Oracle Hyperion (legacy) vs. Wolters Kluwer OneSumX

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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Wolters Kluwer OneSumX is a perfect fit for almost all financial risk management needs. More to running financial risk analytics to help you keep an eye out on any possible financial risk, it offers outstanding functionalities in entire business regulatory analytics and reporting to help you run your business within its regulatory compliance.

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• 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.

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• It is easy to run various scenario analyses and stress testing on various financial activities in order to get useful metrics about possible financial risks.
• It allows one to easily and fast process even huge amounts of data thus saving time and resources spent performing these activities.
• It is flexible and easy to customize in order to fit your working criteria so as to best meet your financial risk management needs.
• It is easy to have a full review of the entire balance sheet for easy data modelling.

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• Oracle Hyperion requires a lot of knowledge and expertise to be successful.
• The underlying infrastructure of Oracle Hyperion is complex and can be difficult to implement.
• Some of the Oracle Hyperion application servers only run on Windows. Windows can sometimes be unstable.
• Oracle Hyperion application server processes are dependent on each other and need to be started in a specific order. Therefore, if certain services die on one server, it could require all services/processes in the entire Hyperion landscape to be restarted in the correct order.

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• The price of the payment packages is a little bit high and this means it is not suitable for use by small-scaled businesses.
• It has a wider range of features whose usage needs some time to train and master. This consumes extra resources and time.

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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.

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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Hyperion is easy to implement and maintain, low cost of ownership is also a great reason to select this product. Oracle's investment to keep the product innovations and improvements over the years is well appreciated by the users. The ease of managing integration with different business systems is also considered while selecting this product.

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Everything about Wolters Kluwer OneSumX stands out when compared to other similar products. Talk of its well-organized interface and dashboard, the number and quality of financial risk management features all the way to the quality of the support offered by the support team. Its ease of deployment is another standalone factor.

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• We had to get the planning application designed correctly before we got a good ROI, but once we did it became well liked and highly utilized.
• It has had a very positive overall impact on increasing finance literacy across campus, allowing units a better insight into their revenues and expenses and the overall planning process.
• It has been an essential tool during a time where the campus needed to reduce it's budget by over 100 million dollars annually. Without this product, we would not have a way to identify, track and report on our progress reducing the budget.

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• It has helped us to streamline our financial risk management experience such that we are able to detect possible financial risks in good time and deal with them accordingly.
• It has helped us to generate accurate and transparent regulatory reports that
• guides us in ensure regulatory compliance is met.
• It has allowed us to run analyses on our financial processes based on different scenarios in order to detect possible financial risk threats.

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