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."The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is scalable."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It's a very powerful analytical engine with Essbase as the back end. We can analyze, transform, or utilize a big chunk of data for our calculations."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I like the solution's web version, more so than Power BI's web version. It just makes it easier to drag and drop things and to blend data on the backend. It simplifies the process."
"The solution has great features which nobody can beat, you can do a lot of customizations, such as use different dimensions and colorize them. Additionally, you can use the numeric values for the customization, which is an exceptional feature."
"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."
"The solution offers very good reporting."
"The geospatial maps representation and the visualizations are nice."
"When compared to Power BI, Tableau has more readily available resources."
"The most valuable feature is the aggregation function."
"You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau."
"The consolidation engine, which is HFM or FCCS, needs some room for improvement."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
"Could have more integrations with different platforms."
"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience. Tableau is well documented, and on their website, there are a lot of tutorials that are available for free. I started my learning process through those tutorials, but there are certain loopholes in those tutorials, which only got filled through a couple of good YouTube channels that talk about Tableau. YouTube helped me a lot. So, the documentation could be better, I understand that it is evolving day by day, and with more usage, there would be more such documentation."
"It should have more integration with different tools and technologies. Its licensing cost should also be improved."
"Many things have to be improved in Tableau. Right now, we make the calculation, and then we get that information. It would be better if business users could do that. I would ask the people at Tableau to provide that option to business users to get that information in one click. It would be better if they automated some calculations. There should be more automation in Tableau. However, there are many things in automation mode, but it is very limited at the moment. We need automation for people who do not know much about Tableau. It would also be better if there were good community support like in Alteryx."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"An advanced type of visualization is a bit tricky to create. It has something called a Calculated field, and that sometimes gets a bit difficult to use when you want to create an advanced type of visualization."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes " Handles a huge amount of data at a time and offers good processing speed". 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, IBM Planning Analytics and Oracle Analytics Cloud, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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