We performed a comparison between Board and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."
"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"My analysts have used the technical support. Sometimes they have felt like they did not receive the answer that they needed, or you have to go and upgrade in order to address a problem. "
"The setup was a bit complex."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"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."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau.
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