Oracle Hyperion vs Workiva Wdesk comparison

Oracle and Workiva are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Oracle is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.1, while Workiva is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.0. Oracle holds a 12.7% mindshare in BPM, compared to Workiva’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 71% of Workiva users who would recommend it.

Oracle Hyperion

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85% willing to recommend

Workiva Wdesk

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71% willing to recommend

Oracle Hyperion

Workiva Wdesk

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Oracle Hyperion and Workiva Wdesk are competing enterprise performance management and financial reporting products. Hyperion seems to have the upper hand in data management and complex financial analytics, while Workiva Wdesk excels in user-friendliness and collaboration.

Features: Oracle Hyperion provides advanced analytics, data integration, and scalable architecture suitable for large enterprises with complex requirements. Its valuable features include comprehensive data management tools, intricate financial analytics, and robust calculation power. Workiva Wdesk emphasizes collaborative document control, cloud-based reporting, and compliance management. Key features include automated reporting schedules, dynamic data updates, and seamless ERP integration.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Hyperion could enhance user-friendliness, simplify deployment, and improve its user interface for easier accessibility. Workiva Wdesk may benefit from further integration capabilities, expanded analytical features, and enhanced data security measures.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Hyperion generally requires a detailed setup and significant IT support, offering substantial capabilities post-deployment. Workiva Wdesk supports quicker deployment and updates due to its cloud-based model and is noted for providing responsive customer support and guidance.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Hyperion involves higher initial setup costs and a longer ROI period, fitting for large organizations needing detailed financial solutions. Workiva Wdesk offers a more favorable pricing structure for mid-sized organizations, enabling faster ROI with lower deployment costs and efficient reporting.

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Oracle Hyperion vs. Workiva Wdesk

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Categories and Ranking

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

Workiva Wdesk

Ranking in Business Performance Management

11th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

GRC (5th), Financial Close Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Hyperion is 12.7%, down from 13.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Workiva Wdesk is 3.1%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Phillip Gough

Partner, Financial Services at Deloitte TT

The solution is easy to deploy and enables collaboration, but it must improve its speed and enable users to create pivot tables

I rate the ease of setup an eight out of ten. The initial setup was straightforward. The solution is cloud-based. We deployed the product along with Wdata in six months. It was for a lot of use cases. To deploy the tool, we designed the use cases and developed them. Then, we went through unit tests, integration tests, and user acceptance tests. It was an Agile delivery cycle.

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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 stability is fine and quite user friendly."

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

"The tool's most valuable feature of the solution is flexibility and integration capabilities."

"One can see that it's a mature product because it addresses all the requirements that you must need for financial consolidation and for budgeting and planning. It's really easy to use."

"Functionality-wise, it is what they say it is. It is the best in class, but it all ties back to your users. If your users are completely enamored with Excel spreadsheets, then breaking those habits is hard."

"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."

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

"We have found there is excellent stability with Oracle Hyperion."

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"The cross-functionality between connectivity, whether through API connections between different software platforms or the connection of data collection to the actual written ESG report, is highly valuable. The connectivity of all these aspects significantly aids in data assurance, which I consider a bonus."

"Workiva Wdesk is pretty good in terms of getting the data from the system, automating the reporting schedules...It has a very good integration with ERP tools."

"It makes the compliance process more efficient and more effective."

"Workiva Wdesk has a flow diagram that is standardized, making it easy for people to file documents on ECDAs, which are in HTML format."

"It helps you to maintain a backup of your data, including the connectivity with the tables, which provides a user-friendly way to handle and access your files."

"The most valuable feature is its ability to easily upload and update financial results, creating a dynamic data sheet."

"The collaboration within the platform is valuable."

Cons

"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."

"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."

"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."

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

"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."

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

"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 user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."

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"At this point, I don't see a compelling reason to invest in Workiva. It may be necessary for compliance and controlling the version of SCC, but not everyone needs its high-end capabilities."

"The speed must be improved."

"Regarding the solution, reporting has certain areas that can be considered for improvement."

"The most critical issue is the need to shift between uppercase and lowercase."

"With this product, it's more about the integrated data model where you can have a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship between your policies and processes, risks, and controls. They need to showcase how you can put those pieces together."

"One area where Workiva Wdesk could improve is by ensuring that its cloud-based system is fully compatible with the most current versions of PowerPoint and Excel."

"The tool's script encoding needs to be updated to make it more user-friendly and less of a manual process when changes are made to a company's program. Those changes happen frequently due to mandatory or voluntary reporting requirements, leading to lost linkage connections that must be manually reset each time a change is made. This aspect is not functional now, and I see it as an opportunity for improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licenses cost approximately $1,000."

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

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

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

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

"The solution is affordable."

"We pay for licensing yearly."

"Oracle Hyperion is not an inexpensive solution."

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"Our clients in Asia think that the solution is too expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

University

Financial Services Firm

18%

Educational Organization

16%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

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.

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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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What do you like most about Workiva Wdesk?

The most valuable feature is its ability to easily upload and update financial results, creating a dynamic data sheet.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workiva Wdesk?

Wdesk is affordable and as far as I'm aware, there were no additional costs beyond the standard license increase. We didn't have to make any other changes; it primarily involved accessing the platf...

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What needs improvement with Workiva Wdesk?

The tool's script encoding needs to be updated to make it more user-friendly and less of a manual process when changes are made to a company's program. Those changes happen frequently due to mandat...

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Overview

Oracle Business Analytics Suite.

Wdesk is used across the enterprise to support hundreds of data collaboration, reporting, and compliance processes. Use Wdesk to:

Optimize your structured and composite reports
Improve trust in your data, reports, and presentations
Transform processes to enable insight

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