业内新闻——Oracle purchases Hyperion

数据仓库领域又面临一场新的洗牌。。。

数据仓库各个生命周期工具和方案的融合仍然是一个趋势。。。

On March 1, Oracle announced our plan to buy Hyperion, a leading provider of performance management software. The transaction extends Oracle's business intelligence capabilities to offer the most comprehensive system for enterprise performance management. We expect the transaction to close in April 2007, subject to regulatory and other approvals. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.

A year ago, Oracle significantly reoriented our business intelligence product suite, shifting our focus from offering a solution that works for Oracle-only environments towards offering a best-of-breed business intelligence product family that will work with heterogeneous information sources in an enterprise, both Oracle and non-Oracle. We introduced a new product family called Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. This integrated suite includes Business Intelligence Tools; Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, pre-packaged analytic applications that provide interactive dashboards, guided analytics, a pre-packaged data warehouse, and integration with source data in Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and SAP applications; and Oracle Data Integrator, a state-of-the-art data integration and ETL technology that works with heterogeneous data sources and targets. We have seen rapid growth and strong customer adoption of these new products. Recently, Gartner Group validated our new products by rating us a Leader in its Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant.

The acquisition of Hyperion extends our business intelligence product strategy. Customers are increasingly using performance management and business intelligence together. Hyperion provides best-in-class performance management software to over 12,000 customers worldwide, including 91 of the Fortune 100. Hyperion will add complementary products to Oracle's business intelligence offerings including a leading open enterprise planning system, financial consolidation products, and a powerful multi-source OLAP server. Coupled with Oracle's BI tools and pre-packaged analytic applications, the combination redefines business intelligence and performance management by providing the first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System that spans planning, consolidation, analytic applications, BI tools, reporting, and data integration, all on a unified BI platform. The system will help you define corporate strategy and objectives, drive corporate planning against these objectives, consolidate system-wide information, and monitor business performance against your plans. It will offer you better insight, enable you to make better decisions, and achieve better results.

The transaction yields immediate benefit to both Hyperion and Oracle customers as the companies' products are already integrated, with thousands of successful joint deployments. The proposed combination extends Hyperion's capabilities beyond the finance department with analytic applications and complementary BI tools from Oracle. Oracle customers will gain access to Hyperion's best-of-breed performance management solutions and to their domain expertise in financial management. Oracle also plans to continue delivering on our plans for "Hot-Pluggable" business intelligence, enabling our customers to continue to leverage existing investments in Oracle and non-Oracle data sources and enterprise applications. The foundation and premise of the Hyperion consolidation system is to help customers with heterogeneous financial systems. We plan to aggressively support SAP as a source system and expand analytics for mySAP.

After the transaction is complete, Oracle and Hyperion partners will benefit by working with a single vendor to address customer needs for business performance management and BI. Oracle partners are expected to benefit from Hyperion's best-in-class solutions for performance management. Hyperion partners are expected to benefit from Oracle's BI solutions and worldwide resources and partner ecosystem, as well as preserve their investments and experience with Hyperion's products. Both companies' partners are expected to benefit from the complementary solutions that provide an opportunity to increase business value and drive down cost of ownership throughout an integrated, standards-based enterprise software stack.

We are dedicated to maintaining and increasing the quality of innovation, support, and service you have come to expect from Oracle and Hyperion. We look forward to providing the best and most complete end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System. To learn more about the Hyperion acquisition, please visit oracle.com/hyperion.

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President, Oracle