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Oracle Essbase Reviews in July 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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Oracle Essbase Reviews & Ratings
Spotsaas Editor’s POV
Essbase is a multidimensional database built for financial planning and forecasting. Before shortlisting, verify that your team can support the deployment process—Essbase requires infrastructure planning and ongoing administration that smaller finance teams often underestimate. Test the learning curve in your demo: the tool uses multiple scripting languages ...Read more
Oracle Essbase pros and cons
Rapidly aggregates data and integrates with Excel, improving reporting capabilities.
Calculation engine handles complex hierarchies efficiently for financial analysis.
Ad hoc analysis is accessible through dynamic data access and a familiar interface.
Integrates with other tools and scales to support growing data analysis needs.
Steep learning curve with multiple proprietary languages and functions to master.
Limited ability to customize exception handling, complicating data manipulation.
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Administrator in Computer Hardware
06/11/18
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
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Internal Consultant in Health, Wellness and Fitness
06/11/18
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
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Administrator in Hospital & Health Care
06/11/18
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
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Administrator in Accounting
06/10/18
Essbase review RSI
What do you like best? All memory data for cascade & cube change details What do you dislike? export challenges, integration setups, consultants expense to assist What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? planning data flow integration for LRP & rolling forecast processing
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Administrator in Chemicals
06/10/18
I have been using Essbase for 8 years now
What do you like best? Excel integration to the application and the ease of use What do you dislike? all the performance configurations during the installation What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Mostly reporting
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Administrator in Airlines/Aviation
06/10/18
tools review
What do you like best? simplification, and excel connectivity.. What do you dislike? commentary builtin feature would be great What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? driver based planning and forecasting
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Administrator in Executive Office
06/10/18
Extended Spread Sheet dataBASE
What do you like best? Business Intelligence using an Excel interface What do you dislike? The push to get moved to cloud solutions What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Financial planning and analytics, reporting
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User in Medical Devices
06/10/18
Using Essbase as an analytical tool
What do you like best? Essbase is a efficient tool for creating analysis. It is quick to add measures if these are missing in the cube. What do you dislike? We have experienced some limitations to the amount of information that you can add to one cube. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have created tools for daily sales reviews and gross margin analysis. It has helped us visualize areas that need improvements.
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Internal Consultant in Information Services
06/10/18
Pretty foundational tool
What do you like best? none like it, it is pretty unique and does the job well What do you dislike? not enough analytics and governance features on prem or on the cloud What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? finance planning and commentary
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User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
06/10/18
Great for data mining
What do you like best? versatility for doing calcs and drill through capabilities What do you dislike? sometimes the smartview incompatibility with microsoft office. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? providing views and drill through capabilities to find variances and provide explanations
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