way to analyze and present data to end user teams and upper management. I find the interface rather easy to use. The OBIEE product allows you to make very comprehensive dashboards, where, the end users and/or management teams can quickly see at a high level what is going on, then drill to the supporting detail with the click of a mouse. I find the alerts to be of particular value as OBIEE can monitor and alert you when certain data conditions exist. You can use the score card software to automate some or all of your business decision processes, based on data in your data stores.
- I like the drag and drop feature of building reports. Tables show up as folders and columns as items within the folder. Most of the reports can be built with a simple drag and drop operation.
- If you are familiar with the SQL query language, you can definitely use these skills to enhance the reports and information on the reports.
- I think the alerts is a major useful component of OBIEE...in that...it can monitor your data and let you know when certain conditions exist. No surprises, no missing useful and timely information.
- It is all web-based development and deployment. You don't need to install any software at your workstation at all.
- I suppose OBIEE could directly access more data sources but this is also easily accomplished via the underlying Oracle RDBMS and their gateway technologies.
October 24, 2016
Oracle BI good product...but not replacement to Discoverer
We use Oracle BI Foundation Suite (BI) across all the organization. We have trained all our end users to use BI, because we have decided to remove Discoverer from our EBS side. It helped our users to do reporting much more easily and it gives them freedom to create charts.
- This is not a replacement for Discovery and is not going to replace any transactional report. You can have balances of each account in BI but not the entire trial balance.
- The focus of this suite is analytical reporting not transaction reporting.
- If you are using security with EBS, then implementing security with EBS is a challenge, no proper documentation is available from Oracle, so opening an SR is useful.
- Template builder should be more user friendly.
September 30, 2016
Oracle BI Foundation Suite - Consultant Perspective
It is generally used to pull custom reports throughout the organization. We use it to make several reports depending upon clients' need. Whenever they implement Oracle Fusion or Oracle EBS, we give them module specific reports using Oracle VI Foundation Suite. These reports depend on the modules we have implemented. For example, if we have Oracle Time and Labor implemented, we generate a report containing time entries, total time spent, the expenditure type etc., which can be used by the client to interface with their external payroll systems such as ADP.
- Custom Reports
- Integration with Oracle HCM
- Graphs and charts
- The OTBI where you can drag and drop the subject area items is full of bugs, one such example is when you are rearranging the columns in a report it might not show up immediately.
- The formulas you use for OTBI reports are pretty basic which results in something as simple as doing an addition of three columns - also a difficult task.
- Lack of documentation.
September 23, 2016
Stacking up Oracle BI Foundation Suite with the rest
It is being used across the enterprise. Cross functional reporting issues are well addressed using Oracle BI.
- Better integration with Oracle R12
- Ease of Use and scalability
- Customizations for complex requirements
- Performance is a bit slow and needs improvement
- Better visualizations are needed to compete with other competitive tools.
June 22, 2016
Decent BI suite tool in the Market
I've worked on Oracle BI reporting platform in one of my previous job. I find the tool to be less complicated as a project analyst. Also as a developer it is similar to other reporting tools from SAP and Microsoft.
- Oracle BI Foundation Suite is a platform for business intelligence that does particularly well for formatted reporting, ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
- Its core components such as OBIEE and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy management, also support Mobile.
- Behind the scene XML script that can be handy sometimes besides SQL scripts.
- The architecture of this tool is little complicated for a fresher to understand, since it has too many layers.
- System requirements are too heavy. For a large enterprise the memory can be manageable but for small companies the cost of installing complete infrastructure would be a costly deal.
June 03, 2016
Oracle BI Suite Review
It is attached as a reporting tool to our MRP software and it is being used across the whole company. Departments such as purchasing, finance, sales and manufacturing take advantage of the Oracle BI features on a daily or weekly basis. It helps us to create KPIs and sophisticated dashboards for real time visibility and to allow for making more intelligent business decisions. Remote users and traveling employees take advantage of the of the great reporting tools due to the mobile version of the Oracle BI software. Upper management makes important high level decisions based on the results of the reporting coming from this tool.
- Easy to use
- Improved Key Performance Indicators with the use of BI Suite
- Support for intelligent dashboards creation
- Real time data visibility
- Mobile and offline features
- Ad-hoc reporting
- Clustering capable
- Accurate and centralized reports
- Heavy processes
- Requires powerful machines and configuration for quick use
- Relative big cost
- Requires skillful database background users.
- Room for improvement in the collaboration section
- Integration with other software could be done easier; room for improvement
May 26, 2016
Round up of Oracle BI Foundation Suite
I am a service provider and work with multiple organizations, of all verticals, implementing Oracle BI Foundation Suite. I have seen this implemented across departments of organizations. This software will address lots of verticals but is famous for - Financial Reporting, Supply Chain and Management, and Student Analytics. This software is so wonderful that organizations who prefer D3JS graphs can call them right into their Oracle BI Foundation Suite. This will open the users to endless open source graphs - D3JS.
- Oracle BI Foundation Suite is mostly a file system driven software. This cuts down the cost of DBA or databases and is easy to maintain. All the Repository and Catalog are stored on the file system. They can be easily copied over for migration.
- Oracle BI Foundation Suite is very well integrated with Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle ERP is the leading ERP in the market and no other product can integrate so well with Oracle ERP than OBIA, be it JDE, PSFT, or EBS. OBIA cuts down more than 30% in costs while implementing Business Intelligence on an Oracle ERP.
- Oracle BI Foundation Suite also integrates well with a majority of third party softwares for security (LDAP), SSO and SSL.
- Though Oracle BI Foundation Suite became a part of FMW, administration should be still done at the local files. I like to manage all of the parameters in configuration files moved to Enterprise Manager. So, it will be easy to manage when we have a cluster instead of editing each file on each server.
- It would be a great feature if we had a dedicated URL for monitoring. We can do that in Enterprise Manager but have to check for each component performance individually.
- There are some glitches with the Administration Tool while working online. Oracle doesn't have a checkout / check-in functionality that lets multiple users to work on the online repository at the same time. They developed MUDE but that is not a real solution for most of organizations.
The Oracle BI Suite was an enterprise-wide implementation at two of my previous places of employment. It was used primarily for business intelligence reporting and analysis. My first use of it was within a 12 hospital health system with millions of rows of data and a user base of around 150 end users.
- Oracle BI Suite is a comprehensive suite able to handle any size of data as well as complex analytical requirements.
- With proper training, most end users can be taught to use the front-end in a relatively short period of time.
- It plays very well with Oracle databases, obviously, so for companies that are an Oracle shop already, it can be implemented as a logical next step for business intelligence.
- Oracle BI is a very bulky and, to a large extent, unwieldy application. It almost invariably requires a dedicated, full-time technical resource to manage it on an ongoing basis.
- The dashboard visuals could use a lot of improvement, especially when compared to more modern BI applications that sell well largely due to their impressive visuals.
- The resulting reports could be a bit more user-friendly and more intuitive. Again, this is one area where more modern BI platforms have a distinct advantage over Oracle BI.
May 05, 2016
Great and Complete BI Solution
Oracle covers all the technological needs of a company. Reporting requirements are covered with BI Publisher, and ad-hoc reports can be distributed to all of the strategic line. I love Oracle Answer. Users can create their own reports and share them with the rest of the organization. Oracle has an intermediate layer where dimensions and metrics that will be used are defined. This allows for greater control by the IT department. Other tools allow you to connect faster data, but there are risks involved in not being in control of the data.
I have worked with many end customers which have used this technology, and the key to success is the use. It is important to be involved at all stages: analysis, development and implementation. Oracle BI is not a simple deployment tool as it has very powerful features and it’s hard to see that all are used in all companies. For example, I have seen rarely seen the Oracle scorecard implemented, because it occurs at a very advanced stage of understanding business data.Overall, I have seen very good satisfaction with the Oracle solution.
- Self Service - Oracle answer keeps the multi-language fields with custom tooltips in dimensions and measures to facilitate their use. We can even assign security dimensions and measures that can be used by users who want them.
- Complete solution - reporting, analytics, scorecard.
- Unification of data, the architecture makes the solution on that can leverage the same information for reporting, analytics and dashboarding.
- BI Publisher - it is the best tool for customized reports with Microsoft Word. Users can distribute these reports to the entire organization by applying rules shipments.
- Our customers say that the technical documentation is extensive and difficult to understand.
- Data Integration - difficult integration with origins that are not database, but does allows some.
April 05, 2016
Neo; choose a pill...Oracle!!
At the time we used the software it was being utilized by a specific department, account management and technology consulting. The information/data is passed down through all departments (the reporting) but management uses it to determine where time is spent for clients, employees, reoccurring issues, etc. This product is nice so we from an IT prospective can pass off ownership and utilization of the actual product to other members of the team/department so we can continue to manage backend reporting. Once in-house members and clients are taught how to use the software, IT can take a step back and not have to run needed reports.
- Reporting, for our company and when recommending it to our clients its a huge selling point.
- Especially the granular graphs, they can be adjusted for what each needed person (CFO, CEO, Managers) specifically requires.
- It's also helpful to determine where the "bottlenecking" could be occurring within workflow.
- Although after a quick tutorial or testing from an IT end, some users struggle with learning the software.
- This is not uncommon for a learning curve but having quicker resources to point users to for learning would be beneficial. Something such as a direct video less than 5 minutes on how to complete specific functions will help the training.
February 11, 2016
Best analytical Tool in Industry
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle BI Foundation Suite is used to provide various business questions related to the banking industry. It is helping management to make correct decisions and get the data they require delivered to them in an efficient manner. It could help them to get summary information and detailed information whenever needed. It also provides them with required alerts, analyzes trends and tracks the action correction action.
- Efficient access to data
- Can handle large volumes of data
- Support and services
- Visualization
- Cost
April 29, 2015
Today's Enterprise Reporting
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are in process of re-building the entire BI for our organization and we've selected Oracle Business Intelligence as our Enterprise Reporting platform which we can use for our day to day Analytical and Operational reporting needs. I've personally led, managed and implemented many large scale transformations using this product and seen great results. In my current role, I am in the process of shifting all the existing reporting landscape to Oracle Business Intelligence platform for all the departments
- Oracle Business Intelligence Reporting platform is well enhanced with many advanced features like Visualization Recommendation for Power users when building the dashboards and Reports like which view to use based on the type of data that we are presenting to the end users.
- Oracle BI Mobile APP Designer is very rich and has useful functionality to develop the dashboards and reports and display them on the mobile devices via Apps
- Oracle Essbase, multi-dimensional Online Analytical processing system which uses the advanced calculation engine for financial forecasting, planning and management reporting.
- Oracle BI Publisher Reporting capabilities caters to the needs of real time pixel perfect reporting with out lot of development time.
- Overall Oracle BI Foundation Suite is a conglomeration of Enterprise Reporting, Real time quick reporting, multi-dimensional analytical processing, BI Mobile, Geo-spatial capabilities which every organization needs today for Analytical and Reporting needs
- Oracle BI Reporting Administration needs to be simplified for easier Administration and maintenance. Today Admins need to deal at different levels (Enterprise Manager, Weblogic Console, BI Admin Tool) to handle the day to day Admin and Maintenance operations
- In order to take advantage of the Geo-Spatial (maps) capabilities you need to have Oracle Database at place as the pre-built maps related data is developed and available only in Oracle Database. Organization who doesn't use Oracle Database have to struggle to get this feature work.
- BI Mobile APP Designer configuration and set up needs to be simplified when upgrading from previous versions
November 04, 2014
Enterprise Data Discovery
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Endeca is good fit for multi billion dollar companies who are trying to derive value from unstructured data.
- Endeca uncovers patterns and relationships in your data that traditional BI tools are not built for.
- Endeca has been used for a wide variety of business problems including warranty support, directing social media spending, and optimizing staffing efficiency.
- Endeca is not well suited for small or medium sized businesses.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We primarily use Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g - or OBIEE as we call it.
Here was the problem: When the executive team gathered to discuss revenue numbers, everyone had their own version. We were an organization of spreadsheets that were not shared and often compiled with unique methodologies. The goal of the OBIEE deployment was to elevate - and create - common metrics that everyone could see and trust.
We first implemented it to just provide executive level insight into revenue and product sales. However the power of the reporting and ability to create dynamic dashboards quickly moved it all through the organization and on every level. It is now used to track sales territory performance, lead management, complex project revenue, product sales and market segmentation for the CEO, VPs, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and individual sales team members.
Here was the problem: When the executive team gathered to discuss revenue numbers, everyone had their own version. We were an organization of spreadsheets that were not shared and often compiled with unique methodologies. The goal of the OBIEE deployment was to elevate - and create - common metrics that everyone could see and trust.
We first implemented it to just provide executive level insight into revenue and product sales. However the power of the reporting and ability to create dynamic dashboards quickly moved it all through the organization and on every level. It is now used to track sales territory performance, lead management, complex project revenue, product sales and market segmentation for the CEO, VPs, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and individual sales team members.
- Common dashboards that can contain very complex metrics. You can have a group of views and tables in different sections on the same page. Dashboards feature the ability to add tabs so you can display the information in multiple ways - but all with a common query or theme
- The reporting can be interactive. The addition of filters and view selectors mean that multiple users can utilize and customize the information without having to provide separate reports.
- The drill-in functionality is pretty robust and can be done on any element - individual field, table, or graph.
- There are a wide range of graphs so you're not stuck with the same old thing - unless you want to, of course.
- It's not very friendly for those of us that like to by-pass the fuzzy interface and just write sql queries.
- It has the ability to do sub-queries, but the performance really slows down to the point where complex dashboards simply won't run. There is not a lot of help from Oracle to help optimize.
- It isn't suitable for having multiple authors or developers because there isn't any version control - you don't know who changed what.
- It doesn't have the capability to have custom dashboards by user. There is a way to save a view with all the filters set - but not to select the sections that they want to see.
October 10, 2014
A fair competitor in Enterprise BI
The Oracle BI is used for enterprise reporting where the business already has other Oracle EBS software. Mostly it addresses operatation reporting and sometimes analytics needs.
- Fast response time on reports
- Ease of generating report
- Ease of managing access to the reports
- The model is strictly star and there is no exception
- Too many layers between reporting service and database, so query generated is totally whacky
- The reporting data flow is not seamless and needs lots of hard coding
September 18, 2014
Oracle BI Foundation
We use Oracle BI Foundation Suite enterprise wide across the organization. It serves as our primary reporting tool for corporate reporting and fulfills regional reporting needs.
- Centralized Dashboards that answer key business questions regarding performance and need to knows. The tool is dynamic in that is can provide not only individual queries, but also enterprise wide dashboard reports.
- Dynamic reporting for one to 1000s of users depending on the server infrastructure.
- Javascript and SQL integration allow you to create customized reports to meet just what your users need.
- The tool has a high learning curve and can take time to master.
- The tool cannot uptake data in other formats easily. The data must be structured in specific tables and set up in the middle layer.
- Due to the complexity of the tool, there can be bugs in the development that occur at random which can be difficult to trace to the tool or the environment.
May 17, 2014
OBIEE - Stable, Versatile, Scalable BI
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
First, I want to clarify that we are using OBIEE stand-alone - mapping Supply Chain, Financial, Sales data from our data warehouse into the rpd. There are numerous departments using the tool, however, not the entire company. It is the primary BI tool used at HGS.
- Powerful tool providing analytics without the business needing to understand SQL or database tables.
- Interface is logically organized for quick and easy start up, but also allows for complex report building.
- Multiple usage models - ad-hoc querying, dashboards with pre-defined prompting, report scheduling, data level security
- The performance of the web interface has degraded with 11g. Moving between screens used to be instantaneous. It now takes several seconds. All navigation is slower.
- Support team at Oracle is difficult to work with. I'd say they know the answer to the problem at best 50% of the time. They request numerous files and don't seem to look at them. They always recommend upgrading which is an easy task.
- Installation and configuration is much more complex in 11g. We used to be able to perform a major upgrade in 6 weeks. Now it takes that long for a small patch. All patches have to be tested extensively as they always introduce some new problem.
May 09, 2014
The best BI tool out there....
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The tools provided are used across the organization, almost all the departments use this tools. The tool address the problem of business reporting
- Reporting
- Dashboarding
- The most important is balanced scorecarding
- The way metadata is handled is little hard.
- Collaboration is difficult.
- There should be hook up on social media directl.y
- Statistical packages should exist.