Oracle Analytics Platform Reviews - Page 29

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

I like that it easier to navigate than our previous product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

The time and attention needed to to be data in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

1) Product support from Oracle

2) Ease to link datasets to BI tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

1) Use interface not well thought out as it can be very cluttered and hard to locate functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

once the RPD is set up, good to join facts together to get metrics across different indicators Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

the UI is just not very user friendly and seems to be lacking when compared to other BI tools from other companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

The Oracle product has the best source connectivity and moderately simple to use relative to other tools I have evaluated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

The Oracle product is not as modern as other tools like Tableau for example a weak UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Oracle BI (or Oracle Business Intelligence (Enterprise Edition)) has been around for years first as an analytics tool from NQuire and then packaged by Siebel and subsequently now under the Oracle platform is best known for

a) its seamless capability to report across disparate datasources,

b) its more efficient 'Report Bursting' feature from Oracle BI Publisher than other tools such as Business Objects

c) a semantic layer that is more logically structured than any other reporting tool.

d) flexible and stable security model using Weblogic services which can be clustered with other fusion middleware products also using WebLogic (versions must be compatible) as its administration platform.

e) Great integration capabilities with Siebel, Oracle Ebusiness Suite, Peoplesoft , JD Edwards and a few other market leading ERP/CRM tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Oracle has provided a few exciting features which are not without its own serious niggles:

a) Building Oracle BI Aggregates using Summary Advisor: This works if the service is robust but can cause serious implications if the Oracle BI service is unstable. Another problem is incrementally refreshing aggregates is a night mare because there just isn't any certified way of doing this, the only way is to drop and rebuild the OBIEE aggregates and this can take time!

b) Data-federation capabilities have been widely marketed by Oracle but it really depends upon how efficient your hardware is: to be able to federate data across disparate data sources you really need the memory on your server to be topnotch or even may have to buy another of Oracle's offerings on its range of servers.

c) Features such as joining of 'Subject Areas' in OBIEE should never have been enabled as it does defeat the whole process of kimball compliant dimensional design. Logically, how could you be absolutely certain that the detail of the information provided across the two 'subject areas' or logical collection of attributes for a certain process would be the same? If not , this feature gives unpredictable results! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Oracle BI is a good solution for business analytics because it provides the ability to leverage and manipulate data models and create specialized, business-focused dashboards that meet user requirements. Dashboards are easy to develop, and users are pleased to have customized reports with the company’s key accounts metrics at their fingertips. Developers can dive right into the technology in order to start building BI solutions to help their organizations.

The user interface is concise and more aesthetically pleasing than some other reporting tools. The data visualizations are helpful to both financial analysts and executives, and advancements in mobility have considerably increased the popularity of Oracle BI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

There are certain times in the OBIEE development process when I wish there was more flexibility in BI Answers and Dashboards.

Some of the limitations include:

1. Displaying graphs, tables, and prompts side by side within an analysis

2. Editing specific pieces of an analysis, such as grand totals. Conditional formatting only goes so far.

3. Easily defining different periods or member combinations for different scenarios

4. Errors could be more specific.

5. Performance issues with Essbase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

The flexibility of the tool to display the data using various visual aids. Ease of drag and drop to build reports and conditional formatting, charts , graphs, pivots and multiple views is very helpful to help one in visualizing the data. The compound layout feature helps in combining these various views into a single report and add to that the view selector option which helps you see the data in different formats as per your requirement. The Dashboard feature helps in organizing the reports in a very meaningful way. Ability to link multiple other tools like Noetix and Custom Subject area creations in addition to the Oracle BI Apps.

Integration of the platform with other tools like Hyperion, BI Publisher RTD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Unable to download the data in a multi tabbed excel like that which was possible in Discoverer.

Reports running off as a default option while going to the view layout section.

Performance issues in the queries being fired to the database via the OBIEE server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Its ability to provide enterprise level solution through Metadata repository which also allows you to improve/remove all poor ETL modeling. The ease of report development, if the model is done right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Most time we face challenges where the Visualization does not work as expected. Also, export formats, size has lot to improve. Security Modeling is little tricky but never a bottle neck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Views , Score Cards , Pivot tables , Creating adhoc reports , Creating Multiple dash boards . Using BI publisher reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

IBOT scheduling issues , Oracle product it self lot of bugs is their . we raised Severity 1 SR , but still not at fixed . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

OBIEE is a very user friendly tool. We are using OBIEE in our organization for creating dashboards for higher management for yearly analysis of finance details, enrolment details of students & calculate the load and revenue. OBIEE is one the most powerful Business Intelligence tools currently in market which has ability to create very fine, highly analytical, faster, user friendly & visually amazing dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Currently the product provides amazing features, however I feel when users want to use product for ad-hoc reporting there are number of challenges. Also OBIEE generates its own SQL once we create RPD and Dashboards/reports and there is not customized SQL creativity offered to the developers. Many times it’s quite easy to write your own SQL and generate what you desire. If we get these functionalities added there would not be any issues. It’s not that I dislike about this product but just that it’s a fall back I feel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.