We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Oracle HFM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"We have found the product very stable and reliable."
"The interface is very fluid."
"Financial consolidation and reporting tool with good built-in features such as currency exchange and elimination."
"The tool is stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a very user-friendly software."
"The most valuable features are around consolidations, eliminations, conversions."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility and ease of configuration in terms of testing and formula creation."
"You can bring in data from any source and from multiple sources, and you can consolidate that data in HFM."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"Its performance and stability can be improved. It takes time to load, and sometimes, it also breaks down for the whole region. Its usability could also be better, and it could also have more connections with different data sources."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"The complexity is okay. I don't see it as super complex. The solution could have more functionality to make it a little bit more flexible."
"Integration is an area where it lacks and can be improved."
"The solution has integration challenges. We need a simple tool that is fool-proof for the data that is submitted not only for consolidation purposes but also for performance management and reporting purposes."
"It's a difficult process to try to edit, configure, or change the business rules that exist and work within HFM."
"In terms of improvement, one challenge with Oracle HFM is the need for technical knowledge in writing SQL syntax for custom extensions."
"The intercompany reporting function in this tool needs improvement, particularly being able to run reports in batches, rather than one at a time."
"If there could be data integration between HFM and the accounting software that would be ideal."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Oracle HFM is ranked 7th in Business Performance Management with 14 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Oracle HFM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle HFM writes "Offers flexibility and ease of configuration". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Oracle HFM is most compared with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, Oracle Hyperion, OneStream XF, CCH Tagetik and Anaplan.
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