Hyperion Master Data Management Ensures Data Consistency And Facilitates Collaboration Between It And Business Users
Companies make better decisions and reduce risk with Hyperion Master Data Management
SYDNEY, May 22, 2006 – Hyperion (Nasdaq: HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management software, announced
today that a growing number of companies are using Hyperion System 9 Master Data Management (Hyperion MDM) to enable
visibility and collaboration between IT and business users in defining, implementing and managing change across systems.
As an integral part of Hyperion System 9 Foundation Services, Hyperion MDM is the industry’s first solution dedicated to
Business Performance Management. With its easy-to-use ‘point and sync’ thin client interface, Hyperion MDM enables
non-technical users to directly manage change of BPM master data.
Through a formal, rule-driven process, Hyperion MDM synchronises BPM master data such as business dimensions, reporting
structures, hierarchies, attributes and business rules across Hyperion System 9 applications and enterprise systems,
including data warehouses, data marts, analytic applications, and transactional systems.
Hyperion MDM provides robust master data lifecycle and versioning capabilities, in conjunction with a powerful business
rules engine and audit capabilities for validating and verifying changes in master data, both in real time and after the
fact.
“Hyperion MDM helps companies tackle the innumerable challenges and costs of operating in today’s constantly changing
and competitive global environment,” said Rich Clayton, vice president of product marketing at Hyperion. “By
synchronising data across all systems, Hyperion MDM not only provides users with a single version of the truth but also
dramatically reduces development cost and risk and reduces the cost of implementing and maintaining business
intelligence and data repository processes.”
Some of the customers who have purchased Hyperion MDM include Avago Technologies, FirstRand Bank, HBOS, Mentor Graphics,
Symantec, Verizon and Xerox Corporation.
FirstRand, a financial services group based in South Africa, will leverage Hyperion MDM within its banking division to
increase user productivity, lower security risk, and protect the company’s data integrity.
“With Hyperion MDM, we can eliminate all costly manual master data management processes within our company,” said Tim
Green, IT manager at FirstRand. “Hyperion MDM will serve as FirstRand’s central environment to manage master data and
automate the changes we make across our organisation, which will speed essential processes and ensure data integrity
throughout our operations.”
Mentor Graphics, a leading manufacturer of electronic design solutions, implemented Hyperion MDM to maintain the
accuracy of master data within its various financial, analytic and transactional systems.
"In our fast-paced and growing business, we need to have confidence in the data across our enterprise," said Jan-Willem
Beldman, team lead for analytical applications and data quality at Mentor Graphics. "The integration of MDM within our
BPM system facilitates collaborative data management between our IT department and business owners of data. As a result,
we are able to consolidate, correlate and standardise our master data, businesses processes and analytical capabilities
so that reporting data is readily available, consistent and accurate."
About Hyperion
Hyperion Solutions Corporation is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 11,000
customers rely on Hyperion software to provide visibility into how their businesses are performing and to help them plan
and model to improve that performance. Using Hyperion software, customers collect data, organise and analyse it, then
communicate it across the enterprise. Hyperion offers the industry's only Business Performance Management solution that
integrates financial management applications with a business intelligence platform into a single system.
Named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For (2004), Hyperion serves global customers in 45 countries. A
network of more than 600 partners provides the company’s innovative and specialised solutions and services. Hyperion
generated revenues of $703 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2005 and is traded under the Nasdaq symbol
HYSL. For more information, please visit www.hyperion.com or www.hyperion.com/contactus.
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