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Overview of the Hyperion Solution

Hyperion is helping

organizations manage their

businesses in ways they never

previously imagined.

By optimizing company

resources, Hyperion products

extend corporate capabilities

to the highest level possible.

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Hunches turn to revelations, supposition becomes quantifiable knowledge, and information

becomes advantage. Hyperion’s customers are doing something more than just collecting

information about their enterprises. They are uncovering answers to complex problems,

finding new efficiencies, and capitalizing on opportunities.

In more quantifiable terms, Hyperion helps more than 5,500 organizations worldwide and

more than 2 million individuals:

• save millions of person-hours per year

• capitalize on billion-dollar opportunities

• drive and measure qualitative and quantitative strategic and monetary initiatives

• increase profits

• increase earnings per share

With Hyperion, organizations can take bold steps based on precise information. Confidence

in organizational knowledge systems removes informational risk, while accurate and rapid

collaboration within the corporate ranks ensures that everyone is on the same page.

Employees model potential scenarios and choose optimal outcomes, understanding the

future far ahead of the competition.

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The ability to accomplish so much, all at once, is here. With Hyperion, companies have

moved beyond the narrow scope of transaction processing software. Instead of merely

capturing transactional data, Hyperion helps companies better understand and optimize

their business through the implementation of analytic application software solutions.

The strategic, integrated nature of these Hyperion solutions enable profound leaps in

business performance.

Hyperion and more than 300 Hyperion Alliance Partners deliver the best, most complete

integrated suite of flexible, scalable, open analytic application software. With custom built or

packaged solutions, Hyperion allows organizations to take existing computing infrastructure

– web data; data warehouses; enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship

management (CRM), human resources management (HRM), and supply chain systems;

information purchased from third parties; and information shared with business partners –

and leverage it all as one integrated framework.

Without such an integrated framework, existing infrastructures provide only basic reporting.

Intellectual assets, which include the combined resources of employees and information,

remain isolated and strategically impotent. A comprehensive strategy and an integrated,

reusable analytic platform is necessary to unlock those assets. Only then do companies have

the ability to examine complex, critical business information across all their systems.

Hyperion solutions put the mechanisms in place to coordinate information, analyze trends,

predict changes and create comprehensive strategies. Organizations can then move forward

into new frontiers while outflanking competitors on past, present, and future battlegrounds.

Organizations that fail to take advantage of integrated analytic application software

spend too much money and time finding out too little about their customers, products,

competition, and marketplaces. They typically try twice as hard to understand a fraction

of the details, and they only see a narrow, obscured view of the big picture.


Hyperion has developed tremendous market penetration across all industries because its

solutions deliver tangible results to both top and bottom lines. Thousands of the world’s

leading organizations have enthusiastically adopted Hyperion solutions.

For most companies, IT infrastructures, relational database management systems (RDBMS),

business management systems, enterprise applications and custom software are already in

place. In fact, according to industry research performed by META Group, Inc., the average

corporation runs its business on 49 different transaction-processing systems. For sheer

magnitude and complexity, these systems appear comprehensive and capable. Yet, from an

enterprise-wide perspective, they fail to successfully coordinate and strategically integrate

their collective potential. These systems capture transactions and provide adequate data

management but do not provide even basic analytical capabilities, let alone a comprehensive

picture of organizational performance.

Those types of functions require specific analytic application software that interfaces with

existing systems. Such analytic software is the next logical step in the evolution of corporate

IT strategy. Earlier steps included client/server systems, relational databases, and ERP

software. Today’s organizations have already embraced those for significant strategic

advantage. In many cases, those historic leaps in strategic advantage shifted the balance of

power across industries.

Another of these shifts is occurring today. Analytic software can offer an additional strategic

framework for the information technology structure, rather than an isolated application that

fulfills a specific operational requirement. Such a broad analytic framework will galvanize

business processes and analysis, incorporating the entire range of IT resources, data,

relational database technology, and ERP solutions, while delivering truly strategic

end-user capabilities.

Hence, organizations need to make strategic moves to optimize and integrate all their IT and

transactional investments within such a framework. They need to make consistent data

available to decision-makers who can then examine the numbers, calculate new scenarios on

the fly, drill down to granular detail, examine all possible strategies, model a variety of

assumptions, plan for the future, and strategize for the long term. Hyperion’s solutions are

the key to making this happen. They are the next strategic leap.

Hyperion and Hyperion Alliance Partners provide a dynamic solution of best of breed,

packaged analytic applications, custom analytic applications, leading technology, and

comprehensive support and services to leverage an organization’s intellectual assets

for competitive advantage. Solutions from Hyperion are the next logical step in strategic

investment to build on past investments in client/server technology, RDBMS, and

ERP systems.

Typically, the average organization employs a mix of strategic and non-strategic systems.

These companies employ a variety of makeshift, short-term solutions which, for lack of a

better alternative, fulfill particular needs on a case-by-case basis. For example, large

numbers of employees, in various locations throughout the enterprise, conduct analyses

with spreadsheets isolated from any system of shared data. Consequently, their ability to

report accurately and make decisions based on timely, consistent information lags behind.

For these organizations, the potential profit from integrating analytic systems across the

entire management cycle is tremendous. With Hyperion’s Analytic Platform, all their

previously uncoordinated and isolated processes become integrated as a strategic whole.

By incorporating common desktop tools and existing strategic software investments, the

Hyperion Analytic Platform takes organizations one step further. The entire management

cycle becomes infused with a new dimension of capability and possibility. Statutory, tax,

and legal reporting processes become automated and integrated across the enterprise.

Complex requirements, such as accounting laws and euro currency conversions, are met

with ease. Sophisticated querying capability is available to anyone who needs consistent,

clean, timely, updated views of information.

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Hyperion: An Integrated Framework for Analytic Applications

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• Can you share common

information from each

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requirements?

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users – including the Web?

Without this global view, the analysis portion of the management cycle also suffers from

a disjointed, reactive approach. Very few organizations have put into place a strategic

platform that combines reporting, analysis, modeling, and planning. As a result, their

employees spend countless hours gathering and manually inputting data. With

Hyperion’s Analytic Platform, seamless integration of reporting, analysis, modeling, and

planning provides users with great power and flexibility. Users can easily drill into

reports and investigate data, create ranked and sorted views of key indicators, and

leverage advanced analytics such as statistics, visualization, and data mining. Managers

can analyze profitability by individual customer and product and analyze company

performance using balanced scorecards, key performance indicators, and benchmarks.

Users from all departments can share analyses and work with consistent information

using standard, popular desktop tools and the Web.

With complete modeling and planning integration, Hyperion’s Analytic Platform extends

an organization’s investment beyond analysis and reporting. Users can run “what if”

scenarios using product/cost sensitivities, perform complex modeling calculations, and

employ activity-based management or shareholder value/economic value-added (EVA)

methodologies. They can model the impact of a merger or restructuring on results and

model the impact of retiring or introducing new products on business performance.

Users can also collaborate on new plans with field staff and management, collect new

budgets or forecasts from the field, and make plans that include all levels of collected

information. In the process, they can do away with elaborate spreadsheet macros for

budgeting and free up more time for analysis.

From reporting and analysis to modeling and planning, organizations can take advantage

of integrated solutions and existing investments to improve the management cycle.

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Hyperion Analytic Platform


Visually, the comprehensive analytic platform delivered by Hyperion and Hyperion

Alliance Partners is a framework that encompasses and provides structure for the entire

management cycle across all company departments.

At every level of the organization, Hyperion and partner solutions enable coordination,

collaboration, and analysis. For instance, Hyperion’s data and application integration

server products and industry-leading OLAP server, Hyperion Essbase, link the lower levels

of strategic infrastructure. Hyperion’s Analytic Platform integrates with and builds upon

standard relational databases such as IBM DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and SQL Server.

Hyperion Essbase scales from the desktop to the largest corporate data center, enabling

thousands of users to analyze hundreds of gigabytes of information. Hyperion’s solution

runs on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, OS/2, AS/400, Linux,

HP-UX, IBM-AIX, and Sun Solaris servers and leverages Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and web

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analytic applications. Hyperion’s Analytic Platform also integrates with ERP and CRM

software from leading vendors such as Baan, J.D. Edwards, Lawson, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP,

Siebel, Vantive, and many others.

The ability to incorporate client/server, web and Internet tools brings Hyperion’s Analytic

Platform to the entire enterprise – anywhere, anytime. Specific integrated tools for

reporting, querying, and visualizing information provide extended utility.

Thousands of custom-built analytic applications have been deployed and more than 60

packaged analytic applications are available across a variety of markets, including

manufacturing analytics, supply-chain analytics, e-Business analytics, enterprise

performance management, CRM analytics, HRM analytics, and specific vertical-industry

solutions. These are the areas where extensive information locked in web data; data

warehouses; ERP, CRM, HRM, and supply chain systems; information purchased from

third parties; and information from business partners is transformed into power

and intelligence.

Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management is the most complete, open, and integrated

suite of packaged analytic applications for creating sustainable shareholder value

through improved business performance. In particular, it brings together budgeting with

profitability and benchmarking analysis, making high-level decision-making much more

precise, reliable, and insightful.

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Hyperion and Hyperion Alliance Partners offer a comprehensive suite of worldwide

consulting, training, and technical support services that help customers implement,

customize, enhance, support and extend the Hyperion Analytic Platform, Together,

Hyperion services and products bring organizations security, investment protection,

and quick deployment.

Tight integration with partner products and a commitment to open development provides

customers with tremendous flexibility, as well. Customers can build their own solutions or

buy packaged analytic applications that are ready to implement. Customization can fit the

broadest or most specific need.

The entire Hyperion solution offers best of breed, industry-leading analytic applications

that weave together a wide range of important strategic business functions.


Only one combined source for analytics, Hyperion and Hyperion Alliance Partners, has

developed the market, led the market and supported the market with comprehensive

solutions over the past two decades. No other vendor comes close to offering the extent of

best-of-breed solutions offered by Hyperion and partners. Hyperion and partner solutions

are being utilized to great advantage in 50 percent of the Fortune 500, 60 of the Fortune

100, and more than 40 of the Financial Times European Top 100.

More than 5,500 worldwide organizations prefer Hyperion and Hyperion Alliance Partner

solutions because they perform the best, accomplish the most, integrate into existing

enterprises the easiest (i.e., with existing people, hardware, and software), and integrate

with the greatest number of third-party solutions. With a unique combination of expertise,

extended experience, strategic partnerships, and market leadership, only Hyperion and

partners are positioned to deliver true analytics on an enterprise-wide scale—usable for

virtually every business need. Hyperion strives to develop scalable, reliable, flexible tools

and applications that mesh with leading enterprise applications. The company’s strategy is

to focus on analytics, leverage partner solutions, and offer open solutions that integrate

with the best-of-breed applications and systems on the market and in the field. Hyperion

and Hyperion Alliance Partner customers enjoy comprehensive investment protection and

security because they can choose from an extensive array of industry-leading partner

solutions which already integrate into the Hyperion analytic framework. Industry-specific

and specialized solutions from Hyperion Alliance Partners ensure that customers have the

ability and flexibility to build their own particular comprehensive solution.

From banking and manufacturing verticals to retail-churn analysis applications and best of

breed planning systems, a wide variety of customer needs are served by Hyperion Alliance

Partner solutions. Third-party vendors greatly extend the solutions available to Hyperion

customers, speeding the proliferation and increasing the utility of Hyperion's analytic

platform. Hyperion and Hyperion Alliance Partner solutions benefit all kinds of

organizations, permeating all levels of strategic analysis. Hyperion's open connectivity

with operating systems, ERP vendors, and hardware platforms allows applications,

technologies, and tools to be deployed and integrated with existing customers'

enterprise infrastructures.

Hyperion Leadership

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Hyperion allows operations, finance, sales, marketing and all other departments to

collaborate and leverage their abilities for competitive advantage. With the business

processes unified within the analytic software structure, startling real-world

breakthroughs occur. Consider the fact that just one of the benefits Nabisco® has seen

using Hyperion® Essbase® OLAP Server is savings of $1 million by identifying a particular

product that was losing money. “By giving people the power to do their own thing, we’re

seeing a lot of talent being realized in the financial and IT departments that might

otherwise have gone untapped,” said Michael Hearn, Nabisco’s director of financial and

administrative systems.

Duke University Medical Center uses Hyperion Enterprise™ for forward-thinking analysis

and modeling. More than 1,000 Xerox employees use numerous analytic applications built

with Hyperion Essbase to track and adjust to strategies in light of constantly changing

business and industry conditions. American-Multi Cinema uses Hyperion Enterprise to get

critical business information to theatre managers daily so they can plan accordingly for the

weekend rush.

UPS uses Hyperion Pillar® for its entire expense budgeting process, allowing managers to

plan and control costs from the bottom up. “Hyperion has revolutionized our entire

expense budgeting process,” said Ron Shaw, UPS’s corporate cost planning coordinator. At

Adobe Systems, sales and finance managers have a better view of the business at all levels.

Hyperion’s single, enterprise-wide structure for planning and reporting translates into

easier, more efficient IT system management. “The bottom line is that we access more data

faster and have the industry’s leading planning and analysis tools at our fingertips,” said

David Ashe, manager of application development at Adobe.

Using Hyperion Enterprise, BancorpSouth cut its financial closing cycle from about two

weeks to just five days. Hyperion Enterprise also enables the company to comply with the

Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new FAS 131 segment reporting requirements.

Industry Leaders Trust Hyperion


Hyperion Pillar helped First Union Direct cut its reporting cycle in half, allowing users to be

more analytical. “Being more analytical means we can provide value-added data for

making sound business decisions,” said David Vonk, First Union Direct’s financial

consolidations manager.

“At Foundation Health Systems, our divisions use both J.D Edwards and SAP enterprise

resource planning systems,” said Perry Sticca, systems technical consultant. “Before

Hyperion Application Link™, we needed programmers to create a data extraction file for

financial consolidation and reporting. With Hyperion Application Link, for J.D. Edwards

and SAP, we will be able to eliminate extraction file programming, allowing us to spend

more time on analysis and drive strategic business decisions.”

Each of these companies tied together its existing data infrastructures and IT systems with

Hyperion and Hyperion Alliance Partner solutions. Partners such as Ernst & Young

implement Hyperion solutions quickly and easily. “The combination of Hyperion's

technology platform and Ernst & Young's focus on data warehousing, decision support,

and ERP will help our clients achieve a higher ROI, increase the effectiveness and value of

operational systems, and accelerate the time to deploy critical decision support

applications,” said Mark Zozulia, senior manager, Ernst & Young. Organizations can install

comprehensive analytic solutions in a matter of weeks and empower thousands of users

across the enterprise, taking advantage of data warehouses, relational databases, and

transaction-processing systems already in place.

“Hyperion's analytic application software has already helped

Sea-Land drive several million dollars in savings, by enabling

managers and analysts across the company to uncover vast

new insights into our business.”

Jack Heilpern

Director of Cost and Profitability Analysis

Sea-Land

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Hyperion offers the only seamlessly integrated framework for understanding, optimizing

and operating businesses better. The framework ensures that an organization’s business

systems will always grow and coordinate together, protecting IT investments while

delivering immense power and flexibility for business decisions. The value of the

Hyperion approach quickly covers customers’ initial software investments – with business

breakthroughs measured in millions of dollars of profit and productivity savings

measured in the millions of dollars and thousands of person-hours.

Realize Substantial Returns

Other vendors can deliver

individual point solutions on

a piecemeal basis, but none

comes close to matching the

superb integration and

enterprise-wide coverage that

Hyperion and more than 300

Hyperion Alliance Partners offer.

To take a closer look at the

Hyperion solution,

visit www.hyperion.com.

Hyperion Headquarters

Hyperion Solutions Corporation

1344 Crossman Avenue

Sunnyvale, CA 94089

tel: 408 744 9500

fax: 408 744 0400

[email protected]

www.hyperion.com

European Headquarters

Hyperion Solutions Europe

Enterprise House

Greencourts Business Park

333 Styal Road

Manchester M22 5HY

United Kingdom

tel: 44 161 498 2200

fax: 44 161 498 2210

Asia-Pacific Headquarters

Hyperion Solutions Asia Pte. Ltd.

#24-01 IBM Towers

80 Anson Road

Singapore 079907

tel: 65 323 3485

fax: 65 323 3486

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