# Oracle Hyperion Planning Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [FP&A Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/fp-a-financial-planning-analysis) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 51 ## About Oracle Hyperion Planning Web-based application that delivers global financial consolidation, reporting and analysis in a single, highly scalable software solution. ## Oracle Hyperion Planning Reviews ### 1. The Best Planning, Forecasting, and Budgeting Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhusudhan M. | Specialist - Package Implementation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The best planning, forecasting, and budgeting tool. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** We’re receiving continuous updates from Oracle, so I don’t have any dislikes at the moment. These updates are helping us meet client requirements. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s an easy tool to set up forecasting and budgeting, and it also makes it straightforward to create forms and scripts. ### 2. EPBCS for Capital and Operational Expense Planning **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James E. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a single system where we can perform our forecasting and budgetting. This has helped stopped the submission of multiple spreadsheets and provided a single stop shop to get the answer on what the correct numbers are at any level of details required. ### 3. Easy to use and integrates with the Excel and ERP systems **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The Actual and forecasting cubes are seamlessly integrated, making it a very dynamic tool to compare forecast and Actual financial information. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hyperion planning helps me in building financial forecasts budgets and tools and provides easy accessible retrieval of these budgets by comparing them with the Actuals. ### 4. Oracle Hyperion Planning is effective but need more efficiency **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish V. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Oracle Hyperion Planning helps me create complex business rules. 2. Huge amount of data can be easily integrated into this application 3. It helps to make tailor-made applications according to the client's needs ### 5. I am having 7+ years of Hyperion experience. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shailendra S. | Software Engineer III, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's gives really good features and analytical perspective to financial users to analyse the large data set. Also very capable to handle large complex business calculations. ### 6. Good enterprise level planning tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem it is solving is reducing the planning time for the planners. I can get all the data from the upstream systems in one single place and planners can then review the data to finalize their planning process. ### 7. A tool creatd 25 Years ago still does the job, Best in Class forcasting and budgeting Tool. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshay T. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily development activities for reporting Application with big data set, primary benefits include Rapid Application Development and easy-to-track will issues. ### 8. All's good but data validation rules are overwhelming. Groovy should be present in on-prem too **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawan P. | Planning Lead Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Security, rules that can use templates, formulas that can be created across columns, rows **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Formula across row or column doesn't have proper examples in documentation. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Forecasting and Budgeting ### 9. CloudWorld **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Flexibility, complex calculation engine, slice & dice, ad hoc and canned reporting **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** complex calculations can hide a lot of the processes that should be exposed **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** distributed planning ### 10. Review by Pankaj **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** CA Pankaj A. | Head of Finance and Accounting, Automotive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2021 ### 11. Planning Tool that does the job **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** 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 **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping in planning process. It allows me to have complete visibility in forecasting and budgeting for my spends in a systematic and streamlined manner. This has significantly reduced my month end closing time. ### 12. Oracle Hyperion Planning Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nameer A. B. | Senior Financial Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2020 ### 13. Outdated look and functionality **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I like that I can create custom queries that are easy to use for the end users with limited access to modify the logic. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I do not like its look. It looks very outdated and thus might not be instinctual to navigate. Hyperion has been bugging a lot recently in my org. The web plug in version keeps spitting out errors when: 1.) trying to log in, 2.) Open queries, 3.) navigate throughout the application. I do not like the fact that it requires you to run the query before being able to extract the SQL. When looking for a specific table, the app requires you to search for all the tables first, which takes a long time. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating custom SQL queries for end users. With this tool you do not have to constantly run the queries for many people in the org. You can simply create a query with necessary filters, and indicate what the end users can control. This allows the end users to be self sufficient without the risk of pulling wrong data/ crashing the DB. ### 14. Consolidating Data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy M. | Controller, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** We used Hyperion to consolidate monthly financial data from several locations. A big advantage for me at our plant location was we could import our financial data from an Excel file. Once we did a data dump into Excel, we could then feed it to Hyperion with a click of a button within the Excel file. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Although we could easily update our data, we still had to double check Hyperion to ensure the results fed in at the amount we had on our spreadsheet. I will say we very rarely had any issues with that. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** I recommend this at the corporate level for ease of rolling up results. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** The big advantage was the ability to consolidate a mass amount of data from various business locations. Needless to say, it improved efficiency and increased the speed of presenting the results to upper management. ### 15. The ability to plan at their best level. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elvin B. | Finance Analyst, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I've been working with Hyperion Planning for over a year now, and it's great, a wonderful tool to manage your budget and forecast data, review it, share it, model it, I mean you can do a lot here and it is an Oracle product and the possibilities are enormous, You can have access to one of the greatest database engines, AKA Oracle Essbase, you can connect your forecast applications with SmartView for Microsoft and you can model your data in any of the Microsoft suite products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, you name it). It's a wonderful Saas product, I love it. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** There is too little that you cannot like of oracle products. I have a year using it now and I haven't had any complaints. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** Hyperion is a great tool. For my time using it I have not had any complaints, Great software for planning data. I recommend you not limit yourself with the usage because of what you achieve with Hyperion Planning it enormous. Create dashboards, manage your tasks and for your quarter preparation tasks, this tool is for you. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have my forecast and budgeting data available, model it, compare it with my actuals and re-forecast for the next quarter. I mean, everything related with forecast and budgeting I solve it with Hyperion. ### 16. Makes budget planning and forecasting very easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandra Leele A. | Hyperion Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2019 ### 17. Great software, but Oracle is awful to work with **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** José Antonio B. | Latin America Digital Services Director - Commercial & Customer Experiences, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** GReat planning capabilities, very potent engine **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Usability is an issue, high learning curve to use and become an expert. Oracle is really difficult to work with; it seems they expect you to beg to use their products. From contracting, to support to tranining, they are very self centered and no flexible and slow. for this reasons, i would recommend to avoid if possible **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** simplify, go to cloud **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped us for value chain planning and pricing analyucs ### 18. Great tool for complex forecasting needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** We use planning across a number of disparate business units with very different planning needs and at some reasonably complex business rules to automate calculations throughout the planning process. We appreciate the security features that allow us to lock down the plans by BU and consolidate at corporate. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** System stability is a challenge at times, and response slowness can be exacerbated as you increase required dimensions. During implementation you are asked to evaluate the need for additional dimensions against the speed with which you get your planning done. Poorly set up rules can lead to lots of frustration for end users. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted a single system for all of our budgeting and forecasting needs. We now have that, as well as a much more controlled process. ### 19. User friendly and highly functional **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The easy to navigate interface and structure **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Sometimes there is a disconnect between Hyperion and Excel **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** Negotiate with the vendors to be sure you’re getting the best package possible to cover all of your needs - might be able to bundle for a better price **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidation of data across the company with everyone having easier access to the data they use and need ### 20. The best program for financial planning! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denis P. | IT Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I like this program because it is practical and mainly to help in the financial control of the company. I use it daily and I have nothing to complain about. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Until the moment of use, I did not find any negative points. I recommend everyone to use it. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** For companies that would like a financial control, I recommend this program because it is very easy to use! It has the necessary documents so that a user can use it without problems. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** He assisted in the financial control of all sectors, both in the buying part (expenses) and in the sales of metals. ### 21. Definitely recommend this product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caroline P. | Director, Hyperion Applications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Planning has come a long way from when it started. We find WFP very useful. We also like connecting to the essbase cubes via Smartview **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Not a big fan of Planning forms. If the forms are big, we find it takes a lot of time to load and save **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Forecasting is definitely easy with Planning, especially since we can save off different versions. ### 22. performance needs to be improved **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** genix z. | finance manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** the reports that generated from the system can fulfilled my budget and planning purpose **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** the performance is too slow. i will like to see oracle can improve the improvement and let us run the reports fasting **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** financial planning and budgeting. i am able to look at the proforma financial data ### 23. Hyperion Planning has helped us plan more efficiently **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christy A. | Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Hyperion planning works great with our complex data and has made the planning process much faster. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I haven't used the product enough to determine attributes I dislike. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hyperion planning works great with our complex data and has made the planning process much faster. ### 24. Not helping to users who still staying on-prem **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil A. | Anil Ali, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** computing aspect in essbase which is very close to excel like **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** graphing capability and colors availability **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** long range planning allocation visibility ### 25. Good Consolidation Tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** You can view data in real time. You have the ability to hit refresh to retrieve current data. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Import files were sensitive and did not upload easily. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to consolidate financials from different entities. ### 26. Interactive reporting **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I think the application is a great tool to do planning analysics but it is lack of interactive reporting capability **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I like how fast the tool response - which is very helpful for users to analyse at different elements. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving and looking into the details of the GL account changes and time to time variancce ### 27. Great interface for finance work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe D. | Finance Intern, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I think Hyperion Planning is very well organized and I particularly like the fact that our company has been able to pair it with an excel add on. Pairing hyperion with excel has made our lives so much easier. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Some of the functionality of the application could be a little bit better. For example, it would be great to incorporate more visualization tools. It is difficult to create a visual report through the app. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** I strongly recommend this product if you are a large company that produces financial reporting on a large scale. See if you can pair it with an excel add on and it will make your life so much easier. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving financial reporting as well as some operational reporting through Hyperion. I have realized how easy it is to teach others the system because it is fairly simple and user friendly. I also think it has a great benefit that it does not update constantly so your day to day operations stay the same. ### 28. User flexibility with some performance issues **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Allows regional finance managers to complete their monthly projections and yearly budgets using system functionality or their own methods based on the user. Flexibility with how the finance users submit, calculate, and report on their data **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** More complex aggregations and calculations have longer runtimes than desired. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improving performance of business rules ### 29. Oracle Hyperion Planning with Essabse or Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Web based tool for planning, budgeting and forecasting tool which has the features like single data store, allocations engine, analytically best in industry using Essabse and back-end DB. Powerful calculations can be performed. Can create an ASO cube in essbase which can be used for reporting for its fast response. Easily integrated with other tools. With the PBCS, EPBCS versions, there is no dependency with infrastrcture, but having all the same capabilities as on-Prem hyperion planning. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Nothing specific for on-Prem, but the cloud version has some limitations compared to the on-Prem version which could be avoided for a better future. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** The major decision these days comes whether to go to Cloud or on-Prem. It varies depending on the organization. However, I would recommend this product to anyone. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** This has helped the users to plan and estimate the business in a better way. It replaced number of spreadsheet templates and there is a consistency with the data across all the users. Also, its powerful calculations capabilities and reporting features make this as top in industry. ### 30. Hyperion Planning Review at University Of Chicago **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The Tasks Lists in Planning are a great way to streamline an otherwise complicate set of workflows for our users. They are not the most knowledgeable in using the software and this gives them a reminder of the steps to follow when doing Budgeting and Forecasting. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Administration can be a bit difficult and Business Rules tend to run long even when optimize. For example, we have a rule that will write data from application to another using the XWRITE command. This command is known to be slow and for users to wait for the transfer can be up to 5-10 minutes which is a hindrance one us. That is just one example. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** A single source of truth for budgeting and forecasting. Data is all in one place is the major benefit. ### 31. Automation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Hyperion helps automate reports as you can simply refresh the reports each month once the backend pulls are set up **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The account names and excel ranges need to be precise **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation Saves time ### 32. Great Experience with this Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I like the ease of use and how intuitive this tool is. It has been much better than other planning software I have previously used. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I do not have any complaints about this product so far. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Hyperion as a budgeting, forecasting and consolidation tool. ### 33. Hyperion to solve reporting in a mixed ERP environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Hyperion makes it possible to report consolidated financials in an mixed ERP environment, EBS and SAP. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Have to run another database, Essbase. This required additional training for the administrators adds to the complexity of the environments. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting financials for a company that has both EBS and SAP. Removing the need to convert on entity's ERP system over to the others. ### 34. Great tool for consolidation and reporting **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** It currently is a mature tool for consolidating multiple businesses and generating essential reports for meeting financial requirements. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Expensive and difficult to maintain and upgrade. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** It's a great financial planning tool, but the Cloud offering is the best choice going forward. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's been essential to our business for consolidation and financial reporting in a global, mixed ERP environment. ### 35. Oracle Hyperion Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Hyperion is a great software to have to for international and domestic corporate companies that need to have accounts consolidated for financial reporting purposes. The software is highly used when there are intercompany accounts that need to be reported on the 10K and 10Q. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The software reports still need to be formatted and the parameters updated for intercompany reporting otherwise there is still some manual labor for manipulation. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** The software is most utilized for international accounts being consolidated with domestic accounts to include consolidation for reporting purposes. ### 36. Not very customisable, and difficult to use **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amaris L. | Analyst, Management Consulting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Hyperion Planning is useful, and the basic functionalities are easy to use. Forms are easy to build, and the same structure around dimensions is replicated across the webpage/Excel/Reporting studio, which makes it quite easy to build on once the basics are mastered. Smartview, the excel add-in, is really helpful to input larger amounts of data, or to pull through bigger reports. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** There is very limited customability. I worked extensively with Financial Reporting Studio, which was incredibly restrictive, which meant I couldn't meet a lot of my clients' needs. For example, I couldn't even change the colour of the borders in the reports! FRS could also be quite erratic. It frequently crashed, worked very slowly, or changes I made in FRS would not be reflected in the system. There were many instances where one minor change in one bit of the report messed up the entire report, and I'd have to redo it entirely. There was a lot of functionality that was just lacking, and Oracle's customer support was quite poor. On one occasion, I raised a service request asking for a new function, only to find out the development team had been 'working' on it since 2003. The interface is not always intuitive for users, so as part of the team implementing it, we often had to answer queries from confused parties (and were confused ourselves). For example, Hyperion Planning only works properly in IE (and sometimes there are issues with different versions of IE), and when the zoom is set to 100%. If it's not, then users might struggle to click on links. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** Support provided from Oracle is quite poor. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** The implementation was to help a big investment bank set up a retail branch in accordance with ringfencing regulations. From a reporting perspective we moved the bank's reports from Excel -- which required slow manual retrieves -- to Hyperion Planning, so changes in the data were almost immediately reflected in the reports. This simplified the entire reporting process considerably. ### 37. Don’t waste your time **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I do not like Hyperion at all. There are no pros to having this tool **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** There’s so much It’s slow Crashes a lot No help from customer call center. I don’t know if they’re in the US Does not work well if you are upgrading your computers operating systems **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data analysis and also pivot tables. It’s basic and outdated ### 38. Painful product to manage and use **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Not much. This product is a beast. 5 physical servers all dedicated hardware. And Performance is never what expected. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Painful to install, painful to configure, painful price point, painful to migrate between prod and dev. If we did not have so much money invested in hardware and custom development it would have been scrapped years ago. Both Finance and It hate it. It inspired the password !H80rac!e! **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** I have heard this was an amazing product before Oracle bough it. Would have loved to see it during the glory days. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Budget Financial reporting ### 39. Best Enterprise Planning platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff D. | Financial Planner/Agent, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The user interface is outstanding and has the awesome calculation capabilities of Hyperion Essbase behind it. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I really dislike how you can't click on multiple members in a hierarchy (siblings) at once and delete or move them -- it's one at a time. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** Don't even fool around with other EPM applications, they're all inferior. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Corporate financial planning ### 40. User-friendly and functional financial planning system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Very easy to create, pull, and refresh large amounts of data for reporting/analysis purposes, generally user-friendly and member selection options are clear and simple **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Need more detail surrounding specific user changes (e.g. timestamps/user ID's associated with certain changes), ability to quickly transform system data into presentations/exhibits is lacking **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently using this to effectively provide financial reporting/analysis to our business department from an expense management perspective. Quick way to make changes to our budgets, view current standing against prior/current/future budgets, and search for detailed line-item information. ### 41. Good tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I like the existence of a Dev environment to test data before loading it to Prod. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Data needs to be cleared before new data is reloaded over the same dimensions. That's an extra step. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pulling external reporting data from HFM and converting it to a management reporting format in Planning. ### 42. Web tool not great, Excel tool finicky but helpful **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The Excel tool allows you to see various intersegments at once **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Web tool is slow and only allows one intersegment at once **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Forecasting/Budgeting our expenses. We apply average rates and utilize the D&A capabilities ### 43. Great for tracking data **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The organization and structure of the explore functions. The ease to change sorts and filters to find records **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** How easy it is to adjust records. And the permissions settings **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** We keep transcripts and records in hyperion for easy track and find. The benefits are endless ### 44. Very Useful While Often Under-Utilized **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samantha S. | Financial Analyst, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The most useful aspect of Hyperion is the ability to retrieve data from the system within offline excel files as long as you have the Smart View add-in enabled. The refresh is quick and the data is always clear to reconcile back to the total values input into the system. Our company uses the application to house our revenue and expense detail by client, by account, and by period. It is very easy for us to manipulate reports and excel files to retrieve data from Hyperion to suit our needs. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The main problem that I have had while using Hyperion is the difficulty of input into the system. While retrieving data from Hyperion is quick and simple, the actual upload into various schedules and memo templates can pose difficulties. For example, each month my company needs to upload re-phased projected revenue for each month. If client A had $100 in revenue booked previously, but now we realized that this will now need to be $0 - the system will not allow it. For some reason, if there was data entered previously for Client A, 0 cannot be accepted to re-submit - a value needs to be input. So we spend more time than we should each month typing in ".000000001" as an input for each month/client/account. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** The system is very sustainable in itself. Once the detail is inputted into Hyperion, the retrieve functions of the system are readily available and usable. As my company has a very unique business/revenue model, we unfortunately are unable to take full advantage at this time of all the schedules that Hyperion has to offer. That being said, while my company is so unique we are very fortunate to have a system like Hyperion to be able to input and retrieve data so efficiently. Hyperion has various schedules and templates for all companies to take advantage of. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problem that has been solved by using Hyperion is the efficiency of pulling data from the system in a quick and concise fashion. Especially during busy work periods, it is very beneficial to the timing of deliverables to have a system with the ability to pull detail at the client and account level on hand. This is a large benefit of the system and such retrieve abilities helps with all forms of accounting, finance, and budgeting tasks at my company. ### 45. Consolidation Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph S. | Finance Director, Market Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I have used this at my current job and my previous job. It's very easy to learn and very easy to use. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** It's freezes up sometimes, and often I have to log out and log back in.. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us with our business and helps with our accounting and forecasting. ### 46. Hyperion Planning - Critical for Financial Analyst **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tiffany H. | Financial Consultant - Enterprise Cost Alignment, Allocation and Analytics, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I use Hyperion Planning on a daily basis. I find this to be a critical tool for not only project management, but for financial analysis of large data sets. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The software is somewhat limited when trying to query multiple tables at once. I end up going back to SQL or Access at times for a quicker turnaround. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analysis of large data sets is made simpler with the tool. This allows us faster and more accurate reporting to provide to our intended audience. ### 47. functionality **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** long range planning, capital reporting, scale **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** user interface and business rule wait time **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** able to budget short and long term expense and aggregate ### 48. Hyperion Planning - A Helpful Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew B. | Sr. Software Engineer - Oracle BI/EPM, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2015 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Hyperion Planning is a great model for planning and reporting because it provides a simple solution for finance teams to track their company’s key financial metrics. The Hyperion Planning forms offer easy data entry for financial analysts to input and track their budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, and any other scenarios the company may use. All Planning data is stored in a multi-dimensional database called Essbase. Planning also leverages a relational database that is used to load metadata into Planning. This comes in handy for other uses such as loading actuals from an ERP system. One of the best advantages of Hyperion Planning is that it makes reporting very easy. I have seen many cases where analysts would use Excel spreadsheets to track all kinds of financial data, and it would take hours or days to create a report when it was requested by an executive. Smart View, the Excel-based add-in to Planning, removes this hassle. Smart View contains ad-hoc capabilities and allows users to quickly request data out of Planning. Users can generate all types of reports based on the data from Planning, such as sales, capital expenditures, or variance reports like Budget vs Actuals. If you take it a step further and use Hyperion Financial Reporting, you can create customized reports to deliver to users. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** I would like to see performance enhancements in the next few versions of Hyperion Planning. Sometimes scrolling and searching through dimensions is slow, as well as rendering data forms. Oracle has said there are some improvements with the 11.1.2.4 version, but I have not used it in a business environment yet. A multi-dimensional database also has certain limitations when pulling metadata. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** If your company is looking for an EPM tool with budgeting, forecasting, and simple reporting capabilities, I would recommend Hyperion Planning as your solution. Hyperion Planning/Essbase/Smart View are widely-useds across many business units in my organization. I would contact Oracle with questions about your specific business needs and schedule a Hyperion Planning demonstration to see if it is the appropriate planning and software. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem that we are solving, which I touched on in the above section, is the fact that budgeting, forecasting, and reporting take large amounts of time and resources without the implementation of a planning and reporting software. Users are able to easily manage their company accounts, products, locations, and other data through the Planning tool. Forecast and budget versions are easy to save and use in reporting. Planning makes data entry, data management, and data analysis much simpler. Hyperion Planning can save a company significant amounts of cost, time, and resources. ### 49. Hyperion experience in two different Fortune 500 FP&A organizations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher G. | Founder, Co-CEO, Accounting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2015 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** Overall, the product's data entry and extraction tools are excellent. Like most systems, management and maintenance dictates its effectiveness. The organizations I worked for had excellent support and management for their Hyperion tools and they were very useful. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** The UI/UX could be a lot more friendly, including the integration with excel. The web form wasn't optimized for all browsers and can run slow. The excel integration (Smartview) runs much faster speedwise, but the user interface is not as friendly. If you're an excel jockey, it takes some personal macros to reduce your keystrokes. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** I believe you need a large organization to use this tool effectively. It takes a good team to manage implementation, maintenance, and upgrades outside of your user base. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used the tool primarily for forecasting, budgeting, and reporting. It's incredibly beneficial for folks to collaborate across large organizations in building financial forecasts and budgets. Scenarios are easily managed, updates flow seamlessly, and data is easily able to be extracted. ### 50. Hyperion Planning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shahbaz S. | Senior Finance Manager - IT, Pharmaceuticals, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2014 **What do you like best about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** You can customize it based on your business needs. I co-led that effort at one of my previous employers, and it was a huge success. **What do you dislike about Oracle Hyperion Planning?** What you input is what you get. Once move away from the Off-The-Shelf option, it requires significant investment. However, the human ROI (time savings to generate state-of-art-reports with a click of a button, etc.) is very positive. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Hyperion Planning:** Analyze the Pros and Cons when comparing to other products. Hyperion will come out ahead of the game as long as the right commitment is made. Be sure to design it at the worker-Bee level with a top management roll-up in mind. Your work bees will use it the most, so be sure to invest at the lowest possible level of detail that can roll-up to the highest level in management. **What problems is Oracle Hyperion Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** My internal clients wanted standardized budget reports, and fast. 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