We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Essbase, and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."
"My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations."
"Reports, dashboards, and visualizations are most valuable."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"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 scalable."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"We really like that it's user friendly and has a lot of combinations and charts. They're good compared to other tools. We used a free Elastic product, comparatively, this solution is good because of their support, UI, and connecting to databases is very easy."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"We can create advanced-level reports with the tool. We can get data from different Zoho applications and also from other third-party applications. We can create schedules for syncing data from third parties to Zoho Analytics. We can also use table queries for getting data from more than one table."
"Scheduling of reports and dashboards is the most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics."
"It provides insights into leads, information about the team and about various sales activities. The graphical representations in the form of charts is excellent."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"One opportunity for improvement would be on the Power Query side. As a consultant, I know Power Query is not the main strength of Power BI. It is not where Power BI shines, but many customers use Power Query to do full ETL workloads for deliverable cookies."
"This solution's performance when handling big data could be improved. Right now, if you're handling big data, the application becomes slow and the performance is very low."
"I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"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."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"A higher degree of artificial intelligence could be included in this solution. The data and overall insights could be improved."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."
"The solution's tasks and project management tools are weaker than those of its competitors."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"The customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."
"I have a lower rating when it comes to Zoho Analytics. The tool has poor performance. It needs to improve the dimensions and measures."
"They should provide white labeling with a cheaper option. I know they have a white labeling feature in which I can white label Zoho Analytics with my company theme, logo, and URL, but it seems a little expensive. If they can make it cheaper, it would be great. The same is applicable to Tableau."
