Adaptive Insights vs Oracle HFM vs Oracle Hyperion comparison

"The reporting tools are what I gain the most benefit from."

"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."

"Automated reporting."

"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

"Reduced planning and budgeting time - it takes hardly a couple of days to complete my entire budgeting exercise, uploading actual data and generating monthly reports with comparison of actual versus budgets in no time."

"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."

"We have gone from an organization that looked backwards at financials and had a one-time annual budget to an organization that looks forward, has rolling forecasts, long-term planning, metrics, and push button reporting."

"Customer Service: Excellent, always available and hardly needed."

"Oracle HFM's drill-through reporting has enhanced my customers' financial analysis significantly, allowing users to drill down to the base level in each of the dimensions and even further using Smart View for very granular level of general ledger cost centers, making the whole process more effective for their targets and deadlines."

"The most valuable features are around consolidations, eliminations, conversions."

"Oracle HFM is excellent for consolidation and reconciliation; it helps me see the general overview of the business across several locations."

"Time saving during accounting closing periods."

"It has really increased efficiency."

"The most valuable feature is the flexibility and ease of configuration in terms of testing and formula creation."

"Decreased time spent on the preparation of main financial statements and cross checking data."

"You can bring in data from any source and from multiple sources, and you can consolidate that data in HFM."

"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."

"Reduced budgeting process from six to eight months, to three months."

"The latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."

"Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes."

"Hyperion is a stable product."

"Stable and scalable solution with a valuable data integration feature which allows the slicing and dicing of data. It also has a workforce planning feature that allows you to bring in your HR data."

"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."

"Oracle Hyperion helped make things work faster in our company."

"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"Better user interface (UI)."

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

"The upload feature exists, but isn't terribly useful."

"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau."

"Pricing can be made better affordable to SMEs. Every year price increase is an issue."

"Improvements can be made by possibly different interfaces to modernize it, more automation in scripting, and better integration with third-party solutions and reporting capabilities."

"The user interface for data entry (forms) is very primitive – and lacks common Windows functionality such as copy/paste functions."

"The solution has integration challenges. We need a simple tool that is fool-proof for the data that is submitted not only for consolidation purposes but also for performance management and reporting purposes."

"It's a difficult process to try to edit, configure, or change the business rules that exist and work within HFM."

"If there could be data integration between HFM and the accounting software that would be ideal."

"The tool almost feels a little disconnected from some of the other tools, so you have to piece together multiple tools into one solution."

"The initial building of HFM is not a cake walk."

"The complexity is okay. I don't see it as super complex. The solution could have more functionality to make it a little bit more flexible."

"I have not seen return on investment from using Oracle Hyperion."

"I don't think that this product needs any improvement for now."

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

"The analytics could be improved."

"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."

"Sometimes Oracle Hyperion is slow when there are a lot of users using it."

"The biggest issue we have had for end users was that we lost control of functionality."

"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"It's affordable."

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) uses the named user licensing model. There's different pricing depending on HFM and Essbase planning."

"Oracle Hyperion is not an inexpensive solution."

"The solution is affordable."

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

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

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

"We pay for licensing yearly."

"Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable."

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