| Hyperion Solutions Corporation provides business performance management software and business intelligence platform. Its business performance management suite is an interoperable group of applications that delivers budgeting, planning, and forecasting; consolidation and reporting; dashboarding; performance scorecarding, modeling, and optimization on an open, scalable, secure and Web-based business intelligence platform. The company’s products comprise Hyperion Planning, which helps coordinate and manage all the elements of the planning, forecasting, and budgeting cycle; Hyperion Financial Management that delivers financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis; Hyperion Business Modeling, which provides profitability analysis by combining operational factors with supporting financial data; Hyperion Strategic Finance, a strategic financial modeling application; Hyperion Performance Scorecard, which provides a strategic management infrastructure for measuring and monitoring business performance; Hyperion Enterprise, which offers departmental financial consolidation and reporting functionality; and Hyperion Pillar, which is used in departmental budgeting. Hyperion’s Business Intelligence Platform includes Hyperion Essbase product family that delivers services to access and integrate data and metadata from a range of sources, perform advanced analytical processing, and deploy business performance applications across the enterprise; Hyperion Hub, a centralized metadata manager; Hyperion Performance Suite, an enterprise-class and Web-based query, analysis, and reporting software; and Hyperion Metrics Builder, which delivers enterprise-wide metrics analysis and management capabilities to business users via a Web-based dashboard environment. The company markets and sells its products in North America and Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific through direct sales force, original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, and independent distributors. Hyperion’s partners include Accenture, BEA, BearingPoint, Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Lawson, and Teradata. Hyperion is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. |