We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Qlik Sense 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."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 is scalable."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"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."
"Qlik was the first company to implement an in-memory associative analytics engine. This basically means that all data is loaded into memory, but it also means that instead of joining data together, the data is associated together. From the front end, from the UI point of view, data can be joined or included or excluded on the fly. It can be drilled down and drilled through and users can slice and dice it and that type of thing can be done from anywhere in the data to any other place in the data. It doesn't have to be predefined. It doesn't have to have hierarchies or anything like that."
"Qlik Sense brings in the concept of shared libraries where one user can create custom dimensions (even with drill-down functionality), measures, and even visualizations and save it to the "Master Items," from which the other users can simply drag and drop to use it for their analysis."
"With the changing business landscape, it is nice to access Qlik Sense through an external website. As an organization when we use QlikView Desktop, we need to connect to our internal network. We can access QlikView through the QlikView access point but the website has a little different look and feel than the desktop application."
"Leveraging and reusability of already existing QlikView assets and knowledge."
"Qlik Sense has given us visibility into our data to make informed decisions."
"This tool not only allows for consumption of the data in a visual way, but also allows the user to modify the question to get new answers."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"The ETL component allows us to pull from many different sources, making pulling data in easy."
"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 is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"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 initial setup could be simplified."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"Performing data transformations required a lot of programming, which is something that should be made easier."
"The reporting solution recently added to the latest Cloud version, since December or January, is not fully developed. The ability to use tabular reporting, like in dashboards, would be a great feature."
"Reload time is a limit since everyone wants real-time data."
"The solution needs to make improvements to the licensing model. They need to make it more affordable at scale, and to make it more affordable for those companies at the low end of the market as well."
"Qlik application automation needs additional work and features."
"The product could be less expensive."
"The one thing I would probably try to add is some kind of tutorial since the tool has a lot of options to work with, and for someone who is just starting and does not have any prior experience, it can be a little overwhelming."
"I would like to see more native features from QlikView integrated into Qlik Sense."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 112 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Redgate SQL Toolbelt, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and Alteryx.
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