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Driving Business Performance
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Hyperion Solutions Corporation deliver high performance, highly scalable solutions for business analytic applications. The reliable Sun Enterprise servers offer an ideal platform for development and deployment of the Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server, supporting rapid, intelligent decision-making across all aspects of enterprise management.

As close working allies committed to open systems technology, Sun and Hyperion provide powerful, easily deployable solutions with predictable performance for very fast analytical processing and response times. With solutions from Hyperion and Sun, corporate decision-makers gain new insight into business operations through increased access to data from ERP & Supply Chain Management (ERP) and other packaged business applications, as well as data warehousing environments and legacy systems.

"Sun Enterprise servers and Hyperion Solutions Essbase OLAP Server and Wired for OLAP tools provide a powerful, scalable, flexible business intelligence solution for web-enabled decision support. We have improved our effectiveness in planning and scheduling work on major contracts and we don't ever have to worry that our data warehouse will become outdated."

Mark Boase
Information Resource Management Project Manager
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems

Hyperion Solutions—Multiplying Business Intelligence
Formed from the merger of Hyperion Software and Arbor Software, Hyperion Solutions Corporation is a leading provider of analytic application software for reporting, analysis, and planning. Hyperion's family of packaged analytic applications, OLAP servers, and development tools helps organizations maximize performance and gain competitive advantage through improved decision-making and responsiveness to changing business conditions.

The Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server enables sophisticated, multidimensional data queries and analysis with extremely fast response times, allowing decision-makers to easily assess operations and revise plans or schedules to improve the overall productivity of the organization. Hyperion Essbase applications are easy to design and change, and work with familiar executive information systems (EIS) and standard desktop tools such as spreadsheets, query tools, and report writers. For even easier, more flexible user access, Hyperion also offers Wired for OLAP, a 100% Pure Java technology application allowing OLAP analysis for all types of data through an intuitive, secure, Web-enabled interface.

Running on Sun Enterprise servers, the Hyperion Essbase solution demonstrates breakthrough OLAP performance levels and reliably scales to support thousands of users analyzing hundreds of gigabytes of information. With features such as intuitive data navigation, multi-user read/write access, and unlimited analytical attributes, the Hyperion Essbase solution helps companies make the most of vital business intelligence systems.

Sun—A Leading Platform for Business-Critical Applications
Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun is a preferred platform for the development and deployment of top business applications, including the Essbase OLAP Server from Hyperion Solutions. Hyperion customers choose the Sun platform because Sun is the fastest-growing UNIX® platform for Essbase deployment, is a leading platform for database development, and is a platform of choice for best-of-class financial services, manufacturing, retail, ERP & Supply Chain Management, and other business applications.

Sun's Java technology is the first true, platform-independent computing solution in the enterprise. The Java technology computing architecture allows businesses to slash cost of ownership while developing, distributing, and managing applications on demand for Java technology-enabled desktops.

Sun Enterprise servers combine unprecedented power, networking, and throughput into the most scalable line of servers available for bandwidth-intense on-line analytical processing applications. Using an innovative system of interchangeable, modular components, Sun servers are available in nearly unlimited configurations of processors, main memory, and internal and external mass storage systems, delivering superior performance, scalability, and reliability for running business-critical applications.

All Sun Enterprise servers use the Solaris operating environment, a proven, robust, easy-to-use foundation for bringing all the resources of the enterprise to every desktop. Its -multithreaded environment provides unsurpassed performance for -compute-intensive applications.

Benefits of the Sun and Hyperion Solution

  • Superior OLAP performance and scalability—Hyperion solutions set new records for OLAP server performance, while the Sun Enterprise servers deliver leading scalability and price/performance from the desktop to the data center.
  • Rapid and easy deployment—Hyperion's Integration Server, a suite of graphical tools and data integration services, dramatically reduces the time and expense needed to create, deploy, and integrate analytic applications across data warehouses and transaction processing environments.
  • Web-enabled analysis tools—With Hyperion's Wired for OLAP client application, users can take advantage of much more intuitive, flexible, and easily accessible tools for querying, report writing, and analysis.
  • Best-of-class application integration—Hyperion and Sun have established alliances with leading data warehousing, DSS tools, ERP, and packaged business applications providers to deliver high quality, comprehensive solutions.
  • Worldwide service and support—With offices and distributors throughout the world, Sun and Hyperion offer global enterprise services and support for even the largest installations.

Sun and Hyperion Customer Wins

  • Ameritech
  • AT&T
  • British Telecom
  • Commonwealth Edison
  • First Chicago NBD Group
  • General Dynamics
  • LDDS WorldCom
  • Le Printemps
  • Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
  • Mentor Graphics
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Sears
  • Sprint PCS
  • The Boeing Company
  • Union Bank Of Switzerland

Sun and Hyperion Value to Customers
Sun and Hyperion provide a superior, low-risk, scalable platform for analytical applications.

For More Information Contact:

Sun
Sylvie Leotin
Global Account Manager
(650) 786-3182
sylvie.leotin@sun.com
www.sun.com

Hyperion Solutions
Steve Fioretti
Director of Field Marketing
(408) 220-8035
Steve_Fioretti@hyperion.com
www.hyperion.com


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