We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME."
"Scalability is one of this solution's big plus points."
"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."
"The latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."
"It is easy to use. It is very intuitive. Even though there is a lot of functionality that comes out of the box, you can customize the solutions to meet your needs. You have the ability to have business rules that produce all kinds of calculations. We're international, and we do all our FX conversions through that."
"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."
"It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete."
"We have found there is excellent stability with Oracle Hyperion."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"I would like to see more integrations with third-party vendors such as BigSense and SAP. I'm looking forward to seeing more interface-related content."
"The level of complexity of the implementation is always a challenge."
"We are still having some issues with the ASO Cube. It can take a long time to clear the data in the ASO Cube compared to BSO data-clearing operations. We don't have a specific calculation in the ASO, and we only have these aggregate options on the ASO side. If we need calculations, we have to calculate them in the BSO and pass the data to the ASO Cube for the reporting. That's one of the drawbacks. Oracle could also improve on the data logging side as well."
"There's something known as a data block that Hyperion generates for each and every transaction. Sometimes it does not generate and we need to identify those issues and fix them manually."
"The analytics could be improved."
"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."
"Their documentation could be a little bit more descriptive at places. They don't really do a lot of How-Tos because that gets pushed through to the consulting groups. There have been some books. There is a real good one out there about how to look smarter than you are with Hyperion Planning that some people at a company called ArganoInterRel wrote. Those things do exist, but that's not in their documentation. It's basically like they'll say, "This is the field. This is what it's used for," but they don't tell you how to particularly use it in your case environment."
"The user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 51 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". On the other hand, 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". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Amazon QuickSight, whereas Oracle Hyperion is most compared with Tableau, Anaplan, Oracle HFM, IBM Planning Analytics and Workiva Wdesk.
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