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  Company Name Hyperion Solutions Corporation
  Company Type Public ()
  Foundation 1981
  Location Santa Clara, CA , USA
  Key People Godfrey R Sullivan , President and Chief Executive Officer
  Num Employees 2,607 (2005)
  Revenue $7652 million USD (2006)
  Industry Business Performance Management and Business Intelligence
  Homepage wwwhyperioncom


Hyperion Solutions Corporation is a business performance management software company, located in Santa Clara, California , USA. Many of its products are targeted at the Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management market. In 2007, Gartner put Hyperion in the Leader quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms. Gartner also placed Hyperion in the Leader quadrant for Corporate Performance Management.

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Notable products include:


HISTORY

  • 1981 - IMRS founded by Bob Thomson and Marco Arese

  • 1985 - IMRS hires Jim Perakis as CEO; he remains in this position during growth from $1M to almost $300M

  • 1991 - IMRS becomes a public company

  • 1992 - Arbor Software ships first version of Essbase Online Analytical processing OLAP software

  • 1995 - IMRS changes name to Hyperion Software Corporation

  • 1995 - Arbor becomes a publicly held company

  • 1997 - Arbor acquires Appsource

  • 1998 - Hyperion Software merges with Arbor and the combined company is renamed Hyperion Solutions Corporation

  • 1999 - Jeffrey Rodek named as Hyperion Chairman and CEO of Hyperion

  • 1999 - Hyperion acquires Sapling Corporation (Enterprise Performance Management applications)

  • 2001 - Godfrey Sullivan is named Hyperion President and COO

  • 2002 - Hyperion launches the Business Performance Management category.

  • 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 )

  • 2006 - Hyperion acquires UpStream ( Financial Data Quality Management )

  • 2007 - Hyperion acquires Decisioneering ( Crystal Ball )

  • 2007 - Oracle Corporation announces agreement to acquire Hyperion for USD3.3 Billion.



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