Oracle Hyperion Reviews

I use Hyperion for BI and BPM planning. 

Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes.

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. Also, since I am using the old version, I'm having some issues with the compatibility between the software and the browser. I think Oracle should package Hyperion with a browser so I won't have these problems. 

I've been working with Hyperion for about a year. 

Hyperion is highly reliable. 

I think Oracle's support isn't very good. 

I rate Oracle Hyperion nine out of 10 because I very much like it. 

This solution allows our users to do quarterly budget forecasts and load information for the next one to five years.

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. 200 spreadsheets can be replaced by one repository, multidimensional database. 

Hyperion Planning provides pre-made forms, that make data input easy and shows users step-by-step what needs to be done for the forecast.

The forecasting of values could be simplified in this solution.

This is a scalable solution. It is possible to have thousands of users and store large amounts of data.

Our experience with the support team was not great.

Neutral

The setup was fairly complex. Besides needing servers, software needs to be installed and customized to work efficiently. You need to ensure everything works together and data moves correctly. Web servers have to be running and optimized.

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

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

I'm working with the customers' company.

The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME.

They are in the process of completing their development. They're releasing new versions and developing new components.

The interface is good.

I would like to see more integrations with third-party vendors such as BigSense and SAP. I'm looking forward to seeing more interface-related content.

I have been working with Oracle Hyperion for nine years.

Oracle Hyperion is a stable solution.

It's a scalable solution.

From a support standpoint, technical support is a level of support, L1, L2, and incident management, change management, and problem management.

Technical support is good.

My career only began with Oracle Hyperion.

Oracle University in Reading, UK, is where I learned.

For me the initial setup was easy, but it depends on the environment.

Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable.

Oracle EPM is offered at a reasonable price.

I recommend that you pursue cloud initiatives. EPCS and PBCS are now migrating to the cloud.

I work for an Oracle company, and I have the highest rating for this Oracle Hyperion EPM.

I would rate Oracle Hyperion a ten out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for budgeting. 

It's basically the same as the other budgeting solutions. There's nothing different, no bells and whistles that are different. At the end of the day, it gets to the same solution.

The initial setup wasn't overly difficult.

I used other EPM software that probably had better reporting that came out of Hyperion.

I would have done some implementation a little bit differently, however, it doesn't mean that they don't have the functions available. 

I would love a drill-down feature. 

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

We've used the solution for two years.

So far, the stability has been fine. There are no bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze. 

Hyperion is basically a jail and cost center platform where you couldn't budget any different than the rules of what Hyperion is telling you to budget buy. If you wanted to budget buy a product within a cost center, you could not do that. You would have to go to the actual cost center and budget it that way. For example, for commercial real estate loans, you would have to go into each individual course center and budget accordingly. I'm not sure if it's scalable in that sense as there isn't necessarily flexibility involved.

Our internal financing team uses it, and they are comprised of 10 to 15 people. 

It's being used almost every month as we do forecasting in it. There's monthly input-output. Hyperion on the accounting side is used on a daily basis to load the general ledger information. It's daily, weekly, and monthly. It's being used all the time. I don't know if it can go any further, as it is being used constantly.

We have our internal IT. They're the ones helping out with any questions. On the back end, in terms of direct contact with Oracle, that would be our finance department or accounting department. I don't speak with them.

I've used other budgeting programs, for example, Axiom.

We did not use a different solution. Coming to this bank a few years ago, this product was here. They went with this product as their GL system was sun setting. It was a management decision to stay with Oracle, with the GL and it made sense to get the upgrade for Hyperion.

The company already had Hyperion, however, they just upgraded to the cloud version. We went from software to the cloud. There were a few little obstacles when we implemented it last August. It was actually during the budget cycle, which was weird. I didn't see any issues for the most part. That said, I wasn't into the weeds of implementing, allocating, doing all the unit testing, UAT testing, and all that stuff.

I'm not sure how many people were used for the purposes of deployment or maintenance.

While it was mostly handled by the finance department, my understanding is that there was a consultant involved in the implementation process. The solution works, therefore, the process must have gone well.

We have seen an ROI.

I can't speak to any aspect of the costs. It's not an aspect I handle directly.

I'm just an end-user going into Hyperion.

We've just upgraded to the cloud. I'm the one that's going in and importing all the data into Hyperion.

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using.

There are many on the market that do the same thing. Oracle has name recognition going for it, however. Personally, I would look at another product I used to use, however, that's just my preference. Many, many years ago, in my last job, I actually had Oracle. We didn't have Hyperion though and everything was sun setting on that. It was my job to go out and go find a solution. We brought Oracle in and Hyperion was a suite of products within the Oracle umbrella. I was looking for a one-stop-shop type of product. If someone's looking for that, this might fit those needs.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. We're not fully utilizing the product. That said, from what I've seen, what I use, and what I can generate from the product, it's decent.

Hyperion is a business analytics product. In addition to analytics. it calculates all the sales data and audits everything as well. 

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.

Another feature that needs work is identity management. It's okay, but they still use old-fashioned ID integrations. Today, there are more secure types of authentication, but these options are unavailable.

Hyperion is a stable product.

Scalability isn't a problem for Hyperion.

Oracle support has a lot of room for improvement. Our requests for service, bug fixes, and new features take a long time. It's will take two or three years for them to add the features we want, and they haven't been able to provide a correct solution for these problems.

I rate Oracle Hyperion five out of 10. The process of fixing bugs is very slow, and there's no transparency. When I tell Oracle about a bug, they acknowledge the request, but customers have no way of knowing about the progress they're making. Customers should get an update about this. 

We are system implementors and this is one of the products that we provide to our clients. We implement solutions according to the client's requirements.

The latest use case that I worked on was in the banking sector.

This solution reduces the time required for EPM tasks.

The accuracy of data gathering and consolidation is very good.

The analytical side of the product could be better.

Improvements should be made when it comes to integration with other products.

The reporting capabilities need to be improved.

I work with more than 30 different clients. Some of them are very large, with more than 2,000 users. In total, there are more than 10,000 users.

Technical support from Oracle is very poor.

I have worked with other EPM products. All of them have pros and cons when compared to others.

The initial setup is somewhat complex. On a scale of one to five, I would rate this product a four in terms of complexity.

This solution can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. They have their own cloud but they are going to utilize the Amazon service for data centers, as far as I know.

The return on investment for this solution is good. I would rate it a nine out of ten in that regard. I have witnessed a lot of major changes in my clients. One such change is that the time required for tasks is significantly reduced. For example, a budgeting task normally takes three months to complete using this kind of solution, and that is reduced to a couple of weeks.

The second point is that there is often a lot of gaps between data gathering, consolidating through the emails, and other processes. There are a lot of mismatching values and the accuracy can be poor. When using this solution, it improves to 99.9% accuracy.

My advice for anybody who is implementing this product is to first clarify what it is that they want to do. What they gain from the product as an EPM differs from vendor to vendor. Each of them has pros and cons. Before deciding on any product, one needs to decide what they value and what they are expecting.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations.

The financial model is quite a good tool.

Definitely, there is a scope for improvement. For example, Oracle continuously releases patches. Every quarter they release patches for this solution.

Users have indicated that they do not want the updates as frequently. Patches should be done once a year or twice a year, not quarterly.

From a technical perspective, the technical support could be improved and the price could be reduced.

I have been working with Oracle Hyperion for eight years.

They never seem to have a stable version.

We can start adding, once we start developing it. From an application standpoint, Oracle Hyperion is scalable, we can scale it. I cannot say that from the client, but from the application side, we can add features to the applications as and when they are required.

Oracle support is not quite responsive. We keep raising service requests when we are faced with issues, but they keep giving us solutions that we have already tried. Service requests keep going for months and months. In my opinion, it is not helping very much. Even after raising the severity level one service request, it is ongoing for several months.

Prior to Oracle Hyperion, I have not used any other BPM tools.

The cloud version is easier to set up.

It's too expensive. 

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

I would recommend this solution to others who are considering it. 

I would rate Oracle Hyperion a six out of ten.

Hyperion is a planning and budgeting solution for large enterprises.

On-premise, we have anywhere from 10 to 50 users. Clients are moving to the cloud versions of the software. Although we do on-premise, we also do the new cloud versions, which is called EPBCS, or Enterprise Planning and Budget Cloud Service. The market is moving away from the on-premise version.

The solution has good integrations, but they could still be improved.

The level of complexity of the implementation is always a challenge. They're for larger enterprises. They're just complex implementations and obviously we implement them, so we know the steps that have to be done. There could be better integration tools.

It's pretty stable. These Hyperion planning solutions do require maintenance, so that's always an issue.

This product is very scalable. 

Technical support is mixed. When you get to the right people, it can be very good, but if you don't get to the right people, it's not so great. It really depends.

We specialize in EPM solutions, originally from Hyperion Essbase and then onto Hyperion planning, and now we're mostly in the cloud. It's just a natural product migration, so that's the main reason why we chose it. Hyperion is the market leader in this space.

The initial setup was complex. On a scale of one to five, I would rate the complexity a four.

The ROI is high. I think they provide a lot of value. On a scale of one to five, I would rate the ROI a four.

I would rate Oracle Hyperion a 9 out of 10. It's not perfect, but it's good. It's probably the best on the market.

My number-one advice is that you probably shouldn't do the on-premise. Go to where the future is—which is the cloud—unless there are very specific reasons because all the development and all the new features are coming out on the cloud first.

It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete. And it's easy even if you're not very familiar with BI technology. Most notably very easy and intuitive transformation from relational schema to multi dimensional schema. Complete tabular data presentation with full drilling process and statistical functions. Corresponding charting data presentation with full drilling functions. Full interactive reporting including tables and charts. Join unlimited queries into different databases.

Its GUI could use some refinement. I think it's easy to use, but it's hard to say because we are very familiar with this product and have been using it for many years. For a new user, this product should be updated to work better with the environments of new operating systems. Modernizing the user interface is something I would suggest. But, in terms of overall functionality, I have no complaints. At the same time, I don't know if I'm objective after having used it for so long. I don't know if a new user would have the same opinion as I do.

I have been using this solution for about 25 years. It used to be called the Brio Intelligence Suite. And then Brio was acquired by Hyperion, which was subsequently absorbed by Oracle. As they have done with Zibo, Oracle has incorporated all these BI tools into their BI platforms.

The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible. They don't offer support. Whenever we need it, we try to find solutions online. Before Oracle purchased the suite, support was okay. Oracle is a huge company and its focus is mainly is its database business. All the other businesses are complementary to this company and BI is not an exception. Generally, support is not Oracle's strong suit. Oracle is not interested in many of its products. They are purchasing the products in order to have access to the client

I would rate the Hyperion Business Intelligence platform eight out of 10. However, I would not recommend this product to a new user. When we started with the Brio platform, which has passed several stages of ownership, this product was a  highly rated product. That's why Oracle acquired it. The global user base was huge and we were doing business with this product. 

But after Oracle bought this product and it was abandoned, in a manner of speaking. They do not support it. They do not update the product. Although my opinion as a long-time user is generally positive, I would not recommend this product to a new user. Nowadays, there are other products that are better supported and updated by companies that have either bought them or developed them.

We used It was used for budgeting, monthly management reporting, and forecasting.

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

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

In our case, the issue was with the lack of people in Kazakhstan who know the product. there is a very limited number of resources available on the market.

I have been using Oracle Hyperion for approximately 11 years.

I have found Oracle Hyperion to be stable.

The scalability of Oracle Hyperion is not that simple. However, for our usage, we do not have any performance issues. We didn't try to scale it that much.

Previously to using Oracle Hyperion we were using Excel.

The installation is at a medium difficulty level. It is similar to Oracle E-Business Suite.

Oracle Hyperion was implemented with the help of an integrator.

Oracle Hyperion is not an inexpensive solution.

I would advise others to use a cloud solution if there is one available.

I rate Oracle Hyperion a seven out of ten,