Hyperion Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Analyst Firm Report on Corporate Performance Management Suites

Business Wire, Dec 6, 2006

Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute Cited as Criteria for Evaluation

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Hyperion (Nasdaq Global Select:HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management (BPM) software, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has placed Hyperion in the leaders quadrant in its "Magic Quadrant for CPM Suites, 2006."1

The recently released report lists Hyperion among a field of 16 vendors. Gartner weighed Hyperion's completeness of vision and its ability to execute in determining its position in the Magic Quadrant, which uses multiple criteria to characterize companies in the leaders, challengers, visionaries and niche players quadrants.

"Hyperion's strong brand awareness with CFOs and other senior executives means it is present in virtually every CPM suite evaluation," said Godfrey Sullivan, chairman and CEO of Hyperion. "Now more than ever, Hyperion is devoted to being the management system for today's enterprise. As we build on the success of Hyperion System 9 with new applications and capabilities, we will work hard to earn that market position again and again."

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Hyperion

Hyperion Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq Global Select:HYSL) is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 12,000 customers in 90 countries rely on Hyperion both for insight into current business performance and to drive performance improvement. With Hyperion software, businesses collect, analyze and share data across the organization, linking strategies to plans and monitoring execution against goals. Hyperion integrates financial management applications with a business intelligence platform into a single management system for the global enterprise. For more information, contact us at http://www.hyperion.com/company/contact/salesrep.cfm?CMP=PR_US.

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1 Gartner Research "Magic Quadrant for CPM Suites, 2006," Nigel Rayner, December 1, 2006