Arrow Asia Pac Stays Ahead of the Game with Hyperion® Essbase R

Arrow Asia Pac Ltd. is a subsidiary of Arrow Electronics, one of the world' s largest distributors of electronic components and computer products. The global network serves more than 600 suppliers and 175,000 manufacturers in 40 countries. The regional network has 35 sales offices, two primary distribution centers and four local warehouses in 11 countries across Asia Pacific.

Air Liquide Improves Financial and Marketing Analysis with Hyperion Solutions

Air Liquide is a global producer of industrial and medical gases, operating in 60 countries through 125 subsidiaries. It employs more than 28,000 staff worldwide. Air Liquide supplies oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and many other gases to such varied industries as steel and iron manufacture, refining, chemicals, glass, electronics, paper pulp, metallurgy, food processing, healthcare and aerospace.

Finding the Right Solution: OCLC's Requirements

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.(OCLC) is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC has offices in four U.S.states; Chambly, Quebec, Canada; and Birmingham, England; and has more than 1,100 employees. More than 37,000 libraries in 67 countries and territories use OCLC's services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, and preserve books and other library materials from the largest bibliographic database in the world. The popularity of the Internet has expanded OCLC's ability to interact with its customers.

Hyperion Essbase Allows Bali to Save Time and Resources

Bali Company needed to have consistent, accessible financial data for sales reporting, production planning, forecasting,and marketing activities. Its system consisted of spreadsheet reports that were not integrated, so data often varied between departments, creating confusion. Separate instances of recompiled, even re-keyed data, complicated matters when strategic business decisions needed to be made

Coty Transforms Finance Organization from Scorekeepers to Change Agents

Hyperion Financial Management offers a centralized approach to comprehensive financial management that unifies all decision-makers across the enterprise leading to faster business cycle times, and greater company agility to help manage the bottom line.

Robert Mondavi Improves Analysis and Forecasting with Hyperion

Robert Mondavi Winery, one of the world's preeminent producers of fine wines, manages operations in the United States, Chile, Italy, and France, and exports wine to more than 90 countries.Robert Mondavi deployed Hyperion Pillar in 1996 for budgeting and forecasting. Now, its finance and production managers use Hyperion Pillar to generate annual plans and compare actual-to-budget data year round. "Hyperion Pillar makes a huge difference in our budgeting and forecasting," explained Scott Smith, senior financial analyst at Robert Mondavi. "Now, we can run multiple budget consolidations during a single cycle and correct problems early on. Hyperion Pillar gives us an accurate view of where the company is going and how we're getting there."

Thames Water copes with massive changes to financial

Thames Water, the world's third largest water company, had to meet a number of highly complex financial reporting changes following its acquisition by RWE, whilst at the same time handling activities around two acquisitions and a company restructure. They achieved their goals with help from Hyperion Consulting.

The Boston Beer Company Streamlines Finances with Hyperion Planning

Boston Beer looked at software products from a number of companies and narrowed the selection to two. The company decided on Hyperion Planning because it contained all the requisite features, as well as a user-friendly front-end and a robust back-end to address finance and IT requirements. The implementation was the fastest to date – less than six weeks – and required a minimal number of consulting hours. There are currently 60 users deployed over the Web, eight in finance and the rest in sales, and their initial feedback is positive.

American Multi-Cinema Uses Hyperion Enterprise to Put Information In Decision-makers' Hands

According to Gunzel, Hyperion Enterprise benefits AMC greatly. The company has simplified data collection as well as sped up its weekly closings and report production. "Hyperion Enterprise also gives users throughout the company, from analysts to the chief financial officer, the ability to access information themselves and perform analysis on information that pertains to their roles in the company," she said.

STAR Sharpens its Corporate View with

During the evaluation process, we found that Hyperion brings a different point of view on how data can be interpreted and analyzed. This new perspective is even beyond what we expected," said Fung.

WesCorp Banks on Hyperion To Boost Profitability

WesCorp purchased Hyperion Business Performance Management software, impressed with the product functionality and the Hyperion personnel. It found the sales team that conducted the demo to be the best prepared and most supportive, demonstrating an understanding of its specific needs. Hyperion Services helped WesCorp deploy Hyperion® Business Modeling and Hyperion® Essbase® XTD, and since then, the company has realized a greater understanding of its costs, as well as member, business unit and product profitability.

Redesigning Allstate’s Life Insurance Process with Hyperion

Using Hyperion Activity Based Management to model and analyze operational processes, Allstate is able to identify and make the operational improvements needed to effect this change.

At the Forefront of Technology in Education

Finamore has received unanimous support from his colleagues within the statutory colleges. Now, he is reaching out to the University administration in hopes of bringing Hyperion into the office of the vice president for planning and budget for trustee and thirdly budget reporting. "We have received a commitment on the thirdly budget reporting, so this represents a big win for us. This office has agreed to look at working on the high-level web stuff with us as well," Finamore explained.

Analytic Applications Improve Business Processes, Complement SAP

Using Hyperion Enterprise, DUMC aligns its accounts and reports by category: education, biomedical research, and medical care. "Now, for example, if members of the board ask how much corporate-sponsored research is being conducted in the medical school, they can have an answer in two minutes," said Gower. "It used to take several hours to answer the same question."

Newmont Uses Hyperion Enterprise to Extend its Mincom Systems

Prior to implementing Hyperion Enterprise, "We used Lotus and Excel to do our month-end financial reporting," explained Bowman. "Santa Fe was doing the same thing. Since we've started using Hyperion Enterprise, it's a matter of a half-hour at most, and everything is right there for us. All the statements are right there; it's really been a timesaver. Now, it's pretty slick for us." Another important improvement has been easy access to current data.

Hyperion Enterprise Empowers Jebsen & Jessen with

Jebsen & Jessen experienced immediate and powerful results. Management information became more reliable, consistent and accessible than the company had ever known.

Hyperion Provides Improved Sales and Financial Analysis for

"Prior to using Hyperion Essbase, we had only four users in North America using an Access database for corporate finance reporting," Burke said. "In contrast, Hyperion Essbase now allows us to provide real-time shared information to over 75 international users in our four geographic sales areas: the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Japan."

Lexis-Nexis Gets a Global View with Hyperion Enterprise

LEXIS-NEXIS uses Hyperion Enterprise to consolidate human resources information and statistics. Data is gathered from PeopleSoft HRMS and other sources into Hyperion Enterprise, and then delivered to a Microsoft Excel-based metrics application.

Why Adecco trusts on Hyperion Business

Hyperion, the global leader in business performance management software, creates solutions that help companies measure performance and drive profitability. Hyperion's Business Performance Management Suite of packaged and tailored applications and its open, integrating business performance management platform, Hyperion Essbase XTD, enable companies to set goals, model and plan performance, monitor and report key results, analyze underlying business drivers and anticipate future performance of core business activities.

Finding the Right Solution: OCLC's Requirements

"With Hyperion Pillar, OCLC's budget has become a true management tool," said Pflaum. "Managers can now take ownership of their data and efficiently and productively use it in day-to-day operations. Hyperion Pillar makes the difference between just using the budget within finance and using the budget for the whole company. From a financial standpoint, Hyperion Pillar provides us with a powerful, proactive management tool that increases our productivity."

Arrow Asia Pac Stays

The merits of Hyperion Essbase go beyond merely enhancing efficiency and saving time. With instant access to financial data, executives have more visibility to different levels of business. They are able to monitor business performance by sales revenue, profitability, staff performance, accounting ratio and market performance.

UTStarcom Supports Rapid Sales and Earnings Growth with Hyperion Planning

Hyperion Planning's best practices keep everyone connected to the planning and budgeting process. Employees can more clearly identify abnormalities and correct them when necessary.