Oracle Hyperion Reviews

It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete. And it's easy even if you're not very familiar with BI technology. Most notably very easy and intuitive transformation from relational schema to multi dimensional schema. Complete tabular data presentation with full drilling process and statistical functions. Corresponding charting data presentation with full drilling functions. Full interactive reporting including tables and charts. Join unlimited queries into different databases.

Its GUI could use some refinement. I think it's easy to use, but it's hard to say because we are very familiar with this product and have been using it for many years. For a new user, this product should be updated to work better with the environments of new operating systems. Modernizing the user interface is something I would suggest. But, in terms of overall functionality, I have no complaints. At the same time, I don't know if I'm objective after having used it for so long. I don't know if a new user would have the same opinion as I do.

I have been using this solution for about 25 years. It used to be called the Brio Intelligence Suite. And then Brio was acquired by Hyperion, which was subsequently absorbed by Oracle. As they have done with Zibo, Oracle has incorporated all these BI tools into their BI platforms.

The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible. They don't offer support. Whenever we need it, we try to find solutions online. Before Oracle purchased the suite, support was okay. Oracle is a huge company and its focus is mainly is its database business. All the other businesses are complementary to this company and BI is not an exception. Generally, support is not Oracle's strong suit. Oracle is not interested in many of its products. They are purchasing the products in order to have access to the client

I would rate the Hyperion Business Intelligence platform eight out of 10. However, I would not recommend this product to a new user. When we started with the Brio platform, which has passed several stages of ownership, this product was a  highly rated product. That's why Oracle acquired it. The global user base was huge and we were doing business with this product. 

But after Oracle bought this product and it was abandoned, in a manner of speaking. They do not support it. They do not update the product. Although my opinion as a long-time user is generally positive, I would not recommend this product to a new user. Nowadays, there are other products that are better supported and updated by companies that have either bought them or developed them.

We use Hyperion for the consolidation process in our accounting department. Other departments work without our reports and analyze the information from Hyperion. 

The solution is deployed on-premises. We use the latest version.

There are 13 people in my team who are using this solution.

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

Hyperion allows us to update information and shows us reports, our balance, and P&L.

The analytics could be improved. I think we need the cloud version.

If I want to get information from a company, I need to send an email and they give me information from SAP, but not Hyperion.

When I want something to be improved, I work with our finance support team and they make the changes. 

I have used this solution since 2009.

It's stable. I would rate the stability as 4.5 out of 5.

We also use SAP and Microsoft Dynamics.

I would rate this solution as eight out of ten. I would recommend it to new users. I know of many companies that want to use Hyperion in their accounting departments.

We use Hyperion for budgeting and forecasting. We provide CC guidance through that application. We use the Hyperion HFM for our consolidations worldwide.

We're on 11.2.4, and we're going to patch to 11.2.6.

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.

It is very easy to upload the data from ERP to HFM. We actually go from the ERP to HFM, and then from HFM, we load those actuals into our planning application.

Their documentation could be a little bit more descriptive at places. They don't really do a lot of How-Tos because that gets pushed through to the consulting groups. There have been some books. There is a real good one out there about how to look smarter than you are with Hyperion Planning that some people at a company called ArganoInterRel wrote. Those things do exist, but that's not in their documentation. It's basically like they'll say, "This is the field. This is what it's used for," but they don't tell you how to particularly use it in your case environment.

I have been using it since 2000.

It is better than average. They do a lot to help you work through issues with a chat session to start with, but depending on the level of severity, you can have somebody wired right into you. They do a Webex and look at what you're doing, and they test it out and do that kind of stuff. So, it is better than average.

I would prefer if they were not offshore, but they're offshore only for the first-level response. As you elevate or escalate higher up the chain, you come into the States where the guys are the actual developers of the software.

Its setup was really easy. They provide admin training, and that training is pretty comprehensive. Where you need to maybe go a little bit further would be to have some assistance with, depending on the application, some of the business rules that you need to write. You need to get the syntax correct, but once you do that, it becomes second nature.

I haven't been around pricing for a long time. Their model for what we have was totally different from what they have for their cloud applications. So, I don't even know what a cloud app costs at this point per person or per user.

For working with the mapping, the scripting, and the integration tool, it's good to have a consulting group that has done this before to work with you. 

The other side of it is that it is multidimensional. So, if your organization has never had this kind of environment or doesn't think along a multidimensional paradigm, then you should have a consulting group help you lay out what you're going to use the dimensions and the application for. Some are fixed. You have the months, the time periods, the years, and the currency, but there are also custom dimensions that you can use for various things. That affects how your data is produced and how you do your reporting.

I'd rate it a 10 out of 10. It is world-class software.

This solution has evolved in the last few years. We were using Hyperion, so there was data coming in from other systems into Hyperion. When we were using the on-premises system, we were just moving data from one ERP, e.g. Oracle ERP. When we moved Oracle Hyperion to the Cloud, we brought data from more than one system, e.g. we also brought data from SAP.

We use Oracle Hyperion for consolidation and everything's done on it, but in the past, we did our consolidation in Oracle ERP.

One of the best features that we use in Oracle Hyperion is the data integration. You can slice and dice data, and you can innovate, which is something you can't do in other ERP systems. This solution offers so many possibilities.

Workforce planning is also a valuable feature in this solution that gives you the option to bring in your HR data.

The reporting feature in Oracle Hyperion isn't the best. It needs improvement, but from what I know, they're offering a new reporting package.

There is a new reporting package available in the new tool module, but most companies, e.g. when I talk to friends and even people in my company, they prefer to use other packages like Power BI and Tableau. This means that data will come into Oracle Hyperion, then it will move out and go to Tableau or Power BI for reporting.

If this solution had a good reporting feature from the beginning, then I would have used it, and now that there is one, we don't have the tool. We don't have that license available. If it had been available from the beginning, it would have been great for companies, e.g. we would have been  able to better manage reporting.

I've been using Oracle Hyperion for 10 years.

It's a stable solution, and it has improved a lot in terms of connection. From what I understand, its algorithm is based on your input, usage, and frequency. Data availability has also improved a lot. It also depends on the data center, the domain name, and where the data center is located for your company. Other than the reporting, there aren't many complaints about Oracle Hyperion.

I find Oracle Hyperion scalable.

Oracle Hyperion is very easy to implement. Some pieces are complex, but it's an out of the box solution which works for most companies. It was designed in a way that you can maximize your requirement based on what is given by Oracle and they flesh this solution out every three months.

At the start, we deployed Oracle Hyperion on-premises, then we moved it to the Cloud. It's now deployed 100% on cloud. We are using its latest version.

What I'd like to tell others thinking about implementing Oracle Hyperion is that it's a very sophisticated tool, if used correctly. We've gone through a few mergers and doing the mergers, e.g. people coming from other companies merging with our company, they had experience with other tools. Not every company has Oracle Hyperion, and there were people from the other companies who were skeptics in the beginning as they had never used Oracle Hyperion.

When those people started using Oracle Hyperion, with the solution being something that needs a little time to get used to, e.g. you need to have a good understanding of how the hierarchy and the dimensions, etc. work, specifically for somebody who had not used it, or somebody who wasn't a power user, after the initial learning stage and after using it for a month, those people changed their minds about Oracle Hyperion. They said it was a better solution compared to what they used before the merger.

I'm rating Oracle Hyperion a nine out of ten. It's not a perfect score because it's a complicated tool which requires users to have knowledge on databases.

I'm giving it a high score as it is great for reporting and slicing and dicing of data where you can do a lot of calculations, allocations, and all kinds of things which you can't do in an ERP or any other tool. It would depend on how you use Oracle Hyperion. If you're not using it as much, then you won't be able to compare it with other solutions that are out in the market.

Oracle Hyperion is useful for financial reporting and budgeting. 

This solution is deployed on-prem. 

Oracle Hyperion's scalability could be improved. 

This solution is stable. 

This solution is scalable, but we are thinking of the cloud to improve scalability. 

There are about 700 users of Oracle Hyperion in my organization. We have plans to increase our usage: when the company grows, the system will grow also. 

The technical support is fine. Previously, the support exchanges with Oracle were difficult, but now it's much better. We manage most things without contacting Oracle. 

The installation is easy, but I'm the admin—we have a partner who manages the installation. I think it took about two to three days. 

For a technical team, we have two people who manage the worldwide financial information. 

We implemented this solution through a partner. 

We pay for licensing yearly. 

I rate Oracle Hyperion an eight out of ten. We are satisfied with this solution and I would recommend Oracle to others. 

I use Hyperion for BI and BPM planning. 

Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes.

I have a problem with Hyperion when I need to log some changes in the budget. It's hard to know who made which changes in the budget. Also, since I am using the old version, I'm having some issues with the compatibility between the software and the browser. I think Oracle should package Hyperion with a browser so I won't have these problems. 

I've been working with Hyperion for about a year. 

Hyperion is highly reliable. 

I think Oracle's support isn't very good. 

I rate Oracle Hyperion nine out of 10 because I very much like it. 

This solution allows our users to do quarterly budget forecasts and load information for the next one to five years.

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. 200 spreadsheets can be replaced by one repository, multidimensional database. 

Hyperion Planning provides pre-made forms, that make data input easy and shows users step-by-step what needs to be done for the forecast.

The forecasting of values could be simplified in this solution.

This is a scalable solution. It is possible to have thousands of users and store large amounts of data.

Our experience with the support team was not great.

Neutral

The setup was fairly complex. Besides needing servers, software needs to be installed and customized to work efficiently. You need to ensure everything works together and data moves correctly. Web servers have to be running and optimized.

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

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

I'm working with the customers' company.

The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME.

They are in the process of completing their development. They're releasing new versions and developing new components.

The interface is good.

I would like to see more integrations with third-party vendors such as BigSense and SAP. I'm looking forward to seeing more interface-related content.

I have been working with Oracle Hyperion for nine years.

Oracle Hyperion is a stable solution.

It's a scalable solution.

From a support standpoint, technical support is a level of support, L1, L2, and incident management, change management, and problem management.

Technical support is good.

My career only began with Oracle Hyperion.

Oracle University in Reading, UK, is where I learned.

For me the initial setup was easy, but it depends on the environment.

Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable.

Oracle EPM is offered at a reasonable price.

I recommend that you pursue cloud initiatives. EPCS and PBCS are now migrating to the cloud.

I work for an Oracle company, and I have the highest rating for this Oracle Hyperion EPM.

I would rate Oracle Hyperion a ten out of ten.