Hyperion
Background
Hyperion (Oracle) is a veteran in business intelligence market, both as IMRS (founded, 1981, Stamford, CT) and Arbor Software (founded, 1990, Sunnyvale, CA). An early focus in Finance allowed Hyperion to build an enviable market position – they are the leader in market share, functionality and ability to handle complex Finance needs. In 2007, Gartner placed Hyperion in its “Leader” quadrant for both Business Intelligence Platforms and Corporate Performance Management.
Hyperion was acquired by Oracle in 2007. Oracle quickly declared almost the entire Hyperion suite as Strategic while working effectively on significantly expanding sales.
Oracle Hyperion Essbase – to model complex business scenarios use Hyperion® SystemTM 9 BI+TM Essbase AnalyticsTM (Essbase Analytics) software and perform sophisticated analysis at the speed of thought. With best-in-class interfaces, Essbase Analytics delivers meaningful insights that are easy to interpret and understand even by non-technical users. For managing finance or any other business area in your company, Essbase Analytics can deliver all the analysis you require either through a single, stand-alone deployment that fully utilizes data from your enterprise data sources, or as the foundation for custom or packaged BPM solutions.
Highlights
• Innovative visual interface
• Sophisticated calculation engine with over 100 pre-built financial and statistical functions
• Multi-User write back enables forecasting and scenario modeling activities
• Multiple data storage options (Multidimensional, Hybrid, Relational)
• Fully published APIs for custom analytic application development (C, VB, Java, XMLA)
Oracle Hyperion OBIEE Interactive Reporting – (formerly Brio Intelligence Suite) provides executives, business users and analysts with the most intuitive user-directed query and analysis capabilities available today. This business intelligence software delivers these capabilities through an intuitive and highly interactive interface that lets users design their own dashboards, then quickly monitor and navigate to relevant information. It’s easy to deploy, provides access to data locked in transactional systems, and leverages information from your existing data stores to deliver unequaled business intelligence reporting.
Highlights
• Easy, wizard-based development of graphical, interactive dashboards
• Deliver multiple levels of viewing and analysis in a single report
• Gain rapid, broad user adoption with easy-to-use thin-client interface
• Pre-defined and “drill anywhere” analysis
• Direct support for heterogeneous data sources
DB Analytics first started working with Interactive Reporting in 2001 and Essbase in 2002. Both product families have subsequently been deployed in a number of successful BI projects. DB Analytics has extensive operational experience as well as consulting experience with the Hyperion product range.
