Oracle Essbase

Essbase on Steriods

What do you like best? Given the ability to migrate the Essbase applications to cloud, with hybrid capabilities gives the best Database with much anticiapted analytics reporting capbilities What do you dislike? don't have access to OTL management., cant update the Outline directly from the application, User liesence are based on processor which is costly or based on time used not on named user. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? ...

Amazing experience

What do you like best? I like the calculation capabilities Hierarchy What do you dislike? I don't like Multi-cube design Security smart View What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Customized budgeting application Reporting

From relaltional to multi-dimensional

What do you like best? Ever since I've been introduced to Essbase - multi-dimensional database (which was around 12 years ago now), Ive never looked back to the more traditional relational databases. Greatest upside for me is the definition of multiple dimensions paving the way for different pivots and point of view analysis. What do you dislike? The only thing I slightly dislike is the multiple scripting languages you have to learn like Calc scripts, MDX, business rules, and now ...

NEed to Get back to old School essbase

What do you like best? Essbase is the best tool period. There is nothing we cant do with it and customers love it What do you dislike? THe fact the Oracle sales team has no clue on how to sell it and ORacle seems to forgot they have it and continue to not make it a priority What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have solved many customers issues from rerpoting to analytics to cancer

Advanced BI architect

What do you like best? calculation engine, aggreagation power, outline order, properties, how fast is to calculate and how nice is to create outlines and how he respect the order of members and its properties. What do you dislike? how slow is to extract data from it. ITs always hard to export and integrate it in your Data warehouse because the difficult way to extrat from it. metadata is also a little bit hard to maintain Recommendations to others considering the product: easier ...

A must for Financial Planning

What do you like best? Easy to drill down, sum up, calculate. You can build the budget and forecast models with Excel as the interface. What do you dislike? There is nothing I really dislike about the product. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Budgeting and Forecasting

overall it was pleasureable

What do you like best? good dashboarding capabilities and much more analytics What do you dislike? not sure yet. i need to implement this a bit more before i can comment What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? i like the analytical aspect and the amount of stuff you can do with it.

Great product for analytics

What do you like best? Essbase forces the organization to keep analytics at a strategic/executive level. What do you dislike? There can become a bad habit of creating a lot of little applications which can be difficult to maintain. Recommendations to others considering the product: Make sure you scope any applications properly, if you don't the performance can degrade quickly. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Sales reporting ...

IT Analyst

What do you like best? Ease and speed for drilling and analytics What do you dislike? The version has not been updated in a whiile What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? financial reporting and analytics

Best OLAP1

What do you like best? Best thing I like about essbase is how robust it is, the drilling option, BSO calculation power, multidimensionality, fast retrievals, What do you dislike? It crashes - lot of zoom in and zoom out causes delay What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Allocations, other complex calculations