Top 10 Easy Access Priorities	Essbase/Planning with standard tools	Hyperion Essbase or Planning with CXO-Cockpit
1. Intuitive	No	No training needed for senior executives. Minimal training needed for controllers and accountants. No technical or expert-level terms used in the end user software.
2. Web Interface	Yes	All reports and analysis available through a standard internet explorer web browser
3. Fast	No	Quick start-up (max 5 seconds) with very responsive (few seconds) screen updates. Even when scaled to 50+ users.
4. Secure	Yes	Restricted access to responsibility area only
5. Business Narratives	No	Contextual business narratives combined with reports and graphs on one page with options to print to PDF and PPT
6. Powerful	No	Powerful Analytic views based on best practices of the CXO-Cockpit Community
7. PDF, PPT, Excel export	No (PPT)	High quality exporting to PowerPoint, PDF, and Excel
8. Guidance	Yes	Multidimensional views without the risk of selecting invalid intersections
9. Books	Yes	Possibility to print series of reports and views for a specific combination of companies and periods
10. Online help	No	Contextual online help in customizable callouts