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A packaged solution that brings financial data together with internal control information to provide assessments of potential risk exposures and confident financial reporting.

Hyperion Business Modeling is an interactive, Web based profitability and business modeling solution that enables organizations to test operational and financial planning assumptions, model processes and activities, determine optimal use of resources, and drive profitability throughout an organization.

Hyperion Financial Management is a comprehensive, Web-based application that delivers global collection, financial consolidation, reporting and analysis in a single, highly scalable solution. Hyperion Financial Management utilizes today's most advanced technology, yet is built to be owned and maintained by the finance team.

Hyperion Enterprise is a proven packaged application that improves departmental financial consolidation and reporting efficiency by streamlining the collection, consolidation and reporting of financial results in a global environment. This frees financial managers from spreadsheets and general ledgers, enabling them to reduce the financial close cycle and improve the quality of financial information.

Hyperion Performance Scorecard, a Balanced Scorecard Collaborative certified application, helps companies clearly articulate strategy and goals, communicate them across the enterprise, and monitor key performance indicators using recognized scorecarding methodologies and industry benchmarks. The software offers you complete strategy- and accountability-mapping capabilities, as well as web-based message boards, forums and discussion threads.

Hyperion Pillar is a proven budgeting application that supports decentralized decision-making and the nomadic nature of managers during the budgeting process. With Hyperion Pillar, managers can perform a wide range of activities, including cost center and activity-based budgeting, project and capital planning, sales forecasting, compensation planning, reporting and analysis.

Hyperion Planning is a centralized, Web-based planning, budgeting and forecasting solution that drives collaborative, integrated, event-based planning processes throughout the enterprise for a wide range of financial and operational needs. Hyperion Planning allows companies to track and monitor business plans and forecasts translating strategic objectives into operational goals and targets.

Hyperion Strategic Finance is a strategic financial modeling application that lets executives understand the full financial impact of alternative strategies. Why spend time on building, maintaining and training finance employees to use cumbersome spreadsheet modeling tools? Hyperion Strategic Finance delivers pre-packaged modeling and forecasting so your finance experts can better spend their time testing alternative strategies, building contingency plans, and understanding the impact of those strategies and plans on your company's long-term performance.

Hyperion Visual Explorer is an innovative interface that is based on 5 years of research into how to increase user productivity through visual navigation and analysis. This live visual window into Hyperion Essbase can turn a sea of numbers into explicit insights. Hyperion Visual Explorer helps novice and seasoned users to navigate vast detail across many dimensions; quickly identify trends, exceptions and interdependencies; and understand the relationships that drive business performance

Hyperion SQR generates and manages high-volume, presentation-quality reports with unparalleled performance. From simple trend summaries to mission-critical reports, SQR enables developers to easily produce any conceivable report and distribute to diverse audiences through the Web. Addressing the most difficult data access, report processing and layout complexities, SQR turns volumes of data into insight that drives superior performance.

Hyperion delivers sophisticated enterprise-wide metrics analysis and management capabilities to business users via a Web-based dashboard environment. With Hyperion Metrics Builder, you no longer have to wait for analysts to provide business-critical performance indicators. Instead, managers can quickly and consistently identify, centralize, personalize and monitor all company key performance indicators (KPIs) in one place. Combining data from existing information systems (such as ERP, SCM and CRM) with business decision processes, Hyperion Metrics Builder gives executives, line of business managers, and knowledge workers an interactive metrics analysis environment that makes performance information meaningful and easy to understand.

The Hyperion Master Data Management (MDM) Server synchronizes Business Performance Management (BPM) master data across analytic applications, data warehouses, transaction systems and business performance management applications. BPM master data—or BPM metadata—defines enterprise standards through KPIs and reporting structures for key BPM processes, which include financial reporting, compliance, planning, analysis, business modeling and scorecarding. Hyperion MDM Server is built to complement the open infrastructure of the Hyperion Hub and closely integrates with the Hyperion BI Platform. Using the Hyperion MDM Server, business users can be directly involved in the iterative process of managing complex, rapidly changing Business Performance Management (BPM) master data, rather than having IT manage for them.

Hyperion Intelligence is the most advanced and easy-to-use set of tools available for sophisticated query and analysis. Leveraging data from existing enterprise transactional systems, Hyperion Intelligence provides information developers, analysts and consumers with the ability to make raw data useful for decision making. An intuitive, Web-enabled dashboard interface enables every employee across the enterprise to benefit from the insightful analyses and reports. By delivering business-critical information - not just data - Hyperion Intelligence drives an interactive understanding of business opportunities and trends, empowering employees to make optimal decisions.

Providing a single point of integration between external data sources and Hyperion's BPM products - Hyperion Data Integration Services supports bi-directional data and metadata exchange. Based on open, industry standards for integration, it allows users to quickly and easily unleash critical business data trapped in transactional systems, data warehouses, spreadsheets and flat files.

Hyperion Central provides an integrated environment for managing and distributing personalized information from multiple reports and data sources across the enterprise. This addresses the unique information distribution requirements of individual departments and users, regardless of data source or the type of analysis and reporting required.

Developers benefit from a comprehensive set of value-adding application programming interfaces, components, services, repository and application templates. These simplify data connectivity, data management, navigation and the delivery of a wide range of analysis displays. As a result, application developers are free to focus on the unique aspects of their custom business analysis solutions, creating application-specific displays and other specialized functionality. Built using the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification, Hyperion Application Builder is able to work with leading application servers. Web-downloadable sample application templates - such as data entry, reporting and analysis, further accelerate the deployment of advanced, custom business analysis applications.

Hyperion Reports provides powerful business analytics such as conditional suppression and automatic calculations that can be used to focus and filter reports. A graphical, object-based interface enables the rapid creation of reports that combine grids of data and text, charts, graphs and images. A library of reusable report components simplifies and streamlines the process of building and maintaining complex reports. Users have complete control over layouts, formatting, fonts and colors as well as a flexible range of output options enabling wide distribution via print, HTML Web pages, PDF and online viewing. A scalable, cross-platform report server facilitates easy deployment to large user communities.

Hyperion Application Link is a suite of graphical tools and application integration and business process automation services that facilitate the implementation of packaged Business Performance Management applications. Hyperion Application Link enables users to quickly build and deploy flexible, adaptable and reusable integration solutions that seamlessly and transparently connect with external data and business processes.

Hyperion Hub (formerly Essbase Interoperability Services) ensures consistency in performance measures across the enterprise and include shared application metadata, and workflow/process management, reusable, documented definitions of dimensions, hierarchies, calculations and multilevel security/access privileges.

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