We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase, Oracle OBIEE, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ease of use."
"Oracle OBIEE is a scary and stable product since it is a strong and well-created tool... In short, the solution is stable since it works properly every day."
"Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting."
"It's easy to create fully-functional Dashboards."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"We do you use Oracle support. We've been paying for an Oracle support subscription for four or five years, and not one ticket has ever been logged. When I came in, I've encouraged the team to ask Oracle questions. They do get back quite quickly. Their support is good. Working with our account managers, if I need to escalate anything, I can speak to them and they escalate the call. I've got that ecosystem working quite well. That does work for us."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
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"They should improve the solution's performance."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"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."
"Oracle OBIEE is a product that is not easy to implement. The product is also not easy to use."
"The performance could be better."
"It is complex for designing RPD, and it can be simpler. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"When a large number of queries are running at the same time, the report fails."
"They should make the dashboard more intuitive."
"It is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. One of the major red flags we have at the moment against Oracle is that it doesn't support deployment on other cloud providers. We're quite heavily vested in AWS as our infrastructure, and Oracle is yet to formally support deploying on those virtual infrastructure instances. That's quite disappointing, and it also cuts them out of over 70% of the market."
"Even though we have a feature to enable the physical query to be seen in the log, in case of any issues, it is challenging to debug and see or identify where is the issue. For example, we designed the OBIEE repository and deployed it into the server, and we are now accessing and creating a report. For some reason, if the report is not working as expected, it is very difficult to identify the issue. We have a feature to see the physical query that is being generated in the central OBIEE server. I feel that this feature should have been available at the repository level so that while designing the repository, we can select the presentation columns and the query it is going to create. This will avoid the additional task of deploying a feature into the server and then testing the report. It will also make the implementation process friendly if, while designing the repository, we can see: How is a feature working? Are any of the presentation columns selected? How is the query being generated? Which query is being generated? Are any joints used? What kind of joints are used? Having this kind of information will make Oracle OBIEE more powerful and developer-friendly."
"Warehouse and business intelligence are two different things, but OBIEE also has some warehouse features in it. I would like to see some of those capabilities improved."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
"It is limited for us because SAP is shifting toward the cloud, and we can't use a cloud solution for SAP BusinessObjects. SAP introduced a product called PlusTimes one or two years ago and another one that I believe was called Automatic BI. This tool is more powerful than BusinessObjects and other tools because it's provided in the cloud."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"Most of the Apps right now are into dashboarding. This tool, for the Crystal Reports in the phase I'm primarily working on, does not have those dashboarding capabilities, like in the other advanced tools like Power BI or ClickView, and compared to them the dashboard generation is not that great."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"Its data visualization tool is not as good as Power BI and Tableau. Currently, for data visualization, you need to spend more money to buy another solution such as Power BI or Tableau. It is also very hard to integrate it with other third-party solutions. Its integration with other solutions should be improved."
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