Is Essbase Cloud the future for you?
September 19, 2019
Is Essbase Cloud the future for you?
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Essbase Cloud
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Speeds analysis and makes analysts true analysts and not data gatherers
- Has reduced time to delivery of critical data
Essbase is more scalable and data source agnostic where the other products are not