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Adaptive Insights vs Oracle Hyperion vs SAS Strategic Performance Management comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 5.0%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 4.2%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Strategic Performance Management is 1.2%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Performance Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Hyperion4.2%
Adaptive Insights5.0%
SAS Strategic Performance Management1.2%
Other89.6%
Business Performance Management
 

Featured Reviews

Andrew Rosenberg - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
SC
Product Support Engineer at JSW
Empower financial planning with user-friendly and robust features
The best features of Oracle Hyperion revolve around their cloud-based technology, which is gradually moving to cloud solutions such as EPMCSG, while Anaplan uses two engines for calculations, the classic engine and the Essbase engine. Anaplan allows for quick module changes, where adjustments in one module reflect throughout the user experience. In contrast, Oracle Hyperion relies on Essbase as a database with calculation scripts and business rules, and it incorporates Smart View technology for Excel connections, providing a familiar interface for users. 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. However, I have observed that Anaplan has built-in UX pages for report preparation, unlike Oracle Hyperion, which often relies on third-party tools such as Hyperion Financial Reporting and Power BI for reporting.
it_user225768 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst/Programmer/Cellular TL at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The dashboards provide a good amount of information, but the unique keys in the underlying MySQL database caused some issues.
The dashboards/reports provide excellent and concise information/results. Also, it provides a good amount of information via the dashboard The data load and the configuration of the front end was not very easy. One of the main issues was that the SAS macros used by SAS SPM, as well as the…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"It's very stable."
"Our organization is able to use Adaptive to complete a major majority of our monthly management and quarterly Board reports, and by refreshing reports and pages automatically, it creates the monthly report package with little to no manual staff work."
"Provides ability for business users to directly manage their plans, data, and budgets."
"It has helped us to automate a lot of our processes."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."
"Automated reporting."
"Customer Service: Excellent, always available and hardly needed."
"Its major impact is that it reduced manual work since using Oracle Hyperion, and Oracle Hyperion data can now be updated, with data loads completed in 30 minutes."
"We're able to support fifteen to twenty countries globally from Cincinnati, and they can do all their consolidation on our one HFM application."
"Oracle Hyperion is an engine allowing you to build whatever you want on it."
"Oracle Hyperion is an advanced analytical calculation engine that can handle aggregation."
"The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME."
"Hyperion has made our budgeting process and forecast analysis easy and robust, and it is a reliable tool."
"The return on investment for this solution is good."
"I would always recommend this solution; it is very versatile, it is easy to use, easy to access, and easy to set up."
"The dashboards/reports provide excellent and concise information/results."
 

Cons

"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."
"The planning functionalities are the weakest part of Adaptive Insights."
"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."
"Pricing can be made better affordable to SMEs. Every year price increase is an issue."
"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."
"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."
"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."
"We do have issues getting information on our customer success turnover."
"Technical support from Oracle is very poor."
"The analytics could be improved."
"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."
"Their documentation could be a little bit more descriptive at places."
"Sometimes the data block does not generate and we need to identify those issues and fix them manually; that is the only debugging process for me."
"Oracle Hyperion's licensing structures are quite expensive for some companies, especially medium-sized companies because of the user-based license."
"The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible."
"The user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."
"The data load and the configuration of the front end was not very easy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."
"It's affordable."
"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."
"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."
"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."
"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."
"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."
"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."
"The licensing cost for the on-premises version of the solution is too high."
"As Oracle's pricing is on the higher end, most businesses prefer to have their own private cloud."
"The solution is affordable."
"Oracle Hyperion is not an inexpensive solution."
"It might be considered relatively costly compared to some alternatives."
"To get a full license, which gives you access to most of the different Hyperion programs, it costs $2000 to $2500 a month."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
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Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise38
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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.
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...
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We are using Oracle Financials and Oracle Hyperion. Oracle Hyperion is used for budget and MIS reporting, while Finan...
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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning
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Strategic Performance Management
 

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Sample Customers

1. Cisco Systems 2. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 3. Deloitte 4. DocuSign 5. Dropbox 6. Electronic Arts 7. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 8. Fitbit 9. Fossil Group 10. Groupon 11. Hilton Worldwide 12. HP Inc. 13. Intuit 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. McAfee 18. Medtronic 19. Netflix 20. Oracle 21. Pandora 22. PayPal 23. Pinterest 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. ServiceNow 27. Slack Technologies 28. Spotify 29. Symantec 30. Tableau Software 31. Twitter 32. Workday
ITNL, Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd., Zaklady Farmaceutyczne Polpharma S.A., Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., Barco N.V., SITA, McGregor Fashion Group B.V., PCCW Ltd.
Bank of Queensland, Barclays Bank, BioMar, Danske Bank, Danske Spil, DPPS, First Allied
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