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."Our data is now more structured. Between our data warehouse and BOARD, which are both brand new, we now have a more structured data view with more accurate, timely data."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME."
"This product is very scalable and provides high ROI."
"Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes."
"The scalability is good."
"Oracle has an integrated solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Hyperion. It keeps the two platforms opened up to each other."
"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 latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."
"The roll-up potential of the product is very good, meaning we have detailed information and we want it to be summarized, based on geography, based on different product lines, or based on different charts of accounts in the general ledger. It rolls up the information in a very concise way. This makes it easy to understand the overall performance, for it's forecasting aspects, or quarterly reporting, year to year, or month to month reporting."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"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."
"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."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"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."
"I found the initial setup to be complex."
"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."
"The level of complexity of the implementation is always a challenge."
"The user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."
"The solution is about to cease to exist, so it doesn't really matter if they add anything to it. It's at end-of-life."
"There can be an improvement in many regards with the dimensions, the metadata, the interfaces, as well as the integration."
"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."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 50 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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