Oracle Hyperion (legacy) vs. Prophix

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
Score 7.5 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
Prophix
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience. To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation functionalities.N/A
Pricing
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)Prophix
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)Prophix
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)Prophix
Considered Both Products
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
Hyperion was easier to use and learn and problem solve issues than Oracle Financials
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
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 …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
Compared with some of the other products that had been used, Oracle Hyperion had solved the major impediment of integrating multiple ERP systems (both SAP and non-SAP) with relative ease while providing the business the leverage to analyze, comprehend, and rectify the data.
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
Hyperion makes it easier to create reports based on the data available on Hyperion. However is Phocas is better for drilling down information and it is also much more mobile.
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
None of the other products used or evaluated are available for me to select.
I have used EPMware with is a competing software to DRM. I find the ROI on this tool greater then DRM. It is about a quarter of the cost and directly interfaces with multiple Hyperion applications.
CXO …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
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 …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
It is the leading system, with the most power and flexibility of any of these. It is also the most expensive. Berkeley needs the best possible tool for this job. Questica and Workday cannot handle the number of dimensions we use. Adaptive might be a good competitor but since I …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
We utilize Tableau as well for reporting, but the good thing about OracleHyperion Enterprise Performance Management is it is in sync with our ledger as we utilize Oracle Ledger from our side. Tableau has a better user interface but the EPM's understanding of the data makes it …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
When we were trying to decide between Oracle Hyperion and SAP BPC, the cost and functionality were pretty much the same between both products, but we decided for the Oracle solution as it was better positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for consolidation softwares, and some …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
Due to being the industry forefront and owned by Oracle
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 …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
We also took a look to Cognos, but since we have Oracle eBS as our main ERP, we decided without a very deep analysis.
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
In our review, Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management stacks up pretty well against SAP Business Warehouse. The most glaring area was cost. For a product capable of the same level of reporting day in and day out, Hyperion offered the best bang for the buck. This …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
Toyota has a global presence and deals with different countries and different currencies. To manage finance, this tool is the most reliable tool I found if the company has a global presence. If you deal with any tool to manage Financial matters, performance and reliability is …
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
Pricing is one factor and the features offered by the Oracle EPM and IBM cognos shifted the favour in terms of Oracle EPM.
Chose Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
We have evaluated other options in the past, and we are currently re-evaluating some of the SaaS providers due to the increased strength of those products over the last few years. However, our biggest need continues to be a very capable consolidation tool as we are …
Prophix
Chose Prophix
I've just recently evaluated FloQast and was very intrigued with their product. Overall review is they don't have a budget/forecasting tool. This is a main piece of our business and doesn't hold up against Prophix.
Chose Prophix
I have used other budgeting and forecasting tools at different companies, and Prophix is a much easier product to use and implement. I have received better user feedback from Prophix compared to other tools I have used at other companies. Other tools lacked dashboard …
Chose Prophix
We elected to give Prophix the initial chance given the cheaper price point and since we were already using this tool for consolidation purposes.
Chose Prophix
Prophix was chosen because it appeared nimble and easy to use. In contrast, it was more affordable than the other solutions we looked at.
Chose Prophix
Prophix was the clear choice when evaluating multiple software applications. The concept of dimensions in Prophix allows the organization to generate reports of any kind and there is no request for a report that we have not been able to create. Having direct budget entry into …
Chose Prophix
I was not in the selection process; however, after using Adaptive at a former company, I feel Prophix is much easier from the user standpoint (especially for those who don't work in finance). The one pro of a tool like Adaptive, though, is that it is a Workday product so that …
Chose Prophix
We ultimately chose Prophix for its stronger automation features and direct relationship with CMiC. While Vena offers a similar set of capabilities, we found Prophix to be more intuitive, especially when it comes to creating and managing reports without heavy reliance on Excel. …
Chose Prophix
We carried out an evaluation with IBM, and some other national software that is not on the list, such as Lever Pro and Allstrategy. For IBM, our main problem was that the software representative wanted to sell something modular, thus losing all the functionality of a "blank …
Chose Prophix
We felt Prophix was much more flexible than Briq and offered a more solid financial reporting and budgeting package. Briq is more custom built solution-focused. They build solutions to fit your specific needs. The primary reason we went with Prophix is that we wanted something …
Chose Prophix
Prophix is much more advanced and has more capabilities to Quickbooks. It is more flexible, agile, and creative than these softwares. The automation is really what sets it apart from these type of software. Integrating directly with our ERP is something that is enormously …
Chose Prophix
I didn't select Prophix for our company, but it does some things very well. It is way easier to set up and maintain than Hyperion and BPC, which require ongoing support from our IT department. Prophix only requires us to involve IT when we need to map new external data or …
Chose Prophix
We chose Prophix because of their better service, their Canadian presence, cost and overall it seemed a better match to our needs. Workday seemed like it was for bigger companies and came at a higher cost.
Chose Prophix
I was not apart of the Prophix selection process or the initial implementation. Prophix has been a good tool for us to expand upon and grow and innovate with all of our enhancements. I have not used any other tools like Prophix, but it does have a lot of good features and …
Chose Prophix
I was not specifically part of the selection process, but it is my understanding that Prophix's security model played a big part in choosing the platform. Gaining efficiencies from processes that were previously done manually in excel was another driving factor. Additionally, a …
Chose Prophix
Very simple end-user experience, easy to implement, ability to link to and from Microsoft D365.
Chose Prophix
The learning curve to understanding Prophix is far less severe than it has been with other softwares. It requires much less time in order to learn how to be a beginning user and then each progression to deeper levels of understanding is remarkably easy. I appreciate the …
Chose Prophix
Prophix is 10 steps ahead of Spectrum. They are very different though. Spectrum is our ERP - while Prophix is a very useful and needed add on.
Chose Prophix
Price, functionality, and service were major factoring for us when deciding on which platform to use.
Chose Prophix
Workday seems as though it had similar features, price point was much higher. We selected Prophix because we had it many years ago before the cloud and several new features.
Chose Prophix
We compared Prophix with Board and Adaptive Planning. Prophix seemed to be much more user friendly when compared to Board. It was just a more robust product.
It did stack very well with Workday Adaptive Planning, but what set them apart was that Prophix has a great …
Chose Prophix
D365 lacked basic functionality to develop a budget. In its current form would have had to resort to going back to excel to build the budget.
Chose Prophix
Prophix works for our business and is flexible enough to work for a number of different types of business. We are able to work with Prophix to develop cubes that record out business needs and supply our budget holders with graphical data to support their reporting needs. The …
Chose Prophix
While all had similar features at the time of our evaluation, especially from the reporting standpoint. Prophix worked best for our zero-based budgeting model and the level of detail that we were looking to maintain. We also felt it was a better fit for our Dynamics GP …
Features
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)Prophix
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
10.0
Ratings
7% above category average
Prophix
8.7
Ratings
5% above category average
Long-term financial planning10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Financial budgeting10.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Forecasting10.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Scenario modeling10.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Management reporting10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
8.2
Ratings
0% above category average
Prophix
6.2
Ratings
26% below category average
Personalized dashboards8.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards7.10 Ratings5.40 Ratings
KPIs9.90 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis9.90 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting8.00 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data6.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
5.7
Ratings
29% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
8.4
Ratings
2% above category average
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
4.2
Ratings
58% below category average
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
8.9
Ratings
2% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
7.7
Ratings
1% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
7.8
Ratings
2% below category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
8.0
Ratings
1% below category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings5.20 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
-
Ratings
Prophix
8.6
Ratings
3% above category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)Prophix
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
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10.0
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Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.2
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In-Person Training
-
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10.0
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Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
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Implementation Rating
-
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9.0
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Configurability
-
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9.0
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Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
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Vendor post-sale
-
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8.5
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Vendor pre-sale
-
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7.5
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle Hyperion (legacy)Prophix
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Prophix is substantially out of the box product to be easy to use but flexible enough to allow for varied business modelling. No technical skills are required to deploy and maintain the solution. Owing to its out of the box nature, departing from Prophix sweet spot e.g. when leveraging transactional data, the solution is not as capable, however this is being addressed by the new Prophix release.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Reports are very customizable - once you learn how to create reports, it is really easy to design the final output you'd like.
  • The tool is easy to use, especially for those that don't work in the finance function.
  • It offers an excellent workflow capability to send out tasks to cost center owners all over the company.
  • We love the ability to create and customize cubes.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Version control; there are issues using the same budget version in multiple years if adding detail (line item detail). What Prophix has explained as a benefit is a huge detriment for us and we've been working with them for 6 months on a fix and it's yet to get resolved
  • There are certain aspects that a messy; within our budgeting and forecasting detail, we have "unexplained balance" lines that show up that are distracting and add no value.
  • Lack of a centralized location for content outside of tool; for example, training, help, support, intranet, etc are all separate websites and not easy to get to. I'm not sure why all of this isn't linked to the same account and accessible through the tool. Why should we need separate passwords for everything Prophix?!
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Likelihood to Renew
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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The system works well for us, and meets all of our needs. All of our future plans can and will be achieved within Prophix, so there is no need to pursue another product. Prophix has continuously proven to improve their product over the years, which provides an even higher level of confidence in this tool, and future developments
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Usability
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The
data can be sliced and diced many ways, and each user is able to do it however
they like. It is easy to create or run existing reports. We have made many of
our processes more efficient, and Prophix has allowed us to save more time than
you can imagine. We
are able to use Prophix for Expense tracking, Expense and Capital planning, reforecasting,
Compensation planning, Project tracking, Expense allocation, GAAP PLOB
reporting, and still have several more tasks to implement through Prophix
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Reliability and Availability
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The availability in Prophix is relatively good. We have occurred random outages in different versions that wipe out data, which can be brought back. Or we have ran into system wide slowness that impacts all users in the system, but we have been able to get more capacity to supply our performance.
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Performance
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Prophix has always performed consistently. We are using on-premise so many factors can contribute to slower than desired performance, most having nothing to do with Prophix itself. If we move to the web-client cloud based solution I believe performance will even be better.
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Support Rating
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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The Prophix staff is very helpful and quick to respond. I like that they teach me instead of doing it for me when possible, so I don't have to contact them as often! Never talked to anyone at Prophix that I didn't respect or think highly of! Very professional, great customer service!
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In-Person Training
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The initial integration consultant was very helpful in making sure we were set up with all the essential uses we required: reporting/budgeting/forecasting. There was a learning curve but our consultant made it very easy to understand and helped me be comfortable in my Global Admin role in the system. Even after integration, we were given support whenever I came up with an idea I would get in touch and I would be trained on how I can implement it.
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Online Training
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We used our system and created a test cube to work with our own data. We ran through the different functions of Prophix and covered alot of material. We did two sessions a week, with homework tasks assigned. We were able to ask questions and cover any questions during the followup sessions.
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Implementation Rating
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Planning, planning, planning. Prophix will send you some Excel spreadsheets ahead of implementation. If those spreadsheets are complete, implementation will be smooth. Also, set aside some time during implementation to work with the Prophix staff and ask lots of questions. The knowledge they share is invaluable.
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Alternatives Considered
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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I have used other budgeting and forecasting tools at different companies, and Prophix is a much easier product to use and implement. I have received better user feedback from Prophix compared to other tools I have used at other companies. Other tools lacked dashboard capabilities and account reconciliations.
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Scalability
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I gave Prophix a 10 on scalability because we currently deploy the solution to department heads across our entire organization and never have any issues with those individuals using or accessing the system to look at their financial information within premade templates . They currently enter budgets and review reports within the system currently. The only issue is they cannot typically use the ad hoc functionality because that would require higher level licenses that cost more and it is not worth it to give them more costly licenses since they really aren't working in the system quite like the robust finance users
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Prophix has made it possible to move away from some Excel reporting we were doing, which allows for 50% quicker reporting on a monthly basis.
  • Although it has saved us time, an improved PowerPoint feature that automatically updates our decks would save an additional 75% on top of what we already do.
  • Our Board Reporting has improved by 10 hours by moving our reports fully into Prophix.
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ScreenShots

Prophix Screenshots

Screenshot of Prophix One Portal: One single point of entry into Prophix One through its portal simplifies access and authentication but also allows seamless movement between applications.Screenshot of Chart Insights, one of the AI Insights capabilities that utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to provide enhanced business awareness.  Chart Insights extends the important details contained within dashboards, and analyzes the complete dataset behind the dashboard, automatically surfacing the data relationships not obvious in dashboard visualizations alone. It then provides a summary of key performance metrics found buried within Prophix charts.  It also summarizes the important insights in plain English.Screenshot of Prophix One Financial Planning & Analysis: Prophix's self-serve dashboards and visualizations are directly integrated with data, workflow tasks, announcements, and external URLs and databases. Dashboard Studio helps users to be informed and make better business decisions.Screenshot of Detailed interactive charts and graphs that Prophix offers to uncover insights. Prophix’s visual analytics are linked directly to data with transaction details.  There is no need to input the numbers.  Prophix does this tedious work, automatically.Screenshot of Prophix’s Workflow Manager, used to assign tasks to users and facilitate approvals across the business.  Stakeholder input can be captured directly with the ability to add comments and notes in a single unified database.Screenshot of Cell Comments, that allow users to add supporting details like notes and attachments to data.  Since comments are stored with the data, they can be viewed in any template along with their trailing history. Cell Comment Reports can also be generated to show all comments from any data view in one convenient report.