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Oracle Hyperion vs Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.3
Users had varied experiences with Oracle Hyperion, citing efficiency gains and accuracy improvements, but effectiveness depended on project management.
Sentiment score
6.6
Switching to Oracle Cloud reduced costs, improved accuracy, and enhanced decision-making, promising ROI in two and a half years.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.5
Oracle Hyperion customer service is generally good, but technical support varies with delays and inefficiencies, especially for complex issues.
Sentiment score
5.3
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud support experiences vary, with mixed reviews on response time, expertise, and service quality.
Support is generally fast for Sev1 or Sev2 tickets but slower for lower-severity tickets.
The response time is not that good.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Oracle Hyperion is scalable, suited for large enterprises, but faces limitations in non-cloud environments and specific configurations.
Sentiment score
7.6
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is highly scalable, modular, and offers excellent performance, adapting efficiently to varying user needs.
The scalability of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is high.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Oracle Hyperion is stable with occasional issues; proper setup ensures reliable performance, especially in large-scale environments.
Sentiment score
7.4
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is stable with minimal issues, outperforming on-premises options; challenges are user errors, not Oracle.
Cloud configurations have not exhibited issues like crashing or slowing down for significant data volumes.
We sometimes encounter bugs and need to connect with Oracle Support.
 

Room For Improvement

Oracle Hyperion requires improvements in integration, user interface, scalability, and security, with frequent patches and complex configurations causing concerns.
Oracle Planning Cloud struggles with performance, navigation, integration, and lacks intuitive features, needing improvements in interface and calculations.
For example, a company with fifty users versus five hundred users should see better pricing.
The pricing model could be more flexible as it's more expensive than its competitors.
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud could improve by creating a more visual and user-friendly interface similar to the old ABC analytics.
 

Setup Cost

Oracle Hyperion is costly with initial fees, annual support, and cloud subscriptions, but some find it reasonable compared to competitors.
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud costs around $40,000 annually, offering infrastructure savings, yet may burden smaller companies.
 

Valuable Features

Oracle Hyperion is valued for scalability, user-friendly interface, financial integration, automation, and robust data-driven financial management capabilities.
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud streamlines financial management with seamless integration, scalability, advanced analytics, and user-friendly interfaces.
It enables me to input data directly based on my security and business lines, with an inbuilt calculation engine for data aggregation and reporting.
The feature that allows automation of the budgeting and forecasting process is extremely valuable, especially when compared to Excel.
One of the most valuable features of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is the ability to have budgeting, finance, and management running in a single tool.
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Hyperion
Ranking in Business Performance Management
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Planning and Budgeti...
Ranking in Business Performance Management
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Financial Performance and Strategy Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 11.1%, down from 13.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is 5.8%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Performance Management
 

Featured Reviews

Pranit Chhajed - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
Prithwish Kumar Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Budgeting scenarios and versions helps us migrate data, visualize data, and do variant reporting
The best thing about the tool is the budgeting scenarios and versions. It helps us migrate data, visualize data, and do variant reporting. There are approval processes that allow users to submit data, whether for budgeting or forecasting. When they submit, it goes up in the hierarchy for approval. If the data looks good to the manager, they can approve it. This is a very unique feature that we get. The approval process is a back-and-forth process; it doesn't get finalized in one go. Another feature is the business rules, where we can give users the flexibility to run calculations on demand. We can set runtime prompts for them, so they can run the calculation for whichever year or factors they want. They just need to know the value they want. Everything else can be set up by the admins. These are the flexibilities that we can give the user.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Hyperion?
We can collect data from various sources, which is very useful for budgeting and planning.
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.
What is your primary use case for Oracle Hyperion?
Our clients mostly use Hyperion for their financial requirements, including budgeting, forecasting, and planning.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud?
While cloud pricing may initially appear more expensive due to the absence of infrastructure expenses, it is fair. There's no need for physical servers or infrastructure management. The licensing i...
What needs improvement with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud?
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud could improve by creating a more visual and user-friendly interface similar to the old ABC analytics. The ability to easily distribute costs visually, using clic...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud?
At Panama Canal, the entire budget was uploaded into the system, and every process, from a purchase requisition to the purchase order and invoice, had to go through the budgeting system before ente...
 

Also Known As

Hyperion
Oracle PBCS, Oracle Enterprise Business Planning
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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.
Australian Finance Group Ltd., Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., TBS Group, Delaware Life Insurance, Shelf Drilling Ltd., Abu Dhabi Department of Finance, Fugro Norway AS, Drake & Scull International PJSC (DSI), Racepoint Global, Edgewater Technology Inc., King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Communications Test Design Inc.
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