| The new solution goes beyond the search integration offered by other Business Intelligence (BI) vendors by providing customers with access not only to BI-related dashboards, reports, metrics and other unstructured corporate content, but also to financial applications-business content such as the business rules, calculations, annotations and forms that enable Business Performance Management (BPM). All this information is now available through a single Google-powered, integrated search window. |
| One of the key differentiators of the Hyperion solution is its unique ability to develop, not just report, answers to queries. A search using conventional BI tools returns an answer to a query if that answer already exists in a report; otherwise, the search produces only a list of reports with related content and the user must sift through the material to locate information. The Google-powered Hyperion solution will create an appropriate answer by searching the relevant financial and operational data and automatically querying, calculating and presenting the information in real time. |
| The data can originate from a variety of relational and multidimensional sources, such as Essbase and Enterprise analytics, star schemas, SAP-BW and financial management applications. |
| In addition to receiving search results contained in inline answers to the queries, the user can further refine the search query to get more detailed results, a process akin to drilling down on reports or analytic dashboards. The benefits are productivity gains and actionable answers to business questions directly from the Google search result window. |
| "Bringing financial information together with operational data will help make enterprise customers nimbler and more responsive," said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise. "The combination of Hyperion's deep knowledge of performance management solutions and Google's powerful and familiar search capabilities is a good example of how people can find the right information -- wherever it resides in the enterprise." |
| "The integration with Google OneBox for Enterprise is another example of Hyperion's leadership," said Howard Dresner, chief strategy officer at Hyperion. "Making BPM information readily available through the Google search paradigm demonstrates Hyperion's commitment to the notion of Information Democracy. The solution empowers knowledge workers with comprehensive, intuitive enterprise search capabilities and richer search results which can now be derived in real-time." |
| The solution is accessible through the Hyperion System 9 Workspace, providing a single point of entry to the various Hyperion System 9 modules across all structured and unstructured content. A robust security model delivers only relevant results, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of the BPM information. The support for search integration with Google OneBox for Enterprise, will be generally available late CY2006. |
| About Hyperion |
| Hyperion Solutions Corporation is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 12,000 customers rely on Hyperion software to provide visibility into how their businesses are performing and to help them plan and model to improve that performance. Using Hyperion software, customers collect data, organize and analyze it, then communicate it across the enterprise. Hyperion offers the industry's only Business Performance Management solution that integrates financial management applications with a business intelligence platform into a single system. |
| Named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For (2004), Hyperion serves global customers in more than 90 countries. A network of more than 600 partners provides the company's innovative and specialized solutions and services. Hyperion generated revenues of $765 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2006 and is traded under the Nasdaq symbol HYSL. For more information, please visit www.hyperion.com. |
| Safe Harbor Statement |
| Statements in this press release other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements concerning the potential market opportunities for business performance management software. Such statements constitute anticipated outcomes and do not assure results. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to the company's ability to retain and attract key employees, the successful and timely development of new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, customer demand, and technological shifts. |
| For a more detailed discussion of factors that could affect the company's performance and cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, interested parties should review the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Report on Form 10-K filed on August 31, 2005 and the report on Form 10-Q filed on May 10, 2006. The company does not undertake an obligation to update its forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. |
| "Hyperion," and Hyperion's product names are trademarks of Hyperion. References to other companies and their products use trademarks owned by the respective companies and are for reference purpose only. |
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