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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AOracle Data Integrator is an ELT data integrator designed with interoperability other Oracle programs. The program focuses on a high-performance capacity to support Big Data use within Oracle.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
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle 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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    Community Pulse
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    ODI is less user friendly than FDM and DRM but is much easier to deploy than core ETL tools such as HAL or Informatica. The tool is easier to master and is usually more than capable of handling the run of the mill tasks required for Hyperion deployments. It has been a good …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    Powerful features and Oracle based
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    I think that Oracle Data Integrator is much better because of the user interface it provides.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    ODI is best suited for Oracle Hyperion environments. We have also used it to manage files on different operating systems.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    Talend Data Integrator has been evaluated during the setup of the architecture for a customer, in comparison to ODI, since it's an open source ETL. But, differently from the meaning of "open source", it has licence costs too that aren't that different from ODI ones. Moreover, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    We thought IBM was too expensive and more difficult to use. With Microsoft, since we have our main application running with Oracle DB, we understood it’d be easier for us to work with ODI.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    Oracle Data Integrator is a superior tool when dealing with Hyperion Planning and Essbase cubes and applications. The native connectors allow for easy data movement and transformations from one environment to the other. I do believe that Oracle Data Integrator is a very complex …
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    Discontinued Products
    Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    None of the other products used or evaluated are available for me to select.
    I have used EPMware with is a competing software to DRM. I find the ROI on this tool greater then DRM. It is about a quarter of the cost and directly interfaces with multiple Hyperion applications.
    CXO …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Pricing is one factor and the features offered by the Oracle EPM and IBM Cognos shifted the favour in terms of Oracle EPM.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
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    Features
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.6
    11 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources9.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL9.39 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.9
    11 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations9.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.2
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation9.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management9.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.1
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools9.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    -
    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 Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    -
    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
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Oracle Data Integrator is well suited in all the situations where you need to integrate data from and to different systems/technologies/environments or to schedule some tasks. I've used it on Oracle Database (Data Warehouses or Data Marts), with great loading and transforming performances to accomplish any kind of relational task. This is true for all Oracle applications (like Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management, and so on). I've also used it to manage files on different operating systems, to execute procedures in various languages and to read and write data from and to non-Oracle technologies, and I can confirm that its performances have always been very good. It can become less appropriate depending on the expenses that can be afforded by the customer since its license costs are quite high.
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    Discontinued Products
    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
    Oracle
    • Oracle Data Integrator nearly addresses every data issue that one can expect. Oracle Data Integrator is tightly integrated to the Oracle Suite of products. This is one of the major strengths of Oracle Data Integrator. Oracle Data Integrator is part of the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Suite - which is highly used by various industries. This tool replaced Informatica ETL in Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Suite.
    • Oracle Data Integrator comes with many pre-written data packages. If one has to load data from Excel to Oracle Database, there is a package that is ready available for them - cutting down lot of effort on writing the code. Similarly, there are packages for Oracle to SQL, SQL to Oracle and all other possible combinations. Developers love this feature.
    • Oracle Data Integrator relies highly on the database for processing. This is actually an ELT tool rather than an ETL tool. It first loads all the data into target instance and then transforms it at the expense of database resources. This light footprint makes this tool very special.
    • The other major advantage of Oracle Data Integrator, like any other Oracle products, is a readily available developer pool. As all Oracle products are free to download for demo environments, many organizations prefer to play around with a product before purchasing it. Also, Oracle support and community is a big advantage compared to other vendors.
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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
    Oracle
    • ODI does not have an intuitive user interface. It is powerful, but difficult to figure out at first. There is a significant learning curve between usability, proficiency, and mastery of the tool.
    • ODI contains some frustrating bugs. It is Java based and has some caching issues, often requiring you to restart the program before you see your code changes stick.
    • ODI does not have a strong versioning process. It is not intuitive to keep an up to date repository of versioned code packages. This can create versioning issues between environments if you do not have a strong external code versioning process.
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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
    Oracle
    It is maturing and over time will have a good pool of resources. Each new version has addressed the issues of the previous ones. Its getting better and bigger.
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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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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    I have used Trifacta Google Data Prep quite a bit. We use Google Cloud Platform across our organization. The tools are very comparable in what they offer. I would say Data Prep has a slight edge in usability and a cleaner UI, but both of the tools have comparable toolsets.
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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
    Oracle
    • From a business intelligence perspective, it allows us to provide users with the necessary data and information to make informed decisions.
    • Compared with other Oracle products and licensing, I do not think the pricing was unreasonable.
    • It is part of a larger install, so for ease of use, we purchased it with other Oracle products.
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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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