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What is Hyperion?

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Hyperion is a database that allows you to access the data

very quickly. The company was bought by Oracle in 2007
and Oracle has continued to improve the product.
The fancy name for Hyperion is Business intelligence and it aims to support better
business decision-making. Thus a BI system can be called a decision support
system (DSS). Though the term business intelligence is sometimes used as a synonym
for competitive intelligence, because they both support decision making, BI uses
technologies, processes, and applications to analyze mostly internal, structured data
and business processes while competitive intelligence gathers, analyzes and
disseminates information with a topical focus on company competitors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Solutions

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Hyperion has 3 main products, although there are

many peripheral software products:
Essbase

Hyperion Planning
HFM (Hyperion Financial Management)

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Essbase is a multidimensional database management system (MDBMS)

that provides a multidimensional database platform upon which to build analytic
applications. Essbase, whose name derives from "Extended Spread Sheet dataBASE",
began as a product of Arbor Software, which merged with Hyperion Software in 1998.
The database researcher E. F. Codd coined the term "on-line analytical processing"
(OLAP) in a whitepaper that set out twelve rules for analytic systems (an allusion to his
earlier famous set of twelve rules defining the relational model). This whitepaper,
published by Computerworld, was somewhat explicit in its reference to Essbase
features, and when it was later discovered that Codd had been sponsored by Arbor
Software, Computerworld withdrew the paper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essbase
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/tutorial/hyp/EssbaseStudio_11.1.2_Overview/LessonIndex.htm

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Hyperion Planning is a budgeting and forecasting application from

Oracle formerly owned by Hyperion Solutions Corporation. Hyperion Planning
uses Essbase (a multidimensional database product sold by Hyperion) as a
database and calculation engine, a relational repository for business logic, and
includes a web-based user interface.
The software allows you to add planning or forecast data to actuals. You can use
Web Forms to add the planning data or use the Excel SmartView tool. Most of
the Hyperion reporting tools work great with Planning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essbase
http://download.oracle.com/technology/products/planning/demos/pln1112overview/Introduction.htm

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Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) is a comprehensive,

Web-based application that delivers global financial consolidation, reporting and
analysis in a single, highly scalable software solution.
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, part of the Oracle EPM Suite, supports
the collection, consolidation and reporting of financial results in multiple GAAPs
as well as IFRS, and the reconciliation of differences among the various standards.
Hyperion Financial Management can be deployed quickly to integrate data from
multiple Oracle and non-Oracle transactional systems, provide top-side reporting
that conforms to IFRS requirements, and help organizations make the transition to
IFRS.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/financial-management/demos/hfm-overview-part1-188794.html

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Oracle is the leader in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),

unifying Performance Management and Business Intelligence (BI), supporting a
broad range of strategic, financial and operational management processes.
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is an American multinational computer
technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware
systems and enterprise software products particularly database management
systems. Headquartered inRedwood Shores, California, United States and
employing 105,000 people worldwide as of 1 July 2010, it has enlarged its share
of the software market through organic growth and through a number of highprofile acquisitions. By 2007 Oracle had the third-largest software revenue,
after Microsoft and IBM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation

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A Typical Hyperion Set-up

Planning

Essbase

HFM

Analysis & Reporting

Financial
Reporting

Web
Analysis

Workspace

Spreadsheet
Add-ins

Smartview

MS Office

MS Office

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Financial Reporting

Financial Reporting consists of the Financial Reporting Studio and Workspace. Studio is used
to create and edit reports, while Workspace is used to view and print reports.

Financial Reporting generates highly formatted, book-quality financial and management reports.
It increases the operational efficiencies of organizations that need to create and distribute
GAAP-compliant financial reports and other highly formatted management reports.

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Web Analysis
Web Analysis provides executives and analysts the most intuitive, user-directed,
Web-based analysis capabilities available. It has never been more important for
organizations to turn information into insights on which they can take action
and generate immediate business value.

Benefits of Web Analysis are:

-Spot trends and issues early with graphical, highly intuitive dashboards
-Navigate and drill through multidimensional data to understand root causes

-Gain fast adoption through ease-of-use and minimal training

- Sophisticated analysis not possible with other business intelligence systems

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Excel SmartView Tool

The same application of Hyperion Smart View for Office

provides an Excel interface to Hyperion Financial
Management (HFM) and to Essbase. It enables end-users to
create Ad Hoc reports in Excel and to import reports from
Financial Reporting into PowerPoint, Word, Excel or
Outlook. Functionality of Smart View is listed below:
- Ad Hoc analysis in Excel
- Function Builder to retrieve and send data
- Import reports from Financial Reporting & Web Analysis
to PowerPoint, Word and Excel
- Access HFM data forms (optional)
- Submit data (optional)
- Calculate, translate and consolidate data (optional)

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