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."Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"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."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is scalable."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"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 dashboard and analysis are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It is easy to use...I rate the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"It provides excellent stability."
"A great feature of the solution is its stability."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the security of the solution."
"Oracle OBIEE is very easy to use. Looking at analytics, I think they have come a long way by adding new features like visualization, which is really cool."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"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."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"Oracle OBIEEE's performance and licensing costs could be improved."
"In our organization, we feel that data visualization for APIs is an area in which the solution lacks."
"The ability to migrate from one version to another, such as doing so from version 11 to an upgraded 12 of Oracle business environment, can be difficult."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly."
"The functionality to customize and modify reports has been removed, and it would be beneficial to reinstall it, as it allows greater customization and flexibility in creating reports."
"The drawback with the tool is that though it is well-created, its users are under-trained to use it."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 9th in Database Development and Management with 9 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 1st in Legacy BI Tools with 28 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle OBIEE writes "Rock solid, handles massive amounts of data quickly, and has a user-friendly interface for self-service BI". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud and Tableau, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Crystal Reports.
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