We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"It is very stable."
"It is one tool which you can find everything. "
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"Data preparation-wise, it was not so straightforward with respect to getting different sources. Preparing or transforming the data inside and then bringing it onto the dashboard was a bit difficult, and the experience could have been better."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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."
MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and IBM Cognos, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Qlik Sense.
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