We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, RapidMiner, SAP and others in Predictive Analytics."The solution has excellent drag and drop functionality. There's no need for coding."
"All of the data science features in terms of unioning and joining data together are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its performance. It is a powerful solution."
"The ease-of-use allows non-technical business users to directly create their own solutions without the use of additional development resources."
"The philosophy of the citizen data scientist is the key piece, which means the no-code analytics capability. This is the feature that attracted us the most."
"The most valuable feature is user-friendliness, as Alteryx can be used by those without any coding experience or experienced data scientists as it has the functionality to embed R and Python scripts."
"The data transformation feature is the most valuable. The ability to ingest data, visualize data, and transform that data is useful."
"I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"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."
"There is currently no cloud solution and this would be valuable for many clients."
"It's a technical product and those that don't have proper training will have to deal with a steep learning curve."
"I think better visualization would be helpful to this solution."
"The only weakness I would say is on the visualization side of having that dynamic incapability."
"When a process completes there is a notification, but the notification does not include the process's name."
"The GUI interface functions but it could stand to be updated to a more modern look and feel."
"Alteryx's development environment could be improved as it requires installation locally and can't be developed in the cloud."
"The formula we currently use in Alteryx can be automated."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"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."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"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."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Workday Prism Analytics.
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