We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase, Tableau, and Zoho Analytics 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."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."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"I like the visualization component."
"The geospatial maps representation and the visualizations are nice."
"Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards. It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice."
"It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"The ability of filtering and segmentation of the data makes it very flexible compared to other tools."
"The solution helps users create dashboards and analyze data without relying on IT or product teams."
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"It provides insights into leads, information about the team and about various sales activities. The graphical representations in the form of charts is excellent."
"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."
"We really like that it's user friendly and has a lot of combinations and charts. They're good compared to other tools. We used a free Elastic product, comparatively, this solution is good because of their support, UI, and connecting to databases is very easy."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"Ask Zia is a great feature that I use to quickly decide what improvements I need to make in order to present the data that I want to show."
"I like the way I can share dashboards and embed dashboards. I normally use embedding. So, I create a dashboard, and I embed it into specific websites. Sharing of the dashboard is seamless, and it is easier than any other visualization platform, even Tableau."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"We use the solution for financial and sales analytics. It brings data from our IT incident management tool. Hence, we have three business use cases for IT support, sales and financials."
"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."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"It would be nice to include more features on each dashboard."
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand."
"SAP BusinessObjects has some semantic layer designs that give the flexibility to do ad hoc reporting or dashboard designing. If that can be brought into Tableau, it would be great. We have the data in the database, but we should also be able to bring something between the database and the dashboard and do some semantic layer modeling for ad hoc reporting requirements."
"It would be nice if we could export more raw data. Currently, there is a limit as to how much data you can export."
"The solution needs to improve its integration capabilities."
"The customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."
"They should provide white labeling with a cheaper option. I know they have a white labeling feature in which I can white label Zoho Analytics with my company theme, logo, and URL, but it seems a little expensive. If they can make it cheaper, it would be great. The same is applicable to Tableau."
"The solution's tasks and project management tools are weaker than those of its competitors."
"A higher degree of artificial intelligence could be included in this solution. The data and overall insights could be improved."
"In terms of improvement, they have a limited number of graphs available in their store. They should come up with more graph style forms. They should have more charts and at the same time, you can't create panels like with Microsoft BA."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The tool needs to improve analysis and add more features."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
