"The connectors are a very good feature."
"All of the data science features in terms of unioning and joining data together are valuable."
"Good data transformation."
"The product's Macros probably are one of the most useful aspects."
"The design portion of this tool is easy to use without code, which his something that something we can appreciate."
"Technical support is very helpful."
"The product is very stable and super fast, five-star. It's significantly more stable than it's nearest competitor."
"The philosophy of the citizen data scientist is the key piece, which means the no-code analytics capability. This is the feature that attracted us the most."
"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."
"Even when it already includes some AI models, this area could be improved."
"Sometimes workflows tend to queue up, and they tend to get canceled for some reason that we don't know sometimes."
"The workflow and pipeline need to improve."
"There's a big jump in terms of pricing between license tiers. I'm not sure I understand why the price jumps are so high."
"Deep learning models are not currently supported."
"They can provide some pre-built tools for predictive analytics instead of us having to build all the tools. It should also be improved from the visualization aspect. It should have better visualization capabilities. There are tools out there that have better visualization capabilities, which Alteryx is lacking currently."
"The solution could improve in the visualization."
"There are no ready models to use in analytics."
"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."
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Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 28 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 4th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.2, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Efficient, with great automation capabilities but technical support is not as good as it once was". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "Everybody uses it for financial purposes, but it can also be used for other analytic purposes, such as mathematical models, statistical models, and so on". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Databricks, SAS Enterprise Guide and RapidMiner, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Workday Prism Analytics.
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