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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a solution that helps users model and plan across finance, HR, supply chain, and sales, streamline the financial close process.

    $250

    per user/per month

    Tableau Server

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ATableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.

    $12

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementTableau Server
    Editions & Modules
    EPM Standard
    $250
    per user/per month
    EPM Enterprise
    $500
    per user/per month
    Viewer
    $12.00
    Per User Per Month
    Explorer
    $35.00
    Per User Per Month
    Creator
    $70.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementTableau Server
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing per user varies by component within the Oracle EPM Cloud solution. Please see pricing information for the EPM Cloud components on cloud.oracle.com or contact Oracle Sales at +1.800.633.0738.—
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    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementTableau Server
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    Oracle
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    Tableau
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    75%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    71%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementTableau Server
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    5.6
    3 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    95 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.12 Ratings9.129 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards4.43 Ratings7.094 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates4.43 Ratings9.081 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    6.7
    23 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Tableau Server
    7.8
    95 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Drill-down analysis6.022 Ratings8.095 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.021 Ratings8.093 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.019 Ratings7.089 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.059 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.5
    19 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Tableau Server
    7.2
    91 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Publish to Web8.016 Ratings8.085 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.019 Ratings7.084 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.017 Ratings8.070 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.015 Ratings8.077 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.19 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    5.9
    3 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Tableau Server
    8.3
    90 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.03 Ratings9.086 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.83 Ratings8.085 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.13 Ratings8.064 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Tableau Server
    10.0
    95 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.020 Ratings10.093 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model6.023 Ratings10.090 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.020 Ratings10.092 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.021 Ratings10.062 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.2
    2 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Tableau Server
    8.1
    79 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access6.22 Ratings10.077 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.061 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.068 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    6.6
    38 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Tableau Server
    -
    Ratings
    Long-term financial planning7.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial budgeting7.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forecasting6.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scenario modeling6.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management reporting7.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.3
    20 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Tableau Server
    -
    Ratings
    Financial data consolidation7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports6.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency management8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Minority Ownership7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.2
    34 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Tableau Server
    -
    Ratings
    Financial Statement Reporting7.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Reporting8.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting6.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing6.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    6.8
    25 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Tableau Server
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized dashboards7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    KPIs7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis6.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting6.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data6.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.0
    36 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Tableau Server
    -
    Ratings
    Flat file integration7.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel data integration7.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Server
    6.4
    46 Ratings
    19% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings8.037 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.040 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.19 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings4.67 Ratings
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementTableau Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (46 ratings)
    8.0
    (111 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    3.0
    (18 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (16 ratings)
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (79 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (82 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementTableau Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    It is well suited in a geographically distributed environment where you have various key participants in multiple time zones providing input and necessary explanations on performance and measured success It is less appropriate where you have a single office environment with a single finance department working together. It is also less suited when the GL is NOT an Oracle product and the interface between the GL and the reporting software needs to be implemented with utmost care and handling.
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    Tableau
    Whole funnel and specific channel performance from upper to lower funnel metrics. The ability to view full channel performance for some time, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, has truly been monumental in how my team optimizes specific channels and campaigns. Daily performance tracking is a bit overwhelming, with load times and having to refresh specific live views over time. It can be challenging to do so at times, as extensive dashboards take much longer to load.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Account Reconciliation CLoud Services provides tight integration with Oracle R12 and 11i . Provides drillback capability. It is flexible and provides rich functionality to users.
    • We have implemented ARCS on cloud and migrated planning and budgeting from On premise to PBCS and EPBCS. Functionality is onpar with onpremise. Provides regular updates monthly
    • We don't need to upgrades every year and saved a lot on Hardware.
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    Tableau
    • It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
    • Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
    • Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • The limitation of constrained out of the box dimensions that requires ripping the initial implementation to add the new dimensions is a major drawback.
    • Smartview interface is cumbersome for many.
    • The only financial adapter is available for integration for other modules we have to go with file-based uploads which is cumbersome and not real-time.
    • It is very costly in terms of licensing unlike other Oracle products.
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    Tableau
    • Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
    • Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    We have a pretty good userbase who are at the high level who gained value from this tool. Discontinuing this tool is prone to impact their day to day operations. Also the data in this tool cannot alter the source, which maintains the integrity of this tool. Smartview is a cool addition that gained lot of traction as well.
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    Tableau
    It simply is used all the time by more and more people. Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training. The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
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    Usability
    Oracle
    It produces consolidated multi currency reports faster and more accurately whilst adding additional pivotal functionality. The Smartview reporting is a key for us and a flagstone of the application
    Incentivized
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    Tableau
    Tableau Server takes training and experience in order to unlock the application's full potential. This is best handled by a qualified data scientist or data analytics manager. Tableau user interface layout, nomenclature, and command structure take time and training to become proficient with. Integration and connectivity require proper IT developer support.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    EPM has been so far available all the time
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    Tableau
    Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues
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    Performance
    Oracle
    The product performance is so far very good
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    Tableau
    While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    Support from our implementation partner is a 10/10, but support from Oracle is awful. Case in point: recently over a 2-day period, there were a series of intermittent outages. Oracle actually asked US for the outage time-stamps. I would have thought that, since we were paying them, they should probably be able to tell us!
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    Tableau
    We have consistently had highly satisfactory results every time we've reached out for help. Our contractor, used for Tableau server maintenance and dashboard development is very technically skilled. When he hits a roadblock on how to do something with Tableau, the support staff have provided timely and useful guidance. He frequently compares it to Cognos and says that while Cognos has capabilities Tableau doesn't, the bottom line value for us is a no-brainer
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    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    I suggest doubling the time to implement from the initial quote you get from the Sales team. That's always been the case for me for multiple EPMs now. The out-of-the-box functionality of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is pretty robust so I appreciate that and it really helped us get the ball rolling quickly.
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    Tableau
    Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud fared very well against Adaptive, Anaplan, and Host Analytics. We ultimately decided on Oracle due to its reputation and strength of existing customers. We are happy with our decision.
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    Tableau
    Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    The product is scalable
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    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Significantly reduced the amount of money we spent for the maintenance of in-house hardware.
    • We now need less employees to manage the configurations of Oracle EPM Cloud.
    • There have been many time savings as a whole to apply to more productive causes.
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    Tableau
    • Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
    • There are some significant setup for the server product.
    • Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.
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    ScreenShots

    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of Process and Workflow - Flexible Workflow and Process Management - Annotations - Concurrency in UsageScreenshot of Integration - External Integration - Oracle ERP Systems and Hybrid On-Premise DeploymentScreenshot of Planning and Forecasting - Decision-Oriented Plans with Instant Feedback Loop - What-If Modeling and SandboxScreenshot of Process and Workflow - Flexible Workflow and Process Management - Annotations - Concurrency in UsageScreenshot of User Interface - Role-Based, Intuitive User Interface - Role-Based Navigation Flows - Microsoft Office InterfaceScreenshot of Integration - External Integration - Oracle ERP Systems and Hybrid On-Premise Deployment

    Tableau Server Screenshots

    Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 2.Screenshot of Tableau Server permissions view.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 2.