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.
Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 16, 2020
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.
BI Analytics and Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 28, 2022
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.
Director, Financial Systems at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Apr 27, 2022
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.
Manager, Hyperion Applications at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 16, 2022
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.
Data Engineering Manager (Big Data & Analytics) at NCR Corporation
Jun 2, 2022
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.
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.
Director, Financial Systems at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Apr 27, 2022
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.
Manager, Hyperion Applications at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 16, 2022
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.
Data Engineering Manager (Big Data & Analytics) at NCR Corporation
Jun 2, 2022
Configuration is a little complex, it's not very easy. The solution is integrated with Essbase and there are not many users of the Essbase database.
If they can provide different modules for each subject area, like supply chain, for inventory forecasting or for order management forecasting, it would make each subject area easier to manage.
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.
Manager Business System at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 5, 2022
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.
