We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Amazon QuickSight has introduced a new functionality called Q bar, which allows the user to do natural language queries and get additional insights using some built-in generative capabilities."
"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"A valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is that it's a cloud-native service provided by AWS. As all platforms within my company run on AWS, that's the leverage of Amazon QuickSight. Amazon QuickSight is also easy to use, and I find the native connectors from AWS valuable as well."
"The ease with which it integrates with different data sources is most valuable. Especially when everything is on AWS, it is easy to connect to the data source and organize different dashboards."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"I like that with Amazon QuickSight, you don't need to install an app to use its services. With other BI tools, you need to install the app, so Amazon QuickSight is better for me in this area."
"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."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is scalable."
"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"The number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."
"Amazon QuickSight's visualization could be improved."
"An area for improvement in Amazon QuickSight is storage. Data cleanup also needs improvement because I'm experiencing errors when cleaning the data. Amazon QuickSight needs video tutorials showing its different functions and purposes."
"Right now, you can't use Amazon QuickSight on other cloud providers, so I'd like it to have availability on other cloud providers. This is an area for improvement in the product. What I'd like to see in Amazon QuickSight in the future is a distributed centralized system where I can manage all reports in one place, and for Amazon QuickSight to become reporting as a service."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"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 is pretty complex."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 22 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 7.0, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and Qlik Sense, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and MicroStrategy.
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