Hyperion helps automate reports as you can simply refresh the reports each month once the backend pulls are set up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The account names and excel ranges need to be precise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not have any complaints about this product so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hyperion makes it possible to report consolidated financials in an mixed ERP environment, EBS and SAP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have to run another database, Essbase. This required additional training for the administrators adds to the complexity of the environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It currently is a mature tool for consolidating multiple businesses and generating essential reports for meeting financial requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Expensive and difficult to maintain and upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software reports still need to be formatted and the parameters updated for intercompany reporting otherwise there is still some manual labor for manipulation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not like Hyperion at all. There are no pros to having this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much. This product is a beast. 5 physical servers all dedicated hardware. And Performance is never what expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface is outstanding and has the awesome calculation capabilities of Hyperion Essbase behind it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.