Board vs Oracle Hyperion comparison

Board International and Oracle are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Board International is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.7, while Oracle is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.1. Board International holds a 6.8% mindshare in BPM, compared to Oracle’s 11.1% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Board and Oracle Hyperion compete in the enterprise performance management software category. Board has the upper hand in pricing and customer support satisfaction, while Oracle Hyperion offers a comprehensive feature set that justifies its cost and higher investment.

Features: Board offers an all-in-one platform for business intelligence, with customizable dashboards and predictive analytics. It allows for quick creation of reports and dashboards, suitable for non-technical users. Oracle Hyperion focuses on financial management with features for complex financial analysis and reporting, providing a robust financial toolset for large-scale operations.

Room for Improvement: Board could enhance its features by refining more complex financial functions and improving scalability for larger enterprises. Enhancing integration with other ERP systems and expanding its financial analysis capabilities would be beneficial. Oracle Hyperion could streamline its deployment process and reduce the complexity of its interface. Simplifying setup and improving ease of use, along with reducing deployment times, would offer value.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board is recognized for its straightforward cloud-based deployment, reducing time to launch, backed by responsive customer service. Oracle Hyperion, traditionally an on-premise solution, provides detailed implementation guides but requires more technical expertise and time for deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Board's competitive pricing model involves lower upfront costs leading to a quicker ROI, advantageous for mid-sized businesses. Oracle Hyperion demands higher initial investment, justified by advanced capabilities and extensive features for organizations that prioritize comprehensive financial functions.

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Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in Business Performance Management

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (23rd), Reporting (20th)

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 April 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Board is 6.8%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 11.1%, down from 13.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Wiboon Thabsuwan

Senior Consultant at IMD Company Limited

Easy to use and requires less time to learn or understand its features

I think the product is good in terms of ease of use. The interface looks really nice and very easy to use. Every command appears in the icon. It looks like you don't have to understand everything about the command. You do not necessarily have to know more, or I would say that there is less time for our study about the products. Functionality-wise, it is quite easy to use and requires less time to understand or learn about the product. I am a software vendor, so I do not use the tool myself. I use it for my clients. My clients mostly use it for budgeting and timing purposes. I would say that's really less maintenance at all because they can do everything by themselves. It is good in terms of ease of use.

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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

"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."

"I think it's flexible. I chose this solution because, even though it wasn't out-of-the-box, you can customize it, and the long-term growth potential of the software is where I see the value."

"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."

"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."

"What is very valuable is the ability to customize. We didn't see a solution out there that really matched exactly what our functional requirements would be. So we were able to work with New Brain, our integrator, and we were able to build from the ground up what we wanted, and I think that's pretty unique to BOARD."

"My favourite feature of BOARD is the ability to write back to the OLAP DB, as well as the Rdb, and secure user data allowing databases to be flushed and rebuilt daily."

"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."

"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."

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"The roll-up potential of the product is very good, meaning we have detailed information and we want it to be summarized, based on geography, based on different product lines, or based on different charts of accounts in the general ledger. It rolls up the information in a very concise way. This makes it easy to understand the overall performance, for it's forecasting aspects, or quarterly reporting, year to year, or month to month reporting."

"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."

"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."

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

"Oracle Hyperion is fairly user-friendly and not too complicated. The forecasting, it's really good. It's sometimes slow when there are a lot of users using it and we can have up to approximately 300 users using it. However, you can do it in Excel because there's an Excel add-in. This is a benefit because a lot of people do this way instead of having to go into the planning application itself."

"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."

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

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

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Cons

"If we could upload other data, e.g., pivot tables which can be done in BOARD already, that we have pre-existing and have that data distribute to more complex spreadsheets, I would like that going forward."

"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."

"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "

"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."

"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."

"My analysts have used the technical support. Sometimes they have felt like they did not receive the answer that they needed, or you have to go and upgrade in order to address a problem. "

"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."

"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."

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

"Pricing is a significant concern. After moving to PBCS and EPBCS, the per-user license fees can be reduced, particularly for bulk users."

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

"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."

"The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible."

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

"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."

"Configuration is a little complex, it's not very easy. The solution is integrated with Essbase and there are not many users of the Essbase database. If they can provide different modules for each subject area, like supply chain, for inventory forecasting or for order management forecasting, it would make each subject area easier to manage."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Find a partner who will take responsibility for the implementation, and be available for support."

"In terms of the pricing, it was reasonable. BOARD is not the lowest in the market, but it was reasonable for us."

"The solution is quite expensive, if it is made cheaper then we can have more clients. I rate it four out of ten."

"It is not the cheapest product on earth, but you get so much. It provides good value for money."

"The tool's price is a bit high compared to other solutions."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

Is Board better than Anaplan as a Business Intelligence (BI) solution?

We've had several FP&A departments include Anaplan in their analytics discussions, and while BI information IS generated, the focus is generally on compiling input from various sources and simu...

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What do you like most about Board?

All the reports are prepared automatically.

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What needs improvement with Board?

Some of my company's customers are interested to see the predictive analytics part of the tool. Some customers would like to leverage or prioritize predictive analytics as the main feature, but som...

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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 pricing model could be more flexible as it's more expensive than its competitors. The technical support response time could improve as they often ask for the same logs repeatedly.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Hyperion?

Our clients mostly use Hyperion for their financial requirements, including budgeting, forecasting, and planning.

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Overview

BOARD International - headquartered in Switzerland - is a leading global provider of software for improving business results through better decision making. By unifying Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management into a single product, BOARD enables companies to achieve a shared vision of their performance across the entire organization, and thus a single version of the truth.

BOARD provides seamless solutions for • Reporting & Analysis • Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting • Profitability Modelling & Optimization • Simulation & What-if-Analysis • Scorecarding & Strategy Management • Financial Consolidation. Based on visual modelling, BOARD has enabled global companies to deploy BI and CPM applications without a single line of code in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions.

Board International

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Sample Customers

Coca-Cola, Puma, Desigual, Ricoh, KPMG, H&M, Groupe SEB

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.

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