We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Oracle OBIEE 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."It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."
"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 is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"It's a very powerful analytical engine with Essbase as the back end. We can analyze, transform, or utilize a big chunk of data for our calculations."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"User-friendly look and feel."
"The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities."
"We can see almost-real-time performance in our operations. When there is a problem, it is easy to escalate it to top management and the time for management to make a decision about it is much shorter than it would be using a manual process."
"Both the vertical and horizontal scalability of the solution is good. In terms of scalability, I would rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the security of the solution."
"The solution offers a wide range of software tools to meet various needs, such as those concerning reports, developer solutions like APEX and the integration of data."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The consolidation engine, which is HFM or FCCS, needs some room for improvement."
"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."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."
"Oracle OBIEE is a product that is not easy to implement. The product is also not easy to use."
"The solution needs to be easier to scale."
"Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported."
"Supply chain and finance."
"The development effort takes longer than other BI tools currently on the market."
"Its functionality is lacking."
"The performance could be better."
"n the beginning it had it's stability issues, but it became stable."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes " Handles a huge amount of data at a time and offers good processing speed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics and IBM Cognos, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau and Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer.
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