Adaptive Insights vs Oracle Hyperion comparison

Workday and Oracle are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Workday is ranked #10, while Oracle is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.6. Workday holds a 4.6% mindshare in BPM, compared to Oracle’s 4.9% 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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Oracle Hyperion

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86% willing to recommend

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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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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Business Performance Management

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Performance and Strategy Management (4th), Reporting (24th), Data Visualization (20th), ESG Reporting Software (12th)

Oracle Hyperion

Ranking in Business Performance Management

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.6%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 4.9%, down from 11.9% 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	4.9%
Adaptive Insights	4.6%
Other	90.5%

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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Srinivas Chappidi

Product Support Engineer at JSW

Empower financial planning with user-friendly and robust features

The best features of Oracle Hyperion revolve around their cloud-based technology, which is gradually moving to cloud solutions such as EPMCSG, while Anaplan uses two engines for calculations, the classic engine and the Essbase engine. Anaplan allows for quick module changes, where adjustments in one module reflect throughout the user experience. In contrast, Oracle Hyperion relies on Essbase as a database with calculation scripts and business rules, and it incorporates Smart View technology for Excel connections, providing a familiar interface for users. 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. However, I have observed that Anaplan has built-in UX pages for report preparation, unlike Oracle Hyperion, which often relies on third-party tools such as Hyperion Financial Reporting and Power BI for reporting.

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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

"Automated reporting."

"It's very stable."

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

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

"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."

"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."

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

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

"Smart View is a really useful tool because we can have a good API with HFM."

"The latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."

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

"This solution provides a more structured methodology for doing analysis than a tool like Excel. It creates a central database that keeps all information in one place."

"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."

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

"It's basically the same as the other budgeting solutions."

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Cons

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

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

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

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

"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."

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."

"Better user interface (UI)."

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"Oracle Hyperion's scalability could be improved."

"Pricing is a significant concern. After moving to PBCS and EPBCS, the per-user license fees can be reduced, particularly for bulk users."

"The initial setup of Oracle Hyperion is very difficult."

"I found the initial setup to be complex."

"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."

"I have not seen return on investment from using Oracle Hyperion."

"The level of complexity of the implementation is always a challenge."

"The pricing model could be more flexible as it's more expensive than its competitors."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"It's affordable."

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

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"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."

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

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

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

"Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable."

"The solution is affordable."

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

"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."

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

"We pay for licensing yearly."

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

University

Computer Software Company

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

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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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