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Oracle Essbase offers custom pricing plan
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
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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IC
Internal Consultant in Retail
06/10/18
Essbase for delivering financials to business
What do you like best? Essbase seemless interface to Microsoft Excel What do you dislike? Lack of real-time support. Limited security schemes (in cases were fine granular security is required, from an external source). Recommendations to others considering the product: Part of EPM family of products which provides seamless integration What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Ability to summarize GL financials, while applying business ...
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CI
Consultant in Computer Software
06/10/18
Essbase is still the Top OLAP tool - On Premise
What do you like best? Excellent Drill Down Hierarchal tool that was the Top 10 Technology of 1999....and still is formidable today. Also built for the Financial End User is mind. What do you dislike? Move to Cloud OAC takes a step back in integration and user impact. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reporting and Analytics driving enhanced decision making.
AI
Administrator in Computer Software
06/10/18
Essbase is easy to spin up
What do you like best? It's really easy to quickly build an Essbase cube to analyze data What do you dislike? I don't like that data is stored in a flat page file. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Financial data analysis. It's really easy to query data in Smartview and analyze it.
CI
Consultant in Financial Services
06/10/18
Essbase: It's like magic
What do you like best? Flexibel, easy to use, fast, customizable What do you dislike? Too many scripting languages, not easy to crete packaged reports What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Analysis, reporting, solving complex data models
AI
Administrator in Automotive
06/10/18
The ultimate flexibility in data management
What do you like best? Love the flexibility of how you set up your data. Super easy to combine very disparate data. What do you dislike? No significant dislikes. The cost can be prohibitive for some, but the functionability is awesome. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Allows us to start the process of building a data warehouse solution.
AI
Administrator in Insurance
06/10/18
Administrator view of Essbase
What do you like best? The flexibility of the tool to build dynamic models needed by the business. What do you dislike? The lack of documentation clearly defining BSO, ASO, and Hybrid options. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We use Essbase for financial reporting, product analytics and customer analytics. We also use it for planning.
AI
Administrator in Oil & Energy
06/10/18
SRI Essbaae
What do you like best? It was easy to create and publish Rollup. We were also able to use it in essbaae. What do you dislike? It took us a while to figure out hybrid cubes and getting drill tr=hru to work Recommendations to others considering the product: Would be good to research with prior users and getting the gotchas before implementing What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We were using it to merge retail data with financials ...
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CI
Consultant in Accounting
06/10/18
My Essbase Survey
What do you like best? It has great modelling capabilities coupled with an impressive number of calculation functions and commands What do you dislike? Shared resources of multiple cubes per application decreases performance, as well as no individual cube logs, but app logs What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Various planning models ranging from (purely) financial to very detailed non-financial. Benefits are with consistancy of results
AI
Administrator in Oil & Energy
06/10/18
Essbase Review
What do you like best? Session console, Calculation script editors, Job logs What do you dislike? Dislike timeout of EAS console sometimes. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Improving performance for essbase applications.
UI
User in Construction
06/10/18
PBCS planning using business rules
What do you like best? I like all fonctionalities related to business rules, member formula and how we can customize flow of data and calculation on the fly What do you dislike? Our users are using only ASO cubes and we rely a lot on DataMaps. In a perfect world ASO and BSO would always be in sync without any actions needed. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We do have one central source of truth with our financial data
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