Essbase
by Oracle America | Founded 1977, Santa Clara, CA
Categories:
What is Essbase?
Industry Specialties: Serves all industries
Oracle Essbase is an Online Analytical Processing provider for businesses to develop complex models of their activities that result in actionable insight. It can scale from simple ad-hoc queries to extensive, repeated multidimensional aggregations and present the results in a usable form.
Through both retrospective and predictive analysis, business owners can maximize efficiency and profitability by turning data sources throughout the enterprise into usable information. It is configurable to an organization’s ongoing data needs.
PRICE
$
$
$
$
$
COMPANY SIZE
DEPLOYMENT
PLATFORM
Try Before You Buy.
Request a Free Demo Today!
Request Demo
It's completely free!
Product Screenshots and Videos
Essbase Pricing
Based on our most recent analysis, Essbase pricing and cost details are described here:
- Price
- $$$$$
- Starting From
- Still gathering data
- Pricing Model
- Still gathering data
- Free Trial
- Still gathering data
Essbase Benefits and Insights
Why use Essbase?
Key differentiators & advantages of Essbase
- Speed-Of-Thought Processing: Through both retrospective and predictive analysis, business owners can maximize efficiency and profitability by turning data sources throughout the enterprise into usable information. It is configurable to an organization’s ongoing data needs.
- Scalable: Data can be partitioned, cached and processed across platforms, with integrated help from Oracle’s other processing platforms and additional optimization features.
- Large User Base Support: Thousands of users can access query results simultaneously without a loss in speed with its load balancing tools. These are essential for companies that are reliant on their employees being able to use and manipulate data.
- Easily Usable: Results can be exported to common third-party interfaces, making the data digestible to most audiences.
- Oracle Integration Perks: Benefit from the processing advantages of Oracle’s other products, and the company’s efforts in security, data storage, deployment and maintenance that smaller providers will have difficulty matching.
Industry Expertise
The Arbor Software Company launched Essbase before being acquired in mergers with Hyperion first, then Oracle in 2007. Oracle is widely regarded as a top-10 producer in the big data industry, with tens of thousands of customers globally.
Essbase Reviews
Average customer reviews & user sentiment summary for Essbase:
444 reviews
Synopsis of User Ratings and Reviews
Based on an aggregate of Essbase reviews taken from the sources above, the following pros & cons have been curated by a SelectHub Market Analyst.
Pros
Cons
Researcher's Summary:
Essbase is a multidimensional database with a fast querying engine and an intuitive interface. Available both in the cloud or on-premises, it enables users to build and manage analytic applications, which can be migrated to the cloud. It features a robust set of tools to perform planning, forecasting and analytics. Users can slice and dice intersections easily to find specific data. It can be integrated with Excel, enabling users to build budget and forecasting models, with ad hoc reporting capabilities. Users liked the flexibility offered when designing reports, or changing hierarchies. With access to all optimization and tuning options, users are given control of hardware utilizations and other settings. However, users complained that they needed to learn multiple languages, such as Calc scripts, MDX, business rules and Groovy, to leverage the platform’s capabilities. They also found it difficult to export data or integrate it with a data warehouse. Some users reported performance and stability issues, with rare instances of crashes and connection loss. Reviewers also complained about the low level of support provided when critical tickets are submitted, some of which are closed without providing any solution. Overall, it’s a flexible solution with a powerful calculation engine to drive business insights.
Key Features
- Advanced Processing: Its extensive library of functions processes multiple data types. The High Availability Services feature allows processing to occur on several servers, lightening the workload and enabling its market-leading speeds.
- Conversible Data: The Outline feature helps view and alter the structures used when finding data and report as the company’s needs change. Adding/changing drivers can forecast what impacts certain decisions might have, assisting in risk management. Depending on the storage type, write-back capabilities are supported.
- Data Storage Options: Depending on business needs, it offers either an aggregate storage option (ASO), which allows faster data processing for large, flat dimensions, or a block storage option (BSO), which is tailored for more complex calculations on smaller data sets.
- Data Forecasting: View projected results, which can be used for decision making or reviewed later for efficiency and optimization management. Scenarios can be input either manually or through drivers and data.
- Results Delivery: Queries can be exported to several platforms, including Excel, to make data more available to less tech-savvy users. Data is presented in easy-to-understand interfaces.
Limitations
Some of the product limitations include:
- Difficult to drill back to transactional details.
- No easy way to integrate with third-party visualization tools.
- Essbase cubes don’t perform well for very high volumes.
Suite Support
Access to Oracle’s support system must be purchased. Behind the paywall, users get access to extensive forums, how-to and other guides, training programs and service request availability through its dedicated support website.
mail_outlineEmail: Oracle support email addresses are hidden behind the My Oracle Support paywall.
phonePhone: Customers in the U.S. can call 1-800-223-1711 for technical and nontechnical questions, with hours varying depending on customer location.
schoolTraining: The Oracle Support Knowledge Base includes tutorials and FAQ, with an extensive training program through LaunchPad Training Inc.
local_offerTickets: Service requests can be submitted through Oracle’s support website.
Compare Big Data Analytics Tools
Compare Big Data Analytics Tools
Head-to-Head
Comparison
vs
Similar Products
Here are the most similar products to Essbase.
