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IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Oracle Hyperion (legacy)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Netezza Performance Server

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ANetezza Performance Server (NPS) is an add-on data warehouse solution available on Cloud Pak for Data System platform, built over open source and optimized for High Performance Analytics with built-in hardware acceleration. Netezza Performance Server was previously named IBM Performance Server for PostgreSQL (IPS).N/A

    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AOracle'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
    IBM Netezza Performance ServerOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Netezza Performance ServerOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IBM Netezza Performance ServerOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of IBM Netezza Performance Server and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    IBM Netezza Performance Server
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Long-term financial planning00 Ratings10.017 Ratings
    Financial budgeting00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Scenario modeling00 Ratings10.016 Ratings
    Management reporting00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of IBM Netezza Performance Server and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    IBM Netezza Performance Server
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    KPIs00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings6.013 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Netezza Performance ServerOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Netezza Performance ServerOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    We can query the data source and treat multiple databases
    as one with IBM Netezza Performance Server.



    While delivering fast and reliable analytical performance, the IBM Netezza Performance Server requires minimal configuration and ongoing
    management.



    To drive organizational performance, Netezza Performance
    Server automatically simplifies data and AI to centralize all analytics
    activities on the device, exactly where the data resides.



    For data processing and application dashboards, IBM Netezza
    Performance Server is quite beneficial.





    IBM Netezza Performance Server simplifies event setup
    by notifying you when a hardware component fails, allowing you to quickly
    replace it.
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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
    IBM
    • IBM Netezza Performance Server enables capabilities to integrate with leading ETL solutions.
    • Data can be exported from the IBM Netezza Performance Server to a variety of formats, including Excel.
    • We can prioritize specific users and queries using IBM Netezza Performance Server.
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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
    IBM
    • More tech support may make it easier as it is only limited to be done via company representatives
    • Overhead cost for replacements and services looks like it is high compared to others
    • Integration with other cloud based application will be great
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    • 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
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Support Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
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    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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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Netezza is sufficient against similar products. It comes down to personal preference, I'd love to have the data objects popping up as I type but some people may not like it.
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    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
    IBM
    • The appliance is all in one so we have all licenses and support contracts under one roof.
    • The cost is expensive so ROI may take time to be realized.
    • If done correctly, then Netezza provides the opportunity for huge ROI.
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    • 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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