We performed a comparison between Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service 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 most valuable features are user-friendly and self-service tools. Users can define their reports based on available data sets, with multiple dimensions and slide and dice data capabilities."
"Its ease of use and the ability to drill down into detail are the most valuable. Executive dashboarding features are the most commonly used ones."
"The solution effectively integrates with third-party products."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"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 is scalable."
"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."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"Quality of support varies."
"When looking at web-based BI or cloud-based BI vendors, there should be abilities for power users to build deep analysis. If they are not data science tools, they are not for power users."
"In terms of data modeling, it could be simplified. Sometimes, it seems complicated. Also, the response time for data set refreshes could be faster to enhance the user experience."
"The dashboard could be improved and include additional features."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"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."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
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Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is ranked 20th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 4 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is rated 7.2, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service writes "Highly scalable with very good configuration, customization, and migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is most compared with Oracle Analytics Cloud, 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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