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 #2 with an average rating of 7.1. Workday holds a 4.0% mindshare in BPM, compared to Oracle’s 12.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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100% willing to recommend

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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 (12th), Data Visualization (11th), ESG Reporting Software (5th)

Oracle Hyperion

Ranking in Business Performance Management

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.0%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 12.7%, down from 13.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Brian Teets

Workday Adaptive Planning Manager at Accenture

Facilitates leveraging the query reporting engine and modeling engine into Excel spreadsheets but there is room for improvement in terms of performance

There's a tool called Office Connect that leverages what I call the benefits of both worlds, where we can use the query reporting engine and the modeling engine that's in Adaptive Insights and leverage it into, like, an Excel spreadsheet. That's pretty popular with a lot of our client partners. Also, the ability to build models to do revenue models or expense or personal planning, and bottoms-up planning. Really, having a tool for a single source of truth. So when you have a lot of typical when we think of the process where a lot of planners are involved, separate spreadsheets. And if you have a lot of people involved, then you have that. Usually, it can be a nightmare. Trying to, right, aggregate that together. So, the aggregation option of the tool is really a big plus.

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Mahdi Mohaddes

Junior Financial Analyst at Coveris Inc.

Good tool for data visualization but interface is not very intuitive

I am the one that builds the reports. So, it's the baseline for making any predictions for budgets and something like that. We are an international organization, so it helps us to have consolidated reports and a clearer overview. It certainly supports streamlining across our global operations. The integration of Hyperion into our existing system improved operational efficiency.

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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's very stable."

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

"Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed."

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

"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."

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

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"We like the reporting and tracking of financials."

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

"This product is very scalable and provides high ROI."

"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."

"Since it is an enterprise-capable solution, people are not worried about security, giving data, the ability to manage complex consolidation, and its ability to modify reporting."

"The accuracy of data gathering and consolidation is very good."

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

"Oracle Hyperion is an advanced analytical calculation engine that can handle aggregation."

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Cons

"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."

"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."

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

"Better user interface (UI)."

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

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

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

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

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"The forecasting of values could be simplified in this solution."

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

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

"The initial setup of Oracle Hyperion is very difficult."

"Their documentation could be a little bit more descriptive at places. They don't really do a lot of How-Tos because that gets pushed through to the consulting groups. There have been some books. There is a real good one out there about how to look smarter than you are with Hyperion Planning that some people at a company called ArganoInterRel wrote. Those things do exist, but that's not in their documentation. It's basically like they'll say, "This is the field. This is what it's used for," but they don't tell you how to particularly use it in your case environment."

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

"The solution's reporting and dashboards need improvement."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"It's affordable."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"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."

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

"We pay for licensing yearly."

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

"Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable."

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

"The solution is affordable."

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

"Oracle Hyperion is not an inexpensive solution."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Hospitality Company

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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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?

The most important aspect for improvement is the time efficiency when handling large databases. When the database consists of several million records, the software can be slow. However, the perform...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Hyperion?

We use Oracle Hyperion for ad hoc querying and connection with multidimensional databases. It is very easy to use for combining dimensions of the database such as time, geography, and product dimen...

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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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