We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase, Oracle OBIEE, and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution is scalable."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"For me, it makes the difference is in terms of our users being able to take advantage of a product which allows you to get access to data, reports, make decisions quickly, and have better insights regarding operations."
"Dashboards provide us with various views and perspectives on our data, allowing us to analyze metrics such as revenue, occupancy rates, etc."
"It provides excellent stability."
"The solution offers a wide range of software tools to meet various needs, such as those concerning reports, developer solutions like APEX and the integration of data."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"It's easy to use for business analysts."
"Can utilize SQL queries to generate reports directly."
"We use the solution for financial and sales analytics. It brings data from our IT incident management tool. Hence, we have three business use cases for IT support, sales and financials."
"Scheduling of reports and dashboards is the most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics."
"Zoho Analytics is the best software for giving reports to customers and we can create any report that is required."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"We can create advanced-level reports with the tool. We can get data from different Zoho applications and also from other third-party applications. We can create schedules for syncing data from third parties to Zoho Analytics. We can also use table queries for getting data from more than one table."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"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."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"It is not a good product for data visualization."
"I find I prefer Oracle OAC over OBIEE. It's more advanced, has artificial intelligence, and there's more that we can do with it in general. OBIEE is lacking features."
"Setup and migration are very complex. Technically, Oracle accessory is extremely complex. These days, the industry demands a kind of Excel analysis, which is very easy to install, set up, and it's very developer-friendly as well as end-user friendly. OBIEE lacks all those features."
"Its functionality is lacking."
"It could be more user-friendly. For example, the RPD layer could be more straightforward. From a user's point of view, the visualization, especially the graphs, are not as attractive when compared to other tools like QlikView and Qlik Sense."
"We needed some technical expertise during setup."
"Customer service/technical support gets five out of 10. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
"Supply chain and finance."
"There should be more types of graphics available for use in the reports."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
"The hourly pricing needs improvement."
"I like the solution's Query Table feature which helps me write SQL queries. We can get data from different tables and then use it to create reports."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."
