We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and XLCubed 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."Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"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."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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 is pretty complex."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. 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 XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.
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