Item: Oracle Analytics Cloud
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Essbase Cloud

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Essbase Cloud (Now stand-alone previously in OAC) is used internally and at clients for a variety of analysis. From financials to sales to marketing. It allows us to quickly do analysis, find trends and create actionable decisions. We can create reports, and dashboards from the data to allow the executives to make better informed decisions and get a quick detailed analysis and forecast of the information.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Hybrid cubes allow for quick aggregation of data so users don't have to wait for calculations to occur
Embedded Drill to both on-prem and Cloud sources. This allows us to extend the analysis and provide greater research capabilities.
Sandboxing allows for quick efficient what-if analysis without a ton of data replication.

Cons

It is lacking an internal scheduler so external schedulers must be used in automation.
The outline editor does not allow for some of the on-prem functionality like copying hierarchies between cubes using cut and paste.

Return on Investment

Speeds analysis and makes analysts true analysts and not data gatherers
Has reduced time to delivery of critical data

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cognos Express

Essbase is more scalable and data source agnostic where the other products are not

Likelihood to Recommend

We use it often during close processes to allow the accountants to see how the process is going, what entries might be missing. We also use it heavily for sales analysis to see how we are doing and to forecast where we expect to be.

Oracle Analytics Cloud Feature Ratings

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