Hyperion and TopDown Consulting Showcase Business Intelligence Innovat

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2005--Hyperion (Nasdaq:HYSL), the leading provider of Business Performance Management software, will showcase Business Intelligence innovation by TopDown Consulting, a recognized leader in the deployment of high-quality Business Performance Management solutions and Hyperion Preferred Partner, during a Web event on May 5, 2005. During the event, TopDown will discuss its own solution that leverages Hyperion's Business Intelligence Platform to support business strategies and streamline post-acquisition reporting for its customers. Although the solution has been successful for several TopDown customers, one customer's specific implementation has resulted in near real-time visibility into business performance across the enterprise, as well as radically accelerated financial reporting processes within existing IT infrastructure constraints.
    "TopDown's innovative Business Intelligence solution addresses the needs of many of its customers who demand the ability to work efficiently to achieve overall strategic objectives," said Rich Clayton, vice president of product marketing for Hyperion.
    When business managers contemplate a major business acquisition, they consider many factors: impact on revenue and costs, duplications in product lines and customers and conflicts in distribution strategies. No matter how prepared, however, they cannot always fully anticipate the potential enormity of impact of such acquisitions on IT and financial reporting operations.
    "M&A activities, government regulations and other changes in the business environment often put new, challenging and totally unanticipated pressures on an organization's financial and management reporting environments," said TopDown founder and president Juan Porter. "Our experience has shown, however, that with a combination of Hyperion technology, world-class engineering, and clear understanding of each client's specific needs and objectives, these challenges can be met with certainty and consistency."
    Such was the case when a leading Internet provider planned a strategic acquisition to enhance its global brand and grow its partner base. However, as wise as the acquisition was from a strategic perspective, it had an unintended consequence for the company's financial reporting systems. The acquired company's business structure added a new geographic dimension and hundreds of additional cost centers to the reporting environment.
    "Companies of this size rely on real-time insights into their business and often need to capture aggregated financials many times a day during critical reporting periods," said Porter. "It was essential that we find a way to handle the new level of complexity that the acquisition had created for our customer."
    TopDown was called in to investigate a variety of potential solution scenarios, including upgrading to Hyperion's next-generation Business Intelligence Platform. The upgraded platform's innovative aggregate storage architecture radically accelerated the consolidation of diverse financial data from Oracle and other ERP applications, bringing processing time down from 10-plus hours to just a matter of minutes without any additional investment in server hardware.
    "With this solution, we were able to provide the near real-time visibility our customer needed throughout its enterprise -- despite the increased scale and complexity of the reporting environment," Porter said. "We were also able to eliminate monthly database re-structuring and increase total availability for more than 300 end users across the company who take advantage of the global advanced financial reporting environment."
    For more information, or to register for the Web event, please visit http://livemeeting.viewcentral.com/reg/hyperion/topdown.

    About Hyperion

    Hyperion Solutions Corporation is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 10,000 customers -- including 91 of the Fortune 100 -- rely on Hyperion software to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance. Hyperion combines the most complete set of interoperable applications with the leading Business Intelligence platform to support and create Business Performance Management solutions. A network of more than 600 partners provides the company's innovative and specialized solutions and services.
    Named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For 2004, Hyperion employs approximately 2,500 people in 20 countries. Distributors represent Hyperion in an additional 25 countries. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Hyperion generated annual revenues of $622 million for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2004. Hyperion is traded under the Nasdaq symbol HYSL. For more information, please visit www.hyperion.com, www.hyperion.com/contactus or call 800-286-8000 (U.S. only).

    About TopDown Consulting

    TopDown Consulting, Inc. specializes in delivering real world experience and personalized expertise to ensure that clients achieve measurable success from their business performance management solutions. A recognized industry leader, TopDown works with companies worldwide to create strategic vision, define goals, implement solutions, develop client experts, and quantify the success of every project.
    TopDown consultants are renowned for their depth of financial and business process experience, and the pride they take in making clients successful. Services include business strategy, project management, implementation, optimization, technical strategy, training, and support. With TopDown's established methodology, clients receive tangible benefits and realize the best possible return on their software investment.
    TopDown Consulting, founded by Juan Porter, is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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CONTACT: Hyperion Solutions Corporation Jennifer Leggio, 408-588-8473 Jennifer_Leggio@Hyperion.com

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