We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Sisense 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 scalable."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"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."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"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 is stable and reliable."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"Allows us to execute heavy, complex computations on the fly so customers can slice and dice the data based on their business needs."
"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."
"A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free."
"Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."
"Sisense has helped us gain knowledge about our customers, as well as highlighting data quality issues to correct."
"Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful."
"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."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Sisense is rated 8.8. 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 Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight.
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