We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and SAP Analytics Cloud 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."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"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."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"I have found that the feature to drag and drop widgets based on the data source, and import them into stories to be valuable. This way it helps the end user to create stories themselves."
"Offers both business intelligence as well as inbuilt AI and machine learning capabilities."
"Planning is the most valuable feature of the product because it's integrated and that means we don't need to rely on an independent planning environment."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"Visualization is quite seamless and awesome. Once the data messaging is set up, it's straightforward and simple to select how it should be displayed. So, that's another advantage of SAP."
"What my customers like best about SAP Analytics Cloud is the dashboard because it's pretty good."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"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 initial setup is pretty complex."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"There is no direct connector from SAP to Redshift, so we are required to use a third-party product that was recommended by SAP."
"I think it would be easier if there was another module created to retrieve only data."
"I am not happy with the predictive analytics features and smart features offered by the product, making them areas where improvements are required."
"In the live connection model, we can't create calculated dimensions, however, in the import model we can create them."
"Improvements are coming quarterly whereas previously it was on a monthly basis."
"An area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is its planning feature because it's not that efficient when compared to BPC. Another area for improvement in the solution is the difficulty in building reports or dashboards, particularly if you don't have proper knowledge of the BI system. SAP Analytics Cloud technical support also needs improvement."
"Could have more tabular reporting capabilities."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 57 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Tableau and IBM Planning Analytics, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics and Microsoft Power BI.
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