Oracle Hyperion Planning Reviews & Product Details

It provides a single platform for all users so that there is consistency in the information recevied. It also helps us to quickly pull aggregated data as soon as it's input. This has helped because we no longer get different answers depending on whose spreadsheet is looked at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a lot of processes that still occur outside of the application that we perform in order to provide our inputs. This has caused some challenges in user adoption as spreadsheets are easier for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Actual and forecasting cubes are seamlessly integrated, making it a very dynamic tool to compare forecast and Actual financial information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not easy and intuitive and needs lots of training and configurations. The most important aspect is the correct implementation of the suite to integrate with Salesforce and other applications and also have a way to add Headcount and commentary details as part of the financial information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Its ability to automate the budgeting and forecasting process, 2. Complex financial operations can be performed very efficiently, 3. Third-party applications can be integrated as well with Oracle Hyperion planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Teaching the user how to use the software can be troublesome sometimes because our clients who are not from technical background find bit difficult to use. 2 my team & I face technical glitches a lot when we work on the application simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hyperion Planning is one of the best olap software in market for financial solutioning. Also the new cloud version is enabling it to be used accross different platforms and integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much customisable in terms of user interface. The basic actions that user may want is missing from this. Hoping oracle may work over it and give some dynamic dashboards in future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The mist helpful thing about Oracle Hyperion is the Smart View add-in it provides. This helps in seamless interfacing with excel allowing complex data manipulation and data entry without the need of any specialized user training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The drawback of using Hyperion is the lack of any advanced analytical or dashboarding capabilities within the tool. You either need to suffice with the basic dashboarding capabilities or get an external dashboarding tool like PowerBI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The capabilities to perform complex calculations and retrive the data super fast for Analytical and reporting purpose is top of the class. Goes very well for the planning and budgeting of any organization, Also best EPM tool across all the domain for all the OLAP needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow in updation from Oracle and latest versions have few bugs which need to take care, its compatibility with other ETL is bit challenging. Also latest version doesnt support the Hyperion Studio is bit of a bummer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Security, rules that can use templates, formulas that can be created across columns, rows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Formula across row or column doesn't have proper examples in documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexibility, complex calculation engine, slice & dice, ad hoc and canned reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

complex calculations can hide a lot of the processes that should be exposed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about Hyperion is the seamless interface with excel. Users can perform all their work in excel like they normally do and just press a submit button and system does the rest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no visually appealing dashboard that the tool provides. For any dashboarding for management reporting users have to rely on external tools like PowerBI or Tableau Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.