We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Workday Prism Analytics 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 scalable."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"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."
"It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Feature-wise, I feel that the solution's stability is good."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"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."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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."
"It is not a very scalable product."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews while Workday Prism Analytics is ranked 24th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 1 review. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Workday Prism Analytics is rated 7.0. 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 Workday Prism Analytics writes "A stable data analytics solution that needs some improvement with scalability and data visualization". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics and Redgate SQL Toolbelt, whereas Workday Prism Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, Oracle Analytics Cloud and MicroStrategy.
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