Oracle Hyperion Reviews

It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete. And it's easy even if you're not very familiar with BI technology. Most notably very easy and intuitive transformation from relational schema to multi dimensional schema. Complete tabular data presentation with full drilling process and statistical functions. Corresponding charting data presentation with full drilling functions. Full interactive reporting including tables and charts. Join unlimited queries into different databases.

Its GUI could use some refinement. I think it's easy to use, but it's hard to say because we are very familiar with this product and have been using it for many years. For a new user, this product should be updated to work better with the environments of new operating systems. Modernizing the user interface is something I would suggest. But, in terms of overall functionality, I have no complaints. At the same time, I don't know if I'm objective after having used it for so long. I don't know if a new user would have the same opinion as I do.

I have been using this solution for about 25 years. It used to be called the Brio Intelligence Suite. And then Brio was acquired by Hyperion, which was subsequently absorbed by Oracle. As they have done with Zibo, Oracle has incorporated all these BI tools into their BI platforms.

The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible. They don't offer support. Whenever we need it, we try to find solutions online. Before Oracle purchased the suite, support was okay. Oracle is a huge company and its focus is mainly is its database business. All the other businesses are complementary to this company and BI is not an exception. Generally, support is not Oracle's strong suit. Oracle is not interested in many of its products. They are purchasing the products in order to have access to the client

I would rate the Hyperion Business Intelligence platform eight out of 10. However, I would not recommend this product to a new user. When we started with the Brio platform, which has passed several stages of ownership, this product was a  highly rated product. That's why Oracle acquired it. The global user base was huge and we were doing business with this product. 

But after Oracle bought this product and it was abandoned, in a manner of speaking. They do not support it. They do not update the product. Although my opinion as a long-time user is generally positive, I would not recommend this product to a new user. Nowadays, there are other products that are better supported and updated by companies that have either bought them or developed them.

We use Hyperion for the consolidation process in our accounting department. Other departments work without our reports and analyze the information from Hyperion. 

The solution is deployed on-premises. We use the latest version.

There are 13 people in my team who are using this solution.

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

Hyperion allows us to update information and shows us reports, our balance, and P&L.

The analytics could be improved. I think we need the cloud version.

If I want to get information from a company, I need to send an email and they give me information from SAP, but not Hyperion.

When I want something to be improved, I work with our finance support team and they make the changes. 

I have used this solution since 2009.

It's stable. I would rate the stability as 4.5 out of 5.

We also use SAP and Microsoft Dynamics.

I would rate this solution as eight out of ten. I would recommend it to new users. I know of many companies that want to use Hyperion in their accounting departments.

I'm working with the customers' company.

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

They are in the process of completing their development. They're releasing new versions and developing new components.

The interface is good.

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.

I have been working with Oracle Hyperion for nine years.

Oracle Hyperion is a stable solution.

It's a scalable solution.

From a support standpoint, technical support is a level of support, L1, L2, and incident management, change management, and problem management.

Technical support is good.

My career only began with Oracle Hyperion.

Oracle University in Reading, UK, is where I learned.

For me the initial setup was easy, but it depends on the environment.

Compared with MSBA, it is quite reasonable.

Oracle EPM is offered at a reasonable price.

I recommend that you pursue cloud initiatives. EPCS and PBCS are now migrating to the cloud.

I work for an Oracle company, and I have the highest rating for this Oracle Hyperion EPM.

I would rate Oracle Hyperion a ten out of ten.

We are system implementors and this is one of the products that we provide to our clients. We implement solutions according to the client's requirements.

The latest use case that I worked on was in the banking sector.

This solution reduces the time required for EPM tasks.

The accuracy of data gathering and consolidation is very good.

The analytical side of the product could be better.

Improvements should be made when it comes to integration with other products.

The reporting capabilities need to be improved.

I work with more than 30 different clients. Some of them are very large, with more than 2,000 users. In total, there are more than 10,000 users.

Technical support from Oracle is very poor.

I have worked with other EPM products. All of them have pros and cons when compared to others.

The initial setup is somewhat complex. On a scale of one to five, I would rate this product a four in terms of complexity.

This solution can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. They have their own cloud but they are going to utilize the Amazon service for data centers, as far as I know.

The return on investment for this solution is good. I would rate it a nine out of ten in that regard. I have witnessed a lot of major changes in my clients. One such change is that the time required for tasks is significantly reduced. For example, a budgeting task normally takes three months to complete using this kind of solution, and that is reduced to a couple of weeks.

The second point is that there is often a lot of gaps between data gathering, consolidating through the emails, and other processes. There are a lot of mismatching values and the accuracy can be poor. When using this solution, it improves to 99.9% accuracy.

My advice for anybody who is implementing this product is to first clarify what it is that they want to do. What they gain from the product as an EPM differs from vendor to vendor. Each of them has pros and cons. Before deciding on any product, one needs to decide what they value and what they are expecting.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

It is a multi user web based system, which is easier for us to deploy since we have a global presence. That was our most important goal at the time we purchased the solution. The forecasting and the fact that all the users can have input are valuable as well.

They could make it less complicated. Less maintenance and lower costs would be great. Also, I would like to see some improvement in the reporting studio. It practically hasn’t been touched and is kind of static.

We have been using the product since 2007.

At the beginning, it was not that stable, but the software has been getting better.

It's not very scalable. If I wanted to add another hundred users tomorrow, it wouldn’t do that. We are not on the cloud system though, so it probably works better if you are.

The support at Oracle is so specialized, even within a single product, because each product has several components. When you have a problem, you have to go through a lot of different specialists within Oracle to find a complete answer. I prefer to just have a single stop with one person taking care of the issue.

It is not going to be cheap. It's a premium product, so it's going to be expensive.

It’s not going to be simple. If you are a small company, there probably is a better product out there. If you’re a huge company, it is probably going to be a fit for you. I would rate the product an 8 out of ten.

I use Hyperion for BI and BPM planning. 

Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes.

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. Also, since I am using the old version, I'm having some issues with the compatibility between the software and the browser. I think Oracle should package Hyperion with a browser so I won't have these problems. 

I've been working with Hyperion for about a year. 

Hyperion is highly reliable. 

I think Oracle's support isn't very good. 

I rate Oracle Hyperion nine out of 10 because I very much like it. 

As a developer, I would say that the repository itself is the most valuable feature since I can easily get information and change the behavior of Planning and Essbase.

For businesses, the ability to create forecasts in a fraction of time it took before the implementation is the most valuable feature. Also, the easy manipulation of data for hypothesis tests is very useful.

It provides faster and more assertive forecast cycles. It enables businesses to improve their process since with this tool you can do things easier and quicker as the business can create more complex models than were possible before.

The security could be improved, as it would be good to have security by attributing dimensions.

It also needs more power for conditional formats to disable or enable read/write in the forms based on more conditions, not just changing colors.

It needs more flexible forms similar to SmartView.

I've been using it for over 10 years.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There were issues mainly because of a Java memory leak.

It's limited because of WebLogic.

The technical support for EPM is bad. I don't remember anytime that the service support helped me with something. The problem is bigger when you have an environment with more than one product like Hyperion Planning and ODI. This happens because the products have different owners within Oracle and then different supports and, because this, if you open a trouble ticket of loading data to planning and you say the words ODI, you'll be push around the two separate support teams indefinitely, even if your company has an Oracle support director just for you.

EPM is an enterprise suit that is made of some independent tools, and to have all of them working together, it makes it complex no matter your level of knowledge. The bigger the environment, the bigger is the challenge you need to face. Maybe one day Oracle will integrate all their tools. It'll be easier, and the good thing is that I saw a lot of improvements over the years.

I'm a consultant and my only evaluation was on the database. I decided on Oracle because of the database and during my career, their other tools are starting to come naturally.

Because Oracle products are development frameworks, your final results are as good as the people who implemented them. Make sure that your implementation team is the best it could be, at least for the first implementation. If something is implemented incorrectly at the start, it'll cost you a lot more to fix than to build a new system from scratch. Sometimes it can be so badly designed that it is impossible to fix.

I've been working on implementation for 19 years and I have seen bad implementations everywhere. In fact, I have seen the same tools implemented in the same team by two different people, with one being a success and the other a failure. In the same company, one department says that the tool does not work for them and another says that the tool is the best. The only difference was the implementer. Make sure you get a good team to implement it. The tool has its flaws, but most of time (99%) it is the implementer's fault that you have a bad or slow model.

The reporting is the most valuable feature for us. If, for example, finance wants to know their P&Ls for their various channels, they can get that data. The fact that Hyperion is a consistent system without any big issues is huge for our users to make decisions based on financial results.

It's not complex, at least our set up isn't complex. There are lots of tools and we have our core services. We don't have a lot of strategic finance data in it, so our footprint is fairly small, making it easy to manage.

The biggest business benefit is allowing P&L reporting to happen when needed. It helps us drive financial results to where it needs to be.

Our system is user-managed at our location. So long as the system is up and running and available, our users can do what they need to do. Occasionally, though, we get issues such as process hangs or something similar, although they're usually known bugs the fixes for which we can find in Oracle support fairly easily.

We have some process hangs occasionally, but they're usually small and easy to fix. Other than that, we don't have any major issues with deployment.

Stability has been good on as we have a small footprint. It's reliable and we don't have to do much with it; we just let it run.

We've had not had to scale it up at all. We basically have had the same hardware with that for the last 5 years.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It's not a complex thing and it went in great. We actually migrated from an old environment to a new environment on that one. We brought data forward, although there were some small issues here and there as we got it up and going, but nothing that wasn't documented or fixed.

We implemented it ourselves with our in-house team.

It goes back to your reporting and what you want to get out of it. Hyperion seems to be a very good product and it seems to be pretty stable. It's something that you can give to your users to just use. It's pretty hands-off most of the time.