Oracle Essbase

On Premise Essbase - Spreadsheet Database Forevor

What do you like best? Essbase and Planning are my favorite tools for Forecasting, Planning, and Analytics using a multi-dimensional framework. Ad hoc analysis in Smart View paired with Essbase continues to be incredibly valuable tool for getting through the close process and forecasting/budgeting cycles. The flexibility and customizability of cubes and data loads and calc scripts and security continue to allow for better faster decision making in the finance world. What do you dislike? ...

It works perfect for analysis

What do you like best? Connectivity with excel using smartview. In process to move to cloud. What do you dislike? Admin and Server controls , I dislike server controls around essbase. Not access data saved on server. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Forecasting and Planning , analysis is easier

Great Experience

What do you like best? At our organization we use Essbase to load data into Hyperion Planning What do you dislike? There's no downsides to the Essbase aplication What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Getting Data into Hyperion Planning

We've had a great experience with Essbase and Planning at Starbucks

What do you like best? The ability to provide users with the tools to complete various aspects of their jobs. Forecast, planning, workforce planning, and others. What do you dislike? Self-inflicted wounds of design during implementation. Our cube builds aren't optimized according to some consultants who have come in. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Quck reporting and analytics for accounting and finance employees. Increased speed ...

Give it a shot....

What do you like best? Having a cohesive platform that takes advantage of our existing Oracle products has been a huge benefit. We do not have to worry about translating or syncing of systems across different platforms. What do you dislike? None come to mind. There really is nothing that I can think of. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have been able to analyze site traffic and utilization which has helped drive many new features.

Stellar

What do you like best? Being able to slice and dice intersections to figure out where specific data is sitting. What do you dislike? It's quite picky when using tools like Smart View to pull in the data you're looking for What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Creating management reports for internal reporting. We have been able to significantly improve the timeliness of monthly financial reporting for internal purposes. Also, using ...

Best Analytics tool

What do you like best? Flexablity to dice and slice data. Reporting for month end and SEC reporting What do you dislike? I've not found anything that i dislike about this tool. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Help my business make informed decisions

12 yrs of Hyperion experience

What do you like best? easy to manage metadata. Member updates. What do you dislike? Other EAS functionitiles. Still exploring functionalities What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We havent moved to OAC yet, exploring all functionalities before we move

Essbase

What do you like best? It is very much helpful in storing multidimensional data, also it is very convenient to use.i really love java SDK connection What do you dislike? I would like to have more documentation for java SDK with some more examples Recommendations to others considering the product: Increase documentation for java api What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Storing huge amount of data with multidimensional values. It ...

Essbase compare to oracle database

What do you like best? it's multidimensional, chalenging compared to ebs but far more powerful. What do you dislike? Not much able to extract data easily as other database What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Interface with oracle databasse to perform finance report.