We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and SAP Analytics Cloud 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."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."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"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."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"Provides rich features for developing automated reports and dashboards."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The stories have really been helpful in looking at specific scenarios and analyzing trends over periods of time."
"I would recommend this solution for companies that are SAP dependent with users working in this environment."
"The most valuable features are the visualization and user-friendliness."
"Real-time data makes for a single version of the truth."
"The solution is stable."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"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."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"Figuring out how to navigate all of the products around Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud and BW for HANA is quite difficult."
"The solution should include other scripting languages as well, such as Python."
"I expect more integration from SAP Analytics Cloud."
"It still lacks a lot of functionalities as compared to other tools such as Power BI or Tableau. Sorting is not working as well as it works in Tableau. A lot of other things are also not at the same level. Their technical support is not perfect and could be better. It takes a lot of time to have lacking functionalities implemented. Its integration with the BW backend should be better. Both solutions are from the same vendor. They position SAP Analytics Cloud as a reporting tool on top of the BW environment, but the integration between both is not yet 100%. For example, user management is still not synchronized."
"Live Data Models are very slow and the setup can be improved, with tools such as Cloud Connector being inbuilt into SAP Analytics Cloud. Likewise, we need to write application code from scratch, rather than tweaking existing code, as we might with Excel macros. Moreover, when using responsive pages, the widgets get adjusted according to the mobile screen. As a result, when I place two or three KPI tiles, they can only be viewed tile-by-tile. We want to see the full dashboard on the mobile screen and zoom in to click on a particular section of the dashboard and go further into that. But displaying tile-by-tile makes it very annoying and the upper management using this dashboard might not be aware there are any more tiles to view."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
"I would also like to have more advanced features for predictive analytics."
"They need a better scalability rate."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 58 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Tableau and IBM Planning Analytics, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics and Microsoft Power BI.
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