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Oracle Essbase - Financial Analysis Software

Oracle Essbase Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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Oracle Essbase Reviews & Ratings

4.3

Very Good

Based on 326 ratings & 226 reviews

Rating Distribution

Excellent

(121)

Very Good

(90)

Good

(12)

Poor

(3)

Terible

(0)

Expert's Review

Essbase, a multidimensional database tool, has garnered positive feedback over the last 12 months for its powerful analytical engine and user-friendly interface. Users appreciate the ease of slicing and dicing data for financial planning and forecasting purposes, emphasizing its ability to provide valuable insights into business operations. The customization ...Read more

Oracle Essbase pros and cons

  • Allows for rapid aggregation of data and easy integration with Excel, enhancing reporting capabilities.

  • Provides powerful calculation engine and flexibility in managing hierarchies, ensuring efficient financial analysis.

  • Offers intuitive interface and dynamic data access, simplifying ad hoc analysis for users.

  • Scalable and easy to integrate with other tools, enhancing data analysis and reporting efficiency.

  • Steep learning curve with various languages and functions to master, posing challenges for new users.

  • Limited ability to customize and handle exception situations, impacting data manipulation and management.

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AI

Administrator in Real Estate

06/11/18

4.5 out of 5

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.

AI

Administrator in Banking

06/11/18

4 out of 5

Essbase and BI Review

What do you like best? I like the way we could partition the ASO cubes and use it with OBIEE for better usage. What do you dislike? The performance issues and some limitations that we have when using essbase cubes and not simple data transfers between various applications What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? connecting to teradata and fetching data from different source systems and maxl script scheduling.

CI

Consultant in Information Technology and Services

06/11/18

4 out of 5

Oracle Review

What do you like best? Oracle Essbase is easy to develop and use. One of the main benefits is the ad-hoc capabilities via SmartView. What do you dislike? I would like to see ASO and BSO with exactly the same options. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Once an Essbase applicatiion was developed and integrated with other Oracle tools, specially ODI, users can create their own ad-hoc reports via SmartView. This reduces development ...

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AI

Administrator in Hospital & Health Care

06/11/18

4 out of 5

db admin

What do you like best? fast, reilable, powerful, flexible, easy What do you dislike? not as integrative, sometimes limiting.. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? loading gl data, reporting, and user interface

IC

Internal Consultant in Health, Wellness and Fitness

06/11/18

4 out of 5

For all your reporting needs

What do you like best? I like using Essbase as the final repository for all our data as a one stop loction for our reporting needs What do you dislike? Don't like that in Smaet view, ancestor postion is not able to be above the children when zooming in and out, like with HFM What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Solving provlem of dispers data. Using Essbase as a repository for all reporting data

AI

Administrator in Staffing and Recruiting

06/11/18

4 out of 5

Good

What do you like best? Speed and custom-ability of the database. What do you dislike? BSO can be a challenge to understand and tune. A person needs considerable training to get good with the database What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reporting and Hyperion Planning. Duplication of other systems in one common speedy system.

AI

Administrator in Retail

06/11/18

4 out of 5

Essbase and Me

What do you like best? I love that it is easy and flexible to use What do you dislike? Wish it had more out of the box calc scripts especially some very basic scripts What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are using for Forecasting, Planning, Retail Reporting and a Cash flow application

AI

Administrator in Telecommunications

06/11/18

4 out of 5

Essbase Review

What do you like best? The system is easy to use and end users have very little issues What do you dislike? I do not having to learn MDX Scripts for ASO which is different than BSO Calc Scripts What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are using a hybrid cube that has helped our planning team.

AI

Administrator in Machinery

06/11/18

4 out of 5

The greatest OLAP system

What do you like best? Essbase power and flexibility. We are able to use it for multiple processes, and leverage its capabilities to reflect the complexity of our organization What do you dislike? Essbase requires expertise to leverage its capabilities and operate efficiently What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Business reporting, budget and headcount planning. Federated reporting

IC

Internal Consultant in Retail

06/11/18

5 out of 5

Oracle survey

What do you like best? The flexibility to design any data set my way What do you dislike? The restrrictions with aso, i want full bso functionality in aso size and sope What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? GL Reporting, Planning, specific functional reporting