We performed a comparison between Board and Oracle Hyperion 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."Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support."
"The reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly."
"We can build reports super fast."
"It's a very good program and it's useful for consolidation."
"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."
"This product is very scalable and provides high ROI."
"Scalability isn't a problem for Hyperion."
"It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete."
"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."
"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."
"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"It can have more functionality for narrative reporting. They should also improve their training courses, which are currently very lightweight. When you get into more complex things, it is quite difficult to figure out what you're supposed to do, and you have to look at a lot of videos before you actually understand, which is a bit frustrating. Their training can be more comprehensive."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"I would like to see a better Web client, where the controls work the same way as in the Windows client. I do think that the focus is now on the Web, so it should be improved upon."
"My analysts have used the technical support. Sometimes they have felt like they did not receive the answer that they needed, or you have to go and upgrade in order to address a problem. "
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"The forecasting of values could be simplified in this solution."
"The reporting feature in Oracle Hyperion isn't the best. It needs improvement."
"This solution's stability is a little problematic."
"There can be an improvement in many regards with the dimensions, the metadata, the interfaces, as well as the integration."
"Oracle EPM Cloud solutions have simplified the security model. Nevertheless, it would be better having a more differentiated security model."
"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."
"I have a problem with Hyperion when I need to log some changes in the budget. It's hard to know who made which changes in the budget."
"Oracle Hyperion's scalability could be improved."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 49 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". 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". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and CCH Tagetik, whereas Oracle Hyperion is most compared with Tableau, Anaplan, IBM Cognos, Oracle HFM and Jedox. See our Board vs. Oracle Hyperion report.
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