We performed a comparison between Oracle Hyperion and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."The accuracy of data gathering and consolidation is very good."
"The implementation has been simplified now that it's deployed in the cloud. Also, Hyperion is tightly integrated with Oracle products because Oracle owns it now."
"We can integrate with any system and pull data from SAP or SQL Server. We can also design our own role files to establish how we pull the file data and store it in our database."
"The tool is very scalable and powerful. It helps us with financial reporting and performance reporting. It is a very good tool for consolidation and budgeting. We are dependent on it for reporting."
"Oracle Hyperion is fairly user-friendly and not too complicated. The forecasting, it's really good. It's sometimes slow when there are a lot of users using it and we can have up to approximately 300 users using it. However, you can do it in Excel because there's an Excel add-in. This is a benefit because a lot of people do this way instead of having to go into the planning application itself."
"The roll-up potential of the product is very good, meaning we have detailed information and we want it to be summarized, based on geography, based on different product lines, or based on different charts of accounts in the general ledger. It rolls up the information in a very concise way. This makes it easy to understand the overall performance, for it's forecasting aspects, or quarterly reporting, year to year, or month to month reporting."
"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."
"Oracle Hyperion has helped make things work faster in our company."
"Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"The most important feature in Tableau is visual analytics."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"The Web Editing capabilities allow us to grant end users enough capabilities for them to do self-serve discovery without the added cost of needing to get everyone desktop licenses."
"It's very easy to visualize data with this product. The visualization maps of and frames that we have been able to cross-reference has been excellent."
"It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view."
"Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly."
"There can be an improvement in many regards with the dimensions, the metadata, the interfaces, as well as the integration."
"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."
"Hyperion has much room for improvement, especially disaster recovery. You don't have the option to choose the proper disaster recovery method. We have Hyperion and an SQL server on the backend. We have active solutions for the backend database server, which aren't working for our people. They've asked us to remove the high availability to increase application performance."
"They could support machine learning algorithms for the product."
"Integrating Oracle Hyperion, a multidimensional database, with relational databases poses challenges due to the differing database structures."
"The initial setup of Oracle Hyperion is very difficult."
"All the planning systems out there are great. It doesn't matter which company you use. They're all great. I've seen demonstrations on a number of them, but it all boils down to the culture within the organization itself to use that functionality, understand it, and help drive it. I've had Oracle salespeople do demonstrations, and it looked really good. We get it on board, and everybody still sticks to their Excel spreadsheets because companies are a lot more complex than what you could deliver on the planning system. So, there should be more education on the capabilities, and there should be more understanding of organizations in terms of the way they access the data in order to plan."
"This solution's stability is a little problematic."
"There are not enough language options. It needs to be offered in more than just English."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Tableau support could be improved."
"The extraction, transformation and loading of data in Tableau takes a lot of time and we do not have confidence that Tableau is showing all the data we need."
"I would like to have the product be more flexible in terms of creating online shared dashboards."
"Tableau's automatic insight could be improved. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data, but I think they need more. Customers need more insight automatically from data—they don't want to discover them, they want to get the forecast automatically. The data preparation should also be improved because it's not easy. Tableau tries to focus on the business side, but the backend side has not improved much. They also have an ETS solution, but it's limited."
"If you wanted to create something without making it an extra column in the data set, you can't just rename it to a more user-friendly short name."
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 51 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Hyperion writes "A world-class solution that provides a lot of functionality out of the box and also allows you to customize it to meet your needs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Oracle Hyperion is most compared with IBM Cognos, Anaplan, Oracle HFM, IBM Planning Analytics and Workiva Wdesk, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Apache Superset.
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