Oracle Essbase Reviews

Name: Oracle Essbase
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.2 (14 reviews)

4.2 out of 5

14 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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What is Oracle Essbase?

Oracle Essbase is an OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Server that provides an environment for deploying pre-packaged applications or developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications.

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Oracle Essbase is the #12 ranked solution in top Database Development and Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Oracle Essbase an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Oracle Essbase is most commonly compared to Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials: Oracle Essbase vs Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials. Oracle Essbase is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Featured Oracle Essbase reviews

Pratik Phapale

Oracle Hyperion Essbase Developer at HCL Technologies

It's definitely growing and has many great features, especially in the cloud. I haven't used the on-premises server as much. Multidimensional data processing: Essbase is a kind of backbone, or back end, for systems like Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Financial Management. It's a multidimensional cube where we can store and process details, generate reports, and do multiple data processing, which isn't possible in Oracle or other alternatives. So, I'm grateful for this experience. Continuous improvement: Recently, I faced a version upgrade from 11.1.2 to 11.4. Now I'm on 11.2.10. Essbase is continuously upgrading its features in different areas, like configuration, properties, and the cloud platform. It's great to have experience with this, as well as working with the fundamental parts of the VM sets.

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RANOJOY PAUL

Analyst at Tata Consultancy

It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL. It doesn't store data in tables in the back end. To load data into Essbase, we need to prepare it in a table format. When we find the data in the table, we need to verify it. This way, you can rate the data. But Essbase stores multidimensional data. We have dimensions, which means the data belongs to some company or some time period. For example, if you work for three years, your salary should be something. In this way, we prepare top-level members called dimensions. The dimension defines your position, the year, and the section you were working in the company. We get an intersection of all these dimensions for certain data, and fetching that data is very fast in Essbase compared to normal SQL. If you store this data in a normal SQL table, you need to prepare a row with your company name, employee name, employee ID, joining date, and everything, and then you need to push it into a SQL table. You can search it using your query, but here, that thing is different. Here, you can collect data using forms, reports, and we use a Microsoft tool, which is an add-in called Smart View. Using that, you would just take that data. Here, you need to just create an integration of all these dimensions, and then only you can find the data.

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Prithwish Kumar Ghosh

Manager at Capgemini

You will definitely get bugs, for sure, with every version that comes. Oracle is active in creating fixes, and they release patches. If you are using Oracle Cloud and the infrastructure is owned by Oracle, you don't need to worry. They will push the bug fixes themselves. When we use PBCS or EPBCS applications on the cloud, they handle those things. It might be a downtime during the weekends for 30 minutes, but it's a very stable area. You don't actually use Essbase when you use PBCS or EPBCS. It is in the backend, and things are happening there as well, for sure, but you won't get to see the console. You'll just see the front end, the planning part.

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Oracle Essbase mindshare

As of June 2025, the mindshare of Oracle Essbase in the Database Development and Management category stands at 1.0%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials	4.0	6.0%	100%	2 interviews Add to research
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Valuable Features

"Essbase is a kind of backbone, or back end, for systems like Hyperion Planning."
"Oracle Essbase is a web integration system that integrates with other data systems."
"It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."

Room for Improvement

"The main concern is that Oracle is ending on-premises server support, so it would be better if there was a cloud platform available for Oracle Essbase."
"The solution could enhance business analytics. I delved into the data using Oracle Essbase to create a new support tool."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."

Pricing

"The solution is expensive."
"It is a costly solution."
"I believe the licensing is on a monthly base."

Popular Use Cases

Organizations use Oracle Essbase primarily for managing large, complex environments with extensive data needs. It supports planning, data sorting, queries, and reporting. Common applications include financial analysis, budgeting, user-based data extraction, and forecasting. Various sectors such as banking, telecommunications, and healthcare leverage Oracle Essbase in on-premises deployments to handle intensive data processing tasks including P&L statements, cash flow reports, and customer analysis, supporting dynamic and strategic decision-making processes.

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Oracle Essbase customers

CHU de Rennes, Bellco Credit Union, Akindo Sushiro Co. Ltd, Deutsche Telekom AG, Samarco MineraÊo S.A., PCCW Ltd., QDQ media S.A.U., Boiron Italia, Specialized Bicycle Components Inc., Akindo Sushiro Co. Ltd., Air Canada, Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd.