software company hyperion entertainment . oracle hyperion type public nasdaq hysl industry business performance management and business intelligence fate acquisition founded 1981 headquarters santa clara california united states key people godfrey r. sullivan president and chief executive officer revenue 765.2 million usd 2006 owner oracle corporation number of employees 2 607 2005 website www.hyperion.com hyperion solutions corporation was an enterprise performance management software company located in santa clara california usa which was acquired by oracle corporation in 2007 . many of its products were targeted at the business intelligence bi and business performance management markets and as of 2013 update are still actively developed and sold by oracle as oracle hyperion products . hyperion solutions was formed from the merger of hyperion software formerly imrs and arbor software in 1998 . oracle corporation announced on march 1 2007 that it had agreed to purchase hyperion solutions corporation for 3.3 billion in cash . 1 2 3 the transaction was completed on april 18 2007 and hyperion now operates as a division of oracle . 4 hyperion office in santa clara contents 1 timeline 2 bi market 2.1 group consolidation 3 products 4 references 5 external links timeline edit 1981 imrs founded by bob thomson and marco arese and launches financial and management consolidation software called micro control in 1983 1985 imrs hires jim perakis as ceo ; he remains in this position during growth from 1m to almost 300m citation needed 1991 imrs becomes a public company and launches a windows based successor to micro control called hyperion 1992 arbor software ships first version of essbase online analytical processing olap software 1995 due to the success of the hyperion product imrs changes name to hyperion software corporation and the name of the product is changed to hyperion enterprise . arbor becomes a publicly held company 5 1997 arbor acquires appsource 6 1998 hyperion software merges with arbor and the combined company is renamed hyperion solutions 7 1999 jeffrey rodek named as hyperion chairman and ceo of hyperion . hyperion acquires sapling corporation enterprise performance management applications 2001 godfrey sullivan is named hyperion president and coo 2003 hyperion acquires brio technology and the alcar group 2004 hyperion names jeffrey rodek executive chairman ; godfrey sullivan president and ceo 2005 hyperion acquires razza solutions master data management 8 and appoints northdoor as a reseller in the uk and ireland . 9 2006 hyperion acquires upstream financial data quality management 10 2006 hyperion acquires beatware data visualization for web and mobile devices 11 2007 hyperion acquires decisioneering crystal ball software . 12 oracle announces agreement to acquire hyperion for usd 3.3 billion and hyperion applications planning and close suite solutions become strategic go forward applications for oracle and hyperion bi tools are bundled into oracle business intelligence enterprise edition plus 2013 oracle extends premier support for the current version of most hyperion products v11.1.2.x to 2018 . 13 bi market edit vendors in the business intelligence space are often categorized into the consolidated big four megavendors which include oracle hyperion as well as sap businessobjects ibm cognos and microsoft bi . 14 the independent pure play vendors the largest being microstrategy tableau qlikview and sas . 15 group consolidation edit group consolidation specialize for finance users are a specialization of bi market . microsoft excel is the market leader in this area . the increase in level of multiway data analysis correlate with the cost and time of consolidation . hyperion enterprise and oracle hfm are examples of application to support more complex consolidation requirements . well known bi market surveys and analyses include gartner s bi magic quadrant in 2007 gartner placed hyperion in its leader quadrant for both business intelligence platforms and corporate performance management . business application research center barc s the bi survey and the bi verdict formerly the olap report 16 products edit hyperion software products include essbase hyperion intelligence and sqr production reporting products acquired in 2003 takeover of brio technology hyperion enterprise hyperion planning hyperion strategic finance hyperion financial data management hyperion enterprise performance management architect hyperion financial close management hyperion disclosure management hyperion performance scorecard hyperion business modelling hyperion financial management hyperion master data management oracle data relationship management hyperion financial reporting hyperion web analysis hyperion smartview hyperion epm workspace hyperion profitability and cost management hyperion system 9 bi a combination of interactive reporting sqr web analysis financial reporting epm workspace and smartview hyperion financial data quality management also referred to as fdm ee hyperion tax provision planning budgeting cloud service enterprise performance reporting cloud service references edit 1 dead link 2 archived march 3 2007 at the wayback machine . oracle buys enterprise performance management leader hyperion march 1 2007 oracle press release 3 archived may 14 2008 at the wayback machine . willis clint 1998 05 10 . buried treasures . forbes . hyperion spins off appsource ; goes for ms olap space . findarticles.com . 1999 02 09 . retrieved 2011 07 11 . luening erich may 26 1998 . arbor software hyperion merge . cnet news . hyperion acquires razza solutions ; delivers master data management for business performance management . information management . january 26 2005 . hyperion appoints northdoor to distribute entire business performance management portfolio . sourcewire . retrieved 2012 10 02 . havenstein heather april 20 2006 . hyperion to acquire data quality vendor upstream software . computerworld . q2 2007 hyperion earnings conference call . january 23 2007 . hyperion to acquire decisioneering . information management . january 24 2007 . oracle lifetime support policy pdf . september 2013 . weier mary hayes april 12 2008 . how to choose among the four bright lights of bi . informationweek . weier mary hayes november 12 2007 . what ibm s cognos acquisition means for the bi market and its customers . the bi survey 9 . retrieved october 19 2010 . external links edit official website the hyperion developer network hyperion press kit v t e oracle corporation corporate directors jeffrey berg h. raymond bingham michael boskin safra a. catz larry ellison h ctor garc a molina joseph grundfest jeffrey o. henley mark hurd jack f. kemp donald l. lucas naomi o. seligman acquisitions list sun peoplesoft hyperion siebel bea jd edwards rightnow virtual iron timesten retek sunopsis netsuite dbms oracle database mysql innodb berkeley db timesten rdb essbase programming languages java pl sql ide jdeveloper forms netbeans apex sql developer solaris studio middleware fusion middleware webcenter soa suite weblogic server coherence tuxedo glassfish operating systems oracle linux oracle solaris computer hardware sun fire sparc t series enterprise storagetek computer appliances oracle exadata oracle exalogic oracle exalytics big data appliance education and recognition oracle certification program category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title oracle hyperion & oldid 734086771 categories computer companies of the united statessoftware companies based in californiadefunct software companiesoracle acquisitionsbusiness software companiescompanies based in santa clara californiahidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2011articles with wayback machine linksarticles containing potentially dated statements from 2013all articles containing potentially dated statementsall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2010official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisnederlandsportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 12 august 2016 at 01 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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