We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is scalable."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"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."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"The product’s performance is better than other tools."
"The most important feature in Tableau is visual analytics."
"Provides a very good sound analysis quotient."
"The ability of filtering and segmentation of the data makes it very flexible compared to other tools."
"Partner support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the richness of its visualization and from a self-service standpoint, the ease of use."
"It is very easy to implement and to use."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"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."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"Formatting controls could use some improvement."
"We need big servers to perform the operations that we are doing. They should probably relook at its architecture."
"The charting is overly complex in comparison with Power BI's"
"The interface can be improved, in part because there is no indication that something is running or that it's processing."
"From a downside perspective, some of the more advanced modeling techniques are actually fairly difficult to do. In addition, I just fundamentally disagree with the way you have to implement them because you can get incorrect answers in some cases."
"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
"A strict security measure is needed. I believe it is weak in terms of security."
"They need to improve the bar chart position and width."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 290 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and IBM Planning Analytics, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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