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SAP Takes A Swing at Oracle: SAP has been hinting and mentioning and otherwise suggesting that it is taking away customers from Oracle's much vaunted Hyperion product line, and now it has issued a formal press release to that effect. While the press release talks about over 100 Oracle customers choosing SAP products over Hyperion, the...; Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-02-26
SAP-BusinessObjects: what was unsaid: The SAP-BusinessObjects go to market show was mildly interesting but left key questions unanswered. Colleagues Dan Farber and Mike Krigsman were on the call as was James Governor. I asked how the combined operation might incorporate non-financial measures into the new solutions. I was thinking about how...; Tags: Opportunity, Hyperion Solutions Corp., SAP AG, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Human Capital, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-01-16
Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Hyperion's 2007 survey (2007 Business Finance Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Survey) of requirements for business intelligence BI and enterprise performance management EPM solutions revealed the differences in requirements, evaluation criteria, and purchase influencers between emerging businesses and large enterprises. With a heavy reliance on spreadsheets to support EPM processes, top investment areas...; Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-10-01
Fifth Third Bancorp Improves Profitability With Greater Visibility and Insight: The decentralized nature of Excel made administering global changes on more than 1,200 templates nearly impossible. Additionally, the Excel approach was not scalable or flexible enough to support expanding forecasting requirements. Further, there was no easy way to analyze the sales structure and make comparisons and stacked rankings. Fifth Third...; Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Sales; Case studies 2007-08-01
The ABB Group Overcomes Major Liquidity Crisis With Strategic Finance: The ABB Group, a leading global engineering company, has an illustrious record of innovation and technological leadership in many industries and has helped countries all over the world to build, develop, and maintain their infrastructures. In 2002 and 2003, ABB overcame a major liquidity crisis with the aid of Oracle's...; Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., ABB Group, Liquidity, ABB, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies 2007-08-01

Fifth Third Bancorp Increases Financial Visibility Across Businesses for Increased Efficiency: Fifth Third Bancorp is a Fortune 500 company and diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company has provided quality financial products and services to its customers for almost 150 years. Faced with the need to improve decision making, reporting, and planning during a period of rapid expansion...; Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, Fifth Third Bancorp, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies 2007-08-01
Fonterra Co-Operative Group Establishes Global Financial Visibility, Enhances Strategic Planning: Fonterra Co-operative Group is a leading multinational dairy company owned by 11,600 New Zealand dairy farmers. Its global supply chain connects shareholders' farms in New Zealand to customers and consumers in 140 countries. Fonterra needed a financial system that could increase efficiency across its rapidly expanding operations. Oracle's Hyperion Financial...; Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, New Zealand, Fonterra Co-operative Group, E-mail, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategic Planning, Online Communications, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Strategy, Management; Case studies 2007-08-01
Pacific Brands Enhances Financial Processes With Reliable Management System: When Pacific Brands broke away from Pacific Dunlop, the company retained hundreds of brands - ranging from footwear and sporting goods to home products like linen and bedding - and faced many of the same business challenges that its parent company had faced. That is why Pacific Brands continued using...; Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Financial, Pacific Brands, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies 2007-08-01
The Stanley Works Increases Productivity and Enhances Financial Reporting Capabilities: The Stanley Works is known worldwide as a leading manufacturer of tools, hardware, and specialty hardware products for home improvement, consumer, industrial, and professional use. A long-time customer of Oracle's Hyperion software, The Stanley Works wanted to implement a Web-based data delivery system that would allow for the transmission of...; Tags: Financial Reporting, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Financial, Stanley Works, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance; Case studies 2007-08-01
National City Corporation Improves Agility With Scalable Solution: National City Corporation wants customers to think nationally and bank locally. National City needed a solution to streamline forecasting and reporting by efficiently managing dimension changes across Oracle's Hyperion Essbase applications as well as synchronizing and automatically reconciling all Business Process Management BPM master data across Oracle Financials applications. It...; Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Modeling, City Corporation, Research & Development, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Finance, Software; Case studies 2007-08-01
A Little Transparency Could Go a Long Way: Oracle's Opacity Crisis: A Little Transparency Could Go a Long Way: Oracle's Opacity CrisisWhere's the organic growth?Mr. Di Bona is right on the money. When I back out the Hyperion effect I calculate just under 10% application new license growth. That's for the quarter. For the fiscal year, Oracle reports a 32% gain...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Hyperion Solutions Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-06-28
SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion deal: SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion dealEnterprise MashupsDanaInteresting to read the piece on mashup goverance.There are companines out there like Openspan and Blue Prism that are trying to tackle the implementation of "anarchic" mashup solutions but with IT governance wrapped around.I can't speak for Openspan,...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Web, OpenSpan, mashup, PRISM, SOA, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Web 2.0; Discussion threads 2007-05-18
SAP Does CPM: Et Tu, Oracle: SAP has fired back at Oracle, in rather short order, with the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a corporate performance management vendor based in Stamford, Conn. It looks like short order of course, as Oracle announced its Hyperion acquisition a scant two months ago. But SAP, having passed a while ago on...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-05-08
SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion deal: Read a full transcript of the discussion.How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, wont that require a level of governance to...; Tags: SOA Governance, Enterprise 2.0, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Podcasts, Oracle, Microsoft, management, Internet, Interarbor Solutions, IBM, Google, business intelligence, Amazon; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Anne Nicole Smith and Oracle: I promise no girlie pictures, and definitely no weeping judges, but if you want to know why I think Oracle is now the market leader in sensational, sound-bite news -- big and sexy and easy to put on page one -- please read on. This is of course about the...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Oracle's real target with Hyperion: CFOs: Oracle's real target with Hyperion: CFOsCircling SAP. Take that! Now CFO access.Remeber when SAP pigeon-holed Oracle as a Database only vendor. With Hyperion Oracle has access to the CFO. With Siebel they have access to the SVP of Sales & Marketing. With PSFT to the SVP of Human Resoruces. And...; Tags: Sales force management, Oracle Corp., Hyperion Solutions Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-03-02
SAP fires back over Oracle-Hyperion deal: SAP fires back over Oracle-Hyperion dealI agree with SAPOracle's acquisition binge says, loud and clear, that Oracle is incapable of innovating, and growing on it's own, or earning business on it's own merit. It can only grow by buying customers with it's huge war chest.SAP lacks the integration M&A...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., Hyperion Solutions Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-03-01
SAP fires back over Oracle-Hyperion deal: Oracle doesnt miss a chance to fire barbs at SAP. It even launched a few as it acquired Hyperion earlier today. Oracle positioned the deal as a nice way to gain traction in SAP accounts since Hyperion often rides on top of SAP applications....; Tags: SAP, Oracle, General; Blog posts 2007-03-01
Oracle's real target with Hyperion: CFOs: Oracle paid $3.3 billion for Hyperion to get better access to chief financial officers. Thats the biggest takeaway from Oracles brief conference call on the Hyperion acquisition Techmeme discussion. Yes, Oracle gets a strong business intelligence company. Yes, Hyperion gives...; Tags: Oracle, Business Intelligence, General, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-03-01
Oracle and Hyperion combo moves them closer to the ultimate business dashboard: Oracles intended purchase of Hyperion is a good fit for both companies. This merger should not provoke concern or downside risk for their respective customers, as was the early but not consummated concern when Oracle bought PeopleSoft and Siebel.The new greater value for data -- in all its forms --...; Tags: datacenters, business intelligence, HP, Virtualization, database, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, IT Management, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-03-01