We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."The solution is stable and reliable."
"It's a very powerful analytical engine with Essbase as the back end. We can analyze, transform, or utilize a big chunk of data for our calculations."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is scalable."
"It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"Unlike relational, where you're linking together multiple tables, with Essbase, you basically define what the dimensions are beforehand, and you define the hierarchy, and then load the data. This allows you to do a pretty sophisticated analysis so that you can drill into it and slice and dice the data."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together."
"The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities."
"The visualization is very good."
"It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources."
"Dashboards provide us with various views and perspectives on our data, allowing us to analyze metrics such as revenue, occupancy rates, etc."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly set of tools that the customer can use to develop their own business dashboards."
"The performance can issue queries to work in the Oracle database in Oracle's native language. There are a lot of visualizations which suit our business."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"Essbase has a programming language, and it has a couple of functions to do forecasting, however, their feature set for that is not that good."
"The consolidation engine, which is HFM or FCCS, needs some room for improvement."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The pricing model could be improved. Right now, it's quite confusing. Many customers have this feeling that it's a super-expensive option."
"Oracle OBIEE could improve by having better integration and compatibility with other vendors."
"Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported."
"Customer service/technical support gets five out of 10. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
"It is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. One of the major red flags we have at the moment against Oracle is that it doesn't support deployment on other cloud providers. We're quite heavily vested in AWS as our infrastructure, and Oracle is yet to formally support deploying on those virtual infrastructure instances. That's quite disappointing, and it also cuts them out of over 70% of the market."
"Oracle OBIEE can improve the ease of use. It is a lot to learn and it could be made easier."
"Retail, Finance, Wholesale"
"Oracle OBIEEE's performance and licensing costs could be improved."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes " Handles a huge amount of data at a time and offers good processing speed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and IBM Cognos, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau and Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer.
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