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Hyperion software support ends on Oracle's timetable, and here are the routes out.

Oracle supports Hyperion release 11.2 through at least 2033. We explain the suite, the 3 routes off it and how to date a business case for leaving.

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Hyperion software is Oracle's on-premises EPM suite, bought with Hyperion Solutions in 2007. The main products are Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Hyperion Planning and Essbase. Every business case for leaving starts from the support date on the release the group runs.

The support dates
Release 11.2 is the long-term support release, with Oracle premier support through at least 2033. Support for release 11.1.2.x ended in December 2021.
The routes
A group can stay on 11.2 under Oracle's continuous innovation model, move to Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM or move to OneStream (EPM software) on 1 model.
Where we sit
Constancia is an EPM consultancy and an official OneStream partner. We survey the HFM application before we price a move.

Hyperion software is Oracle's on-premises suite, and HFM is the product that keeps most groups on it.

Oracle bought Hyperion in 2007 and still sells the suite as Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management release 11.2. HFM runs the consolidation, Hyperion Planning runs the budget and Essbase is the database under both.

Release 11.2 runs on a continuous innovation model. Oracle ships application and technology updates to it without a major upgrade.

Some groups installed HFM in 2011 and have patched it 4 times since. Their consolidation rules were often written by a consultant who left in 2014.

Most estates run 6 Hyperion products, and each one takes a different route out.

  1. 01

    Hyperion Financial Management

    The consolidation: entities, ownership, translation, intercompany and the rule file that has grown for a decade.

  2. 02

    Hyperion Planning

    The budget and the forecast, on Essbase cubes with their own copy of the entity and account hierarchies.

  3. 03

    Essbase

    The multidimensional database under Planning and under the reporting cubes finance built for itself.

  4. 04

    FDMEE

    The data loads and mappings from each ERP into HFM and Planning, owned by 1 person in most groups.

  5. 05

    Financial Reporting and Smart View

    The report books and the Excel connection the finance team uses every day of the close.

  6. 06

    Data Relationship Management

    The master data, where a group bought it, and the reason the entity list agrees between HFM and Planning.

Without Data Relationship Management, an estate holds its entity list at least twice. Our survey counts the copies.

Oracle supports Hyperion release 11.2 to at least 2033, and support for release 11.1.2.x ended in December 2021.

Release 11.2 is the long-term support release for Hyperion. Oracle premier support is available for it through at least 2033.

Support for release 11.1.2.x ended in December 2021, and a group still on 11.1.2.4 is now past that date.

Oracle has moved the 11.2 date before. A business case should use the date Oracle shows today.

A Hyperion estate has 3 routes out, and 2 of them rebuild the consolidation on new dimensions.

  1. 01

    Stay on 11.2

    Upgrade to 11.2 under Oracle's continuous innovation model, and keep the rules, the reports and the loads as they are.

  2. 02

    Move to Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM

    Rebuild HFM on Financial Consolidation and Close and Planning on Oracle Planning, inside Oracle's subscriptions.

  3. 03

    Move to OneStream

    Rebuild the consolidation, the plan and the reports on 1 model in OneStream (EPM software), with 1 entity list.

The first route keeps the estate on Oracle's support timetable. A survey of the estate shows which of the other 2 fits.

The 3 routes off Hyperion differ at 6 points, from the consolidation rules to the support position.

How the 3 routes off Hyperion software compare at 6 points.
Stay on 11.2Oracle Fusion Cloud EPMOneStream
The consolidation rulesKept as written.Rewritten on FCCS's fixed dimensions.Rewritten on OneStream's model.
The entity listAs many copies as today.1 per application, or 1 in Enterprise Data Management.1, read by the close, the plan and the reports.
The data loadsFDMEE, as today.Data Management in the cloud, mappings rebuilt.OneStream's own loads, mappings rebuilt.
The reportsFinancial Reporting books kept.Rebuilt in the cloud reporting tools.Rebuilt on the new model.
The support positionOracle premier support through at least 2033 for release 11.2.Continuous, inside Oracle's subscription.Continuous, inside OneStream's subscription.
The structure it suitsA group with a stable estate and no date in the diary.A group on Oracle Fusion ERP adding 1 application at a time.A group whose close and plan have to share 1 model.

A business case for leaving Hyperion takes its date from a group event, with Oracle's support date behind it.

The date comes from an event the finance team cannot move. That event might be a listing, an integration, a new CFO's first year end or an audit asking for evidence the workbooks cannot give.

A group with 14 months to its date and 4,000 lines of rules spends the first month surveying the rules.

A case dated only on Oracle's support moves each time Oracle changes its date. A case dated on the group's own event stays where it is.

A multi-entity group's Hyperion estate holds 10 years of history, and we read it before we price a route.

The HFM application in a group with several entities holds every ownership change and every acquisition's rules. Constancia reads the whole application before it quotes for a move.

The survey lists every rule, report, load and hierarchy in the estate. We fix the price of the OneStream route on that list.

In some groups 3 finance directors each keep their own copy of the HFM entity list. The new model holds 1 list, and all 3 get read access.

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