Oracle Hyperion vs. Quantrix

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Hyperion
Score 7.0 out of 10
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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
Quantrix
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Quantrix is designed to allow users to address the limitations and risks inherent to spreadsheets when developing business-critical models. According to the vendor, this solution offers unmatched capability for forecasting, planning, budgeting, risk modeling and visual analytics, and also allows users to develop ‘what if’ scenarios and model the financial and operational impact of business decisions. Additionally, the vendor says sharing insight is made easier through the creation of interactive…N/A
Pricing
Oracle HyperionQuantrix
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle HyperionQuantrix
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsQuantrix Modeler is licensed on a per user subscription basis.
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Features
Oracle HyperionQuantrix
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
10.0
22 Ratings
7% above category average
Quantrix
9.3
12 Ratings
11% above category average
Long-term financial planning10.017 Ratings9.711 Ratings
Financial budgeting10.020 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Forecasting10.021 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Scenario modeling10.016 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Management reporting10.021 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
8.2
20 Ratings
0% above category average
Quantrix
8.5
12 Ratings
5% above category average
Personalized dashboards8.018 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards7.115 Ratings6.45 Ratings
KPIs9.917 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis9.917 Ratings8.610 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting8.015 Ratings10.011 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data6.013 Ratings8.210 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Quantrix
8.0
7 Ratings
1% below category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Quantrix
9.0
12 Ratings
9% above category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Quantrix
9.0
12 Ratings
8% above category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle HyperionQuantrix
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(23 ratings)
7.0
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle HyperionQuantrix
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Quantrix
If you find yourself in the ocean of traditional spreadsheets, overwhelmed by broken links, errors, model audit problems, hardwiring, etc. here is a lifebuoy for you. If you want to have full flexibility in your budgeting and forecasting in contrast to ERPs with rigid structures and one-size-fits-all concept. If you are small or medium size company and do not want to invest in costly enterprise solutions. If you need a fast implementation https://youtu.be/5W_q5Xhw5fg
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Quantrix
  • Building complex financial planning model availing of a multidimensional data structure coupled with a powerful formula language, with the immediacy and intuitiveness typical of spreadsheets
  • Implement quickly model modifications (new products, new scenarios, new time periods) simply adding new "items" to "categories" (corresponding to dimensions in a multidimensional data model)
  • Scale up models to very large datasets with very fast computation times
  • Easily import data from text files, other Quantrix models and external databases via DataLink and DataNAV
  • Save snapshots of tables computed in Quantrix to external databases via DataPush
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Cons
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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Quantrix
  • Hard to be critical of the Quantrix team as I know they strive to produce the best product possible. I suppose the next thing on my wish list would be the application of the new Solver functionality to be available in the Qloud.
  • A big help for new users would be a good book on transitioning from Excel or other environment into Quantrix. I know first hand it can be difficult to transition when having to learn the program through a help guide, forums and tech support. I had a lot of trial and error in my journey to producing the desired models. On one hand it was a valuable method as it taught me a lot of what not to do, but I will admit it was not the most efficient way to do things.
  • Would also love to see local user groups being formed at some point in the future. Quantrix puts on a fantastic conference once a year in beautiful Maine, but it is a big journey for someone in Southern California (and limited to one or two days a year). I would like to see some local chapters formed in different areas of the country so local Quantrix users can get together more often and collaborate (maybe a quarterly or semi-annual meetup?). Our Quantrix community is still relatively small and may be a difficult task for some areas, but is also the very reason why this would be great idea.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Quantrix
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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Quantrix
For a newbie it can be difficult until you get the hang of the system. Quantrix is a very logical system, once you understand its underlying ideas.
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Support Rating
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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Quantrix
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Alternatives Considered
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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Quantrix
Overall, I was not part of the ultimate decision to purchase Quantrix. I terms of user-friendliess and robust reporting capabilities I do think Tableau has Quantrix outclassed. That being said, Quantrix does provide more in-depth analyses for our relevant data and provides better modeling for our forecasts out of the box. The accuracy of the tools output is also much better
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Return on Investment
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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Quantrix
  • Capacity forecasting used to take hours to calculate with a ton of manual modifications. Quantrix has automated that so a model can be updated at any time with a click of a button
  • The accuracy of the models is incredible. It took some tweaking to add in data scubbers, but now it runs almost flawlessly
  • The confidence the management teams have in the output of the model is amazing. Before, people would question the output, have you rebuild it, and then compare. Now the report comes out and the output has high confidence.
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