Oracle Hyperion vs Planful comparison

Oracle and Planful are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Oracle is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.6, while Planful is ranked #15. Oracle holds a 5.5% mindshare in BPM, compared to Planful’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Planful users who would recommend it.

Oracle Hyperion

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100% willing to recommend

Oracle Hyperion

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Planful and Oracle Hyperion are competing enterprise performance management products designed for budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning. While Planful is more cost-effective and known for customer satisfaction, Oracle Hyperion is seen as superior for its extensive features, even with its higher price.

Features: Planful offers streamlined planning tools, emphasizes collaboration, and provides user-friendly data insights. Oracle Hyperion provides powerful analytics, sophisticated reporting, and detailed financial modeling with extensive functionality.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Planful is cloud-based, allowing quick deployment and minimal IT needs, with responsive customer service. Oracle Hyperion, often on-premises but also cloud-based, requires more deployment time and IT resources but provides robust support.

Pricing and ROI: Planful is cost-effective with faster setup leading to quicker ROI. Oracle Hyperion involves higher initial costs and setup time, offering substantial long-term ROI for complex financial needs. Differences in pricing align with Planful's rapid returns and Oracle Hyperion's extensive functionalities.

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Categories and Ranking

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

Planful

Ranking in Business Performance Management

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Close Software (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 5.5%, down from 12.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planful is 3.1%, up from 2.4% 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	5.5%
Planful	3.1%
Other	91.4%

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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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reviewer1110591

Financial Planning & Analysis - Finance Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation, and we haven't had anything come up that the program has not been able to solve

The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools. The application that we use today for our BI tools is Tableau. That's how people absorb information. We don't really use the functionality or dashboards within Planful because of the robustness of Tableau. That's our single source of data. If Planful was better or more comparable in terms of features and functionality, we could probably leverage that in Planful.

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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

"The scalability is good."

"Functionality-wise, it is what they say it is. It is the best in class, but it all ties back to your users. If your users are completely enamored with Excel spreadsheets, then breaking those habits is hard."

"It is easy to use. It is very intuitive. Even though there is a lot of functionality that comes out of the box, you can customize the solutions to meet your needs. You have the ability to have business rules that produce all kinds of calculations. We're international, and we do all our FX conversions through that."

"Since it is an enterprise-capable solution, people are not worried about security, giving data, the ability to manage complex consolidation, and its ability to modify reporting."

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

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

"We have found there is excellent stability with Oracle Hyperion."

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

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"It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation. We don't have to do reporting in Excel anymore, which has cut down on the errors and the efficiency of our close time."

Cons

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

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

"The analytical side of the product could be better and needs to be improved."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"They could support machine learning algorithms for the product."

More Oracle Hyperion cons

"The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

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

"We pay for licensing yearly."

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

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

"The solution is affordable."

More Oracle Hyperion pricing and cost advice

"Right now, everything is on a three-year term contract, and that is our main cost."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

University

Computer Software Company

20%

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Company Size

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

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Questions from the Community

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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