We performed a comparison between Oracle Hyperion and Planful based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."Functionality-wise, it is what they say it is. It is the best in class, but it all ties back to your users. If your users are completely enamored with Excel spreadsheets, then breaking those habits is hard."
"Oracle Hyperion has helped make things work faster in our company."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Oracle has an integrated solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Hyperion. It keeps the two platforms opened up to each other."
"This is a customizable product. Our implementation was designed to fit our needs."
"It's basically the same as the other budgeting solutions."
"It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation. We don't have to do reporting in Excel anymore, which has cut down on the errors and the efficiency of our close time."
"Oracle EPM Cloud solutions have simplified the security model. Nevertheless, it would be better having a more differentiated security model."
"The initial setup of Oracle Hyperion is very difficult."
"The analytical side of the product could be better and needs to be improved."
"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."
"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."
"Oracle Hyperion's scalability could be improved."
"From a technical perspective, the technical support could be improved and the price could be reduced."
"The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible."
"The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools."
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Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 50 reviews while Planful is ranked 16th in Business Performance Management. Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0, while Planful is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Planful writes "It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation, and we haven't had anything come up that the program has not been able to solve". Oracle Hyperion is most compared with Tableau, IBM Cognos, Anaplan, Oracle HFM and IBM Planning Analytics, whereas Planful is most compared with Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, Vena, Board and Prophix.
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