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."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."
"One can see that it's a mature product because it addresses all the requirements that you must need for financial consolidation and for budgeting and planning. It's really easy to use."
"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 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."
"The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME."
"Oracle Hyperion is an engine allowing you to build whatever you want on it."
"Stable and scalable solution with a valuable data integration feature which allows the slicing and dicing of data. It also has a workforce planning feature that allows you to bring in your HR data."
"This solution provides a more structured methodology for doing analysis than a tool like Excel. It creates a central database that keeps all information in one place."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"Although Tableau isn't the best for us when it comes to processing and working on live data, it is very good at extracting data for analysis."
"It's intuitive and highly mature"
"Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability."
"The solution deployment was straightforward."
"Tableau is easy to use and it has great predictive features."
"The product offers an intuitive user interface, detailed screens and widgets, and the absence of data limitations"
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible."
"Sometimes Oracle Hyperion is slow when there are a lot of users using it. However, we can have up to approximately 300 users using it."
"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."
"What I like is to have everything on one platform and not in different modules like Oracle Hyperion."
"The analytics could be improved."
"Oracle Hyperion's scalability could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Tableau is an end-to-end analytics platform, and it is doing a pretty good job in terms of connecting to the data and analyzing it. It can, however, do better in terms of data management and the ETL features, which are not on the advanced analytics or machine learning side. Tableau Prep is where users would want to see more advancements. They can improve Tableau Prep, which is an analytic platform tool for data cleansing. People who work with data spend most of their time curating the data. Cleaning up the data and getting it ready for analysis is what takes the most time. If Tableau can invest more time in improving the Tableau Prep platform, it would be great. Previously, Tableau didn't have the functionality for writing to a database. So, you couldn't really alter the database tables and write to your database, but they fixed that in one of the very recent releases. However, it isn't really advanced and should be improved."
"Other tools are more competitively priced."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"The interface can be improved, in part because there is no indication that something is running or that it's processing."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"When it comes to large datasets, the data should be extracted faster."
"If I have to develop any, for example, pie charts, I can develop them just fine. However, if I have to develop a donut chart, that I cannot do it in a simple way. There are tricks that I need to use if I have to design a donut chart. It should be more flexible and provide more visualization options."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
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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