Endeca (discontinued) vs. Excel4apps

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Endeca (discontinued)
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Endeca was a business intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured data, acquired by Oracle and since discontinued.N/A
Excel4apps
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Excel4apps is a business intelligence software offering from Excel4apps.N/A
Pricing
Endeca (discontinued)Excel4apps
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Endeca (discontinued)Excel4apps
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Endeca (discontinued)Excel4apps
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Endeca (discontinued)
5.5
2 Ratings
39% below category average
Excel4apps
6.3
4 Ratings
26% below category average
Customizable dashboards5.02 Ratings6.13 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.01 Ratings7.44 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings5.43 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Endeca (discontinued)
5.7
3 Ratings
35% below category average
Excel4apps
7.6
4 Ratings
6% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.02 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.01 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages2.01 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration6.02 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Endeca (discontinued)
7.0
1 Ratings
18% below category average
Excel4apps
6.4
3 Ratings
26% below category average
Publish to Web6.01 Ratings6.73 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.01 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Report Versioning7.01 Ratings5.83 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.01 Ratings6.23 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.01 Ratings5.02 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Endeca (discontinued)
7.3
1 Ratings
10% below category average
Excel4apps
6.7
2 Ratings
19% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.01 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Endeca (discontinued)
8.0
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Excel4apps
8.1
3 Ratings
6% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.02 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.02 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.02 Ratings7.23 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Endeca (discontinued)
8.2
1 Ratings
3% above category average
Excel4apps
7.8
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.21 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Mobile Application8.21 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.21 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Endeca (discontinued)
5.8
2 Ratings
31% below category average
Excel4apps
3.4
2 Ratings
80% below category average
REST API8.02 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Javascript API8.02 Ratings5.72 Ratings
iFrames6.01 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Java API6.01 Ratings5.92 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)4.01 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Endeca (discontinued)Excel4apps
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(15 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.4
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
6.9
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Endeca (discontinued)Excel4apps
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Best fit for this product: - Advanced or Sophisticated Enterprise Search platform: If you spend effort on your search capabilities, Endeca is the tool. - If you are looking for capabilities to search and navigate similar to a relational-database system, then Endeca is not the best fit. - If you are spending effort to drive customer experience, especially around customer interaction with your web application, Endeca can help with that in a multichannel environment.
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Excel4apps
We have to calculate most all Lab / Pilot / Proposals sizing and results. The automated calculations in [Excel4apps] is awesome, as once you are familiar with them, it is easy to quickly implement them when needed.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Provides exact, correct counts of items in its dimensions.
  • Allows for flexible, out-of-the-box boosting of content (based on combo of any/all of: user profile, date, dimension being browsed and search keyword).
  • It has a reasonably good admin interface for the administration of boosting/promotion rules for the business user.
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Excel4apps
  • Easy to install and maintain. After the initial installation, there is little involvement by the technical administrators.
  • Cloning production to a test environment does not require any additional setups unlike Oracle EBS which does.
  • Loading data and reporting on this data is handled via EXCEL spreadsheets which is the "language" of our financial users.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Endeca's page builder is not fit to be an enterprise product - it is just BAD!
  • It is not easy for a non-user to understand Endeca quickly
  • Multi-index search (or any complex search implementation) is not easy to setup in Endeca
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Excel4apps
  • It is possible but difficult to retrieve data or set criteria from different module into a single report or retrieve. If it is more user friendly instead of having to create a complex formula to retrieve the data, this function will be utilized more often.
  • It will be nice to have visual (graphs, etc.) report template available
  • It is helpful if we can retrieve data for a range of date, instead of just YTD, PTD etc. and multi-year data all at once for comparison too.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
If the solution is implemented well and the business understands the purpose of the Endeca stack, it offers a great way for a business to explore and benefit from its existing data. From my experience, the Endeca solution has exposed data patterns to a business that were not thought about or explored before because of the lack of available tools to properly expose these patterns
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Excel4apps
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Usability
Discontinued Products
The system itself is very usable, and with proper training is very sensible in its organization and method of operation. There are some downsides in initial setup in the way things are imported (or not in some cases) in setting up properties and dimensions. Overall however it's amazingly flexible in terms of the content it can index and make available for search.
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Excel4apps
I am not a power user of Excel. So I find Exel4apps a friendlier version of the things that I could do on Excel and making it easier with a magic wand.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
Support has been very good, and the trainers for the various Endeca courses have all been very willing to help long after the classes have been completed, so in the instances where we're waiting on support from Oracle, it's often that the members of their training arm can help us out as well.
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Excel4apps
I have not needed support yet
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In-Person Training
Discontinued Products
The training is actually really good, and absolutely necessary - although this is software that has great documentation, the documentation itself is so vast, that it would be difficult to learn haphazardly, not to mention being incredibly time consuming to do so. Online training probably would have been fine except for the fact that having someone look over your shoulder to see where you're going wrong is helpful. This also allowed our team to sit in a single room and converse about functionality, etc. that would have been difficult to facilitate via an online class.
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Excel4apps
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Online Training
Discontinued Products
We did some online Q&A with the Oracle team, but I would definitely recommend doing an in person class if you have a large team that will be attending - there's definitely no replacements for a large class of technically oriented staff members who can drive conversation about specific topics that might surface.
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Excel4apps
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Implementation Rating
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There were some features we were hoping to get implemented in this particular release of Endeca, but were unable to facilitate those requirements due mostly to timeline. Having seen several other implementations, we will definitely have future iterations to add functionality and improve upon our implementation of Endeca. For the time being, we are satisfied with our implementation as it turned out.
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Excel4apps
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Oracle Endeca was the best option that we evaluated by far. It gave us the most flexibility and ability to meet our objectives and had features that were not offered by the competing products we evaluated, but which we very much wanted, and this was why we decided to go with Oracle Endeca versus another platform
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Excel4apps
Excel4apps is more user friendly and can retrieve data much easier and in a nicer format than Jaspersoft. Qlik Sense is useful and have more visual reporting and dashboard. However, it is usually used for higher level of analyses and review. Yardi is used for specific purpose, which is different than Excel4apps. Excel4apps can pull all the financial data from Oracle, including billing and collections.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • It is a searching tool, and hard to estimate its impact on conversion.
  • It does its job regarding better searching; In terms of efficiency, it's hard to say: it has big learning curve. It requires a dedicated Endeca developer to work on it.
  • Compared to Solr, it is way too complicated.
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Excel4apps
  • Increase team transparency
  • Increased reporting
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