We performed a comparison between Oracle Hyperion and Workiva Wdesk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Performance Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes."
"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."
"We like the reporting and tracking of financials."
"The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME."
"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 latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."
"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."
"Oracle has an integrated solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Hyperion. It keeps the two platforms opened up to each other."
"It makes the compliance process more efficient and more effective."
"Workiva Wdesk is pretty good in terms of getting the data from the system, automating the reporting schedules...It has a very good integration with ERP tools."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to easily upload and update financial results, creating a dynamic data sheet."
"Workiva Wdesk has a flow diagram that is standardized, making it easy for people to file documents on ECDAs, which are in HTML format."
"The collaboration within the platform is valuable."
"It helps you to maintain a backup of your data, including the connectivity with the tables, which provides a user-friendly way to handle and access your files."
"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."
"The analytics 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."
"The user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."
"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."
"This solution's stability is a little problematic."
"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."
"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."
"Regarding the solution, reporting has certain areas that can be considered for improvement."
"With this product, it's more about the integrated data model where you can have a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship between your policies and processes, risks, and controls. They need to showcase how you can put those pieces together."
"At this point, I don't see a compelling reason to invest in Workiva. It may be necessary for compliance and controlling the version of SCC, but not everyone needs its high-end capabilities."
"One area where Workiva Wdesk could improve is by ensuring that its cloud-based system is fully compatible with the most current versions of PowerPoint and Excel."
"The most critical issue is the need to shift between uppercase and lowercase."
"The speed must be improved."
Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 51 reviews while Workiva Wdesk is ranked 12th in Business Performance Management with 6 reviews. Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0, while Workiva Wdesk is rated 7.0. 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 Workiva Wdesk writes "A user-friendly tool useful for data consolidation and automating the reporting schedules". Oracle Hyperion is most compared with Tableau, IBM Cognos, Anaplan, Oracle HFM and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, whereas Workiva Wdesk is most compared with AuditBoard, OneTrust GRC, RSA Archer, LucaNet and ACL Analytics. See our Oracle Hyperion vs. Workiva Wdesk report.
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