We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics 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 tool is flexible."
"The flexibility of IBM Planning Analytics is a great feature of this solution. The design flexibility with data rules and defining calculations The ability to combine online and offline calculations are a benefit. Additionally, the forecasting features and predictive analytics is very good."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"A lot of the platform is in-memory, so Planning Analytics can run calculations quite fast. It also offers several user interfaces. And in the newest version of Planning Analytics, there is a new one called the Planning Analytics Workspace. Maybe it could be useful for the business side."
"The product's stability is good."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"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 stability is fine and quite user friendly."
"It's a very good program and it's useful for consolidation."
"The scalability is good."
"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 most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME."
"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."
"Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"The new frontend Planning Analytics Workspace is not very good, it could be improved. I like the Planning Analytics functionality but it would be helpful if it could be more customizable. You can create a prediction and receive information but you cannot do feature engineering regarding the predictive models. If this was added it would be helpful."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"Hyperion has much room for improvement, especially disaster recovery. You don't have the option to choose the proper disaster recovery method. We have Hyperion and an SQL server on the backend. We have active solutions for the backend database server, which aren't working for our people. They've asked us to remove the high availability to increase application performance."
"What I like is to have everything on one platform and not in different modules like Oracle Hyperion."
"The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible."
"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."
"The reporting feature in Oracle Hyperion isn't the best. It needs improvement."
"This solution's stability is a little problematic."
"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."
"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."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 49 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Can easily create dashboards and helps businesses improve forecasting accuracy". 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". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and Tableau, whereas Oracle Hyperion is most compared with Tableau, Anaplan, IBM Cognos, Oracle HFM and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud. See our IBM Planning Analytics vs. Oracle Hyperion report.
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