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Oracle Analytics Server

Oracle Analytics Server
Formerly Oracle BI Foundation Suite

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

Fantastic BI Solution

10 out of 10
March 03, 2022
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Multiple departments use Oracle Analytics Server for Data visualization and Operational Data Modeling. It is lightning-fast for accessing …
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Great BI Software

8 out of 10
December 26, 2018
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At our cyber services consulting firm we have been long-term customers of Oracle Enterprise products. We purchased the Oracle BI …
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Comprehensive BI suite

8 out of 10
December 24, 2018
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We have been using a number of Oracle products at our company and recently purchased the BI Foundation Suite to address our analytics and …
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Popular Features

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  • Publish to PDF (38)
    9.2
    92%
  • Multi-User Support (named login) (38)
    9.2
    92%
  • Formatting capabilities (38)
    8.1
    81%
  • Report Formatting Templates (38)
    7.1
    71%
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Pricing

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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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Product Demos

OAS (Oracle Analytics Server)and DV (Data Visualization)

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.4
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.2
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

9.1
Avg 8.4

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.5
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.8
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.3
Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

7.7
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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

Oracle Analytics Server Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
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  • Acoustic Analytics (formerly IBM Watson Customer Experience Analytics)
IBM is also a very fine contributor in these fields of software engineering. They like Oracle are the masters of large data, whether for large entities, or small shops.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With respect to the above mentioned tools the Oracle BI provides excellent semantic layer(BMM) layer which is very effective in creating complex measures for various financial reporting solutions and also other use cases. The delivery options are great too. Only drawback is pricing is costly for this one and can only provide value for money in case of large scale implementation
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OBIEE is comparable to SAP BO in many respects, even more so than MS Power BI. It stacks up strong compared to another similar tool in the market with respect to enterprise-level reporting. Among various other financial and strategic reasons, OBIEE was chosen because of its capacity to scale and provide long term data and analytics solutions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle stacks up very well against these tools. It is highly customizable with data being available from multiple sources with ease. SQL queries make it very easily customizable. The UI part can be crispier and smoother which is slightly better in the other software. I'd still rate it very well as it is well suitable for larger organizations.
Thomas Young | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle BI is obviously well-thought-out. It has done its research on what other tools' capabilities are and has tried to excel at things like visualization and data manipulation. With that said, it's graphics are middle-of-the-road and its analytics capabilities are a work in progress. I think it is catching up with the other tools quickly.
Vineet Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle BI works pretty well and has been well acknowledged and appreciated by the business users and power users who develop reports and dashboards. Compared to other tools, Oracle BI object development is easier and has a quick turnout. Using Oracle BI with Essbase and Oracle Exadata db, we believe the performance rendering data is quite good. We are using MicroStrategy as well almost equally, but for critical reporting needs considering the back end is Oracle and Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA) we have chosen OBIEE.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While Oracle BI Foundation Suite (esp. OBIEE 11g) outperforms most other business intelligence tools available on the market (Looker, Cognos, etc), it falls behind on a few fronts. One of the primary features where OBIEE falls behind is the reporting and visualization tools. Most other tools with similar range capabilities either offer great in-built visualization tools or easy integration with other visualization tools. OBIEE offers neither.
Hemant Prabhakar Patil | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Business Objects was considered in places where the organization is using an SAP-based transactional system. Looker again becomes the advantage where you are going to build a totally new customized data warehouse model since it allows you to better reduce some extent of the ETL logics and it can be considered directly on the LookML model. Tableau is more user-friendly compared to OBIEE.
Federico Shortrede | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At the time we made the decision, we also evaluated other tools such as QlikView and SAP Power BI. But since our main solutions are Oracle (ERP, planning, consolidation), it was natural to adopt OBI. And it was also less expensive than the others.
Sumeet Saraf | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Business Object license is not cheap and was a bigger pain for the client to implement and adapt a new tool. QlikView is mainly used for dashboards and is not the best fit for reporting and ad-hoc reports. Since the client was using an Oracle tool set for their application and DB, we found Oracle BI was a much appropriate tool for them.
Juan Osegueda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • ADP and Compleo
Business Intelligence works as well if not better than ADP and Compleo, in the sense that you have a few more options or report-writing platforms to work in depending on the need. For example, intermediate or advance users can start with the Report Studio for greater control when writing reports (charts, crosstabs, joins and unions, etc.), while for entry-level reporting the Query Studio would work just fine for list-type reports. The analysis studio is a great resource for managers to go directly to to compare labor hours and dollars, and the Event Studio is great for HR/PR admins to create alerts notifying them of specific changes to employee data, such as when employees move from full-time to part-time and vice versa, or when an employee is terminated and PTO may need to be paid out, for example. even something simple, like when an employee is hired and an emergency contact is missing, that sort of thing.
Mary O'Basuyi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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Scorecard and Strategy Management – This component helps companies set specific goals and track and manage performance.

Business Intelligence Publisher – Users can create interactive reports in multiple formats, such as PDFs – users can also set a specific date and time for the reports to be delivered.

Dan Hotka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm a trainer...I have an available video course on OBIEE as well. I have found OBIEE to be a very comprehensive tool and the environment is easy for both IT professionals and business analysts to pick up on and utilize. Discoverer was easy to use but was desktop based. It did not do dashboards, it mostly prepared data for extract to Excel perhaps. Many of my clients used Discoverer for both reporting and for data extract. OBIEE can do the same kind of reporting but also present data in a useful manner to management teams and remote field personnel.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The major advantage of Oracle BI Foundation Suite compared to other products is that it has the best integrity with the Oracle suite of products. We worked on the projects where organizations want to scrap out Business Objects to migrate to Oracle BI Foundation. I know Business Objects is excellent in the functionality but it requires more administration work and more server space compared to Oracle BI Foundation Suite. Also, Business Objects can't provide an end-to-end solution (ETL & Reporting) on an Oracle ERP.
Jude Odu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle BI is similar to MicroStrategy in their difficulty of implementation and need for technical resources for ongoing management and administration. Both are well-suited for very large corporations with extensive data processing requirements. More modern BI tools such as Tableau, Qlik, Sisense etc. are much easier to deploy and run and do not require as much technical administration as Oracle BI or MicroStrategy. In my case, Oracle BI was already selected as the default choice for enterprise BI before I arrived, so I did not have much influence of the selection process. However, when I founded HDI and after an extensive evaluation period I made the decision to go with Tableau as a more modern BI tool that is easier to manage than Oracle BI.
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