Managing Business Performance For Greater Efficiency and Profitability- 
Hyperion Company Overview

A Climate Focused on Business Performance
Current economic and geopolitical uncertainties, along with unprecedented exposure to questionable corporate behavior, has influenced Wall Street and businesses to renew their focus on managing business performance for greater efficiency and profitability. This has sent ripples through companies grappling with increasing accountability to less-forgiving investors and more demanding customers.

The ability to better manage financial and non financial measures that affect a company's bottom line requires an increasing quantity and quality of information, along with the ability to report, analyze, strategize, model, plan and measure against that data. In addition, these functional capabilities need to be distributed more broadly across the enterprise to empower individuals to make complex and important decisions and take actions relevant to the areas they manage. And, varying groups and individuals within an organization need to work from the same sets of data and directives to ensure their individual activities consistently move the company in a single direction aligned with corporate goals.

This same economic climate driving the need for companies to better manage business performance is also driving the need to ensure that new technology investments extract the maximum value out of existing systems and provide a significant and strategic return. Corporations realize that their existing enterprise resource planning and other transactional systems have successfully automated routine tasks and generated volumes of data. Now, leveraging that data, business performance management is poised to help companies gain a clear understanding of corporate strategy, objectives and accountability, while proactively monitoring actions and performance against company targets and industry benchmarks.

The Power of Business Performance Management
By tying information, decisions, actions, and rewards to strategy, business performance management provides integrated performance information, brings order and understanding to complex organizations, and gives executives control over the entire enterprise, ultimately allowing them to drive business performance and profitability.

• Consolidate disparate data sources

• Align business strategies and goals

• Apply consistent metrics and processes

• Increase visibility

• Deliver the right information to the right people in the right form

Hyperion's business performance management solutions enable companies to measure performance and drive profitability by supporting enterprise wide collaboration to optimize all aspects of the business. Hyperion's technology and applications provide:

• The ability to formulate, monitor and execute strategy against corporate objectives.

• Pervasive use of information and management process at all levels of the enterprise - internal and external.

• Enhanced value of information from multiple business systems and teams

• Applications and construction capabilities that leverage Hyperion's integrating business intelligence (BI) platform to support common metrics, rules and workflow.

• The ability to connect business management activities across business performance management applications

Technology to Meet Evolving Business Requirements
One of Hyperion's strengths as a provider of business performance management solutions for the enterprise is that it has a winning track record in the foundation technologies and in high-level applications.

With an open platform, enterprise-class performance and scalability, Hyperion's BI Platform provides the integrating technology foundation to support a wide range of packaged, on-demand and partner-developed business performance management solutions. Hyperion's BI Platform incorporates the industry leading technology behind tens of thousands of business analysis applications developed by Hyperion customers and partners.

Hyperion - A Leader in the Market for More Than A Decade
With more than a decade of leadership providing analytical technology and industry-leading applications for financial and performance management to help global 10,000 businesses measure performance and drive profitability, Hyperion is poised to be a global leader in business performance management. Along with its network of strategic partners and Hyperion's integrated BI Platform, Hyperion delivers packaged and on-demand solutions for a connected and consistent business performance management system across the enterprise.

Hyperion is leading the charge to a more comprehensive approach to business performance management.