Hyperion Global User Community Gathers at Industry's Premier Event fo

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
    Solutions 2005

    NEW ORLEANS & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2005--More than 4,000 customers, partners and industry experts are expected to gather today at Solutions 2005, Hyperion's (Nasdaq:HYSL) annual global conference. The April 10-13 conference, focused on helping companies achieve performance visibility and greater profitability, is the world's premier event for Business Performance Management. This year's event, taking place in New Orleans, will highlight the release of Hyperion Applications Suite 4, growing customer momentum around the Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform and exciting future innovations in Business Performance Management.
    Customers attending Solutions 2005 will see a new approach to management reporting delivered through the easiest-to-use and implement dashboards. They will also see demonstrations of new products designed to help them streamline their businesses with dynamic planning, strategically forecast and model changes within their organizations, and achieve greater accountability in the face of stringent compliance regulations.
    "Planning, forecasting, reporting and tracking performance extends beyond the CFO's office," said Rich Clayton, vice president of product marketing for Hyperion. "In fact, companies dealing with a myriad of challenges including regulatory requirements, fragmented systems, complex environments and limited budgets demand a single, enterprise-wide view of their organizations.
    "Hyperion Business Performance Management software empowers our customers to overcome these hurdles. If they need dynamic planning, we can deliver it. If they need management reporting that can retrieve data from a relational or multidimensional data source, we can deliver it. If they need interactive dashboards that can be created by even novice non-IT users, we can deliver it. If our customers need to achieve performance visibility, we can deliver it."

    Hyperion Sets the Business Performance Management Bar

    In separate announcements today, Hyperion is introducing new and improved versions of its market leading applications -- already the industry's favorite by a three-to-one margin over the next closest competitor -- called Hyperion Applications Suite 4. Hyperion is also highlighting the success of the Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform and is featuring a new innovation for master data management, which is "the secret sauce" for managing complex change in dynamic organizations.

    Hyperion Applications Suite 4: Market-Leading Applications

    The new Applications Suite 4 is a significant step toward making Business Performance Management easier to achieve and deploy across the enterprise, delivering a unified environment for enterprise planning, reporting and analysis with seamless integration and navigation across applications.

    Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform: Powerful Analytics for Management Reporting and Dashboards

    The Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform boasts a new approach to management reporting that seamlessly blends financial and operational reporting with advanced analytics, and empowers dynamic planning and forecasting, improved confidence in financial reporting and more strategic modeling.

    Hyperion Master Data Management Server: The Synchronicity Secret Sauce

    Hyperion is the only Business Performance Management company to offer a master data management solution that allows customers to synchronize the many different sources of data that are found -- and constantly change -- throughout the enterprise. Hyperion's offering uniquely links analytic, Business Performance Management and enterprise data, saving countless resources in manual alignment and providing faster, reliable data access as business managers need it.

    Customers and Partners Laud Hyperion's Business Performance Management Advances

    Gulf States Paper Corporation, one of America's premier forest products companies, has been using Hyperion Business Performance Management software for more than two years. The company implemented Hyperion to transform its planning process, enabling driver-based revenue and cost calculations, more frequent forecasting cycles, simplified consolidations and enhanced allocations.
    "By leveraging the advanced analytics, reporting, planning and scorecarding offered by Hyperion Business Performance Management software, we have achieved greater insight into the business for not only our executives, but process owners across functions, ensuring accountability," said Ray Thornton, manager of applications development for Gulf States Paper Corporation. "This solution has allowed us to consolidate, report and analyze information across all business units, enhancing our ability to more strategically look at our business and turn these discoveries into actionable plans that improve our overall performance."
    Hyperion's partnership with IBM enables customers to predict or anticipate problems before they impact the bottom line.
    "Variable economic, competitive, regulatory and customer demands, along with operational disruptions, create enormous performance challenges," said Beth Smith, vice president of Business Performance Management, emerging business opportunities, for IBM. "Hyperion's Business Performance Management enables companies to not only see their entire businesses in real-time but also predict how current trends will affect future performance."

    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).

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