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 offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"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."
"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 is scalable."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"It needs a wizard that covers all its options."
"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"I think because I'm moving more into RPA, I'd definitely like to see integration across the RPA, Power BI, or Tableau platforms, because that integration could then make automation and mundane reporting much faster."
"The graphic interface could be better."
"Microsoft has got a very large repository of all change suggestions which have been raised by the BI community. They keep on adding features that are very widely sought after by the community. We don't focus on product features. We focus on business requirements. To use the solution, we find that existing features are good enough and offer us a very effective solution."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"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."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
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, Domo and SAP Analytics Cloud, 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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