Global Customers Support Hyperion System 9

"Our customers recognize the power of a Business PerformanceManagement system that will allow them to achieve true visibilitythroughout their organizations," said Rich Clayton, vice president ofproduct marketing for Hyperion.

Hyperion System 9 leverages the unique technology in itsFoundation Services layer to integrate BI technologies and financialmanagement applications into a single cohesive system. For the firsttime, formerly disparate activities -- including management andproduction reporting, advanced analytics, financial reporting andconsolidation, enterprise planning, scorecarding and strategicmodeling -- are all accessible through Hyperion System 9 Workspace,the first personalized workspace for Business Performance Management.With Hyperion System 9, users can address all of their performancemanagement and query and reporting needs within a single thin clientenvironment that is personalized and optimized for their unique needs.

Hyperion Global Customer Support for Hyperion System 9

American Suzuki

"The Hyperion System 9 shared foundation with integratedapplications will reduce our IT workload," said Claire Ashby, datawarehouse specialist, American Suzuki Motor Corporation. "Given asophisticated user community, IT only needs to manage the collectionand organization of data and user security at the foundation, insteadof managing those functions across individual applications. It willalso help us to manage version control and licensing across multipleHyperion applications."

Booz Allen Hamilton

"The unified Workspace provided by Hyperion System 9 provides aneasy-to-learn and user friendly environment for our end users. Thisallows users to move seamlessly between the various underlyingmodules, thereby driving greater usage and consistency of data acrossthe firm," said Kevin Cook, director firmwide financial reportingsystems, for Booz Allen Hamilton. "As a result, our users haveWeb-based access to the information they require to manage thebusiness, as well as to the analytical tools they need to assessresults."

BT Group plc

"Based on what we have seen with Hyperion System 9, thisnext-generation offering will clearly provide significant efficiencyand ease-of-use benefits to end users," commented Warren Clements,head of consolidation, for BT Group plc. "Moreover, the ability tohave and maintain all Hyperion products on a single platform willaddress the rapidly increasing reporting demands complex organizationssuch as BT Group plc now face. This could potentially enable us toextend the success we have achieved in the finance organization ingaining greater visibility of our data."

Danfoss A/S

"Based on our beta experience with Hyperion System 9, we envisionour users will embrace the single platform it provides," said JorgenAaskov, corporate accounting, Danfoss A/S. "With many of our employeesusing multiple Hyperion products, System 9 will enable users toseamlessly share operational and financial data through a common userinterface. This is very important to us as we roll out Hyperion togreater numbers of users."

dit / Allianz Dresdner Global Investors Germany

"New innovations such as Hyperion System 9 are showing how wellHyperion meets the market in responding to what customers want," saidKlaus Liesenberg, database administrator, dit/Allianz Dresdner GlobalInvestors Germany. "Hyperion System 9's broad BI capability, singleand intuitive interface and personalized Workspace should makeadoption among users even easier. The integration with MicrosoftOffice should save time in reporting as well."

Handelsbanken

"As a longtime Hyperion customer, we eagerly anticipated thearrival of Hyperion System 9 and are impressed by the functionality itoffers," said Peter Wikstrom, data warehouse manager, Handelsbanken."Because Handelsbanken is a decentralized organization, it isimportant that we empower our 500 local branches with extensive andcomplete analytical capabilities. Until now, they were unable to tiebranch customer trends to detailed customer information. With HyperionSystem 9, we believe we will be able to offer our local branches onetool that enables complete customer analysis regardless of the datasource. This will greatly enhance their understanding of customers anddecision-making abilities."

Helzberg Diamonds

"Hyperion is executing on the promise made to its customers," saidButch Jagoda, vice president of information technology for HelzbergDiamonds. "Hyperion System 9 is truly one system, integrating a numberof modules into a single easy-to-use environment. This fits well withHelzberg's current and future plans. We are especially excited aboutthe consistent, yet personalized presentation of key metrics in adashboard interface and the tight integration with Microsoft Office."

Hyatt International

"Hyatt chose Hyperion to help it provide a global, unifiedBusiness Performance Management system that puts the right details inthe hands of the right people at the right time -- down to theindividual property, on demand," said Gebhard Rainer, vice president,hotel finance and technology, Hyatt International. "With HyperionSystem 9, we are creating real-time dashboards for our executives downto our hotel managers that show them the financial and operationalaspects of the business they manage. We have greater performancevisibility that enables us to confidently and flexibly respond tomarket changes proactively and measure the effectiveness of ourbusiness strategies."

Pearson Plc

"Hyperion System 9 demonstrates that Hyperion understands marketneeds and is focused on delivering what customers require," said NoelGorvett, group finance systems manager, Pearson Plc. "Hyperion System9's broad BI capability, intuitive interface and integratedapplication architecture should make deployment among our users eveneasier and quicker. This is a breakthrough offering for Hyperion anddemonstrates why Hyperion is a key player in the Business PerformanceManagement arena."

Pfizer Canada

"Our very successful existing Hyperion solution deliversinteractive reporting and key performance metrics directly to salesand marketing personnel across the country," said MichaelO'Shaughnessy, senior manager, information architecture, PfizerCanada. "With Hyperion System 9 integrated applications, it will beeasy to deliver new functionality like production reporting orscorecarding to users as business requirements demand. We won't haveto acquire, install and maintain a new application that isn'tintegrated with our existing applications."

Springer Science + Business Media

"Hyperion System 9 offers several valuable breakthroughs in BI.Springer Science + Business Media looks forward to exploiting the newconnectivity to SAP," said Michael Gramse, IT manager BusinessIntelligence, Springer Science + Business Media. "Centralized usermanagement will ease our administrative efforts as well. With the newWorkspace, users will perform many types of analysis and reportingfrom a single web interface -- in our case statistical reports and adhoc analysis."

UMB Financial Corporation

"Hyperion System 9 delivers the next wave of innovation andfunctionality," said Kevin Macke, vice president and director offinancial planning and analysis, UMB Financial Corporation. "Theintegration with Microsoft Office with Smart View is beyond compare.Our users who already depend on Excel and PowerPoint for informationdelivery will have seamless, live refresh of Hyperion informationwithin the Microsoft application. Our Board of Directors presentationswill be easily built in PowerPoint with live Hyperion data, graphs andcharts. It's just outstanding."

Availability

Hyperion System 9 with BI+ began shipping on September 28, 2005,and is currently available.

Hyperion

Hyperion Solutions Corporation is the global leader in BusinessPerformance Management software. More than 10,000 customers rely onHyperion software to provide visibility into how their businesses areperforming and to help them plan and model to improve thatperformance. Using Hyperion software, customers collect data, organizeand analyze it, then communicate it across the enterprise. Hyperionoffers the industry's only Business Performance Management solutionthat integrates financial management applications with a businessintelligence platform into a single system.

Named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For (2004),Hyperion serves global customers in 45 countries. A network of morethan 600 partners provides the company's innovative and specializedsolutions and services. Hyperion generated revenues of USD 703 millionfor the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2005 and is traded under theNasdaq symbol HYSL. For more information, please visitwww.hyperion.com.

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