Item: Oracle Analytics Server
Rating: 9
Author: Tom Jaskula

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle BI Foundation Suite

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Endeca is good fit for multi billion dollar companies who are trying to derive value from unstructured data.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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.

Cons

Endeca is not well suited for small or medium sized businesses.

Endeca has been implemented by one of the largest professional services organizations in the world that requires hundreds of complex visualizations on top of a large number of data sources. The solution is available to thousands of global users. This product was designed for consuming Big Data in large enterprises. This fact combined with Endeca's text enrichment and content acquisition features single Endeca out from the competition.

Likelihood to Renew

This software is enterprise class and while other vendors do offer alternatives, they don't have the proven track record that Oracle has in the enterprise space.

Likelihood to Recommend

This is a very pricey product that needs to be heavily aligned with the organization's strategic objectives. Simply put, this is best suited for very large companies who have large data sets and large problems to solve. This is a poor fit for small or medium sized business that just need to do light analytics.

Using Oracle BI Foundation Suite

Business Processes Supported

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery helps solve problems associated with analyzing both structured and unstructured data. Endeca is used to find better ways to listen to customers, improving the relationship between companies and their employees and customers.
In short, this is a data discovery tool that goes beyond the capacities of traditional BI.

Evaluating Oracle BI Foundation Suite and Competitors

Products Replaced

No - N/A

Oracle BI Foundation Suite Implementation

Implementation Rating

A properly implemented Endeca solution performs extremely well on the largest of datasets and it positions your organization to immediately achieve your ROI.

Implementation Details / Implementation Partner

Vendor implemented
Implemented in-house
Professional services company

There are a variety of options for implementing Endeca solutions.

Oracle BI Foundation Suite Training

Training Types Used

In-person training
Self-taught

In-Person Training

Oracle University offers very in-depth training.

Ease of Oracle Analytics Server Training

Professionals with a BI background can install and solution with this tool, but training gives you exposure to ETL architecture and best practices that you might not otherwise learn on your own.

Oracle BI Foundation Suite Support

Support Rating

N/A

Premium Support