Item: Oracle Analytics Server
Rating: 7
Author: George Yates

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To look at internal usage data and figure out new ways to optimize the user experience. This helps us solve the problems inherent with siloed data and to create one unified pane of glass for all of our reporting needs, whether it be to executives or presenting to the product organization.

Pros and Cons

Connecting to a myriad of data sources
Providing easy to use data visualization options
Building report ready dashboards that update automatically

Design is a little archaic/dated
Ease of use could be better
Missing some functions present in newer platforms

Return on Investment

Better visibility into data
Improved executive insight
Single source of truth

Key Insights

Do you think Oracle Analytics Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Analytics Server's feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle Analytics Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Oracle Analytics Server go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Oracle Analytics Server again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Looker, Google Analytics, Tableau Desktop

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Analytics Server is really well suited to being able to build a wide variety of dashboards that can be detailed enough to communicate deep insights, while also being visually well prepared enough to be ready to present to an executive level team. It struggles with outside of the norm visualizations and more complex scenarios.

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Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Analytics Server (formerly Oracle BI Foundation Suite)