Adaptive Insights vs Oracle Hyperion comparison

Workday and Oracle are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Workday is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.2, while Oracle is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.6. Workday holds a 4.5% mindshare in BPM, compared to Oracle’s 10.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Adaptive Insights and Oracle Hyperion compete in the financial planning and analysis software market. Adaptive Insights is favored for its affordability and support, while Oracle Hyperion is preferred by businesses that prioritize extensive features despite higher costs.

Features: Adaptive Insights is recognized for its intuitive analytics and planning capabilities, cloud accessibility, and flexible service, ideal for companies needing adaptability. In contrast, Oracle Hyperion offers robust consolidation and reporting features tailored for large enterprises with complex financial operations, supporting comprehensive management needs.

Room for Improvement: Adaptive Insights could enhance its user interface complexity in advanced functions, integration with additional external systems, and support for more extensive data sets. Oracle Hyperion would benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing IT dependency, and optimizing user interfaces for a smoother experience across non-specialist users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adaptive Insights provides a straightforward cloud-based deployment with minimal IT involvement and strong support services, making it easy to implement. Oracle Hyperion offers both on-premise and cloud options but requires more complex setups often demanding more technical support, catering well to organizations with specific infrastructure requirements.

Pricing and ROI: Adaptive Insights is cost-effective with faster ROI, primarily due to lower initial costs and efficient implementation. Oracle Hyperion has a higher setup cost justified by its advanced features, appealing to enterprises willing to invest in its extended functionalities and aiming for long-term gains.

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Business Performance Management

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Reporting (10th), Data Visualization (11th), ESG Reporting Software (5th)

Oracle Hyperion

Ranking in Business Performance Management

1st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.5%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 10.5%, down from 13.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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Pranit Chhajed

Consultant at Infosys

Automation of financial processes streamlines operations but pricing needs improvement

Our clients mostly use Hyperion for their financial requirements, including budgeting, forecasting, and planning The feature that allows automation of the budgeting and forecasting process is extremely valuable, especially when compared to Excel. The workflow management of planning and the…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Automated reporting."

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

"It's very stable."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."

"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."

"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."

"It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday."

"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."

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"Smart View is a really useful tool because we can have a good API with HFM."

"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."

"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."

"Functionality-wise, it is what they say it is. It is the best in class, but it all ties back to your users. If your users are completely enamored with Excel spreadsheets, then breaking those habits is hard."

"We have found there is excellent stability with Oracle Hyperion."

"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."

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

"It's basically the same as the other budgeting solutions."

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Cons

"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."

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

"Better user interface (UI)."

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

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

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

"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."

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"All the planning systems out there are great. It doesn't matter which company you use. They're all great. I've seen demonstrations on a number of them, but it all boils down to the culture within the organization itself to use that functionality, understand it, and help drive it. I've had Oracle salespeople do demonstrations, and it looked really good. We get it on board, and everybody still sticks to their Excel spreadsheets because companies are a lot more complex than what you could deliver on the planning system. So, there should be more education on the capabilities, and there should be more understanding of organizations in terms of the way they access the data in order to plan."

"The user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."

"This solution's stability is a little problematic."

"The level of complexity of the implementation is always a challenge."

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

"We are still having some issues with the ASO Cube. It can take a long time to clear the data in the ASO Cube compared to BSO data-clearing operations. We don't have a specific calculation in the ASO, and we only have these aggregate options on the ASO side. If we need calculations, we have to calculate them in the BSO and pass the data to the ASO Cube for the reporting. That's one of the drawbacks. Oracle could also improve on the data logging side as well."

"Oracle Hyperion's scalability could be improved."

"Hyperion has much room for improvement, especially disaster recovery. You don't have the option to choose the proper disaster recovery method. We have Hyperion and an SQL server on the backend. We have active solutions for the backend database server, which aren't working for our people. They've asked us to remove the high availability to increase application performance."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"As Oracle's pricing is on the higher end, most businesses prefer to have their own private cloud."

"The solution is affordable."

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

"We pay for licensing yearly."

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

Legal Firm

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adaptive Insights?

It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptive Insights?

12 years ago, it was very affordable. Workday has definitely increased its price since it acquired Adaptive a few years ago. So, it's affordable. But there are other more affordable solutions that ...

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What needs improvement with Adaptive Insights?

The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up. So, there could be room for just improving the integrations, making it easier to integrate outside sys...

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What do you like most about Oracle Hyperion?

We can collect data from various sources, which is very useful for budgeting and planning.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Hyperion?

Oracle Hyperion is fundamentally a good technology and does not require significant improvements compared to other technologies because it is user-friendly and offers several advantages in financia...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Hyperion?

My experience of working with Oracle Hyperion is that it is basically a cloud technology used mainly for budgeting and planning purposes. In Oracle Hyperion, there are different use cases for finan...

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

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Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

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