We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"I really like the visualizations. I like how you can put large data sets in there, then the user can quickly go through the data and drill down at various levels to understand things."
"The product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets used to one type of tool, then sticks with it."
"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 very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is scalable."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"I would like to see more integration."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"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 ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."
"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 initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes " Handles a huge amount of data at a time and offers good processing speed". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics and Tableau.
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