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."The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"Instead of taking two people a week each month to perform our internal KPI reporting, the same two people can have it done in a day."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Scalability is one of this solution's big plus points."
"This is a customizable product. Our implementation was designed to fit our needs."
"The accuracy of data gathering and consolidation is very good."
"Oracle has an integrated solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Hyperion. It keeps the two platforms opened up to each other."
"It's basically the same as the other budgeting solutions."
"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 latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."
"Oracle Hyperion is an engine allowing you to build whatever you want on it."
"It would be nice to see truly transferable processes from model to model, as well as a method of building repetitive processes."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."
"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."
"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"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."
"From a technical perspective, the technical support could be improved and the price could be reduced."
"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."
"Oracle EPM Cloud solutions have simplified the security model. Nevertheless, it would be better having a more differentiated security model."
"I found the initial setup to be complex."
"The forecasting of values could be simplified in this solution."
"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."
"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."
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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