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."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."
"A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility."
"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."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"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 ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"The implementation has been simplified now that it's deployed in the cloud. Also, Hyperion is tightly integrated with Oracle products because Oracle owns it now."
"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."
"Scalability isn't a problem for Hyperion."
"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."
"The latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."
"Oracle Hyperion is an engine allowing you to build whatever you want on it."
"We have found there is excellent stability with Oracle Hyperion."
"It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"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. "
"The setup was a bit complex."
"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."
"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."
"Integrating Oracle Hyperion, a multidimensional database, with relational databases poses challenges due to the differing database structures."
"The level of complexity of the implementation is always a challenge."
"I found the initial setup to be complex."
"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."
"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."
"What I like is to have everything on one platform and not in different modules like Oracle Hyperion."
"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."
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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