Oracle Hyperion Reviews

• Formula and form creation
• Data migration from the source system
• Approval stages

It has reduced the amount of paperwork as multiple people can work on a single form, centralize formula creation window (only one person/team is responsible for creating it), It is also possible to maintain history for X number of years, and compare budgets from previous years through just one form and the process of workflow management.

• The database crashes without any warnings/reasons
• It's a technical resource hungry piece of software

• They need to make this software easy to implement and use

I've used it for one and a half years.

Yes we had major issues because of the database.

Yes we had major issues because of the database.

Yes we had major issues because of the database.

6/10.

7/10

Only Excel.

It was complex because it was a new environment.

I was the lead in implementing it.

Not very high at least for a year or two.

No other options evaluated.

Take a good look before stepping into it.

The Essbase cube size scalability and also the calculation scrip functions.

This product has been helping the organization to implement complex budgeting models.

In my opinion, the reporting features could be visually better, and prettier, than it is so far.

I've used Hyperion Planning for over eight years as well as Account Manager Oracle.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No, far from it.

9/10.

7/10 - The Oracle support has loads to improve on in my opinion.

Yes. I have used SAP BPC and IBM Cognos. Both of them have no scalability unlike Hyperion Planning.

Straightforward.

I always implement solutions through a management consultancy team, because of their high level of expertise.

The initial cost was around US$300K and the actual cost is just the annual support fee.

Yes, we also looked at IBM Cognos and SAP BPC.

Architect design considering solution scalability is essential for a successful implementation.

We use mostly S-space planning, and have HFM and FDM as well. We're able to support fifteen to twenty countries globally from Cincinnati, and they can do all their consolidation on our one HFM application.

We have had a little difficulty with financial reports being buggy in the client.

We have been using it for about six months.

It has been pretty stable. We're on premise. Every once in a while we will have crash, but it’s usually nothing a reboot can’t handle.

It seems to scale pretty well. We just recently brought on another country and are in the process of building the application for them.

A big benefit for most of our users is that you can use it in Excel with a Smart View API. It does require a little bit of training when you first start using it though. I would rate it an eight out of ten.