We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy 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 feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"Our primary use case is to deliver all data insights to our company."
"The technical support of MicroStrategy can be helpful through implementation."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"I prefer the capabilities of a single platform, but it does not always work. We are a huge company. Some areas do not use MicroStrategy, so you have to blend whatever systems they are using together to get the data points that you are looking for."
"The interface you can design in MicroStrategy is great, but I feel it needs to be refreshed, add a bit more functionality. I would like to see more capabilities on the mobile side, to bring it on par with apps that you see in the App Store."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Redgate SQL Toolbelt.
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