We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI 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."The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"The stability is good."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"The dashboard features are really valuable, you can connect to multiple data points."
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"Power BI is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"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."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The maps in Power BI could be improved. You deal with many maps over the years, like maps of America and Saudi Arabia. The maps aren't detailed enough, and there aren't enough visualization tools. Whenever I want to use a map, I struggle with choosing the right visualization."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"We need more integration capabilities."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"We did have some issues building the Microsoft blog."
"Microsoft Power BI can be confusing, because it has two languages that you need to learn if you want to use it, and this makes it more difficult for nontechnical users."
"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"It's an expensive product to use."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and SAP Analytics Cloud, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Tableau and IBM Planning Analytics.
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