Comments on: Taking a Look at Hyperion Web Analysis

By: kiran

kiran — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:52:21 +0000

It is not the problem with the product it depends on the organization of the data your are using..and as per my experience it is a tool with lot of functionality…

By: Mark Rittman

Mark Rittman — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:43:42 +0000

Hi SRoux,

Well, as you’ve been working with Web Analysis and Essbase for many more years than me, I’d certainly take your opinions on board. I guess my comments were more from the perspective of an Oracle OLAP developer, where our front-end solutions (Discoverer for OLAP etc) were certainly not “fast and functional”, at least not in terms of what you’d expect from OLAP. It’s all relative in the end, it’ll certainly also be interesting to see how the Web Analysis replacement – Oracle BI Answers Plus – stacks up against its predecessor and the rest of the OLAP query tool marketplace.

regards, Mark

By: SRoux

SRoux — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:09:50 +0000

Dear Mark, let me tell you that I’ve been working as a consultant on Essbase for some years now and had I some opportunities on working on Analyzer or Web Analysis v. 5, 6x, 7x projects.

Well when I read the following statement :
- fast and functional –
I’m really surprised man.

Web Analysis is to me the worst web interactive reporting tool I have used, maybe I did not tested enough, but this one really repulse me out:
buggy, unstable and slow the the first words that come into my mind. Even worst with system 9 integration together with workspace (another piece of junk out there).
However I may recognize that WA is functional but highly limited.