Board vs Oracle Hyperion comparison

Board International and Oracle are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Board International is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.7, while Oracle is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.1. Board International holds a 6.8% mindshare in BPM, compared to Oracle’s 11.1% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Board and Oracle Hyperion compete in the enterprise performance management software category. Board has the upper hand in pricing and customer support satisfaction, while Oracle Hyperion offers a comprehensive feature set that justifies its cost and higher investment.

Features: Board offers an all-in-one platform for business intelligence, with customizable dashboards and predictive analytics. It allows for quick creation of reports and dashboards, suitable for non-technical users. Oracle Hyperion focuses on financial management with features for complex financial analysis and reporting, providing a robust financial toolset for large-scale operations.

Room for Improvement: Board could enhance its features by refining more complex financial functions and improving scalability for larger enterprises. Enhancing integration with other ERP systems and expanding its financial analysis capabilities would be beneficial. Oracle Hyperion could streamline its deployment process and reduce the complexity of its interface. Simplifying setup and improving ease of use, along with reducing deployment times, would offer value.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board is recognized for its straightforward cloud-based deployment, reducing time to launch, backed by responsive customer service. Oracle Hyperion, traditionally an on-premise solution, provides detailed implementation guides but requires more technical expertise and time for deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Board's competitive pricing model involves lower upfront costs leading to a quicker ROI, advantageous for mid-sized businesses. Oracle Hyperion demands higher initial investment, justified by advanced capabilities and extensive features for organizations that prioritize comprehensive financial functions.

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Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in Business Performance Management

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (23rd), Reporting (20th)

Oracle Hyperion

Ranking in Business Performance Management

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Board is 6.8%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 11.1%, down from 13.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Wiboon Thabsuwan

Senior Consultant at IMD Company Limited

Easy to use and requires less time to learn or understand its features

I think the product is good in terms of ease of use. The interface looks really nice and very easy to use. Every command appears in the icon. It looks like you don't have to understand everything about the command. You do not necessarily have to know more, or I would say that there is less time for our study about the products. Functionality-wise, it is quite easy to use and requires less time to understand or learn about the product. I am a software vendor, so I do not use the tool myself. I use it for my clients. My clients mostly use it for budgeting and timing purposes. I would say that's really less maintenance at all because they can do everything by themselves. It is good in terms of ease of use.

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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

"A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility."

"Now, we have only one version of the truth."

"Instead of taking two people a week each month to perform our internal KPI reporting, the same two people can have it done in a day."

"Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently."

"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."

"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."

"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."

"By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function."

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"The scalability is good."

"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."

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

"The platform is very easy to use from a user perspective, especially for nontechnical experts."

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

"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."

"It's a very good program and it's useful for consolidation."

"Oracle has an integrated solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Hyperion. It keeps the two platforms opened up to each other."

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Cons

"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."

"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."

"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."

"It would be nice to see truly transferable processes from model to model, as well as a method of building repetitive processes."

"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."

"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."

"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."

"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."

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"Oracle Hyperion's scalability could be improved."

"There can be an improvement in many regards with the dimensions, the metadata, the interfaces, as well as the integration."

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

"Integrating Oracle Hyperion, a multidimensional database, with relational databases poses challenges due to the differing database structures."

"Improvements are needed in the tool's performance."

"I would love more comment capabilities so that you could put in little notes, cheat notes."

"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."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not the cheapest product on earth, but you get so much. It provides good value for money."

"The tool's price is a bit high compared to other solutions."

"Find a partner who will take responsibility for the implementation, and be available for support."

"In terms of the pricing, it was reasonable. BOARD is not the lowest in the market, but it was reasonable for us."

"The solution is quite expensive, if it is made cheaper then we can have more clients. I rate it four out of ten."

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

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

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

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

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

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

"Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable."

"We pay for licensing yearly."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Is Board better than Anaplan as a Business Intelligence (BI) solution?

We've had several FP&A departments include Anaplan in their analytics discussions, and while BI information IS generated, the focus is generally on compiling input from various sources and simu...

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What do you like most about Board?

All the reports are prepared automatically.

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What needs improvement with Board?

Some of my company's customers are interested to see the predictive analytics part of the tool. Some customers would like to leverage or prioritize predictive analytics as the main feature, but som...

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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?

The pricing model could be more flexible as it's more expensive than its competitors. The technical support response time could improve as they often ask for the same logs repeatedly.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Hyperion?

Our clients mostly use Hyperion for their financial requirements, including budgeting, forecasting, and planning.

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Overview

BOARD International - headquartered in Switzerland - is a leading global provider of software for improving business results through better decision making. By unifying Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management into a single product, BOARD enables companies to achieve a shared vision of their performance across the entire organization, and thus a single version of the truth.

BOARD provides seamless solutions for • Reporting & Analysis • Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting • Profitability Modelling & Optimization • Simulation & What-if-Analysis • Scorecarding & Strategy Management • Financial Consolidation. Based on visual modelling, BOARD has enabled global companies to deploy BI and CPM applications without a single line of code in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions.

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Coca-Cola, Puma, Desigual, Ricoh, KPMG, H&M, Groupe SEB

ITNL, Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd., Zaklady Farmaceutyczne Polpharma S.A., Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., Barco N.V., SITA, McGregor Fashion Group B.V., PCCW Ltd.

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