Hyperion Debuts Industry's First and Only Performance Management Solution to Integrate Financial Management Applications with a Business Intelligence Platform

Hyperion (Nasdaq:HYSL), the global leader in Business PerformanceManagement (BPM) software, today unveiled Hyperion System 9, the mostcomprehensive performance management solution ever and the first tointegrate financial management applications with a BI platform into amodular system that will adapt to any business need. Thiscomprehensive, integrated solution delivers consistent visibility ofpast, present and future business operations, enabling sustainedimprovement in business performance.

"Hyperion System 9 delivers on our vision of a BusinessPerformance Management system," said Godfrey Sullivan, president andCEO of Hyperion. "It's the first to break down the barrier betweenbusiness and IT; it's the first to make it possible for everyonewithin the enterprise to learn and use BI; and it's the first tointegrate a BI platform with financial management applications.

"Hyperion System 9 was built on proven technology and leveragesour more than 20 years of experience improving the performance ofglobal companies."

Innovation Focused on Superior User Experience, HigherProductivity

Hyperion System 9 is the result of a three-year initiative todramatically transform and simplify the way users interact with BI andperformance management software. This transformation has beenaccomplished through technical innovations within a FoundationServices layer and the development of Hyperion System 9 Workspace, thefirst personalized workspace for Business Performance Management.

"Having seen Hyperion System 9, I am more confident than ever thatwe have the right technology for Pfizer Canada's performancemanagement needs," said Michael O'Shaughnessy, senior manager,Information Architecture, Pfizer Canada. "As an IT decision-maker, Iwelcome the ability to continue to offer value to our business users,especially in these changing and uncertain times. Of the competitivesolutions I've seen, Hyperion System 9 delivers the most functionalityand integration."

The Foundation of Business Performance Management

Hyperion leverages the technology in its Foundation Services tointegrate BI technologies and financial management applications into asingle, cohesive system. And, for the first time, formerly disparateactivities including management and production reporting, advancedanalytics, financial reporting and consolidation, enterprise planning,scorecarding and strategic modeling are all accessible through thesingle, unified Workspace. As a result, users are no longer forced toshuffle between applications or sign in and out of separate tools toget answers to their business questions. With Hyperion System 9, userscan address all of their performance management and query andreporting needs within a single thin client environment that ispersonalized and optimized for their unique needs.

Hyperion System 9 Foundation Services is a scalable, sharedservices foundation that simplifies systems management, integrationand administration across the enterprise. This foundation also offersmaster data management (MDM) capabilities that empower business usersto directly manage complex, rapidly changing master data -- technologythat is unique to Hyperion within the performance management industry.

"Master data management is a discipline that goes hand in handwith information governance. Forward-thinking organizations areinstituting processes to gain agreement on roles, responsibilities,policies, and procedures surrounding the maintenance of a single viewof the entities needed for conducting business and measuring itsperformance," said Henry Morris, group vice president and generalmanager, Integration, Development and Application Strategies for IDC."An innovative and noteworthy feature of Hyperion System 9 isintegrated master data management."

The unified system enables users to link strategies with plans andcontinuously monitor their execution against goals to improve businessagility. Because the system provides a common view into all enterprisedata sources and across all management processes, users are able tomake better, faster decisions based on a single reliable perspectiveover information that spans all areas of the operation.

Work the Way Customers Work

Hyperion worked closely with Frog Design, a leading industrialdesign firm, in a study to analyze how users work with reports,dynamic forecasts, financial consolidation and advanced analyticalsoftware. The study, which closely tracked 70 customers and their useof software over a period of months, directly resulted in the creationof Hyperion System 9's unique Workspace. The Workspace, whichfundamentally changes the way users interact with their performancemanagement software, is at the heart of the innovations Hyperion isintroducing with Hyperion System 9.

"Hyperion System 9 delivers a remarkable front-end interface toall of the Hyperion applications," said Kevin Macke, vice presidentand director of financial planning and analysis, UMB FinancialCorporation. "We've been using multiple Hyperion business intelligenceand financial management applications for years and have had to switchbetween products to get the information needed. After seeing theHyperion System 9 interface, I was blown away with its consistency. Ididn't have to worry about which application was delivering the data-- it was truly transparent.

"It will be much easier for users to access information frommultiple applications and efficiently use that information to deliverresults. It's a great move to bring all Hyperion applications underone umbrella and deliver on the vision of a fully integrated BusinessPerformance Management system. This is the foundation that unifiesHyperion."

Hyperion System 9 - Start Anywhere

The architecture of Hyperion System 9 facilitates the Hyperion"Start Anywhere" approach, empowering customers to address immediateneeds first, then add additional capabilities as business needs growand as budget allows, regardless of where issues lie within themanagement cycle. Hyperion System 9 includes:

-- Hyperion System 9 BI+ - A complete business intelligence platform that integrates management, financial and production reporting into a single architecture, all accessed through a thin-client interface, delivering the broadest BI functionality to the marketplace. Hyperion System 9 BI+ also includes advanced analytics, interactive dashboard creation, and seamless reporting against both relational and multidimensional data sources.

-- Hyperion System 9 Applications+ - A suite of financial management applications that integrates the entire management cycle by linking strategies to plans, monitoring and optimizing execution and reporting results in a timely manner. Hyperion System 9 Applications+ combines market-leading solutions for planning, modeling, consolidation and development of customized applications. It also includes extensive scorecarding and dashboarding applications.

-- Both Hyperion System 9 BI+ and Hyperion System 9 Applications+ are accessible to users through the industry's first unified, personalized Workspace and are built upon the Foundation Services layer.

One System Increases Productivity, Reduces Operational Risk andTCO

With multiple reporting systems, IT teams frequently struggle tomeet reporting demands that exceed their capacity to deliver.Inconsistent user interfaces increase training costs and the sheervolume of data available in today's enterprises can swampinfrastructures not built for massive scalability. Line-of-businessmanagers also feel the strain of working with disparate reportingsystems, as they have limited visibility into the connection betweenfinancial and operating performance.

Hyperion System 9 eliminates the challenges of managing multiple,disparate systems. It reduces total cost of ownership by simplifyingsystems management, administration and support, and offers a scalable,standards-based, flexible foundation for easier integration intoexisting enterprise architectures. It provides a consistent source ofinformation across the enterprise through master data management, andenables centralized license management for improved auditing andcompliance.

Hyperion System 9 is backed by a global team of highly qualifiedconsultants, who provide guidance and assistance with changemanagement, implementation, support and education, enabling rapid timeto value.

Hyperion System 9 is also supported by 34 worldwide partners,including IBM Software Group.

"IBM truly supports the move towards a powerful BusinessPerformance Management system in the new Hyperion System 9," saidKaren Parrish, vice president of business intelligence solutions forIBM Software Group. "The comprehensive offering eliminates disparatereporting systems thus providing customers with an increase inproductivity across the enterprise. When combined with IBM middlewaresuch as DB2 DWE customers will be assured of high performance and arock solid system."

Availability

Hyperion System 9 began shipping on September 28, 2005, and iscurrently available.

About 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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