Oracle Essbase

Essbase Review

What do you like best? Performancen of this tool is better and it works great What do you dislike? Look and feel is not great also it is not consisitent sometime What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reporting analysis

Essbase provides me with an easy ad hoc experience

What do you like best? Essbase is a tool that is easy, quick, and provides data integrity. What do you dislike? lacking knowledge to use it to its best potential What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? quick easy ad hoc analysis

On premise has been a reliable platform

What do you like best? We like the ability to leverage our internal resources to manage the on-premise solution. What do you dislike? Oracle technical support is often unreliable, misdirecting the issue back on the customer. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Financial reporting, quickly deliviering information at a management reporting level

Essbase is still the most dominate solution ever

What do you like best? I like the flexibility, the adaptability, and the usability. What do you dislike? Sales cycle for on premise can be difficult. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? It makes all the wrongs in the world from a financial perspective right.

Essbase Review

What do you like best? In my opinion, the real power of Essbase is the Ad-hoc capabilities in Excel. What do you dislike? There is a learning curve that can be difficult for some user, particularly those who have used Excel in one way for most of their career. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I primarily use Essbase for a Management dashboard and for Planning. Also creating numerous ad-hoc reports.

Right to tool to get Insight into your business

What do you like best? Easy to transalate the business requirements to a cube for effective analaysis What do you dislike? Easy way of building Metadata from a Flat file source. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Ability to give the end user a high level view of what is happening in his/her area and drill-thru to the detail if required. I was able to succeed in both the objectives.

Hyperion EPM Architect

What do you like best? Robust calculation engine. Great performance. Easy to create cubes and load data. The MDX reporting option.. The SmartView interface. What do you dislike? Sometimes the low level of support when critical tickets are submitted. Some tickets are closed without solution. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Essbase helped us to create consolidation and reporting cubes that meet our requirements.

My Essbase Review

What do you like best? Users are very happy wtih the ease of analysis in Essbase via Smart View. The ability to slice and dice quicky is very powerful for users. What do you dislike? The downside of on-premise Essbase is that it hasn't seen much feature improvements in a very long time :( What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Annual Budgeting and Monthly Forecasting is being performed in our Essbase envrionment.

I love Essbase

What do you like best? It allows people to spend time on actual analytics instead of gathering data all the time What do you dislike? `It is sometimes not as flexbile as I would like it to be What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? No problems just as yet.

Get rid of connected spreadsheets

What do you like best? Verstality of the product, ease of use and deployment What do you dislike? On-prem complexities and IT reliance. Hardware requirements What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Used across different divisions and groups to solve simple excel problems to complex allocations