Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server On New IBM UNIX Server Powers Enterprise-Class Analytic Applications

Business Wire, Sept 23, 1999

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1999--

IBM RS/6000 S80 Server Extends Performance,

Scalability and Analytical Power of Market-Leading

Cross-Platform OLAP Server

Extending Hyperion's leadership in open, cross-platform enterprise OLAP (online analytical processing) applications, the company today announced support for the new versions of IBM's RS/6000 S80 server and AIX operating system.

Customers can leverage Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server, coupled with the significant performance enhancements in the RS/6000 S80 and the workload management improvements in AIX, to drive a broad range of analytic applications in areas such as e-business analytics, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) analytics and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

"By combining Hyperion Essbase with the RS/6000 S80, Hyperion is reinforcing its commitment to offering customers an open, cross-platform enterprise-class OLAP solution for analytic applications such as product and customer profitability, compensation planning and marketing campaign analysis," said Don MacTavish, director of OLAP product marketing at Hyperion. "With the performance, scalability and analytical power of Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server on the RS/6000 S80, thousands of managers and analysts across the enterprise can leverage large volumes of data in e-Business, CRM and ERP systems to drive strategic business decisions."

As the current world record holders for the industry-standard APB-1 R2 (Analytical Processing Benchmark-1 R2) OLAP benchmark, Hyperion and IBM have proven the enterprise-class performance and scalability of Hyperion Essbase on the RS/6000. The audited APB-1 R2 benchmark results from Hyperion and IBM demonstrate a real-world sales and marketing analysis OLAP application scaling to thousands of concurrent users achieving instantaneous query response times. More information is available at http://www.hyperion.com.

"The RS/6000 S80's breakthrough performance and new features of AIX offers customers powerful enterprise class e-business solutions," said Debra Thompson, vice president of product management and segment solutions, IBM RS/6000. "The combination of Hyperion's software and IBM's RS/6000 servers running AIX provides a high performance solution that is critical for customers seeking to optimize their information systems and drive better business decisions."

About IBM RS/6000

More than 850,000 IBM RS/6000 systems have been shipped to over 125,000 commercial and technical customers around the world. The RS/6000 family of computers feature IBM RISC-based microprocessors and run AIX, IBM's UNIX operating system. RS/6000 delivers the industry's most complete UNIX offerings by combining applications with hardware, software, service and support for unmatched high availability, scalability, system management, and performance. More information is available at http://www.ibm.com/servers.> About Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server

In use today by more than 2,500 companies, Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server is a strategic analytical platform optimized for enterprise management reporting, analysis and planning applications. It supports multi-user read/write access, large-scale data capacity, robust analytical calculations, rich attribute analyses, and sophisticated OLAP queries and delivers it all in a web-centric architecture across multiple open hardware platforms. Hyperion Essbase provides intuitive multidimensional data navigation and consistent, rapid response times in network-centric computing environments. The world record holder for the fastest performance in the industry standard APB-1 OLAP benchmark, Hyperion Essbase delivers speed of thought response times to thousands of users, leveraging hundreds of analytic applications and analyzing hundreds of terabytes of information.

Hyperion Essbase allows corporations to deliver analytic applications directly from operational systems or within an overall enterprise data warehousing architecture. Analytic applications commonly implemented with Hyperion Essbase include e-Business Analytics, Enterprise Performance Management, CRM Analytics, Manufacturing Analytics, Demand Management Analytics, HRM Analytics and Industry Solutions. More than 300 Hyperion alliance partners, including Baan, IBM, Lawson Software, PeopleSoft, ShowCase and Walker, leverage Hyperion Essbase as a strategic enterprise OLAP platform for analytic applications.

About Hyperion

The worldwide analytic application software leader, Hyperion Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq:HYSL) gives today's knowledge workers the "freedom to succeed" with software, services and partner offerings that help them understand and optimize their businesses. More than 6,000 organizations worldwide use Hyperion's analytic application software products, which include market-leading packaged analytic applications, and OLAP server technology and tools. Hyperion's customers include more than 60 of the Fortune 100 and more than 40 of the Financial Times European Top 100 companies. In addition, more than 300 leading data warehousing, OLAP tools, services, ERP, packaged application, and platform alliance partners extend the value of Hyperion's products and services to deliver maximum flexibility and choice to customers. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company has offices in 26 countries. Information on Hyperion's products and services is available at http://www.hyperion.com, info@hyperion.com, or 1-800-286-8000.