OBICS - Standard for many companies
June 22, 2018
OBICS - Standard for many companies
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service
I used Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service both at P&G and at Whirlpool. At P&G: it started being a tool to track shipments related data from SAP. Then they started using to track POS data. It was being used by Supply Chain, Marketing, IT, Sales and Finance. At Whirlpool: They conglomerate most of their business data there from different sources. It's great because you can joint different databases in the same place and have an outcome table fast and easy.
- 1: Data Integration: I love that at Whirlpool we have several different databases in the same place and we can extract and combine data easily.
- 2: Connection with multiple systems: A lot of companies use Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service, so it means that they are seeing a lot of different use cases and improving the tool constantly.
- 3: Data extraction: Extracting data is much easier than writing a SQL code. So many different types of users can take advantage of that.
- 1: User-friendliness: As I said, you don't need to write a SQL code to extract data, but I've seen some other tools (the previous Oracle Cloud system for example) that were easier than this new one.
- 2: Speed: The tool is not slow, but when multiple users are trying to query information in the same database, it might get pretty slow. It's very common for people to run queries during the night since it's faster at that period once no one is using the tool
- 3: Data visualization: The main output is basically a table, if you want to get fancy graphs or other types of output, you might want to export it to Tableau/Power BI/Spotfire.
Better:
Easy integration with different systems (internal, such as SAP; or external, such as data coming from tables from your vendors). Many companies use it and it's a good tool to learn. In my case, I learned at P&G and when I moved to Whirlpool I already learned how to use it! And I use it very often in my role.
Worse:
Well, if I need to do anything beyond a table, line or bar chart, I export the data and use a different tool.
Easy integration with different systems (internal, such as SAP; or external, such as data coming from tables from your vendors). Many companies use it and it's a good tool to learn. In my case, I learned at P&G and when I moved to Whirlpool I already learned how to use it! And I use it very often in my role.
Worse:
Well, if I need to do anything beyond a table, line or bar chart, I export the data and use a different tool.