OBIEE EMG Survey Results - Updated

[Mark Rittman]

Hi All,

We've now had 190 responses to the OBIEE EMG "New Member" Survey, and
so I thought I'd post an updated analysis of the results. I've also
uploaded an Excel analysis of the main multiple-choice questions, and
of the "feature request" question at the end.

Here's some highlights of the multi-choice questions:

- 92% of members are running OBIEE 10g; 14% were running the 11g beta
- 35% are running the BI Apps
- 22% are running Essbase, 16% Oracle OLAP
- For ETL tools, 36% are using Informatica, 30% OWB, 26% ODI

- 93% of members have Oracle RDBMS as their main database; 5% MS SQL
Server, 2% other (DB/2, Teradata etc)

- 50% use Windows as their primary production OS platform; 30% use
Linux; 9% Solaris; 5% AIX, 4% HP-UX

- For those using the BI Apps, 30% have Siebel CRM as the main data
source, 70% have Oracle EBS, 7% Fusion Apps, 3% SAP

- Of EMG members, 36% are customers, 33% are Oracle partners, 10% are
from Oracle, 15% are contractors

- 34% also use Business Objects in their organization; 19% have
Cognos, 44% have Discoverer, 60% use Excel, 7% use QlikView

The last question in the survey asks you to suggest one new feature
for Oracle to add to OBIEE. As this question was set prior to the
OBIEE 11g GA, some (but not all) requested features made it into the
11g release. Most of these were around enhancements to Answers and
Dashboards, better integration of Essbase and of BI Publisher, the re-
vamped UI and other features. The predominent areas that you all
requested that weren''t addressed in the 11g release were around

- software configuration management, version control and multi-user
development
- extending the range of charts available, particularly micro-charts
(spark lines)
- moving the RPD into a database schema, and generally making RPD
development easier
- providing tools to deliver OBIEE reports through mobile platforms
like the iPhone
- adding predictive analytics capabilities to the tool (what-if,
modeling etc)
- an API for the RPD
- more flexibility in dashboard layout

I've uploaded two spreadsheets to the EMG website. The first provides
a summary of the multi-choice responses along with graphs. The second
details (with personal details removed) the feature requested, along
with an attempt at categorization by myself and also my view on
whether the feature was delivered as part of 11g. Feel free to correct
these if you feel they were or weren't actually addressed in this
release.

http://groups.google.com/group/obiee-enterprise-methodology/web/OBIEE%20EMG%20Survey%20Overview%20Sep%202010.xls

http://groups.google.com/group/obiee-enterprise-methodology/web/OBIEE%20EMG%20Survey%20Feature%20Requests%20Sep%202010.xlsx

Any questions etc, let me know. I'm thinking we should do a new survey
from this point on, now we're post-11gR1, any suggested etc of course
let me know.

Mark

[mhathi]

First of all, thanks Mark for putting together the Excel sheets with feature requests and whether they are satisfied in 11g. While 11g seems to have made great strides in the right direction, this feature matrix indicates that there are other product suites that do these and other features better...

Now, I realize this is not a forum for product evals, but I just couldn't resist...

Some of the enhancement requests like "More personalizaton of dashboards for dashboard users", "Improve the finer details of integrating OBIEE dashboards into external web sites...", "A true Multi User Development Environment.." etc. means that this user community has seen these features implemented better in other products. I was wondering if there is a high-level feature comparison matrix between OBIEE and MicroStrategy, Cognos, BO etc. is available or may be just update Mark's spreadsheet with such info? I realize that BI Survey/Verdict has this info in great details, but it costs some $$ which a client may or may not want to pony up.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Manish

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[Kevin McGinley]

Actually, Manish, I wouldn't be so quick to say we've all seen some of
these things implemented better in other products. While that may or
may not be true, I think many on this forum recognize where some of
the pain points are with regards to implementing OBIEE on its own
terms, not in comparison to other tools. That said, I think there are
also some opportunities for service organizations to better educate
OBIEE customers on what's possible, because I believe there are some
perceived shortcomings that aren't really shortcomings at all when
armed with a little bit of information.

Certainly it would be helpful to have an objective view of all the
options out there, but sadly that objectivity is hard to come by.
Different tools have different strengths that serve different needs
and organizations must evaluate their own needs against what the tools
provide. Sadly, winners and losers are sometimes determined not by
"the best tool," but by who sells the best, who schmoozes the best,
established vendors, internal politics, and more.

Kevin

On Sep 13, 1:31 pm, mhathi <mha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all, thanks Mark for putting together the Excel sheets with feature
> requests and whether they are satisfied in 11g. While 11g seems to have made
> great strides in the right direction, this feature matrix indicates that
> there are other product suites that do these and other features better...
>
> Now, I realize this is not a forum for product evals, but I just couldn't
> resist...
>
> Some of the enhancement requests like "More personalizaton of dashboards for
> dashboard users", "Improve the finer details of integrating OBIEE dashboards
> into external web sites...", "A true Multi User Development Environment.."
> etc. means that this user community has seen these features implemented
> better in other products. I was wondering if there is a high-level feature
> comparison matrix between OBIEE and MicroStrategy, Cognos, BO etc. is
> available or may be just update Mark's spreadsheet with such info? I realize
> that BI Survey/Verdict has this info in great details, but it costs some $$
> which a client may or may not want to pony up.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Manish
>
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mark Rittman

> <mark.ritt...@rittmanmead.com>wrote:

> >http://groups.google.com/group/obiee-enterprise-methodology/web/OBIEE...
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/obiee-enterprise-methodology/web/OBIEE...

>
> > Any questions etc, let me know. I'm thinking we should do a new survey
> > from this point on, now we're post-11gR1, any suggested etc of course
> > let me know.
>
> > Mark
>
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