Oracle Hyperion vs Planful comparison

Oracle and Planful are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Oracle is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.6, while Planful is ranked #15. Oracle holds a 7.7% mindshare in BPM, compared to Planful’s 2.9% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Planful users who would recommend it.

Oracle Hyperion

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Oracle Hyperion

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Planful and Oracle Hyperion are competing enterprise performance management products designed for budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning. While Planful is more cost-effective and known for customer satisfaction, Oracle Hyperion is seen as superior for its extensive features, even with its higher price.

Features: Planful offers streamlined planning tools, emphasizes collaboration, and provides user-friendly data insights. Oracle Hyperion provides powerful analytics, sophisticated reporting, and detailed financial modeling with extensive functionality.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Planful is cloud-based, allowing quick deployment and minimal IT needs, with responsive customer service. Oracle Hyperion, often on-premises but also cloud-based, requires more deployment time and IT resources but provides robust support.

Pricing and ROI: Planful is cost-effective with faster setup leading to quicker ROI. Oracle Hyperion involves higher initial costs and setup time, offering substantial long-term ROI for complex financial needs. Differences in pricing align with Planful's rapid returns and Oracle Hyperion's extensive functionalities.

To learn more, read our detailed Oracle Hyperion vs. Planful Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

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

Planful

Ranking in Business Performance Management

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Close Software (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 7.7%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planful is 2.9%, up from 2.7% 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%
Planful	2.9%
Other	89.4%

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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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reviewer1110591

Financial Planning & Analysis - Finance Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation, and we haven't had anything come up that the program has not been able to solve

The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools. The application that we use today for our BI tools is Tableau. That's how people absorb information. We don't really use the functionality or dashboards within Planful because of the robustness of Tableau. That's our single source of data. If Planful was better or more comparable in terms of features and functionality, we could probably leverage that in Planful.

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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

"I rate the overall solution nine out of ten."

"The feature that allows automation of the budgeting and forecasting process is extremely valuable, especially when compared to Excel."

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

"The tool is very scalable and powerful. It helps us with financial reporting and performance reporting. It is a very good tool for consolidation and budgeting. We are dependent on it for reporting."

"The scalability is good."

"Oracle Hyperion is an engine allowing you to build whatever you want on it."

"Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes."

"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."

More Oracle Hyperion pros

"It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation. We don't have to do reporting in Excel anymore, which has cut down on the errors and the efficiency of our close time."

Cons

"Improvements are needed in the tool's performance."

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

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

"The analytical side of the product could be better and needs to be improved."

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

"Integrating Oracle Hyperion, a multidimensional database, with relational databases poses challenges due to the differing database structures."

"There's something known as a data block that Hyperion generates for each and every transaction. Sometimes it does not generate and we need to identify those issues and fix them manually."

More Oracle Hyperion cons

"The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"The solution is affordable."

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

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

"Oracle Hyperion is not an inexpensive solution."

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

"We pay for licensing yearly."

More Oracle Hyperion pricing and cost advice

"Right now, everything is on a three-year term contract, and that is our main cost."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

Computer Software Company

20%

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Company Size

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	38

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Questions from the Community

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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Overview

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You need a financial planning solution that meets the structured demands of standardized financial planning and reporting requirements and regulations. Structured Planning with Planful automates labor-intensive planning activities in a complete cloud-based platform – giving your finance team control, consistency, and confidence in corporate financial plans.

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