This tool is highly scalable. It can be customized to quickly dissect small to large amounts of financial or statistical data. The capability to save premade templates and automate them is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Macros and other excel formulas often conflict with pre-saved templates. We're also seeing excel version compatibility issues at times. The overall UI is a bit dated and very technical when something doesn't work well. It would be better if we could quickly receive error messages that display possible fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The super fast aggregation and drill down , best calculation engine.

Ability to connect to multiple different databases on single sheet to perform analysis and drill down.

Hierarchical views.

Alternate hierarchies

Security access that can be very granualr for financial controls.

Audit reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The on prem is costly, but nothing compared to the cloud cost.

They need a better front end for Essbase for users to have new "jazzy" feel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can track each and everthing and its more detailed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It will be better if we can customised more easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is flexible and be used not only for financial analysis but also other business statistical modeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extracting data seems a bit slower than what I would expect from this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The multidimensional aspect of this database platform makes it easy to integrate several features into one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a bit complex to learn but once you learn it it's very productive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Allows you to pull company financial data into Excel. It allows you to do account reconciliation, division level financial statements, all kinds of queries. It also allows various cubes within the company. You can have data sets for different operations, such as marketing and financial reporting. It is very flexible, I frequently break stuff up by division and unit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it crashes! That is sometimes I lose connection with the server and it makes everything in Excel freeze up. This is very frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's straightforward to use and very intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be slow at times, depending on the internet connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easily pull and present the financial/accounting data from the Oracle accounting system to the excel file by defining what you like to see and refresh the Essbase. No need to go into the Oracle and run different reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it won't pull data when you have fields wrong. Every time you have to login again, which is a little bit annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can quickly slice and dice data at a high level, forcing you to focus on the big picture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

hard to drill back into transactional details Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how easy it is to use. The depth and flexibility is fantastic. The integration with Excel is also great and makes things easy and more integrated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A lot of the different languages make it hard to be profiecient in knowing all of the functions . Calc scripts, MDX and business rules are a lot to have to know and keep on top of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.