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Oracle Essbase Reviews in July 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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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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AI
Administrator in Information Technology and Services
06/10/18
New User
What do you like best? The ease of use. My users love the application. What do you dislike? Oracle Licensing. The licensing is confusing What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Financial reporting.
ES
Executive Sponsor in Aviation & Aerospace
06/10/18
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
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.
IC
Internal Consultant in Insurance
06/10/18
Essbase speed and flexibilty
What do you like best? I like how there are many different ways to build an Essbase model. This flexibility is key to accomplish complex tasks. What do you dislike? Restructure times for ASO cubes can cause downtime for users What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We provide the business is ways to access and manipulate there data.
AI
Administrator in Information Services
06/10/18
Essbase Cloud is the best
What do you like best? very good UI and re-designed with Java Api for automate the everything what you do with old tools What do you dislike? They required enhance the supporting the additional drivers What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Auditings are the best options
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Vinay P
06/10/18
Supervisor Business Applications
What do you like best? multi dimensionality reporting and flexibility to write business rules What do you dislike? hard to query without smart view hard to debug issues What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? what if studies
JM
Joe M
06/10/18
Easiest OLAP tool around
What do you like best? Deployment is a breeze. ON-prem or Essbase CLoud Services (OAC) are easy for an on-prem to cloud (IaaS to Sass) What do you dislike? Cost - it's not cheap. Also - oracle's LRM costs are pretty steep. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? needed fast analytics for our business data
AI
Administrator in Information Technology and Services
06/10/18
Best OLAP Application in the Market
What do you like best? Spead of Aggregations and Calculations , User friendlyness and retrival perforamce. What do you dislike? EAS can be improved and parallel data load performance need to be improved, WIth latest Version and patches Parallel data load has been issues What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Working on Planning and Budgetting application and with Write back functionality and calculation Processes on ASO has helped us to ...
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AI
Administrator in Oil & Energy
06/10/18
Essbase is your friend
What do you like best? ease of use, speed of analysis, ability to do create what if scenarios What do you dislike? my company never really appreciated the value of Essbase What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reporting and Analysis We redesigned our Variance Reporting using Essbase with Linked Reporting Objects and saved hundreds of hours of work each month
CI
Consultant in Information Technology and Services
06/10/18
Essbase Review
What do you like best? Essbase is a powerful, flexible tool that can not only provide speed of thought analytics, but, with over 250 functions, can allocate, slice and dice, and calculate complex equations quickly and efficientlty. What do you dislike? Essbase has become more of an IT maintained tool. That is unfortunate because the power of Essbase is the fact that the power is put into the business user's hands. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have ...
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