We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and QlikView 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."It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"It is a stable product."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"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."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"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."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"Better source data connectors."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while QlikView is rated 8.2. 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 QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire.
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