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."What is very valuable is the ability to customize. We didn't see a solution out there that really matched exactly what our functional requirements would be. So we were able to work with New Brain, our integrator, and we were able to build from the ground up what we wanted, and I think that's pretty unique to BOARD."
"Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently."
"The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support."
"I think it's flexible. I chose this solution because, even though it wasn't out-of-the-box, you can customize it, and the long-term growth potential of the software is where I see the value."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"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 have found there is excellent stability with Oracle Hyperion."
"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."
"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 accuracy of data gathering and consolidation is very good."
"Since it is an enterprise-capable solution, people are not worried about security, giving data, the ability to manage complex consolidation, and its ability to modify reporting."
"This is a customizable product. Our implementation was designed to fit our needs."
"It's basically the same as the other budgeting solutions."
"Scalability isn't a problem for Hyperion."
"If we could upload other data, e.g., pivot tables which can be done in BOARD already, that we have pre-existing and have that data distribute to more complex spreadsheets, I would like that going forward."
"The one thing that I think we would like to see in terms of improvement of the application is the ability to print. It's fantastic to have all of these graphic visualization of data, but we're not able to very easily just print... From my perspective, if you can have a little "print" button and then you just click it and it would produce what's on the screen, that would be very helpful."
"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. "
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"It would be nice to have more connectors for other data sources. BOARD is a great tool to become the single source of the truth. Making it easier to connect data sources for niche software tools will make it easier to keep everything in one place."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"Configuration is a little complex, it's not very easy. The solution is integrated with Essbase and there are not many users of the Essbase database. If they can provide different modules for each subject area, like supply chain, for inventory forecasting or for order management forecasting, it would make each subject area easier to manage."
"What I like is to have everything on one platform and not in different modules like Oracle Hyperion."
"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."
"They could support machine learning algorithms for the product."
"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."
"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."
"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."
"The analytical side of the product could be better and needs to be improved."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 51 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, IBM Cognos, Anaplan, Oracle HFM and CCH Tagetik. See our Board vs. Oracle Hyperion report.
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