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What is Oracle Hyperion?

Oracle's Corporate Performance Management suite was acquired from Hyperion in 2007. Hyperion customers are encouraged to migrate to Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM.

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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.

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Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

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Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

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What is Oracle Hyperion?

Oracle's Corporate Performance Management suite was acquired from Hyperion in 2007. Hyperion customers are encouraged to migrate to Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM.

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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.

Reviewers rate Long-term financial planning and Financial budgeting and Forecasting highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Oracle Hyperion are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Oracle EPM is the complete package

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 10, 2022
GS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
30 years of experience
we are using Oracle Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management for financial Close and Planning. We have merged with 6 other companies and needed a consolidated ledger. Financial Close offers that and our planning process is made easier across the divisions with Planning
  • Consolidation of multiple GLs in the Close process
  • Budgeting in multiple ways(zero based, driver based, strategic long term planning)
  • providing detailed task lists to help new planners be successful without a lot of training
  • ability to plan in web based forms or within the same form in excel
Because it is a full suite of business processes, you can do most types of planning and financial close. It has processes for Financial, cash flow, Workforce, CapEx, project and strategic planning. It does not have anything for production planning

Hyperion does magic for Finance folks!

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 13, 2021
AB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
10 years of experience
Hyperion EPM suite is used by our Corporate Finance and FP&A teams. Hyperion helps us publish our results on time and to plan our Budgeting/Forecasting cycle throughout the year. Various departments like Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing use Hyperion to evaluate data inputs and reporting.
  • Consolidation engine is superb
  • User experience is great, web based
  • Easy to learn and grasp new application
Great product and is owned by Oracle, an industry giant.

Not an Oracle Financials Fan; Hyperion Rocks!

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 19, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
3 years of experience
The Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management software is being used by the Finance Department. It particularly serves the company in financial reporting and data analysis for our finance directors and CFO. The Business Problems it addresses are gathering and summarizing information for multiple locations (domestic and foreign offices) to be used at headquarters.
  • It was easy to consolidate financial data from multiple domestic and foreign offices.
  • Training other colleagues in other offices for using the software was easy.
  • We could easily send the consolidated financial data to our C-suite executives and it looked really readable for them to understand the data.
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.

EPM On-Premise Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 18, 2019
RV
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
17 years of experience
Brinks uses multiple Hyperion suite of products across entire organization. HFM is used globally to consolidate all data from different ERP systems and also uses Planning applications in multiple regions to do accurately project the forecast of the financials so the data can be used to plan for workforce and Capital spending and organization can work towards the goal of achieving Planned numbers. The planning application is widely used for Actuals reporting and comparing Actuals Vs Plan and Rolling forecast so that it can address immediate short term and long term needs and provide the roadmap.
  • HFM is very powerful for financial consolidations .
  • Hyperion Planning is used to project accurate planning and thus provide the benefit to organization to do allocations and driver based planning so that it can justify the numbers based on headcount, number of stops & Revenue and thus provide valuable projections and thus help reduce the expenses.
  • Essbase is powerful engine helps provide analytical adhoc reporting for financial users . Performance of reporting and ease of use helps excellent customers experience when doing adhoc analysis.
Best suited for Consolidations
Best suited for Planning and Forecasting
Best suited for analytical reporting

Not for Visual graphical reporting

Hyperion opinion as a student employee

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 17, 2019
RB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
1 year of experience
We use Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management in the financial planning and analysis unit of our company. In it, we have access to expenses and FTE reports. It helps us with up to date and past analysis on our budget versus actuals and FTE change with respect to expenses. We utilize it through Excel and Workspace online.
  • Ease of modification of setting point of views.
  • Export in query mode is efficient.
  • Has information for all the cost centers and access to them is simple and straightforward.
When you want to access past reports to make modifications and changes, Hyperion has it all stored on the Workspace (at least for my company) so I find it efficient to use in that scenario. When you want to access something very specific, Hyperion's ability to modify the data to get your exact results is also well suited for data extraction.

Oracle Hyperion - A great planning tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 08, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
2 years of experience
Oracle Hyperion is used for planning purposes across the whole organization for budgeting and forecasting, both as a top-down and a bottom-up mechanism. Planning is a key global mandate for measuring and evaluating the successful performance of our organization, which is accomplished successfully by Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management.
  • It is a great planning tool for a complex organization across various levels, such as company and division level, to ensure the integrity of information fed into the system.
  • It is a great tool for analyzing, dissecting and slicing/dicing the information across multiple dimensions such as accounts, periods, scenarios, etc.
  • Consolidation across the board for the same group of entities with dynamic features of pre and post-elimination, currency translations, etc. can be achieved successfully using Hyperion.
It is particularly well utilized for the Income, Cash flow, and employees components, which can be very helpful for the accounts dimension for planning the nature of financial data. The MTD, QTD, YTD components are great for utilizing the view dimension for analyzing the data. Lastly, pre-eliminated, eliminated and post-eliminated dimensions are great for consolidated dimensions.

Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
May 02, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
2 years of experience
Oracle Hyperion is used in our accounting and finance department to check and audit financial data. Hyperion makes it easy to compare financial data from different regions and departments for each and every month and year. Hyperion can also be exported for financial analysis in Excel. The data gathered from Hyperion is accurate and decreases the use of many different spreadsheets.
  • Oracle Hyperion is great for making monthly or yearly financial planning
  • It's great for analyzing different types of financial data
  • Ad-hoc reports can be created easily
Hyperion is great in what it does. It allows user to view different financial data in one single location. The data from Hyperion can be used to create reports easily. It is also useful for making changes to financial plans. However, Hyperion is hard to maintain and configure. It's hard to maintain Hyperion without proper training and configuring Hyperion for users is not easy. Hyperion is also not very mobile. It's not possible to use it anywhere with proper configuration.

Excellent Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 16, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
16 years of experience
I have been using the BI tools within Hyperion since it was still Brio. Very powerful, yet easy to use GUI tools to help develop reporting, dashboards and more. Used for data management, integration feeds, and ad-hoc queries also. Quite simply, an easy way to access and manipulate your data. We use it in almost every aspect of our business for analysis and operational tools.
  • Very easy to use interactive GUI system, but also has powerful underlying ability to code as complex as necessary.
  • Easy mass distribution/access for multiple end users.
Well suited for mid-large scale operations that can afford it. As a small to mid-sized company, we love the software but struggle with the expense. It would be great to see the possibility of a scaled down version for a reduced cost someday. Any business that needs to manage and access their data could benefit.

EPM Stack of Tools...Is it worth the money?

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 22, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
10 years of experience
Hyperion, in general, is an enterprise application. Hence the Enterprise portion of the name Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). It addresses multiple business problems as the toolset itself ranges from metadata management to consolidation close. Essbase and Planning are the most widely used applications from the EPM stack of tools. Essbase is a powerhouse of the tool giving you a multidimensional look at the data within the enterprise landscape.
  • It gives you the ability to look at your dataset in a multidimensional way.
  • You can create ad-hoc reporting using smart view on top of the Essbase cube.
  • It gives you the ability to manage multiple dimensions in one centralized place using DRM.
  • Simplifies the close process with HFM.
There are way too many scenarios that EPM could well suited for. It's a suite of applications. You can do dang near anything you need.

Where is doesn't excel because it shouldn't is interfacing with ERP systems. This will always be an issue as the developers of the ERP systems are never in touch with the developers of EPM.

Robust Financial Consolidation and Reporting Made Easy with Hyperion

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 17, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
12 years of experience
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management is used by our organization to meet global consolidation and reporting needs. All business verticals are consolidated for all geographies worldwide using Hyperion. Due to the complex multiple ERP landscape, Hyperion provides unified financial information across the organization consolidating the data from multiple ERP systems. The ease of use of the application coupled with the smart view excel add-in functionality for reporting makes it a favorable choice for 1000s of finance users using this product globally. The application is mostly managed by finance providing very quick turnaround for the finance community to meet their reporting requirements. With tight integration with ERP's, the financials are reported in Hyperion near real-time during month end, facilitating smooth close of the financials. Managing master data is also very straight forward and easier with Hyperion. The Reporting Studio provides fully formatted reports to be published to the top management, while smart view with ad-hoc and function builder capabilities meets the needs of the finance operation users in the business units.
  • Global financial consolidation and reporting for management
  • Global treasury exposure reporting for hedging and currency exposure reviews
  • Legal consolidation
  • Manufacturing plants consolidation and reporting
A global company of our scale and operations covering more than 60 countries requires a robust consolidation and reporting tool that can integrate various business verticals and provide timely and accurate financial results to all levels of the management for decision making and control. Hyperion is well suited for our reporting requirements, given its flexibility to handle matrix organization reporting with alternate hierarchies. Though Hyperion can handle capabilities like currency revaluation and translation, we are not using these features in our organization as they are performed in the ERP itself.

Oracle Hyperion: Very useful but complex

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 07, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
8 years of experience
Oracle Hyperion is being used across the entire company. It is also used by our finance team extensively.
  • Oracle Hyperion is a good tool for centrally analyzing different types of financial data.
  • Oracle Hyperion Essbase is a great tool for analyzing large amounts of financial data that would other wise be done in spreadsheets manually.
  • Oracle Hyperion Planning is used by our plants for yearly financial planning.
  • Oracle Hyperion HFM is very useful for monthly, quarterly and yearly company financial closings.
I implement and maintain the Oracle Hyperion infrastructure (RDBMS database, ESSBASE database, application servers, etc). I don't manage the internals of the Hyperion application as an end user so I don't know the use cases from that perspective. I do know that our company heavily relies on it for analyzing and consolidating critical financial data, and closing our books.

Oracle EPM for the large enterprise!

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 07, 2018
TS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
4 years of experience
The entire organization uses Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management for the University's annual budget cycle.
  • 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.
It is well suited to very large organizations that need to budget for employee compensation costs. It is particularly well suited for highly matrixed organizations with a long chartstring (four or more segments) that need to be used in the budget. It is probably not necessary for organizations that budget only by account and/or cost center and not by the individual employee.

Great tool if you break it down!

Rating: 7 out of 10
August 24, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
2 years of experience
We currently use Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance management for financial and predictive modeling reporting. The EPM system has a whole package of tons of different types of software for financial planning, capital assessments, financial close and reporting and many more. We mainly utilize the Financial reporting aspect of this tool.
  • The reporting aspect of this tool works really well. The tool can easily determine the subset of data from a financial perspective since it integrates with Oracle General Ledger seamlessly.
  • Easily generate on-the-fly financial close numbers (we did not use these numbers as our actual reports, but used them for a quick insight as to where we were at.)
  • The crystal ball tool is pretty interesting, and our team has really enjoyed utilizing some of the predictive risk assessments that it has given us.
As I said before, the tool is useful for specific purposes, and there are a lot of products bundled into this suite. The company bought the suite and did not utilize a large portion of the features as they were not needed. A specific example we utilize this tool for is the Performance scorecard, we have utilized this in our smaller department to do quick analytical growth modeling to report out to risk management department as evidence for the need to expand into new territories

Robust EPM solution for big companies

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 08, 2018
GV
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
3 years of experience
We currently use Hyperion Financial Management for consolidating financial information for multiple companies from several countries at the end of each month, to obtain consolidating balances. We also use Hyperion Planning, which also consolidates the information at the end of each month, but with this module we can compare budget vs real data scenarios with cost accounting filters.
  • The web access for the application is really good. you can access trough any web browser to your scenarios.
  • The native integration with smart view for MS Excel is excellent. A really nice tool for reporting.
  • the approval procedures and the user security functionality is pretty nice.
The Hyperion Financial Management is really good for automatically eliminating the inter-company movements. This could be done for all companies, no matter what's the participation percentage of each one within the group. With Hyperion Planning we've been able to control our budget vs real data even with cost accounting support as user defined dimensions in the system.

A solid solution to deploy

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 06, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
5 years of experience
The prime purpose for Oracle Hyperion was for data warehousing and company-wide ease for reporting information from multiple systems.
  • Integrates with other Oracle products.
  • Connects information well, so you can quickly and accurately model, plan and report.
  • From a functional standpoint, the product performs fairly well.
This solution is capable of leveraging the reporting and analysis tool for different skilled levels while including comprehensive results and graphical analysis tool for organizations.

EPM From Oracle

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 13, 2017
VS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
5 years of experience
We use Hyperion EPM to consolidate forecasting and budgeting information across a 12Bn global organization in the construction vertical. It addresses the data transmission and consolidation issue at a high level and a reduction in the number of spreadsheets we use at its most base level. Accuracy and the sanctity of data are the primary goals, however, workflow and levels of promotion, review, and approvals also factor in.
  • Transmission of forecasting budgeting data
  • Group Consolidations
  • Tracking changes and version controls
  • Flexibility between Excel and Web based entry
Well Suited:
Dispersed organization
High reliance on Excel
Greater need for performance KPIs
Distributed reporting

Less appropriate:
KPIs not as important or worth tracking
Don't need flexibility between cloud and on-premise

Flexible and robust tool, great for multi-national and multi-businesses companies

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 16, 2016

As a multi-national company, we use Hyperion HFM for consolidation purposes for the whole organization. We also use the tools to have the possibility to accomplish local GAPs (Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay) and IFRS standard. It also allows us to detect and eliminate inter-company movements and to show results even with companies owned at less than 100%.

We’re also using Hyperion Planning to create and control our budget. Up to now, this functionality has been used only for one of our business units.

  • Consolidate account balance sheets in a single currency, from companies that work and report in different currencies (for us, Argentinian Peso, Brazilian Real and Uruguayan Peso).
  • Develop several reports or graphics to cope with needs at very different levels: operational, management, investors.
  • Create and identify the adjustments made to take the information from our local GAP to IFRS (or eventually US Gap if it were necessary).
  • Ease to feed the system from different sources, which gives a company the possibility to consolidate data from different ERPs or even Excel.
Great if you have to consolidate different countries; consolidate information from different systems (ex. Oracle, SAP, regional ERPs); show results according to different standards; or consolidate companies that don’t fully belong to the holding.

Brief Overview and Review of Hyperion EPM

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 12, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
2 years of experience
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (HEPM) is being used by our organization to drive results and decisions based on our planning and reporting processes. We are utilizing it to improve our forecasting analytics, overall close process, and visibility across business units.
  • Planning and managing costs related to the close process
  • Visibility into financial consolidation
  • Improving the accuracy of overall reporting
It is really well suited in the financial close and consolidation processes, as well as reporting. One of the items I would recommend focusing on for improvement is the fluidity of certain pages that could perform better.

Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management and Me

Rating: 7 out of 10
August 08, 2016
SP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
3 years of experience
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management is being used for all of our summarized financial reporting. We are taking revenue data from SAP and AUM data from various other systems and combining all that information for reporting. Our end users use the ASO and BSO cubes to then do all their management level reporting.
  • Works well with all of our Excel add-in tools
  • Nightly calculations run fast so that the environment is ready for reporting in the morning
  • Great support for all of our needs
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management is well suited for financial summary reporting. The tool does its job calculating the numbers and handling things like varying attributes. Where the tool does not so well is with super large data sets. Crunching statistics and things of that nature are not necessarily its strong suit

My Thoughts on Oracle Hyperion

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 01, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
4 years of experience
Oracle Hyperion legacy version is pathetic but the new version is amazing. Toyota has the legacy version for their National Sales division and we had to migrate it all to SAP Business Objects. The new version is used for the finance team for finance and Reconciliation accounts and is an amazing tool for managing and reconciling the accounts.
  • Reconciliation of accounts
  • Finance data management
Accounts and Finance team can blindly accept the tool to manage all their data well...

Common EPM, Flexible tool, and works side by side with Oracle EBS

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 10, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
3 years of experience
We use Oracle Hyperion to develop forecasts, budgets, ad-hoc analyses, etc. We have dashboards and reports that are generated using data from Oracle Hyperion.

We use Oracle Hyperion in the finance (mostly FP&A) function across the company. It is the standard financial reporting source data across the businesses.

It is basically the EPM program that our company use. Other businesses can use EPM systems such as COGNOS. I believe we chose Oracle Hyperion to complement with our Oracle EBS ERP system.
  • Very robust allowing you to cut the data in many ways
  • Goes hand in hand with Oracle EBS
  • Common EPM tool so easily able to recruit people with experience using it
  • Depending on the configuration, it is fairly straight forward to use
  • Integration with excel provides flexibility and automation potential (vs form base)
  • SmartView.bas (VBA object file) is fairly easy to learn and use, and allows automation of the tool through VBA programming.
Oracle Hyperion is well suited for running reports and dashboards where you are reporting on large quantity of transaction data. It is also great for running ad-hoc analysis of large data set. It can quickly cut and dice through data for analysis.

Oracle Hyperion is not suited for doing transaction-level investigation or analysis as it does not provide down to transaction-level of detail.

Value for Money Tool for Financial Management

Rating: 6 out of 10
May 09, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
1 year of experience
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management helps in making reporting very easy. Prior to using Hyperion the analyst or the key users were using Excel and other legacy applications to track financial data. To provide the high level summarized data out of the financial data available it used to take a good amount of time and this would lead to information delay. With Smart View in EPM the ad-hoc reporting provides this financial information with ease. This really helped the end users to maintain and provide the reporting information to the higher ups i.e. the executives with ease.
  • Oracle Hyperion EPM helps in handling complex financial calculations related to costing & aging with ease.
  • You can always write new rules for handling the data the way you need it. Consolidating data at various levels can be easily handed through EPM.
  • Smart View Integration with Excel, helps in providing the financial information to key users, who after data arrangement produce the same to management for decision making.
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management is able to handle most financial management deports like balance sheet, AP reports, AR reports, balance receivables reports, balance payable Reports, trial balance reports, and lot of other business critical reports. It also handles reports that involve complex computing with formulas that can be easily addressed using this tool. Emailing reports to the concerned person has some limitations.

Solid functionality and flexibility--if you can support the complexity

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 29, 2015
MD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Hyperion
5 years of experience
We use Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) as our main global consolidation and financial reporting tool. Our structure is somewhat complex with several entities, substantial volume of intercompany transactions and use of multiple exchange rates. It streamlines our consolidation process and provides a platform for users to also enter reporting pack data that support the financial statements. We also load our budget data to HFM in lieu of a separate planning tool. Not optimal, but works if you don't want to turn a new budget around more than once a year. We use Essbase as an analysis tool to drill-through to transaction data from the GL balances. We use Financial Data Quality Management (FDQM) as the tool to pull data from our source systems, transform it, and load it HFM. FDQM can eliminate the need for IT involvement or other specialized ETL (Export, Transform, Load) tools.
  • HFM will handle complex calculation and consolidation rules extremely well. It's flexibility for writing new rules is unmatched in other products I have seen--the world is quite literally your oyster with this product. You will not come away saying "I wish we could get it to do_______" because it seems there is always a way!
  • The Smart View tool is how most of our users interact with HFM, and obviously the only way they interact with Essbase. It is a very good tool, and speed of Essbase queries is always strikingly fast. The HFM queries are slower, but that is due to the underlying structure of the database being much different than Essbase. Basically all of our reporting is done in Excel using the Smart View add-in.
This product is well suited to a company that needs a very robust consolidation tool, has good IT support, and has the budget to hire a full-time administrator. It does consolidation really, really well so if that is the primary need, then this is probably a very good choice. For a company with a fairly simple structure that only needs to roll up GL data into some financial reports, there are quicker, simpler, and effective products available at likely a fraction of the cost.
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