Powerful - recommended for large businesses
December 13, 2017
Powerful - recommended for large businesses
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g
- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 10g
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle BI Foundation Suite
The Oracle BI Foundation Suite is primarily used by the data analytics team of my organization. In particular, OBIEE 11g is used. Although the tool is primarily used and managed by the data analytics team, the use cases of OBIEE 11g apply to various departments and pillars across the entire organization. Reports generated by OBIEE are the primary source of actionable insights for most business decisions on a much higher level.
- Can be used by business folk as well, without any in-depth knowledge of writing queries.
- Automation of a lot of functions makes it very handy to avoid heavy mechanical tasks.
- Offers great level of control in terms of data access and restrictions.
- Provides diverse scheduling options - time triggered, event triggered, data dependent, etc.
- Some issues that require the assistance of support at Oracle can be time-consuming and difficult to solve.
- Upgrade from 10g to 11g has made the OBI Foundation Suite very performance intensive. Requires much better hardware support now.
- Initial setup is not as straightforward as that of previous versions.
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.