Oracle Hyperion vs. Solver

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Hyperion
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
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
Solver
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Solver BI360 is a business intelligence software solution that includes features such as enterprise collaboration, budgeting, and data warehousing.N/A
Pricing
Oracle HyperionSolver
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle HyperionSolver
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
Oracle HyperionSolver
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
Solver
10.0
1 Ratings
18% above category average
Long-term financial planning10.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial budgeting10.020 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Forecasting10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Scenario modeling10.016 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Management reporting10.021 Ratings10.01 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
Solver
7.5
1 Ratings
7% below category average
Personalized dashboards8.018 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards7.115 Ratings00 Ratings
KPIs9.917 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis9.917 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data6.013 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
9.5
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
9.5
2 Ratings
14% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
8.8
2 Ratings
7% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
5.0
1 Ratings
41% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
10.0
2 Ratings
14% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
9.0
1 Ratings
12% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
8.2
1 Ratings
2% above category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
10.0
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion
-
Ratings
Solver
8.5
1 Ratings
2% above category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle HyperionSolver
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(23 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle HyperionSolver
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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Solver
We have multiple departments where they use different sources and application to reports. Solver provided us with this solution in forms of Web portal reporting, which can be accessed across the Whole company, which reduces the number of reports significantly and uniformity. One reporting application through a single source. Our budgeting process is unique last year we had many account executives shuffled, which made very complex for us to reassign accounts and budget for their sales. with complex Budgeting templates, it was not easy anyway. We had to rework our template through 4 revisions
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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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Solver
  • Ability to combine different information into one report.
  • Report building is similar to excel, which makes for easier use.
  • Current information is always pulled.
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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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Solver
  • Real-time data for reporting is not available when you get it from the warehouse.
  • Not compatible with Google Chrome.
  • Lack of version and source control for reports on the Web portal.
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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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Solver
No answers on this topic
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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Solver
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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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Solver
Since more employees other than accounting employees will be using BI360, it is more user friendly than other report builders.
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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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Solver
  • BI360 has made getting information to management much easier.
  • BI360 makes compiling information to make reports much easier.
  • Since BI360 is capable of so many reports, our company uses it for more than financial purposes.
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