We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Workday Prism 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."It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"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."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"Feature-wise, I feel that the solution's stability is good."
"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 could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"It is not a very scalable product."
Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews while Workday Prism Analytics is ranked 26th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 1 review. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Workday Prism Analytics is rated 7.0. 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 Workday Prism Analytics writes "A stable data analytics solution that needs some improvement with scalability and data visualization". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Amazon QuickSight, whereas Workday Prism Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Databricks and SAP Analytics Hub.
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