Oracle Essbase

Essbase helps for insights into the business

What do you like best? You can quickly slice and dice data at a high level, forcing you to focus on the big picture What do you dislike? hard to drill back into transactional details What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Financial planning and forecasting. We can push that down to all end users instead of having a simple excel model on one persons computer

Valuable accounting/financial tool that caters and fixes all accounting issues

What do you like best? Customization is very easy and reports can be extracted in simple steps. What do you dislike? The product is overall to be worth buying. Recommendations to others considering the product: Operations in different country and consolidating the accounts is a big issue for every globally run company. With this tool consolidation process can run as per the instructions and time period fedded. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have ...

Essbase over last 10 years

What do you like best? The growth in the product over the years to address business changing needs What do you dislike? Lack of relevant Integration API's without use of report scripts or MDX Recommendations to others considering the product: Understand how the product fits into an Oracle SOA to better understand the services and API options What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Financial analytics and what if analysis

Essbase load rules SQL interface

What do you like best? I heard the load rules will not have the SQL interface in the future. I think it is a progress, because all that can be accomplished in the interface can be moved upstream to the SQL staging server with "views" or other features. What do you dislike? Many of the load rule interface are redundent with our upstream processing, such as search and replace or column addition/substraction. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you ...

Great Financial Statements adhoc analytical tool

What do you like best? Integration with Excel and speed of query response What do you dislike? Lots of demand for using the data without an easy way to integrate to 3rd party visualization tools utilizing role based security. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Variance analysis for FP&A

Essbase On-Premise

What do you like best? We really love Essbase and Planning ,The way it works is really easy .We have PBCS now and even that works as expected for ONLY planning apps.But for ESSABSE stand alone we really need some cloud cleart cut option What do you dislike? Cloud Version of Essbase ,.....we dont know what it is....or its not clear. Smartview performance is not good we need to buy Dodecca for our large ASO drill for faster drills and why cant we acieve this in smarview ? What ...

Essbase

What do you like best? Ease of us, ability to have multiple structures, ease of meta data change What do you dislike? maybe the ability to bring in more alpha/numberic data files Recommendations to others considering the product: keep updating, do not let it fall What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? organization and multple structures of data

I love Essbase and willing to get version 19c

What do you like best? From Essbase I love its powerful calculation engine (aggregation, calc scripting, formulas, attributes, etc) and the flexibility to easily change hierarchies. What do you dislike? The lack of promotin from Oracle to provide knowledge about how to develop a cube. Some times it looks like rocket science What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I'm helping my internal customers to do pacing and financial analysis, ...

Essbase is great

What do you like best? Rapid aggregation of data in both BSO and ASO, ease of use via smartview for self-service reporting for business users, depth & flexibility of function library for writing calculations, financial intelligence. What do you dislike? Many languages to learn to achieve proficiency: Essbase calc scripting, MaxL, MDX, DOS scripting, and for advanced users, PowerShell/Java/etc. Many administration tasks seem like they could be simplified or automated. What problems ...

How multidemensional has to be done.

What do you like best? Essbase, as experts in multidimensional databases know the product Oracle Analytics, is a special database tuned for analysis purposes, allows true dimension structures which are ragged. What do you dislike? The listprice, although companies who use it extensively, say it is worth each dollar. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Insight into your data via dimension rollups and completed by calculations of KPIs.