Oracle Essbase

Long Live Essbase

What do you like best? The power and flexibility of Essbase is the best in the market. Even more excited to see and work with OAC and the use and ablity to tie in the other applications. SmartView add in creates a quick and easy stregnth to the data What do you dislike? Essbase over time has lacked the power in making calculations easier and comprehendible for all user types. The other areas that could use some strengthing is around the capabillities of interacting more seamlessly ...

Excellent Product

What do you like best? Veristile and easy to use and analyze data. What do you dislike? SmartView is clunky and has several issues compared to prior Essbasee add-in to interact with data. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Data analytics, expense, revenue, and metric reporting

It is the best product i have ever used

What do you like best? i can get my financial data pulled into analysis easily What do you dislike? timing of the pull in smartview.. big data pulls lock up and stop all other office product usage................................................................. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? we have tied obiee to essbase and will have oac tied to it as well. we use it to do adhoc financial analysis and produce reusable pivots

Fun with Essbase

What do you like best? Flexibility of the software and speed. I hasve used EssBase for 25 years and have used it for so many apps. The flexibility and ease to develop is awesome What do you dislike? EAS managment is horrible. Java issues with EAS make my security team cringe What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Lots. Government rate calculations, costing, project planning, softball league averages

Essabase Road Map Presentation

What do you like best? I enjoyed the live demo of features that are in the works. I also enjoyed that we were given timelines on when the features would be available. What do you dislike? The time went very fast and not all the demos were completed. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We use Essbase for our planning as well as a solution for our 606 Revenue waterfalls.

love of essbase

What do you like best? Flexibiliity, ability to slice and dice, speed, reporting, analytics What do you dislike? Oracle Essbase products are great no known issues What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? storing budgeting in essbase instead of spreadsheets and streamlining monthly reporting

Gotten much better, still ways to go

What do you like best? new Web UI, default Hybrid BSO. Ability to access logs via the Web UI. Application Workbook What do you dislike? The new architecture on the server lays files in multiple places, and is usually a pain to navigate. Liked the old on-prem setup which had everything in one root Recommendations to others considering the product: stop thinking on-prem old-school ways of things, and keep an open mind. What problems are you solving with the product? What ...

User Friendly Consilidation tool

What do you like best? Easy to use, add, edit data, load and send data, retrieve and modify style, drill down feature. What do you dislike? Form my experience using Essbase, i have never encoutered any issues What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Consolidating budget data from over 30 plus business unit. the result is accurate and quick

Its's essbase, what else do you need to know?

What do you like best? Essbase gives you the ability to drill into any level of you hirearchies, from any spot, to view any level of data that you want to see What do you dislike? there are very few things i dislike about essbase, but if i had to say one, it would be the limitations around duplicate member names. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? all of our financial reporting problems can be solved with essbase, but that is only ...

Essbase is the best

What do you like best? its simplicity and powerful aggregation capabilities. What do you dislike? it still does not allow more than 8 character in names. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? we have been using it for a long time for ubdgeting and forecating reporting.