Oracle BI Foundation Review
May 24, 2017

Oracle BI Foundation Review

Mary O'Basuyi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Enterprise BI Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle BI Foundation Suite

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

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.

Office Integration – Office Integration allows users to merge their reports and analyses into their Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, etc.) and can even run analyses via Excel.

Oracle Analytics Server Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
8
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
Javascript API
8
iFrames
8
Java API
8
Themeable User Interface (UI)
7
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
8