Oracle Hyperion Reviews

The fact that you can handle and process a lot of data in a very short time is the most valuable feature.

We showed a lot of demos of these solutions, and a lot of clients that we demonstrated to are very much impressed. It has increased our clientele, so we have a lot more of clients in my company for this application.

It's way ahead of the competition. IBM Solutions have gone down a lot in the last few years and the future is Oracle. So, for now, I don't see any features in IBM that should be improved. It's very good for now.

I don't think that this product needs any improvement for now. I am quite satisfied with the application that we have, it is working just fine. For clients who have a good understanding of the product, it is enabling them meet their deadlines. So for now, I don't think it is necessary for me to consider.

I have used this solution for five years.

Stability is good.

Nine out of 10.

Previously, we were using IBM.

The setup was very straightforward, it is easy to use.

This was the only option that was given to us.

I would always recommend this solution.

It is very versatile, it is easy to use, easy to access, and easy to set up.

I am very satisfied with and keen on this solution.

The entire ETL function is of great value and no feature on its own will function alone. So in my eyes there is not one feature that really stands out on its own.

I work in a consulting role but I believe that by implementing it a lot of organizations’ manual processes have been automated.

FDM has become redundant and is being replaced by FDMEE. FDM will not be supported in the near future anymore and no further development/improvements are done on this product.

It is a manual setup of the type of data that you want to load. To build the application you have to setup and create various locations, maps, categories, etc. You also need to define your input data structure to a certain extent. There is allot of manual work when it comes to creating an application but once the application is created there shouldn’t be any issues when it comes to loading data.

I've been using Oracle Hyperion Financial Quality Data Manager for four years.

There were no issues with the deployment.

We've experienced no issues with performance.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

99% of the time we do our own troubleshooting.

I started with this product.

The initial setup was rather complex but I knew what I needed to do to achieve the end result. There are also allot of reading material on these products if you get stuck.

We used an in-house team. My advice would be to know what you want to achieve with the tool because it is very flexible.

I would not recommend implementing FDM as it is falling away and will not be supported in the near future.

Centralization of the budgeting process. Our company was using Excel spreadsheets to capture all the managers' spreadsheets. They kept being changed by the managers and were never actually frozen in time. Very hard for top management to freeze the budgets.

Reduced budgeting process from six to eight months, to three months. Locking the budget process for the managers permitted us to control the data. No one was doubtful about which versions of the budgets they were working on.

• Flexibility
• Quick to add enhancements and adapt the tool to business requirements
• Little involvement from the IT department

Everyone was looking at the same numbers. As data was entered during the budget process from lower management, upper management had the live consolidated budgets.

The learning curve is pretty steep. For people coming from a relational or star database background, users configuring Essbase need to learn a new way of manipulating the data.

Three to five years.

Our primary use is for Enterprise Performance Management (in most cases), planning and budgeting, and as a reporting/allocation tool.

We provide customized solutions for finance offices in any industry.

Oracle has an integrated solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Hyperion. It keeps the two platforms opened up to each other.

Oracle EPM Cloud solutions have simplified the security model. Nevertheless, it would be better having  a more differentiated security model.

I have worked for more than seven years with Oracle EPM and Hyperion.

Speed of data is the biggest key for our users. The smart view application within Hyperion is very user friendly. Quick changes can be made on the fly and users getting the data that they need to make decisions.

I think that having it within Microsoft products as an add in makes it accessible around the clock. Someone could be working from home, log in, jump in see what their numbers are, see what their financials are, so it's a very good tool.

We're trying to push out a complete costing battle to the organization where it's going to impact finance, marketing, purchasing, inventory, across the board. That's the key feature that we want to start using and implement for better business decisions across the board. I don't think that we're effectively using the tool to the best of the ability yet. Right now we're good with Hyperion.

There hasn't been much down time, so that's a good thing. We can actually lock the users out easily so that when we're doing updates it's not impacting at a high level. Communication efforts are a lot easier that way, so it's a benefit.

As of today it is pretty scalable. We want to expand it out a bit so we came to the conference to get some additional information and we'll continue to use Hyperion moving forward.

The tech support end I don't directly deal with myself, we have someone else on our finance team who deals with those issues so I can't speak to that but as far as I know it's fine.

We don't know everything yet. We're happy with what we have. I think just have your requirements ready. Be as open as possible and open to new interfaces. It's a different view but it's very user friendly.

In Hyperion, we use the Public Sector Planning and Budgeting module. The most valuable feature for us is that it's a tool that supports the entire planning and budgeting forecast for the whole company. We don't need to go outside of the product in order to perform our planning and budgeting.

We used to rely on Excel before we implemented Hyperion, and we don't have to do that anymore and rely on those spreadsheets. The tool does all our budgeting and forecasting without much manual work. It's now all automated, saving us both time and from many human errors.

We still have issues and bugs because it's a new release. I wouldn't call us guinea pigs, although we were one of the first implementors, but there are bugs that I wish they'd fix.

For example, some of the forms don't work properly and we have started a couple of SRs that they are working on it. But the timeline they've given us seems kind of slow, especially for a severity-one ticket.

We just upgraded from 11.1.2.2 to 11.1.2.4, which came with a huge change to include the ASO cube within planning itself. This was the best change for us. Previously, we had to create a separate app each time we needed an ASO cube. Now it sits within the planning cube so there are options that allow you to choose whether you want that app within or outside the planning solution. We actually implemented it as within the planning solution, so that it syncs two cubes by itself.

It's stable and we have had no issues. It's actually more stable following the upgrade.

We've had no issues scaling it for our needs.

I wouldn't say I'm 100% satisfied. The worst part I hate about it, is that when we talk about one issue, sometimes that issue just comes up and their first question is, can you reproduce the issue? That's the first thing they ask you. Sometimes it is reproducible, but not all the time. I think that's what I hate about it.

I was involved in the upgrade, and since we had 11.1.2.2, already it wasn't like we had to do everything from scratch. We had a baseline where we said, "Okay, this is what I want and from 11.1.2.4 this is what I'm expecting." It was a little tricky because it was a new feature and we had learn new stuff, but at least we didn't have to do it from scratch so it didn't make it that difficult.

I would definitely recommend Hyperion especially if they're doing it for their budgeting and forecasting tool. It's so easy compared to Excel or something similar. It's manual versus automated, and who doesn't like automated? I had times when I had to actually run the process myself at 12:00 at night, but now it's all automated.

Simplistic manner of availability, provided the input is source corrected.

In the most simplest way, the product allows the availability of data to be predefined as well as customized based on user inputs and requirements. While in the past, this was more complex leading to data integrity issues, it is now far more controlled in the new environment.

Improvements might relate to the integration of the visual aspect of the product. While this is more database reporting, integration with the BA module similar to PS would be very useful.

There is a scope for improvement in the governance of the product. Also, there is a growing need for the product to have a real time connectivity to other non-Oracle based ERP services to service the growing needs of the organization.

I've used it for around five years.

No issues to date.

No issues to date.

No issues to date.

It's good.

It's good.

No previous solution was used.

It was slightly complex owing to the initial requirement gathering and defining the schema for the business process.

We used a vendor team.

I use it for consolidation and business planning.

Since it is an enterprise-capable solution, people are not worried about security, giving data, the ability to manage complex consolidation, and its ability to modify reporting. So, these are some of the features of the solution.

Evidently, we have a hypothesis. That's why we are building our own product. So, I wouldn't want to dive into the improvements needed in the solution at the moment. Since the UI is outdated, Oracle Hyperion has room for improvement in the area of its UI.

Though I have not directly used the solution much, I have worked with a lot of companies that used Hyperion. So, I've probably had about four to five years of experience with Oracle Hyperion. Also, my company is in no way linked to Oracle.

The initial setup of Oracle Hyperion is very difficult.

I wouldn't suggest others use it since it is too complex to implement.

I rate the overall solution a six out of ten.