Omni Analytics

What do you like best about the product?

Omni is super quick to integrate into your existing workflows. We were able to replace our business intelligence tool in two months while keeping our same data foundations. Although Omni can be attached to any company, it is constantly releasing updates and adapting to the ever-evolving data landscape, which pushes and inspires everyone to innovate rapidly.

What do you dislike about the product?

Omni is one of the best BI tools out there. I don't have a downside right now.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Omni is solving automated data and insights within our Advertising business. My role is to ultimately provide self-service reporting to the Advertising group, and Omni is the best partner I've found in order to do this.

What do you like best about the product?

The standout feature is how approachable it makes complex data analysis. Unlike other BI tools where only data analysts can build meaningful reports, Omni lets our entire team explore data confidently. The modeling layer is incredibly intuitive - you define metrics once and everyone uses the same definitions, which eliminated our "which number is right?" debates. Performance is snappy even with large datasets, and the visualization options hit that sweet spot between powerful and not overwhelming.

The team is also very pleasant to work with and engaging. Often not the case in BI tools.

What do you dislike about the product?

The learning curve for advanced features can be steep - while basic usage is intuitive, mastering the modeling layer and more complex joins takes time.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're making faster, better decisions. When anyone can quickly validate a hypothesis or spot a trend without waiting days for an analyst, the whole company moves faster. Our product launch cycles have shortened because we can measure impact in real-time and iterate quickly. That's the kind of competitive advantage that's hard to quantify but absolutely critical.

What do you like best about the product?

This is a next generation BI tool that my company chose after evaluating about a dozen BI options. We moved from Tableau to Omni in 3 months and the business absolutely loves it - to the point that within a month of launch we needed more licenses since it was so popular. The model/semantic layer allows these less technical users to create new analyses based on curated datasets and get people much closer to data. It has a nice visualization library, iFrame integration (Hex, Google docs, etc), and native Markdown, allowing for a lot of versatility. It sits right on top of the database, so there no extra refresh step, and the smart caching is actually smart. The dbt metadata flows seamlessly and has both SQL based and Excel based syntax to meet people where they are at. On top of the technical value, the people at Omni are fantastic and have responsive ongoing support.

What do you dislike about the product?

Understanding the modeling layer is a challenge at first. Bugs happen since they are constantly adding new features.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

A lean and robust analytics and reporting platform. With the iFrame and other integration capabilities, it serves as a one stop shop, which is ideal.

What do you like best about the product?

We adopted Omni for the multiple ways for end users with different skills and backgrounds to access data (drag-and-drop, sql, spreadsheet-style formulas...), but we stay for the powerful modeling layer that also stays out of your way until you need it, and near-instant high quality support on Slack. Implementation was a breeze, and it is some of our most-used internal software, with a large majority of our company as DAUs.

What do you dislike about the product?

Dashboard product is very good, but some important features are still to be rolled out (though there are generally workarounds).

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's our primary data exploration and business intelligence tool — enables a wide range of users at our company to explore and share data & reporting.

What do you like best about the product?

I really like working in the "Develop" mode where I can define, provide descriptions, and create and modify and dimensions all in one place. It is easy to maintain and control our datasets and 'topics' which results in consistency across all dashboards.

What do you dislike about the product?

At times, Omni is slow to respond. A 1-2 second delay adds up when modifying many field name, cleaning up formatting, or just working in general in Omni. There are also some chart types that are not available. One in particular, trellis, is one they are woking on adding soon.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Omni helps us surface data to users both inside and outside our company. The ability to easily create dashboards with filters, controls, and visualizations allows the users to find actions insights that drive revenue and growth. Omni's ease of use for non-technical users allows for data to be more accessible to everyone outside the data team.