We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Qlik Sense 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 is stable and reliable."
"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."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The most valuable features are that Qlik has a very strong ATL available and the capacity to handle large volumes of data."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Qlik Sense is a very powerful and useful tool."
"Unique data visualizations created based on - among others - customer reviews and hands-on experience. Qlik is an experienced company in the Business Intelligence / Data visualization area, that doesn't necessarily mean it is the best solution, however, based on my personal experience it is much more complex than Power BI and Tableau as I've had some things to do with these two concurrent softwares."
"The most valuable feature is the mobile platform."
"The time it takes to deliver a dashboard is real quick."
"The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports."
"The consolidation engine, which is HFM or FCCS, needs some room for improvement."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"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 solution needs to make improvements to the licensing model. They need to make it more affordable at scale, and to make it more affordable for those companies at the low end of the market as well."
"The communication with the solution's sales managers in Europe is very bad, making it an area that requires improvement. My company usually gets no response from the tool's sales managers."
"The navigation is quite clunky and outdated."
"Qlik Sense should have a conversion tool which automatically converts QlikView to Qlik Sense, so customers can easily migrate between the products of Qlik."
"I would like to see more types of visual elements and better configuration options for additional flexibility when developing charts."
"There is room for improvement in the storytelling mode and the report sharing. Qlik Sense also does not have a subscription base like Power BI. So a lot of the analysis is housed in community pages that are managed by either the author or a database administrator, or whoever the Qlik Sense manager is there."
"As we are a very process-oriented company, we would like to see more extensions maintained from Qlik, because it's a huge budget problem to choose the right one."
"I would like for it to be more of a plug and play with all of the tools and sources. It would make it much easier to use."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. 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 Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics and Tableau, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx.
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