Adaptive Insights vs Oracle Hyperion comparison

Workday and Oracle are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Workday is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.6. Workday holds a 4.4% mindshare in BPM, compared to Oracle’s 7.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Adaptive Insights and Oracle Hyperion compete in the financial planning and analysis software market. Adaptive Insights is favored for its affordability and support, while Oracle Hyperion is preferred by businesses that prioritize extensive features despite higher costs.

Features: Adaptive Insights is recognized for its intuitive analytics and planning capabilities, cloud accessibility, and flexible service, ideal for companies needing adaptability. In contrast, Oracle Hyperion offers robust consolidation and reporting features tailored for large enterprises with complex financial operations, supporting comprehensive management needs.

Room for Improvement: Adaptive Insights could enhance its user interface complexity in advanced functions, integration with additional external systems, and support for more extensive data sets. Oracle Hyperion would benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing IT dependency, and optimizing user interfaces for a smoother experience across non-specialist users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adaptive Insights provides a straightforward cloud-based deployment with minimal IT involvement and strong support services, making it easy to implement. Oracle Hyperion offers both on-premise and cloud options but requires more complex setups often demanding more technical support, catering well to organizations with specific infrastructure requirements.

Pricing and ROI: Adaptive Insights is cost-effective with faster ROI, primarily due to lower initial costs and efficient implementation. Oracle Hyperion has a higher setup cost justified by its advanced features, appealing to enterprises willing to invest in its extended functionalities and aiming for long-term gains.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Business Performance Management

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Reporting (18th), Data Visualization (15th), ESG Reporting Software (6th)

Oracle Hyperion

Ranking in Business Performance Management

1st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.4%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 7.7%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Hyperion	7.7%
Adaptive Insights	4.4%
Other	87.9%

Business Performance Management

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Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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Pranit Chhajed

Consultant at Infosys

Automation of financial processes streamlines operations but pricing needs improvement

Our clients mostly use Hyperion for their financial requirements, including budgeting, forecasting, and planning The feature that allows automation of the budgeting and forecasting process is extremely valuable, especially when compared to Excel. The workflow management of planning and the…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."

"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."

"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

"It's very stable."

"Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."

"Automated reporting."

"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."

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"Oracle Hyperion is fairly user-friendly and not too complicated. The forecasting, it's really good. It's sometimes slow when there are a lot of users using it and we can have up to approximately 300 users using it. However, you can do it in Excel because there's an Excel add-in. This is a benefit because a lot of people do this way instead of having to go into the planning application itself."

"The tool is very scalable and powerful. It helps us with financial reporting and performance reporting. It is a very good tool for consolidation and budgeting. We are dependent on it for reporting."

"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."

"We can collect data from various sources, which is very useful for budgeting and planning."

"The tool's most valuable feature of the solution is flexibility and integration capabilities."

"Oracle Hyperion is an advanced analytical calculation engine that can handle aggregation."

"The feature that allows automation of the budgeting and forecasting process is extremely valuable, especially when compared to Excel."

"Oracle Hyperion is fundamentally a good technology and does not require significant improvements compared to other technologies because it is user-friendly and offers several advantages in financial reporting and consolidation."

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Cons

"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."

"The upload feature exists, but isn't terribly useful."

"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

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"This solution's stability is a little problematic."

"The interface could be better. It could be more user-friendly, it is not very intuitive."

"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."

"The solution's reporting and dashboards need improvement."

"I found the initial setup to be complex."

"The user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."

"Sometimes Oracle Hyperion is slow when there are a lot of users using it. However, we can have up to approximately 300 users using it."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"It's affordable."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Oracle Hyperion's licensing structures are quite expensive for some companies, especially medium-sized companies because of the user-based license."

"The licensing cost for the on-premises version of the solution is too high."

"To get a full license, which gives you access to most of the different Hyperion programs, it costs $2000 to $2500 a month."

"It might be considered relatively costly compared to some alternatives."

"We pay for licensing yearly."

"The solution is affordable."

"As Oracle's pricing is on the higher end, most businesses prefer to have their own private cloud."

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	38

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adaptive Insights?

It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptive Insights?

12 years ago, it was very affordable. Workday has definitely increased its price since it acquired Adaptive a few years ago. So, it's affordable. But there are other more affordable solutions that ...

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What needs improvement with Adaptive Insights?

The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up. So, there could be room for just improving the integrations, making it easier to integrate outside sys...

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What do you like most about Oracle Hyperion?

We can collect data from various sources, which is very useful for budgeting and planning.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Hyperion?

We are going to re-implement the Oracle Hyperion system due to changes in our chart of account process and some other factors. We were analyzing whether to move to a cloud system, EPM Cloud. We hav...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Hyperion?

We are using Oracle Financials and Oracle Hyperion. Oracle Hyperion is used for budget and MIS reporting, while Financials is used for financial accounting, payables, receivables, and general ledge...

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

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Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

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Oracle Business Analytics Suite.

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