Adaptive Insights vs Oracle Hyperion comparison

Workday and Oracle are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Workday is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.6. Workday holds a 4.4% mindshare in BPM, compared to Oracle’s 7.7% 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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Business Performance Management

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Reporting (18th), Data Visualization (15th), ESG Reporting Software (6th)

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 October 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.4%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 7.7%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Hyperion	7.7%
Adaptive Insights	4.4%
Other	87.9%

Business Performance Management

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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

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

"Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."

"It's very stable."

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

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

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

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

"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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"It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete."

"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."

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

"We have found there is excellent stability 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 financial reporting and consolidation."

"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."

"The tool's most valuable feature of the solution is flexibility and integration capabilities."

"The implementation has been simplified now that it's deployed in the cloud. Also, Hyperion is tightly integrated with Oracle products because Oracle owns it now."

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Cons

"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."

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

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

"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."

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

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

"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."

"Better user interface (UI)."

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"The solution is about to cease to exist, so it doesn't really matter if they add anything to it. It's at end-of-life."

"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."

"The interface could be better. It could be more user-friendly, it is not very intuitive."

"What I like is to have everything on one platform and not in different modules like Oracle Hyperion."

"I would love more comment capabilities so that you could put in little notes, cheat notes."

"The most important aspect for improvement is the time efficiency when handling large databases."

"I have a problem with Hyperion when I need to log some changes in the budget. It's hard to know who made which changes in the budget."

"Oracle EPM Cloud solutions have simplified the security model. Nevertheless, it would be better having a more differentiated security model."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"It's affordable."

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

"The solution is affordable."

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

"Oracle Hyperion is not an inexpensive solution."

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

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

"We pay for licensing yearly."

"Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	38

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?

We are going to re-implement the Oracle Hyperion system due to changes in our chart of account process and some other factors. We were analyzing whether to move to a cloud system, EPM Cloud. We hav...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Hyperion?

We are using Oracle Financials and Oracle Hyperion. Oracle Hyperion is used for budget and MIS reporting, while Financials is used for financial accounting, payables, receivables, and general ledge...

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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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Oracle Business Analytics Suite.

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