We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"MicroStrategy has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"The subscription model is excellent. About half of our reporting comes out of the subscription, and from there, the ease of use in dragging and dropping reporting objects."
"Now we can collaborate, in real time. In the past we had to wait for our business partners say if a visualization looked good or sufficed for their requirements. There was no real-time decision making. Now, with Dossier, it will accelerate the velocity of decision making."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is scalable."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"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."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"With Cube partition (v10.1 and above) scalability has not been an issue, but the Cube publish time, and temporary space consumption while the Cube is being published, has almost doubled during implementation of Cube partition."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The consolidation engine, which is HFM or FCCS, needs some room for improvement."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes " Handles a huge amount of data at a time and offers good processing speed". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos and Qlik Sense, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Tableau and Redgate SQL Toolbelt.
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