Board vs. Oracle Hyperion

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Board
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
BOARD is a business decision-making platform for organizations of any size. BOARD hosts several business modeling, planning, and analysis all in one cloud-based platform.N/A
Oracle Hyperion
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Oracle's Corporate Performance Management suite was acquired from Hyperion in 2007. Hyperion customers are encouraged to migrate to Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM.N/A
Pricing
BoardOracle Hyperion
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BoardOracle Hyperion
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BoardOracle Hyperion
Considered Both Products
Board
Chose Board
In my work experience I have not used any other BI software; I have however been able to monitor the use of other software and I think BOARD is very flexible in its use. I can also point out that even after a short time and with little practice, you can develop useful projects.
Chose Board
We chose BOARD over other options because it was something we could configure and extend internally. Other tools were too complicated and expensive to maintain, or not flexible enough for us to change on our own. From a visual perspective, BOARD was very appealing too. It …
Oracle Hyperion

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
BoardOracle Hyperion
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.7
94 Ratings
18% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports6.781 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards6.794 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.787 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.7
99 Ratings
21% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis6.797 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities5.995 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.767 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.490 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.1
91 Ratings
14% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Publish to Web6.780 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.588 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning6.781 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.579 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.2
74 Ratings
6% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.773 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.467 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.565 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.4
75 Ratings
16% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)7.573 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.470 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.773 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.270 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.7
78 Ratings
18% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access5.973 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application5.858 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile5.969 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.4
80 Ratings
12% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
10.0
22 Ratings
7% above category average
Long-term financial planning7.375 Ratings10.017 Ratings
Financial budgeting7.479 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Forecasting6.776 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Scenario modeling8.272 Ratings10.016 Ratings
Management reporting7.578 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.2
75 Ratings
11% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Financial data consolidation8.171 Ratings00 Ratings
Journal entries and reports6.572 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency management7.462 Ratings00 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations7.463 Ratings00 Ratings
Minority Ownership7.457 Ratings00 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting6.769 Ratings00 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails6.666 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.0
78 Ratings
16% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Financial Statement Reporting7.473 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Reporting6.777 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting6.674 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting7.471 Ratings00 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing6.651 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.3
80 Ratings
10% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
8.2
20 Ratings
0% above category average
Personalized dashboards7.579 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards7.475 Ratings7.115 Ratings
KPIs6.777 Ratings9.917 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis7.473 Ratings9.917 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting7.472 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data7.463 Ratings6.013 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.4
78 Ratings
12% below category average
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Flat file integration7.477 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel data integration7.476 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.472 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
BoardOracle Hyperion
Small Businesses
IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
MIP Fund Accounting
MIP Fund Accounting
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Centage
Centage
Score 9.6 out of 10
Centage
Centage
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Score 8.2 out of 10
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
BoardOracle Hyperion
Likelihood to Recommend
6.7
(100 ratings)
10.0
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(7 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BoardOracle Hyperion
Likelihood to Recommend
Board International
Board is a useful tool with a great set of features. We migrated from human apps to board and we find it relatively fast in search results and better-managed threads and forums. There are some areas, such as UI and interactions which could be improved but overall a great product. The learning section is also pretty good.
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Well suited: For use in multiple offices around the world. I was able to obtain financial reporting data from 5 foreign offices and then consolidate their data with 3 domestic USA offices to prepare a consolidated financial statement. Less Appropriate: Translating the financial value for consulting services could be a bit challenging because that required human interaction and judgement. It would have been great to be able to set up some software to be able to interpret this and let it run for all future project work revenue projection.
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Pros
Board International
  • The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate
  • You don't need programming knowledge to create dashboards which is a great flex for non-technical users
  • You can seamlessly convert large, raw, and complex data to meaningful reports to visualize better and plan to act accordingly
  • The financial forecasting that Board provides post-analysis is truly reliable
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  • This product handles budgeting by Employee and/or Position very well. It is highly flexible and allows Hyperion administrators the ability to develop a planning application that fits a variety of different business needs.
  • It is great at calculating benefits using business rules to automate the population of these fringe costs in the overall budget planning process. This greatly reduces user error.
  • It allows you to seed the operating budget based on changes to key drivers, such as percentage increases, flat dollar increases and more detailed changes using business rules.
  • Allows visibility into the plans for each unit across the organization, rolled up into an overall budget for the campus.
  • It handles the creation of budgets with multiple chartfield segments or dimensions, which most other budgeting systems cannot handle well. It can aggregate these very quickly.
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Cons
Board International
  • Board BI tool has a steep learning curve and can be challenging for a new user to reach to board's full capacity.
  • We have to use a windows scheduler to schedule data import tasks; it would be great if Board could provide its own scheduler.
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Discontinued Products
  • One pain point for us is the consolidation and translation process. Needing to translate the data over and over again is frustrating and there is no visibility into how many users are running a translation. If multiple users attempt to translate the same data set, say goodbye to your performance but you have no way of knowing! (Unless you want to pull up a task audit which is not a very realistic expectation). It has the been the quickest way for us to bring the system to it's knees. The consolidation process performs in direct correlation to the complexity of the calculation/consolidation rules. So, while the product is extremely flexible, you still have to be careful how you design your rules and calculations to make sure that you do it on the smallest subset of data as possible to avoid large processing times. This makes sense, but requires some significant expertise that most organizations do not have in-house.
  • The Hyperion Financial Reporting product is ridiculously outdated and clunky to use. The interface for designing reports is not intuitive, and not easy to modify once a report is built. I think there must be a strategic decision to move away from it and go to something more like Oracle BI because I just can't understand why in the world they don't update the reporting product. It also requires a significant level of expertise to be able to use. Not a great solution at all if you want multiple end-users to create reports in something other than Excel. Nobody except the HFM admin (which I used to be) in our company even touches this module.
  • Another pain point is the amount of IT support that is required to run this thing, and again, specialized knowledge of Hyperion products and how they work is required for IT to adequately support it. This goes for application servers and the Oracle database that the applications are running on.
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Likelihood to Renew
Board International
Board is a fantastic product for swift BI solution delivery when compared with its peers. Ease of use, support and integration with Microsoft Office Addin open a wide horizon of opportunities for further enhancements to solutions. Easy bespoke app development capabilities make it a winner for us. BOARD is just like a white canvas, it lets you explore your creative side while designing and delivering a solution
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Discontinued Products
We're in the middle of the road because we are not sure that other products on the market fit the bill for what we need yet. Hyperion is expensive and burdensome from an administrator and maintenance standpoint, but it still seems to be the best solution for what we need. Show us an equally capable SaaS consolidation product and we'll talk again.
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Usability
Board International
From a user perspective, Board is quite simple to use. You
can evaluate the presentation of the data, the navigation, the configuration of
the users, the selection of the data etc ... It would have a better rating if
it were even more intuitive as regards the construction of a project, starting
from the database, to the info-cubes, to entities, to data acquisition
procedures from other servers.
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Discontinued Products
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Performance
Board International
very fast and no integration problems
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Discontinued Products
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Support Rating
Board International
The only time I needed assistance was due to a problem in
the prints: the colors of the brochures as they were on the screen were not
reproduced in the print, but a series of standard colors were reproduced. This
fact made colored numbers on a colored background illegible. From the
assistance they confirmed that it was a problem of version 10.2 that occurred
when leaving the brochures with the default colors proposed by Board. To obtain
the desired colors, they had to be personalized ... I didn't like the solution
very much and the technician who recommended it didn't like me either, but they
would have solved the problem with the following versions. In any case, the
assistance was quick and effective even if not exactly efficient.
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Discontinued Products
The premium support team provides much needed dedicated customer service which we are after for what we have paid for this service. We are satisfied with the service and support and do not have any instance where there was an issue that requires escalation to get the right support team. Though the incidence of major issues that requires the premium support are less, we prefer to keep this as a safety net.
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In-Person Training
Board International
Board is fairly simple and straight forward. Advance training on workflows and procedures is a good one but the training content only touches through the interesting areas. training content needs to cover a few areas more in-depth
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Discontinued Products
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Implementation Rating
Board International
The problem of user profiling in our context is certainly
quite complex. The complexity is given by the fact that the company is divided
territorially into logistic points of sale, but at the same time they are
virtually divided into divisions (or specific implementation areas) and points
of sale of competence. The same operator can have access to data at different
logistic sales points, sales points of competence and divisions.
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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
Board International
Board has been more complete when compared to Anaplan. Although I didn't participate in the buying decision of any of those products I have used both and by far Board just has more features. It's more than a CPM, it's BI and CPM put together. If I had to make a choice now it would be Board.
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Discontinued Products
I use Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Mangement because the company I work at requires me to use it in the Financial Planning sector as most of their data is stored in it. I am open minded and ready to use other performance management tools created by Oracle if my work permits.
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Return on Investment
Board International
  • Board facilitates proactive decision making - it gives all the insights of the company's needs, which includes predictive analytics and manipulation of data to make different types of reports.
  • Easy to use for non-programmer and integration with other software is seamless. It has [the] ability to handle large amounts of data.
  • It facilitates advanced decision-making.
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Discontinued Products
  • Oracle Hyperion allows us to automate and consolidate financial data that used to be performed manually in spreadsheets. From that perspective the ROI is huge.
  • Oracle Hyperion functionality is extensive and allows us to perform most functions for planning, consolidating and reporting on our financial data.
  • One negative with Oracle Hyperion is that it is complicated to implement and maintain. It takes expertise at all levels (infrastructure and management) to realize the benefits from it.
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ScreenShots

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