Oracle Hyperion Planning vs Pigment

Oracle Hyperion Planning is Oracle’s web-based, cloud-deployed product for financial and workforce planning. It combines budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, workforce planning, and financial consolidation, with a multi-year planning horizon. Forecast dimensions cover territory, product, account, channel, customer segment, product group, time, and custom dimensions. Compensation planning, headcount forecasting, financial forecasting, and scenario planning are included. Planning operations provide task dependencies, approval workflows, recurring templates, an audit trail, and multi-entity close. ERP connectivity uses an API, and CRM data synchronization is supported. Listed master-data domains include chart of accounts, organizations, cost centers, legal entities, ownership, and market-related data. Deduplication, data syndication, and API access are also listed. The allowance is 5,000 records and the stated user limit is 25 users. Oracle lists two cloud service plans requiring minimums of 10 or 25 hosted named users. Pricing is on request; there is no free plan.

Pigment is an AI platform for real-time business planning across Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, and HR. It supports budgeting, forecasting, forecast-versus-actuals, scenario modeling, variance analysis, workforce planning, and financial consolidation. The Modeler Agent creates and evolves governed models, while the Analyst Agent scans metrics for trends and anomalies and builds reports. Frames lets users describe a visualization, executive view, or collection form that reads from and writes to a live Pigment model. The service runs on the web and through an API. Listed integrations include NetSuite, Sage Intacct, SAP, and Salesforce; generic APIs and API or ETL options support custom connections. Access controls include SAML 2.0 SSO, SCIM, Google Login, MFA, domain allowlisting, role-based access, and fine-grained data rights. Pigment states that it holds SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, encrypts data, and does not use customer data to train foundation models. The 14-day free trial costs nothing and has limited features.