OneStream XF vs Oracle Hyperion comparison

"We were with Oracle previously. With Oracle, you have to buy a different piece of software for every business process. If you want to do budgeting, that's a product. If you want to do consolidation, that's a product. If you want to do BI type of work, that's yet another product. So, you end up buying a lot of software from Oracle. With OneStream, it is a little different. It is a platform where you can do all those things, and you can do them with just one software purchase and then you just pay for users on it."

"It offers great ease of use. This impacts not only the end-user experience but also the administrator's, which affects the total cost of ownership."

"The product's most valuable feature is extensibility."

"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."

"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."

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

"Scalability isn't a problem for Hyperion."

"It is easy to use. It is very intuitive. Even though there is a lot of functionality that comes out of the box, you can customize the solutions to meet your needs. You have the ability to have business rules that produce all kinds of calculations. We're international, and we do all our FX conversions through that."

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

"Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes."

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

"We should be able to download the data in the same format we upload it."

"AI is where I see the most innovation and progress, but it's not fully developed yet."

"Currently, they only support one browser, and it would be good if you could use it on Chrome, Firefox, etc. It is a little frustrating that you can only use a certain Microsoft browser. They're pretty tightly aligned with Microsoft. So, I can see the reasons for it."

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

"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."

"Oracle Hyperion's scalability could be improved."

"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 analytics could be improved."

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

"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."

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

"The licensing is expensive."

"The product has a license by the user. They're on par with other competitors."

"They price it by the user. Before discounting, it is 2,500 or something like that."

"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."

"Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable."

"The solution is affordable."

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

"We pay for licensing yearly."

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

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