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Hyperion Solutions Corporation
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www.hyperion.com
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Hyperion Solutions Europe
Enterprise House
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Manchester M22 5HY
United Kingdom
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Asia-Pacific Headquarters
Hyperion Solutions Asia Pte. Ltd.
#24-01 IBM Towers
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Singapore 079907
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Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 3
Today’s Business Challenges
In today’s globally complex, rapidly changing, Internet-linked business environment, the
processes associated with financial consolidation are becoming increasingly challenging.
To get a handle on business performance, it is essential to consolidate financial data
quickly and use that information to examine past performance and understand future
opportunities. Every company now faces this challenge, yet few implement comprehen-
sive solutions that satisfy the needs of the entire enterprise. For example, few companies
are prepared for transitions associated with the euro, much less positioned to take
advantage of euro-related opportunities. Many are still struggling with disparate ERP
systems that fail to integrate data effectively. Global accounting requirements and
frequent restructuring also present serious hurdles for large and small companies alike.
Financial Consolidation and Reporting Challenges
As businesses and competitive environments continue to rapidly evolve, operations
and finance have to keep pace. Financial departments are providing more and more
decision support capabilities, and organizational structures are continually adapting
to change. In addition, management is demanding more detailed and qualitative analysis
of business results.
Globalization complicates consolidation processes. Companies must address specific
legal, statutory and tax requirements. Varying and conflicting local and regional require-
ments, like US GAAP, UK GAAP, FASB, IAS and HGB, add to that complexity, and accounting
standards are constantly changing. As a result, very few companies are prepared for the
changes let alone strategically positioned to react quickly.
The European Monetary Union (EMU) will be the world’s largest single market. Any com-
pany dealing with or operating in Europe will need to adjust to the euro currency and
manage multiple currencies during the transition period. Again, very few companies are
ready to adjust to dramatic change or capitalize on significant opportunities generated
by the new structure.
In terms of technology, many companies are still struggling to integrate ERP systems and
leverage all their data sources. Once those issues are resolved, organizations need to go
a step beyond ERP transaction processing and provide analysis capabilities to their users.
Advanced reporting, analysis, modeling and planning solutions link up these critical
pieces of the enterprise and offer highly scalable performance and user access. Industry
leaders are heading in this direction.
Factors external to the processes of financial consolidation, reporting and analysis are
becoming increasingly important, as well. The Internet and electronic commerce have
extended the limits and accelerated the pace of integration and globalization.
Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 4
Common Financial Consolidation and Reporting Difficulties
In addition to the various paradigm shifts inherent to globalization, financial consolidation and
reporting itself is prone to numerous inefficiencies. Many organizations have to work through
countless hurdles in order to complete their financial consolidation and reporting processes.
Typical difficulties include:
• Many financial consolidation processes are manual and error-prone, requiring
re-keying of data from multiple, differing financial systems with different charts
of accounts into spreadsheets for consolidations.
• Companies are unable to manage multiple currencies, rates and conversions
because they vary by scenario, country and account type (Balance Sheet vs.
Income Statement). The new EMU reporting requirements for the euro currency
also pose a challenge.
• Users find it difficult to make top-level, auditable journal adjustments.
• Reconciling inter-company discrepancies and account balances is a tedious process.
• Many systems do not support management, tax and legal roll-up structures or
statutory audit requirements.
• The processes don’t automatically adapt to changing business hierarchies
for management reporting or adjust to the changes resulting from mergers,
acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. Dynamic organization structures
may also include minority ownerships, which most systems cannot handle.
• The processes provide limited ad hoc reporting on consolidated data and do
not address new segment reporting requirements as outlined by the Federal
Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards
Committee (IASC) in FAS131/IAS14.
• Reporting needs may differ by group, with some users needing ad hoc access
to live data, while others require highly formatted monthly briefing books.
Time spent consolidating and organizing reports takes away from time that could be
spent on analysis and other strategic activities.
Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 5
Flexible Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions
As the leader in analytic application software, Hyperion offers financial consolidation
solutions for varying needs. Our focus is on analytics and the solutions are open, cross-
platform and enterprise class, making them ideal for customization, partner development
and utility throughout the department and world. We partner with and develop solutions
with industry-leading providers so that customers can choose from a wide range of
application-specific, industry-specific and best-of-breed applications.
Hyperion offers the leading packaged financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis
solutions for companies worldwide. Our packaged, analytic applications simplify complex
processes, speed time to closing and greatly enhance financial analysis and planning
capabilities. The applications meet and exceed management, legal, and statutory financial
consolidation and reporting needs. All major global, local and regional accounting require-
ments are designed into the products, including extensive support for managing the
transition to the European Monetary Union (EMU).
Several enhanced features make Hyperion’s financial consolidation solutions especially
useful to large, global companies. Those include support for:
• Complex currency conversions
• Complex inter-company eliminations
• Minority Ownership & Managing Mergers and Acquisitions
Hyperion’s financial consolidation solutions integrate with and complement all General
Ledger and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, providing a flexible analysis
environment with common views across multiple data sources. Deployment can be either
centralized or distributed. Companies can pull data from multiple GLs with process-specific
data loads and specific links to SAP and J.D. Edwards ERP solutions. The solutions ensure a
level of flexibility that meets any business need. With Web-based reporting and data entry,
spreadsheet add-ins and the powerful Hyperion Reporting applications, Hyperion’s financial
consolidation solutions support worldwide collaboration and immediate access.
With Hyperion’s financial consolidation solutions, companies can also build their own
custom financial consolidation and reporting solutions. Customers that require simple,
multiple-dimensional reporting from their general ledger or those that want to bring
together multiple general ledgers can do so with Hyperion’s financial consolidation
solutions. The ability to build specific business rules and roll-up and analyze different
views of financial data helps companies get an enterprise perspective on their business.
Hyperion’s financial consolidation solutions provide calculation and modeling capabilities
as a well as a highly scalable and cost-effective environment for delivering data to
different classes of users via more than 50 different information access tools, from
Hyperion and Hyperion Alliance Partners.
Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 6
Saving Time and Money, Gaining Priceless Insight
Hyperion financial consolidation solutions greatly reduce the amount of time needed to
complete the financial consolidation and reporting cycle. ERP, data warehouse, legacy,
general ledger, spreadsheet and manually entered data (available via Web browser) can
be quickly translated, consolidated, adjusted, finalized and then reported. Managers,
end-users and analysts can then spend more time analyzing information rather than
number crunching and preparing data. The whole enterprise benefits from more intelli-
gent, informed and speedy business decisions.
Top Ranked by Customers and Industry Analysts
More than 6,000 customers and more than two million users worldwide in more than
100 countries use Hyperion solutions. Fifty percent of the Fortune 500, sixty percent
of the Fortune 100 and over forty percent of the Financial Times European Top 100 use
Hyperion’s Analysis Platform. The solutions are top ranked by analyst firms IDC, Gartner
Group/Dataquest and META Group, Inc. Our more than 350 Hyperion Alliance Partners
offer combined and enhanced solutions that cover the broad range of reporting and
analysis needs.
Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 7
Real World Business Benefits
“Basically, Hyperion enables us to access data more rapidly. The reports we
create help executives spotlight business trends and perform analysis. Getting
information in the hands of users faster is definitely a huge benefit.”
Terry Ruel
Corporate Manager of Financial Systems
SBC Communications, Inc.
“With Hyperion, we use fewer resources to produce reports, and it takes less
time. Hyperion helps us get more accurate information into the hands of our
managers, enabling them to make more informed decisions.”
Rodney Dye
Assistant Vice President and Accounting Manager
First Security Corporation
“We selected Hyperion because it allows our users to leverage a strategic
platform to access and analyze financial data on our truck products easily
and quickly… The ease of use and the ability to deploy Hyperion in a short
timeframe were primary factors in our decision to implement Hyperion for
our analysis applications. Providing critical, timely, fact-based information to
the organization is a key objective for our finance department, and in less
than three months Hyperion has already assisted us in this endeavor.”
Jeff Medek
Director, Activity Based Management
Navistar International Corp.
Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 8
Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 9
Complete Financial Management forImproved Business Agility
Hyperion’s financial consolidation and reporting solutions are part of a comprehensive
financial management software suite. As a whole, Hyperion’s financial management
solutions provide comprehensive support for the reporting, analysis, modeling and
planning (RAMP) needs of global finance organizations. With our financial consolidation
and reporting solutions you can perform fast, accurate and efficient collection, consoli-
dation and reporting of financial results to internal and external audiences. Finance staff,
as well as line managers, can compare and analyze trends in order to better understand
business performance. Profitability analysis lets users create, customize, document and
execute sophisticated allocation models for product and customer profitability. Users can
model powerful “what-if” scenarios which support reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions,
divestitures, changes in economic conditions and competitive environments, and new
product or service introductions. Our market-leading planning and budgeting solutions
support both bottom-up as well as top-down planning and budgeting processes. They also
support the incorporation of actual results into the planning process to allow frequent
reforecasting of financial results.
Financial Management Cycle
Plan Report
Model Analyze
Strategy
Hyperion’s financial management solutions are designed by financial people, for financial
end users. You can implement and support the system with little dependence on IT staff.
Our knowledge of the field is reflected in the depth of our products and the skills of our
global consulting and support staff.
Hyperion’s financial management solutions are a great complement to existing ERP and
general ledger systems. With powerful data and metadata integration capabilities, Hyperion
provides a flexible financial reporting, analysis, modeling and planning environment that
can leverage data being generated in your operational systems and allow you to use it to
improve business performance.
Hyperion’s financial management solutions are supported by a global network of partners,
from the big 5 consulting firms to specialist firms who can provide expertise and support
for a variety of solutions.
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Financial Management and Performance Management
Hyperion financial management solutions provide the foundation for and are
complemented by Hyperion’s performance management solutions. Hyperion Performance
Management is a suite of solutions that facilitate benchmarking, strategic planning/EVA,
activity based management (ABM) and performance measurement. These applications
allow organizations to further extend their analysis capabilities. Results from the financial
management process form a foundation for performance management so that all aspects
of the management cycle (Reporting, Analysis, Modeling, Planning) can be thoroughly
explored and acted upon.
Each time the financial consolidation process closes, all kinds of opportunities to measure
business performance, manage activity, track productivity and measure profitability arise.
Integrated data and analysis software allow users worldwide to work more efficiently,
define and communicate clear goals, measure key performance indicators, develop and
execute competitive strategies, pinpoint successful products and services, and examine
macro and micro views of progress.
Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 11
A Foundation for Opportunity andCompetitive Edge
Hyperion solutions put the mechanisms in place to coordinate information, analyze
trends, predict changes and create comprehensive strategies. Organizations can take
bold steps based on precise information. Confidence in organizational knowledge systems
removes informational risk, while accurate and rapid collaboration within the corporate
ranks ensures that everyone is on the same page.
With Hyperion, companies have moved beyond the narrow scope of transactional processing
software. Instead of merely capturing transactional data, Hyperion helps companies better
understand and optimize their business through the implementation of business analysis
software solutions. Their employees can model potential scenarios and choose optimal
outcomes, understanding the future far ahead of the competition. Ultimately, the strategic,
integrated nature of Hyperion’s solutions enable profound leaps in business performance.
Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Solutions 12
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