Hyperion Solutions and IBM Expand Partnership

Hyperion, a global leader in analytic application software, announced a significant expansion to its global partnership agreement with IBM. Under the expanded partnership, IBM will include Hyperion's market-leading Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server technology within every copy of DB2(a) Universal Database Version 7, the industry's most powerful e-business data management solution. The announcement, made in conjunction with IBM's launch of DB2(a) Universal Database Version 7, signals a strategic commitment from both companies to extend sophisticated and highly scalable business analysis capabilities to all DB2 customers.

The solution, slated for availability from IBM later this year, will enable more than 40 million DB2 users from over 300,000 companies worldwide to leverage Hyperion Essbase, the market-leading, open, cross platform enterprise OLAP (online analytical processing) server, for a range of enterprise-wide business analysis applications in areas such as e-business analysis, customer relationship analysis, sales forecasting and management reporting. Hyperion Essbase will enable these customers to increase their return on e-business initiatives; strengthen customer, supplier and partner relationships; uncover revenue and profit opportunities; and improve overall business performance.

Under the existing partnership agreement, IBM also resells Hyperion's OLAP technology within IBM DB2 OLAP Server, a standalone product that integrates the Hyperion Essbase OLAP engine with IBM DB2. All DB2 Universal Database Version 7 customers will be able to elect to expand the number of users and deploy these OLAP capabilities across the extended enterprise. These solutions will enable DB2 customers to transform valuable data in e-business, CRM, supply chain and financial systems running on IBM DB2 into actionable information for strategic business decisions.

'Our expanded partnership with IBM opens up a massive global market opportunity for Hyperion, positioning hundreds of thousands of DB2 customers to transform information from e-business, CRM and other operational systems for strategic business analysis,' said Jeff Rodek, chairman and CEO of Hyperion. 'Hyperion's agreement with IBM further validates Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server's role as the de facto standard platform for business analysis across all departments and all industries.'

'IBM's new DB2 Universal Database is the world's first, fully integrated ebusiness database,' said Janet Perna, general manager, IBM Data Management Solutions. 'Our expanded agreement with Hyperion builds upon the proven market success of DB2 OLAP Server as a fundamental component of any successful business intelligence solution. This powerful combination provides customers with sophisticated analytics, broad application support, and a level of interactive performance beyond what traditional decision support systems can deliver.'

Availability

The beta release of DB2 Universal Database Version 7 is available now from IBM and can be downloaded at www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/v7/beta.

About Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server

In use today by more than 3,000 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. More than 350 Hyperion alliance partners, including Baan, IBM, Lawson Software, PeopleSoft, ShowCase and Walker, leverage Hyperion Essbase as a strategic enterprise OLAP platform for analytic applications.

Hyperion Essbase is currently available on HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, IBM AS/400, IBM S/390, Compaq Alpha NT, Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows 95/98 platforms. Hyperion plans to begin beta testing for Hyperion Essbase on Linux in the second calendar quarter 2000. More information on Hyperion Essbase is available at www.hyperion.com. Additional information about Hyperion Essbase is available at www.hyperion.com/essbaseolap.cfm.

About DB2 Universal Database

As the foundation for e-business, DB2 Universal Database is the industry's first multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system, strong enough to meet the demands of large corporations and flexible enough to serve medium-sized and small e-businesses. DB2 Universal Database combines integrated power for business intelligence, content management, enterprise information portals and e-business with industry-leading performance and reliability to drive the most demanding industry solutions. DB2 Universal Database together with Internet technology makes information easily accessible, available and secure. There are more than 40 million DB2 users from over 300,000 companies worldwide relying on IBM data management solutions. For more information please visit www.software.ibm.com/data.

About Hyperion

A worldwide analytic application software leader, Hyperion Solutions Corporation 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 marketleading 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 350 leading e-Business, data warehousing, OLAP tools, services, ERP, CRM, 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.

Contact Hyperion, Joanna McMillan 408-220-8075 joanna_mcmillan@hyperion.com.