Hyperion Customers Gain Performance Visibility into Operational and Financial Data through Interactive Dashboards

Information Management Online, March 4, 2005

With new innovations that improve visibility into financial and operational performance, dashboards are increasingly becoming a "must have" for companies committed to high performance.  Hyperion, a leading provider of business performance management software, is at the front of this charge with new, interactive dashboards that are easy to use and personalize, and that offer an unrivaled ability for even novice users to drill deep into source data to find the root cause of a problem or variance. Hyperion dashboards are fueled by the Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform, and a solution that seamlessly integrates management reporting with advanced analytics and includes Hyperion Master Data Management (MDM) Server, a technology only available from Hyperion.

At the heart of the Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform offering is Hyperion Performance Suite 8.3, a comprehensive and easy-to-use approach to dashboards and management reporting.  Hyperion Performance Suite 8.3 delivers information and insight to all corners of the enterprise, from strategy to operations and to all classes of users. Hyperion Performance Suite 8.3 also includes the first wizard-driven dashboard builder that enables business users to develop cost-effective, interactive and personalized dashboards that require no programming. 

The secret to Hyperion's easy-to-build and easy-to-use dashboards is a "drag and drop" dashboard builder wizard. With the wizard, even novice users can quickly build their own dashboards with no coding and no support from IT. Improvements to Hyperion's management reporting technology also include its availability on Intel Itanium 64-bit processors running on the HP-UX operating system from HP. This results in support for even more users, greater scalability and further improved performance.

The advanced analytics of Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform remain powerful for both financial and line of business users. Hyperion Essbase 7X, a highly scalable analytic engine, supports management reporting with interactive analysis that allows customers to drill deep into data to easily provide simplified reports that scale throughout the enterprise. Hyperion's advanced analytic engine is specially optimized to handle the very large operational data sets common in retail and telecommunications industries. The results of these reports and analysis are easily accessible through Hyperion dashboards.

Hyperion Master Data Management (MDM) Server, a new addition to the Hyperion BI offering, helps customers synchronize the many different sources of data that are found in many enterprises.  With Hyperion Master Data Management (MDM) Server, advanced analytics are even easier to manage, as it synchronizes master data across financial and analytic applications, as well as transactional systems.

Through master data management, Hyperion provides its customers an easy-to-use solution for maintaining consistency and integrity of dimensions, hierarchies and business rules. These companies also want to ensure that continuous changes in their businesses are accurately and quickly reflected in their management reporting, which is accomplished through master data management. As a result, Hyperion customers are reporting increased efficiencies, greater collaboration, clarity around a single version of the truth and higher performance.

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