We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase, Tableau, and Yellowfin 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."
"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 scalable."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"Tableau has greatly enhanced our organization's data-driven decision-making processes by enabling us to create visually compelling reports and dashboards."
"When compared with Power BI, Tableau is much easier."
"You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau."
"From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics. We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like."
"Tableau's initial setup was straightforward."
"It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs."
"I work for clients. That is my business model. Business people really like to see Tableau. They love Tableau because it is very user-friendly. The platform provides an easy to use interface, which is what most people like about it."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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."
"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 ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"When compared to Power BI, it is less user-friendly."
"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
"I also work as an SME on the platform side. Tableau is very nice and jazzy for the end-users, but there are pain points for the admins. Performance is something about which we hear a lot of complaints, such as the dashboard doesn't open in time. It performs well on the desktop but not on the server. I know that there is always a limitation when it comes to a huge amount of data or the complexity of the calculations, but we often hear from end-users about the performance on the server side. It is easy to drag and drop all the columns and do what we want, but if it is not going to load better on the server, users are not going to like it."
"Navigating through activities like cleansing, reshaping, and wrangling extensive or complicated datasets could prove challenging within the Tableau environment."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"When we put more information on a single screen, it gets compressed and superimposed in many places while scrolling."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
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