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, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."It integrates better with other Microsoft products. It is very easy to use and has very powerful visualizations. It has also got a lot of development going on."
"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."
"Premium features that used to cost $5,000 per company per month recently became a lot more accessible. Microsoft recently implemented a per user feature in Power BI Premium; it's $20 per month."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"Good CS and administration."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"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 highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"The maps in Power BI could be improved. You deal with many maps over the years, like maps of America and Saudi Arabia. The maps aren't detailed enough, and there aren't enough visualization tools. Whenever I want to use a map, I struggle with choosing the right visualization."
"Integration with products that are not Microsoft could be more improved."
"They asked you to pay if you want to synchronize more than eight times, you would have to go to a Power BI enterprise license, which is much more costly."
"The formatting template 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."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
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 10 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 "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". 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, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Tableau and IBM Planning Analytics.
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