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Birst

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Oracle Essbase

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100% willing to recommend
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Reporting
April 2024
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Featured Review
Rick Hutchinson
The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable.
Birst has made it easier for us to provide embedded data visualization tools to our customers.
Ricardo Giampaoli
Everybody uses it for financial purposes, but it can also be used for other analytic purposes, such as mathematical...
It provides for faster and more assertive forecast cycles. It enables businesses to improve their process since with this tool, you can do things... Read more →
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Pros
"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."

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"The solution is scalable.""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.""It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements.""The solution is stable and reliable.""The solution can handle a large volume of data.""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."

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Cons
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."

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"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness.""I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool.""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 could be simplified.""The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved.""They should improve the solution's performance.""The initial setup is pretty complex.""It's an expensive product to use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."

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  • "Essbase is competitively priced."
  • "I believe the licensing is on a monthly base."
  • "It is a costly solution."
  • "The solution is expensive."

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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Essbase?
    Top Answer:It is a costly solution. This is because we require high-performance servers with substantial CPU and RAM capacities to handle our extensive datasets effectively.
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    What needs improvement with Oracle Essbase?
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness.
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    What is your primary use case for Oracle Essbase?
    Top Answer:We are a telecommunications company operating in Iran, and we manage a vast amount of data related to our network infrastructure. We have hundreds of data points specifically pertaining to our network… more »
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    Ranking
    32nd
    out of 50 in Reporting
    Views
    209
    Comparisons
    149
    Reviews
    0
    Average Words per Review
    0
    Rating
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    10th
    out of 62 in Database Development and Management
    Views
    185
    Comparisons
    131
    Reviews
    8
    Average Words per Review
    381
    Rating
    8.4
    Comparisons
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    Overview

    Birst Networked BI and Analytics eliminates information silos. Decentralized users can augment the enterprise data model virtually, as opposed to physically, without compromising data governance.

    A unified semantic layer maintains common definitions and key metrics.
    Birst’s two-tier architecture aligns back-end sources with line-of-business or local data. Birst’s Automated Data Refinement extracts data from any source into a unified semantic layer. Users are enabled with self-service analytics through executive dashboards, reporting, visual discovery, mobile tools, and predictive analytics. Birst Open Client Interface also offers integration with Tableau, Excel and R.

    Birst goes to market in two primary ways: as a direct sale, for enterprises using Birst on internal data to manage their business; and embedded, for companies who offer analytic products, by embedding and white-labeling Birst capabilities into their products.

    Birst’s is packaged in 3 available formats: Platform and per-user fee; by Department or Business Unit; by end-customer (for embedded scenarios).

    Oracle Essbase is an OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Server that provides an environment for deploying pre-packaged applications or developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications.

    Sample Customers
    Citrix Systems, Jive Software, SunnyD, Toshiba Medical Systems, Cisco OpenDNS, RB, Sunny D, Vertafore
    CHU de Rennes, Bellco Credit Union, Akindo Sushiro Co. Ltd, Deutsche Telekom AG, Samarco MineraÊo S.A., PCCW Ltd., QDQ media S.A.U., Boiron Italia, Specialized Bicycle Components Inc., Akindo Sushiro Co. Ltd., Air Canada, Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Healthcare Company25%
    Retailer17%
    Insurance Company8%
    Computer Software Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm50%
    Retailer25%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Retailer7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise52%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business27%
    Large Enterprise73%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
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    Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau.

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