We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Tableau 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."It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"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."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"It is very easy to implement and to use."
"I have found Tableau easy to use and the features are superb."
"From my perspective, it enables clients to better understand our data and make better decisions based on that information."
"I really like the interactivity of the dashboards."
"It provides business users with a tool, so they are not dependent on IT."
"It's very easy to set everything up."
"Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly."
"I have found the solution easy to use and the interface is very good."
"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 is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"Other tools are more competitively priced."
"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"The extraction, transformation and loading of data in Tableau takes a lot of time and we do not have confidence that Tableau is showing all the data we need."
"It's not an aesthetic platform at the moment."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 290 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and IBM Planning Analytics, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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