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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SAP Analytics Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe SAP Analytics Cloud solution brings together analytics and planning with integration to SAP applications and access to heterogenous data sources. As the analytics and planning solution within SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports trusted insights and integrated planning processes enterprise-wide to help make decisions without doubt.

    $36

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)SAP Analytics Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence
    $36.00
    per month per user
    SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
    Price upon request
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)SAP Analytics Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A 30-day trial with SAP Analytics Cloud is available, supporting analytics enterprise-wide. A trial can be extended up to 90 days on request.
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)SAP Analytics Cloud
    Considered Both Products
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    Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Oracle has led the charge on the development of true EPM reporting. The development of rudimentary KPIs to much more complex models all can be housed and managed by Hyperion. Integrates with Office through Smartview, which provides flexibility in creating Word documents, board …
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    SAP
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAP Analytics Cloud has more features with regard to visualization than Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAP Analytics Cloud is the only tool with all of these features: solid visualizations, ability to perform planning, predictive AI/ML, and mobile capability.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    When we talk about SAP, what you are looking for is not the best price but a complete integration with the other products of the brand. But even in the same brand, their updates are more frequent and allow the addition of several improvements that are not yet found in other …
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    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    266 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    300 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    178 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    221 Answers
    Features
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)SAP Analytics Cloud
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    8% above category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Long-term financial planning10.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial budgeting10.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forecasting10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scenario modeling10.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management reporting10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    9% below category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized dashboards8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards7.115 Ratings00 Ratings
    KPIs9.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis9.917 Ratings00 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 Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.6
    357 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.4302 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.9345 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.4319 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.5
    358 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.9348 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.3345 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.9256 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.1334 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.4
    339 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.7290 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.8321 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.5282 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.5278 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.758 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.4
    343 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.8325 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.5312 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.2312 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.099 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    8.2
    349 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.2323 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.1331 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.1324 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.2134 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.5327 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.4
    294 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.5283 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings6.8247 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.0274 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Oracle Hyperion (legacy) and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.1
    66 Ratings
    9% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.156 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings7.049 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings7.143 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.142 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.451 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings6.843 Ratings
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    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)SAP Analytics Cloud
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)SAP Analytics Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.1
    (382 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (22 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (307 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.3
    (73 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.3
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (61 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (61 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)SAP Analytics Cloud
    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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    SAP
    >> Using SAC predictive analytics capabilities for inventory management in a Production line setup has helped generate Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders for raw or semi-finished goods without much head-banging into Demand management rules. It does it beautifully with seamless integration with HANA core MM and PP modules, along with BI integration. It has resulted in 30% greater warehouse storage capacity, thereby saving revenue from piled-up inventory and associated manpower costs. >> SAC sometimes shows latency in working out a large data set, thus giving a poor user experience compared to its competition. Also, it may occasionally show misinterpretations when embedding data from 3rd-party systems into the HANA core dataset.
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    Pros
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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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    SAP
    • It makes it easier yo analyse order and related records easily.
    • We can easily maintain and track the performance of employees in organisation.
    • Can easily track various aspects for the growth of an organisation thus allowing real time analysis and tracking of organisation's growth and performance.
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    Cons
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    • 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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    SAP
    • Complexity in Data Modeling
    • SAC supports various data sources, but improvements in the ease of connecting to and integrating with certain data repositories, especially non-SAP databases, would enhance the platform's versatility and integration capabilities.
    • An offline mode for SAC could be valuable for users who need to access and analyze data without an internet connection. Additionally, optimizing performance for large datasets and complex visualizations would contribute to a smoother user experience.
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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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    SAP
    We are planning to review the licensing as we have issues with SAC dealing with huge datasets. Analytics area is good for import models but when we have live connections in place that's when we have issue with SAC dealing with huge datasets in live be it BW or be it HANA models in the backend.
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    Usability
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    SAP
    I landed on a 7 out of 10 for a few key reasons. The tool is flexible in the sense that we are using very very very (very) little off the shelf solutions and customizing to our needs. Users enjoy having the customized data actions, key variance calculations, and easy to use headcount/salary planning in the same tool. One downside is that users are hard to please when they are used to excel. SAP Analytics Cloud simply is not excel, and the flexibility of excel in a crunch is not there.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
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    SAP
    I would rate SAP Analytics Cloud an 8 out of 10 for scalability. It offers a flexible, cloud-based architecture that supports expansion across departments and geographies. The platform adapts well to growing data volumes and user needs, making it a strong choice for organizations looking to scale analytics capabilities efficiently.
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    Performance
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    SAP
    I would rate SAP Analytics Cloud’s performance an 8 out of 10. Pages generally load quickly, and reports run within a reasonable time frame, even with complex datasets. Integration with other systems is smooth and doesn’t noticeably affect performance. Overall, it’s a responsive and efficient tool for business analytics. But
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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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    SAP
    Since the implementation stage, the support team has been very helpful and assisting. Even in the later stages, the tech team had quite a rapid response. In general, SAP has provided us with great customer support, let it be for a specific product of SAP or for integration of different modules.
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    In-Person Training
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    SAP
    Good videos and reference material available in SAP Portal.
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    Online Training
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    SAP
    In hindsight, it would have been easier to have someone there in person. Questions were answered, but with 11 participants, it got a bit chaotic online
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    SAP
    SAC is a simple solution ad it works fine when connecting it to other SAP tools. On the other hand, connecting it to third party solutions brings difficulties when there's no previous design and the objetives are not clear. It is really important to integrate Business users from the start to provide with valuable business insights
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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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    SAP
    SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI are both tools that help businesses understand their data, but they have some differences. SAC, made by SAP, works well if your company already uses other SAP products. It's in the cloud, easy to use, and has features for analyzing data, getting insights, and planning for the future. Power BI, made by Microsoft, can be used in the cloud or on your own computers. It fits well with Microsoft tools, is easy to use, and can do advanced data analysis. SAC has built-in planning tools, while Power BI needs extra tools for detailed planning
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    SAP
    unit pricing
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    Scalability
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    SAP
    Is good for use across multiple locations. It allows users to access data and reports from anywhere, regardless of their location. Can consolidate data from various sources, including different SAP systems and external sources, which facilitates cross-location analysis. SAC enables access to data and models from SAP Datasphere to create new stories. Detailed permissions can be defined for cross-departmental use.
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    Professional Services
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    SAP
    very simple
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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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    SAP
    • Many manual data manipulations and exports in Excel have been replaced by the tool, providing management with improved insight into the amount of time spent at each stage of an invoice's lifetime, allowing bottlenecks to be discovered.
    • We now have more insight into the data, and people with little technical experience can easily build stories.
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