Hi,

Does anyone have any experience of Hyperion Enterprise?
What are your experiences?
Is Hyperion up to the job?
Does it truly require minimum IT intervention?
How is the data accessed?
Etc?

Any info welcome!!!!

Thanks
Top

I have worked with HE for a number of years, and it is well received
by Finance without much IT. It does the job of consolidation, but is
weaker on data collection, and is limited by only 4 dimensions. Many
sites use Upstream to collect and manage source data before feeding to
HE. HE has a 'distributed' architecture, where admin sends (email) HE
files to users, who enter their local data, and then send back to
corporate. Many sites also need Citrix to use HE.

Despite it's ease of use and adoption by Finance, Hyperion has
essentially stopped marketing it, in favour of their latest product
HFM (Hyp Financial Mgmt), which is a completele different product,
requires huge IT and consulting investment, and takes 9-18 months to
implement. They still sell HE, but don't look for any enhancements in
the future. It is at the end of it's life cycle.

A better alternative would be to look at Outlooksoft. The
founders/developers of HE started up Outlooksoft to be the next wave
of consolidation/budgeting tools, and it does the job in spades. Many
HE users who have outgrown HE (but still like it) have moved on to
Outlooksoft, and realize that they can now have
consolidations/budgets/sales forecasts/HR analysis/??? in one place,
with easy reporting, scorecards, etc. It runs on MS Analysis
Services, so it also offers multi-dimensional slice and dice, drill
down, etc. It runs entirely over the web, so deployment is easily
managed. HE users who like HE Retrieve (almost all) will love the
Excel interface of Outlooksoft.

Little IT is required as far as I can see - similar to HE. It even
has data loading tools that are ready to go with certain types of
sources, or you can modify them (this may require IT).

I have worked with Outlooksoft for a while now, and I'm convinced it
is the future.

Good luck Top

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