Hyperion Extends Support for New IBM RS/6000

Hyperion, a leader in business analysis software, reinforced its commitment to helping global organizations leverage enterprise-class business analysis capabilities across the widest-range of operating systems and server platforms by extending support for the new copper-based UNIX servers announced separately by IBM.

Supporting industrial-strength business analysis capabilities powered by the market-leading Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server 6, the new IBM RS/6000 models M80, H80 and F80 provide a highly scalable, reliable platform to address the growing number of organizations needing to analyze data on customers, products and operations across all departments in large enterprises. The combination of Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server 6 on RS/6000 extends these sophisticated capabilities to a variety of business analysis applications, such as call center analysis, Web site analysis and supply chain analysis. These applications help organizations strengthen relationships with customers and partners, optimize online marketing and e-commerce initiatives and improve overall business performance.

"As the leading provider of enterprise OLAP solutions, Hyperion sees a strong demand for our Hyperion Essbase OLAP technology on UNIX, especially when organizations want to deploy OLAP as part of a data warehouse project or support large communities of users accessing business analysis applications over the Web," said Steve Fioretti, vice president of marketing at Hyperion. "Our customers rely on Hyperion Essbase for enterprise-scale business analysis, and IBM's new RS/6000 copper servers provide the high performance and scalability they need to drive their strategic business decisions."

"The performance results of Hyperion Essbase on the new copper RS/6000 midrange servers demonstrate IBM's commitment to delivering world class UNIX servers," said Mike Kerr, vice president of Web Server products, IBM. "Customers requiring high performance applications at an attractive price will be attracted to Hyperion Essbase on IBM's new copper UNIX server."

Hyperion is also reinforcing its commitment to IBM's AIX/Project Monterey, an enterprise-volume, shrink-wrapped, UNIX operating system for both RISC and Intel's Itanium (IA-64) processors. The OS uses technologies from the IBM AIX operating system, SCO UnixWare and NUMA-Q's Dynix/ptx enterprise technology.

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. Additional information about Hyperion Essbase is available at www.hyperion.com/essbase olap.cfm.

About Hyperion

A leader in business analysis software, 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 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 350 leading eBusiness, 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 www.hyperion.com, info@hyperion.com, or 800-286-8000.