We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase, Salesforce Einstein Analytics, 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."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"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."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is scalable."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The way Salesforce Einstein Analytics is structured in terms of the work assignments and the user profile is very good."
"Salesforce Einstein Analytics is a simplified CRM. It's integration is good."
"Einstein Analytics provides insights into what we are doing and how we are doing it. It tells us what benchmarks we need to hit consistently to achieve our goals. In sales, there is sometimes a disconnect between actions and objectives. We aren't necessarily going to close a deal because we call X number of people. There are some underlying skills that add nuance to these metrics."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Einstein Analytics are the flexibility around the deployment, overall capabilities, user-friendliness, and interactiveness with the tools that came built with it."
"he most valuable feature of the solution is its ease of use."
"The fact that the solution is visually appealing because of its lightning interfaces can be considered one of its most valuable features"
"We have found the scalability to be very good."
"Tableau CRM is a very capable solution. It is easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well."
"The most valuable feature is the 3D charting."
"The most important feature in Tableau is visual analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"I believe one of the most valuable features of the solution is trend analysis."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it."
"I really like the interactivity of the dashboards."
"Easy to create graphs and visualizations."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"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 ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"Better pricing would make it available to more users and we would likely use it more broadly within the organization."
"Improvement-wise, I feel the solution must be more robust since it is not exactly ready to handle large data."
"They can provide more end-user customizations. There should be the possibility for the end-users to change some elements in the interface. I have a way of doing my job. My colleague may have his own way of doing his job. If I ask for a change, it'll change for everyone. It'll be good to have some end-user personalizations. I can't see many in Salesforce right now."
"Einstein Analytics could incorporate something like SFIA 8 to help users understand the underlying skill sets."
"The product must be more transparent."
"I would advise others not to customize because they rolled out the newer versions, which are every six months. There had to be some significant testing and verification that happened. It is important to have a strong third-party provider that is very experienced. We used Deloitte, but we evaluated Accenture, KPMG, and IBM, but we decided on Deloitte and that was a good decision for us. Having a partner who has a center of excellence or experts that could give you a lot of the tips that they've learned could jumpstart your deployment and stick to the standards."
"The price of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is quite a bit expensive for the region of Mexico. I think the price of the product could be better."
"All of the timesheets and appraisal management I have not been happy with. There should be some improvements. For example, as a management team, our managers do not have access to see a summary report, such as who is on leave today or how many hours each person logged in. You have to get into individual users and see. You cannot see a summary report, the reporting is missing. There should improve the reports."
"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."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"People are migrating to Microsoft BI due to the speed, which is quite slow to load, and the lack of visualization options."
"The product's features for cloud integration need improvement."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"Its integration with Microsoft products such as Teams should be improved."
"In the next release, there should be more information describing each chart because users have a difficult time telling them apart. They should also include the animations/videos, similar to Power BI."
"I am a BI consultant. I have worked on different reporting tools, such as Power BI and MicroStrategy. As compared to other tools, Tableau lags behind in handling huge enterprise-level data in terms of robust security and the single integrated metadata concept. When we connect to large or very big databases, then performance-wise, I sometimes found Tableau a little bit slow. It can have the single metadata concept like other tools for the reusability of the objects in multiple reports."
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