Oracle Essbase

Perfect for us!

What do you like best? Multidimenstional database Quick reporting Love to code in Calc scripts What do you dislike? User interface Training users - takes a lot! What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Financial Calculations and Reporting

powerful analytic tools

What do you like best? multi dimensional analytic tools, smart view users interface robust API, many wide ranges of application avaialable. What do you dislike? if you have a very sparse data block sparse the performance could be lacking, hybrid cube will be ideal but the technology is not matured yet What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Budget, Forecast, Analytic

A Newbie's View

What do you like best? I like the speed and ease of use of Essbase. What do you dislike? Automation of certain Essbase functions can be a challenge. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Essbase is the core of our accounting analytics. Essbase is the one source of truth for our company's financials.

Essbase

What do you like best? Ad Hoc Reporting Capabilities and ability to spin off multiple cubes; great for analysts and excel savvy users. What do you dislike? User learning curve due to the interface What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Essbase provides reporting capabilities in a dynamic way. Slicing data is easy and efficient.

Essbase Review

What do you like best? better performance for large cubes, large organization with complex applications. What do you dislike? aggregation time, movement of data between HFM and Essbase, it should be simple to move between EPM applicaitons What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? we use essbase for Forecasting/budgeting

Essbase review

What do you like best? Essbase engine, scalability, speed, etc. What do you dislike? Smart View stability issues on 32-bit Office (Excel) What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? FInancial reprorting, Profitability

Great experience with Essbase

What do you like best? I like how easy it is to slice and dice data in Excel. What do you dislike? Text data cannot be loaded into Essbase. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Retrieving and analyzing financial data.

essbase and oac

What do you like best? essbase calculation functionality, real time results What do you dislike? the oac setup has been painful and very cryptic What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? financial planning, GL reporting, loan analysis

Enterprise Architect

What do you like best? The best thing I like from Essbase is the power behinde the dynamic calculations and versatility at the moment of building either top down or bottom up models What do you dislike? THe fact that there had not been hugh improvments over the years in terms of performance and overall product architecture. Specially on scalability and high availability What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Fianance analytics, planning ...

Concerned for the level of support provided by Oracle Support for On Prem Essbase products

What do you like best? I like the functionality for Oracle Essbase, administration What do you dislike? I don't like how current upto date versions of on Prem Essbase (11.1.2.4) support depends on older versions of Java as well as the level of support i get from support. Seem to not get issues fixed in a prompt manner. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reporting on Financial, kpi stats reporting.