We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI 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."The drag and drop facility to easily change the data correctly is the most valuable feature. I am happy to see visualizations. It's easier to talk about and make people understand what is going on."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"The stability is good."
"It's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"The best feature of this solution is the way you can plan, communicate, and visualize all the knowledge you extract from the data for the customers. I like the way you can show or visualize the information a client needs to answer a business question."
"The stability is good."
"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."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"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."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"Power BI's drillthrough feature could be improved. I didn't like drillthrough and those options much, but I did like it in MicroStrategy."
"We found out that you can't share a report with others unless you have an additional package. That caught us off guard. It came as a program that somebody could go in, build a report, and show it, but you can't share it without having additional licenses."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"I would like to see integration with Excel."
"Microsoft BI could improve by having better collaboration between developers working on the same dashboard. The developer platform is all done on a single laptop and it's difficult to have the same project files work. Two developers have to go back and forth. You have to have the project file on one developer's laptop making it difficult to co-develop."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"It should have more integrations."
"The consolidation engine, which is HFM or FCCS, needs some room for improvement."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". 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". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME and Domo, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud.
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