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Hyperion Solutions

Hyperion Solutions Corporation was a software company located in Santa Clara, California, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2007. Many of its products were targeted at the business intelligence (BI) and business performance management markets, and as of 2013 were developed and sold as Oracle Hyperion products. Hyperion Solutions was formed from the merger of Hyperion Software (formerly IMRS) and Arbor Software in 1998.

Not to be confused with the Amiga-focused software company Hyperion Entertainment or the Hyperion computer.

Traded as

(Nasdaq: HYSL)

Software

1981

2006

Acquired by Oracle Corporation

Santa Clara, California, United States

Godfrey R. Sullivan
(President and CEO)

Business intelligence tools
Business performance management tools

1981 - IMRS founded by Bob Thomson and Marco Arese

1983 - IMRS launches financial and management consolidation software called "Micro Control"

1985 - IMRS hires Jim Perakis as CEO; he remains in this position during growth from $1M to almost $300M

[1]

1991 - IMRS becomes a public company and launches a Windows-based successor to 'Micro Control' called 'Hyperion'

1992 - Arbor Software ships first version of Online Analytical processing OLAP software

Essbase

1995 - Due to the success of the "Hyperion" product IMRS changes name to "Hyperion Software Corporation" and the name of the product is changed to "Hyperion Enterprise." Arbor becomes a company[2]

publicly held

1997 - Arbor acquires Appsource

[3]

1998 - Hyperion Software merges with Arbor and the combined company is renamed Hyperion Solutions

[4]

1999 - Jeffrey Rodek named as Hyperion Chairman and CEO of Hyperion. Hyperion acquires Sapling Corporation (Enterprise Performance Management applications)

2001 - Godfrey Sullivan is named Hyperion President and COO

2003 - Hyperion acquires and The Alcar Group

Brio Technology

2004 - Hyperion names Jeffrey Rodek Executive Chairman; Godfrey Sullivan President and CEO

2005 - Hyperion acquires Razza Solutions ()[5] and appoints Northdoor as a reseller in the UK and Ireland.[6]

Master data management

2006 - Hyperion acquires UpStream (Financial Data Quality Management)

[7]

2006 - Hyperion acquires Beatware (Data visualization for Web and Mobile Devices)

[8]

2007 - Hyperion acquired Decisioneering (Crystal Ball software).

[9]

Oracle Corporation announced on March 1, 2007 it had agreed to purchase Hyperion Solutions Corporation for $3.3 billion in cash.[10][11] The transaction was completed on April 18, 2007 and Hyperion now operates as a division of Oracle.[12] Oracle extended support for most Hyperion products (v11.1.2.x) to 2018.[13] Hyperion BI tools were bundled into Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition.

The consolidated big four "megavendors", which include Oracle Hyperion as well as BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, and Microsoft BI.[14]

SAP

The independent "pure-play" vendors, the largest being , Tableau, QlikView and SAS.[15]

MicroStrategy

Vendors in the business intelligence space are often categorized into:


BI market surveys and analyses include:

Essbase

Hyperion Intelligence and SQR Production Reporting (products acquired in 2003 takeover of )

Brio Technology

Hyperion Enterprise

Hyperion Planning

Hyperion Strategic Finance

Hyperion Financial Data Management

Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Architect

Hyperion Financial Close Management

Hyperion Account Reconciliation

Hyperion Disclosure Management

Hyperion Performance Scorecard

Hyperion Business Modelling

Hyperion Financial Management

Hyperion Master Data Management/Oracle Data Relationship Management

Hyperion Financial Reporting

Hyperion Web Analysis

Hyperion SmartView

Hyperion EPM Workspace

Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management

Hyperion System 9 BI+ (a combination of Interactive Reporting, SQR, Web Analysis, Financial Reporting, EPM Workspace and SmartView)

Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (also referred to as FDMEE, for Enterprise Edition)

Hyperion Tax Provision

Planning Budgeting Cloud Service

Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service

Hyperion software products included:

Official website

The Hyperion Developer Network

Hyperion Press Kit