We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Tableau 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."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."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"All features are valuable. It is very user-friendly, and it is mostly drag-and-drop. If we have the dataset available, then we can develop any dashboard very quickly."
"It is very easy to implement and to use."
"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"It's intuitive and highly mature"
"Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose making it very easy to use."
"The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns."
"The best use case for us is the solution's integration with Salesforce because we are also partners of Salesforce."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The data preparation could integrate better with Tableau."
"Its price is a concern. It is more expensive than Power BI. The other thing that I never liked about Tableau is its ability to handle large sets of data. To present the data in the dashboards, we have to stage it up exactly like it is going to come into the dashboard. We use another tool called Alteryx that does that for us. So, we manipulate the data, get it staged, and then push it into Tableau. Tableau is terrible at handling large data sets, and we knew right away that we couldn't use Tableau to do data manipulation."
"There should be stronger data modules for the platform."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"Tableau is a company that does not respect partners."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"It should have more integration with different tools and technologies. Its licensing cost should also be improved."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics and Oracle Analytics Cloud, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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