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Feature Set Ratings
- Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 8 feature sets: BI Standard Reporting, Ad-hoc Reporting, Access Control and Security, Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting, Consolidation and Close, Financial Reporting and Compliance, Analytics and Reporting, Integration
- Planful ranks higher in 3 feature sets: Report Output and Scheduling, Data Discovery and Visualization, Mobile Capabilities
BI Standard Reporting
8.7
Oracle Hyperion
87%

6.8
Planful
68%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 3/3 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 3/3 features
Pixel Perfect reports
10.0
100%
5 Ratings

6.7
67%
8 Ratings
Customizable dashboards
8.0
80%
6 Ratings

6.9
69%
17 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
8.0
80%
6 Ratings

6.9
69%
16 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
8.5
Oracle Hyperion
85%

8.2
Planful
82%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 3/4 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 3/4 features
Drill-down analysis
8.0
80%
10 Ratings

8.7
87%
34 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
9.9
99%
9 Ratings

7.7
77%
35 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7.1
71%
3 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration
9.0
90%
6 Ratings

8.1
81%
33 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
7.5
Oracle Hyperion
75%

8.2
Planful
82%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 2/4 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 2/4 features
Publish to Web
10.0
100%
6 Ratings

7.3
73%
7 Ratings
Publish to PDF
10.0
100%
6 Ratings

8.9
89%
27 Ratings
Report Versioning
2.0
20%
6 Ratings

7.5
75%
17 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling
8.0
80%
5 Ratings

9.3
93%
18 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
7.7
Oracle Hyperion
77%

7.8
Planful
78%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 2/3 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 2/3 features
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6.9
69%
3 Ratings

7.4
74%
7 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7.2
72%
3 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Predictive Analytics
9.0
90%
4 Ratings

8.2
82%
7 Ratings
Access Control and Security
10.0
Oracle Hyperion
100%

9.7
Planful
97%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 4/4 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 4/4 features
Multi-User Support (named login)
9.9
99%
9 Ratings

9.5
95%
34 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model
9.9
99%
7 Ratings

9.7
97%
33 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10.0
100%
8 Ratings

9.9
99%
34 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10.0
100%
7 Ratings

9.9
99%
28 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
6.0
Oracle Hyperion
60%

7.4
Planful
74%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 2/3 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 2/3 features
Responsive Design for Web Access
8.0
80%
5 Ratings

7.6
76%
17 Ratings
Mobile Application
5.0
50%
3 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
6.0
60%
3 Ratings

7.2
72%
10 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
9.8
Oracle Hyperion
98%

9.3
Planful
93%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 4/5 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 4/5 features
Long-term financial planning
10.0
100%
19 Ratings

9.2
92%
72 Ratings
Financial budgeting
10.0
100%
22 Ratings

9.6
96%
81 Ratings
Forecasting
10.0
100%
23 Ratings

9.3
93%
76 Ratings
Scenario modeling
9.5
95%
18 Ratings

8.7
87%
65 Ratings
Management reporting
9.6
96%
23 Ratings

9.7
97%
78 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
9.8
Oracle Hyperion
98%

9.4
Planful
94%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 6/7 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 6/7 features
Financial data consolidation
10.0
100%
20 Ratings

9.6
96%
54 Ratings
Journal entries and reports
10.0
100%
19 Ratings

9.3
93%
40 Ratings
Multi-currency management
10.0
100%
13 Ratings

9.3
93%
37 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations
10.0
100%
18 Ratings

9.4
94%
35 Ratings
Minority Ownership
10.0
100%
13 Ratings

9.0
90%
19 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting
9.4
94%
19 Ratings

9.9
99%
45 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails
9.4
94%
19 Ratings

9.4
94%
42 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
8.9
Oracle Hyperion
89%

8.7
Planful
87%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 3/5 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 3/5 features
Financial Statement Reporting
10.0
100%
21 Ratings

9.6
96%
67 Ratings
Management Reporting
10.0
100%
20 Ratings

9.8
98%
77 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting
10.0
100%
20 Ratings

9.2
92%
78 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting
7.9
79%
16 Ratings

8.0
80%
55 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing
6.7
67%
11 Ratings

7.1
71%
3 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
8.2
Oracle Hyperion
82%

7.1
Planful
71%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 6/6 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 6/6 features
Personalized dashboards
8.4
84%
19 Ratings

7.9
79%
38 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards
7.9
79%
16 Ratings

7.0
70%
22 Ratings
KPIs
9.1
91%
17 Ratings

7.7
77%
28 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis
9.1
91%
17 Ratings

8.9
89%
31 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting
8.4
84%
15 Ratings

7.6
76%
22 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data
6.4
64%
14 Ratings

3.1
31%
8 Ratings
Integration
10.0
Oracle Hyperion
100%

9.2
Planful
92%
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 3/3 features
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ranks higher in 3/3 features
Flat file integration
10.0
100%
20 Ratings

9.5
95%
54 Ratings
Excel data integration
10.0
100%
22 Ratings

9.9
99%
68 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10.0
100%
14 Ratings

8.1
81%
48 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
- Planful is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Renew
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
Oracle Hyperion
95%
25 Ratings

8.8
Planful
88%
90 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
Oracle Hyperion
50%
1 Rating

9.1
Planful
91%
13 Ratings
Usability
Oracle Hyperion
N/A
0 Ratings

7.5
Planful
75%
11 Ratings
Availability
Oracle Hyperion
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
Planful
82%
4 Ratings
Support Rating
8.0
Oracle Hyperion
80%
2 Ratings

6.5
Planful
65%
17 Ratings
Implementation Rating
Oracle Hyperion
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
Planful
91%
10 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Hyperion
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.

Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting
Marketing and Advertising Company, 501-1000 employeesPlanful
Each system has strengths and weaknesses, so it needs to be assessed based on your own company's goals/objectives. I believe Planful has robust reporting capabilities and various reporting options to utilize depending on your needs. Using report collections and the ability to burst reports and schedule distribution makes standard reporting extremely efficient. You are using workforce planning (Used at a previous company) to calculate benefits made an enormous difference in our accuracy. The modeling application is handy and quickly extracts/pushes back to the core application once the model is built. Creates a lot more flexibility in the system.
Sr. Financial Analyst/ Planful System Administrator
Vista OutdoorConsumer Goods, 5001-10,000 employees
Pros
Oracle Hyperion
- 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.
Interim Director of Business Intelligence and Finance Systems
University of California, BerkeleyHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
Planful
- Reporting makes it easy to "slice and dice" data as needed, as well as build out report sets that you can use to ensure the consistent look of reports like balance sheets.
- Data load rules and translation tables provide the flexibility to load data from multiple source systems with relative ease.
- Structured planning templates, combined with rolling forecasts, can dramatically cut down the time needed to get a baseline and make tweaks as desired.

Verified User
Program Manager in Finance and Accounting
Consumer Goods Company, 501-1000 employeesCons
Oracle Hyperion
- 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.
Manager, Corporate FP&A
Boart LongyearMining & Metals, 5001-10,000 employees
Planful
- The Dashboards module is still a little clunky and restricted.
- Spotlight in Powerpoint and Word need to have more seamless data intervention (e.g., variance calculation capabilities) rather than direct queries. It could be very powerful if they developed the presentation aspect of their product.
- While constant development efforts ensue, training could improve to ensure power users are equipped with the skills to use the new products/developments efficiently.

Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting
Food & Beverages Company, 1001-5000 employeesPricing Details
Oracle Hyperion
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Oracle Hyperion Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Planful
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Planful Editions & Modules
Modules
Host Analytics Planning | |
---|---|
Host Analytics Consolidation | |
Host Analytics Modeling |
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Oracle Hyperion
Oracle Hyperion 5.0
Based on 1 answer
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.
Manager, Corporate FP&A
Boart LongyearMining & Metals, 5001-10,000 employees
Planful
Planful 9.1
Based on 13 answers
Our new Comptroller understands the value of Planful, and we plan to utilize it further in the organization to enhance external reporting. Strangely enough, Planful had not previously been embraced by the former CFO, who argued that we were running two sets of books (of course, we were not). Fortunately, the before mentioned reconciliation of EBITDA to Net Income demonstrated that to the banks.
Vice President, Planning and Analysis
Capitol Petroleum GroupRetail, 51-200 employees
Usability
Oracle Hyperion
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Planful
Planful 7.5
Based on 11 answers
For the most part, the system is extremely usable. The consolidation and reporting modules are straight-forward and easy to use as long as everything is set-up properly during implementation. The one module that can be somewhat difficult to use is the Workforce Planning module of Structured Planning. Additionally, the reports that come from Workforce Planning aren't as robust as we need them to be

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Insurance Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
Oracle Hyperion
Oracle Hyperion 8.0
Based on 2 answers
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.

Verified User
Manager in Finance and Accounting
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesPlanful
Planful 6.5
Based on 17 answers
Everyone is very responsive and is willing to jump on a call to help. We set up weekly calls with our CFL representative during the first month of Go-Live. This really helped us solve problems before they got out of hand. When using the Community, I also see representatives on there answering questions
Accounting Manager
ASIConsumer Goods, 1001-5000 employees
Implementation Rating
Oracle Hyperion
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Planful
Planful 9.1
Based on 10 answers
After going through the initial implementation with Host Analytics and a re-implementation with Cervello (due to an ERP change, not due to a poor initial implementation), I've learned that you really must rely on your internal staff to bear most of the implementation burden. Use the vendor or partners for ideas and best-practice suggestions, and some of the easy-but-time-consuming work. Since you will ultimately be using and maintaining the application, you should be able to do most of it yourself.
Team Lead, Budgeting & Forecasting
Interactive IntelligenceComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Oracle Hyperion
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.
Financial Planning Analyst- Student Assistant/ Consultant
State Compensation Insurance FundInsurance, 1001-5000 employees
Planful
We used Adaptive Insights (now Workday) and considered both Anaplan and OneStream. Planful was the most appropriate for our environment based on a single individual as a power user/system administrator, our requirement to not engage long term with external partners for application development and support, and to build repeatable, scalable, and burstable reports. We are in rapid expansion via acquisitions mode with Planful's ability to easily load external financial data, either via Excel data load or API.
Director, FP&A
Imagen Dental PartnersMedical Practice, 501-1000 employees
Return on Investment
Oracle Hyperion
- 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Chemicals Company, 10,001+ employeesPlanful
- Reduced time spent on producing reports. With Planful, this is quick and easy!
- Reduced time spent on month-end closing cycles. Its powerful consolidation capabilities means that there is less dependence on slow legacy solutions & workarounds, we get our consolidated numbers much quicker with Planful.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees