We performed a comparison between Oracle Hyperion and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."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."
"Scalability isn't a problem for Hyperion."
"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."
"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."
"We like the reporting and tracking of financials."
"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."
"The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME."
"Stable and scalable solution with a valuable data integration feature which allows the slicing and dicing of data. It also has a workforce planning feature that allows you to bring in your HR data."
"The solution makes for very productive and really informative decision making. It can lead the whole business and build a strategy across whole working departments."
"I like the calculation feature. I would not say it's such a good feature in Tableau, but if you have the knowledge, you can make that feature visible to everyone. It's not a feature that we can drag and drop and get the information. But whatever the data, whatever the calculation, I'm able to do. It's basically the knowledge base. Whatever knowledge I have, I can make that information public and publish it for management."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"It provides supporting data for critical policy and operational changes"
"The platform's most important feature is predictive analysis."
"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."
"Show Me is a feature to help with knowing which chart is an appropriate one for the selected variables, and it makes helps in creating appropriate visuals."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"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."
"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."
"I would love more comment capabilities so that you could put in little notes, cheat notes."
"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."
"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."
"Oracle EPM Cloud solutions have simplified the security model. Nevertheless, it would be better having a more differentiated security model."
"There can be an improvement in many regards with the dimensions, the metadata, the interfaces, as well as the integration."
"Other tools are more competitively priced."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"Overall, the only major frustration that I have had so far is with Tableau Public. I first used Tableau Public when I was building capacity, and when there was a later release to download and you wanted to upgrade, all your work would have to be manually re-entered."
"Users would like to be able to export an Excel file when they see a table or something like that. That's not an out-of-the-box feature for Tableau."
"If you wanted to create something without making it an extra column in the data set, you can't just rename it to a more user-friendly short name."
"It would be nice to include more features on each dashboard."
"The price of Tableau is too high."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 49 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 290 reviews. Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Oracle Hyperion is most compared with Anaplan, IBM Cognos, Oracle HFM, IBM Planning Analytics and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and IBM Cognos.
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