Temtec Supports Hyperion's Advancements in Analytic Technology With Hyperion Essbase 7X

Temtec has announced its support for Hyperion Essbase 7X, a solution introduced today by Hyperion (NASDAQ: HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management software. Designed for financial and line of business users alike, Hyperion Essbase 7X is a powerful and highly scalable analytic engine that enables traditional financial analysis as well as business analysis across sales, marketing, supply chain, logistics, human resources and other facets of the business.

Temtec's Executive Viewer product is a self-service analysis, reporting and visualisation tool that allows non-technical staff to get fast and intuitive access to the analytical power provided by the OLAP solutions. It extends the analytical capabilities of Hyperion's Essbase 7X to more people, allowing them to effectively access information and better monitor and manage business performance.

Essbase 7X increases the speed of analytics by as much as 100 times that of prior versions of Essbase, providing sub-second response time to thousands of concurrent users and significantly improving the analytic needs of all types of finance and business users. It is also 20 times more scalable than previous versions of Essbase, offering significant advances in calculation capabilities and storage efficiency. Temtec's Executive Viewer extends the reach of Essbase 7X, providing a powerful user-friendly front end that gives non-technical users access to the rich analytical functionality offered by Essbase 7X.

"As a Preferred Technology Partner of Hyperion, and winner of its Worldwide Technology Partner Award for 2004, Temtec warmly welcomes the new features offered in the latest release of Essbase," says Alan Parker, Sales and Marketing Director for Temtec. "Executive Viewer builds on these powerful features, simplifying data analysis and making it accessible to users at all levels. The combined functionality provided by Essbase 7X and Executive Viewer will allow companies to leverage a competitive advantage through having business critical information at their fingertips."

About Temtec

Temtec provides self-service analytical and reporting software giving non-technical users the ability to analyse business critical information at the speed of management thinking for better informed decision making. It's key product, Executive Viewer, has been designed to optimize user access to information stored on multi-dimensional OLAP databases and includes connectivity to Hyperion Essbase, IBM DB2 OLAP Server, Microsoft Analysis Services, Applix TM1 and SAP Business Warehouse. Temtec is a preferred partner of Hyperion and a Golf Certified partner of Microsoft. Temtec has a worldwide customer-base of more than 25,000 users in 250 organisations in 50 countries. Temtec's offices are located in The Netherlands, USA, United Kingdom, and France providing personalised support in English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. Further information, as well as a live demonstration of Executive Viewer, is available at www.temtec.com.

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