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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Review summaries and opinions

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

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

6.5

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

"The support from the BOARD team and their consultants is great. Whenever I use technical support, they are good."

"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."

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

"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."

"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."

"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."

"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."

"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."

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"It's a very good program and it's useful for consolidation."

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

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

"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."

"Scalability is one of this solution's big plus points."

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

"The platform is very easy to use from a user perspective, especially for nontechnical experts."

"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."

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Cons

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

"I would like to see a better Web client, where the controls work the same way as in the Windows client. I do think that the focus is now on the Web, so it should be improved upon."

"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."

"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."

"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."

"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. "

"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."

"The setup was a bit complex."

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

"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."

"The analytics could be improved."

"There can be an improvement in many regards with the dimensions, the metadata, the interfaces, as well as the integration."

"What I like is to have everything on one platform and not in different modules like Oracle Hyperion."

"The interface could be better. It could be more user-friendly, it is not very intuitive."

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

"This solution's stability is a little problematic."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

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

"Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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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.

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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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