Que 1: What are the two storage options available in Essbase and what are the differences?

Ans: ASO( Aggregate Storage Option) - Used for 1. If we have large number of dimensions(generally more than 10) 2. Most of the dimensions are sparse 3. We cannot write back in ASO. I heard recently that ASO will also have the writeback capability. I don't remember. BSO (Block Storage Option)- 1. Dimensions are less and dense(recommended values for no of dim are between 4 and 8) . 2. We can write back hence much suited for planning applications. Financial applications are generally dense structures and normal analytical cubes are sparse. Here we also need to understand what are these dense and sparse members. When the intersections or cells of two dimensions mostly contains a value it is dense. Say for example we have two dimensions period(Month or quarter) and region and we are calculation the sales amount. Generally maximum regions(countries, cities) will have some sales value for a particular month or quarter. Hence we can say that our period dimensions would be dense. But now instead of period, consider another dimension products. Now there are some products which are sold in only some particular regions hence for them there will be no values in other regions or will have very low percentage of data values hence the structure will become sparse. Now the question arises what is the use of calling them dense or sparse. What difference does it make. Do some research and try to find the answer.

Que 2: Can we build dimensions directly from data sources without using rule files. Ans: No. Que 3: When do we generally use build rules files? Ans: To automate the process of creating dimensions with thousands of members. Que 4: What are the three primary build methods for building dimensions? Ans: 1. Generation references 2. level references 3. Parent-Child references. Que 5: In what case we can define generation 1 to a feild in generation build method. Ans: We cannot define that as Generation 1 is not valid. Que 6: Suppose we have assigned Generation 2 and Generation 4 as of now and think of adding generation 3 later some time. Can we build the dimension. Ans: No. If gen 2 and gen 4 exists, we must assign gen 3. Que 7: Can we create more than 2 dimensions using only one build rule file. Ans: Yes, we can do that but it is recommended to use seperate rule file for each dimension. Que 8: What is UDA( user defined attributes). How are they different than Aliases. Ans: UDA represents the class of the members. Aliases are just another names of the members. both are different and has different usage. Que 9: Can we query a member for its UDA in a calculation script.

Ans: Yes. You can query a member for its UDA in a calculation script. Que 10: How does UDA's impact database size? Ans: Absolutely no impact as UDA's do not require additional storage space. Que 11: What is the difference between UDA's and Attribute dimensions? Ans : Attribute dimensions provides more flexibility than UDA's. Attribute calculations dimensions which include five members with the default names sum, count, min, max and avg are automatically created for the attribute dimensions and are calculate dynamically. Que 12: How does Attribute dimensions and UDA's impact batch calculation performance? Ans: UDA's- No Impact as they do not perform any inherent calculations. Attribute dim- No Impact as they perform only dynamic calculations. Que 13: How can we display UDA's in reports? How do they impact report report performance. Ans: UDA's values are never displayed in the reports and hence do not impact report performance. Que 14: How does Attribute dim impact report performance? Ans: They highly impact the report performance as the attributes are calculated dynamically when referenced in the report. For very large number of att dim displayed in the report, the performance could drastically reduce. Que 15: While loading the data, you have applied both the selection criteria as well as rejection criteria to a same record. What will be the outcome. Ans: Thw record will be rejected. Que 16: How is data stored in the Essbase database? Ans: Essbase is an file based database where the data is stored in PAG files of 2 GB each and grows sequentially. Que 17: Can we have multiple databases in one single application? Ans: Yes. But only one database per application is recommended. Que 18: Can we have one ASO database and one BSO database in one single application. If yes, how and If No, why. Ans 18. No. Because we define ASO or BSO option while creating the appication and not database. Hence if the application is ASO, the databases it contains will be that type only. Que 19: What are the file extensions for an outline, rule file and a calc script. Ans: .OTL, .RUL and .CSC Que 20: What is the role of provider services. Ans: To communicate between Essbase and Microsoft office tools. Que 21: What is an alternative to create metaoutline, rule file and load data.

Answer: Integration services and in version 11, we have Essbase studio. Que 22: Can we start and stop an application individually. How ca this be used to increase performance. Ans: Yes. We can manage our server resources by starting only the applications which receive heavy user traffic. When an application is started, all associated atabases are brought to the memory. Que 23: We have created an application as unicode mode. Can we change it later to non-unicode mode. Ans: No. Que 24: How can I migrate an application from my test environment to the production environment. Can I still do this if my test environment is a windows one and my production env is UNIX one. Also can I still do it if my test env and prod env versions are different. Ans: Hyperion Administrative services console provides a migration utility to do this but onluy the application, database objects are migrated and no data is transferred. the answers to other two questions are Yes. Que 25: A customer wants to run two instances of an Essbase server on a same machine to have both test env and Development env on the same server. Can he do that? Ans: Yes. We can have multiple instances of an Essbase server on a single machine and there will be dfferent sets of windows services for all these instances. Que: 26 suppose I have a dimension A with members B and C and I do not want B and C to roll up to A. how can I do this. Ans: Using (~) exclude from consolidation operator. Que 27: What does never consolidate operator(^) do? Ans: It prevents members from being consolidate across any dimension. Que 28: Can we have multiple metaoutlines based on one OLAP model in Integration services? Ans: Yes Que 29: Can we have an metaoutline based on two different OLAp models. Ans: No. Que 30: What is hybrid analysis? Ans: Lower level members and associated data remains in relational database where as upper level members and associated data resides in Essbase database. Que 31: Why top-down calculation less efficient than a bottom-up calculation?Being less efficient, why do we use them. Ans: In the process it calculates more blocks than is necessary. Sometimes it is necessary to perform top-down calculation to get the correct calculation results.

Que 32: On what basis you will decide to invoke a serial or parellel calculation method. Ans: If we have a single processor, we will use serial calculation but if we have multiple processors we can break the task into threads and make them run on different processors. Que 33: What is block locking system? Ans: Analytic services(or Essbase Services) locks the block and all other blocks which contain the childs of that block while calculating this block is block locking system. Que 34: What are the types of partitioning options available in Essbase? Ans: 1. Replicated partition. 2. Transparent partition 3. Linked partition. Que 35: Dynamic calc decreases the retreival time and increases batch database calculation time. How true is the statement? Ans: The statement should be just opposite. As dynamic calc members are calculated when requested, the retreival time should increase. Que 36: A customer has a cube with 13 dimensions and the performance was fine. Now they have added two more dimensions in the existing cube and the performance becomes very very slow. Customer said logically nothing wrong with the two new dimensions they have added. What could be the reason for slowdown. Ans: Even I dont have any clue. I experienced this few days back with a customer. If you can throw some light on this, please post your answer.

1) Difference between ASO & BSO? 2) What is Incremental Dimensional Built and one time Dimension Built? 3) What are the different types of LOG Files? 4) What is the Extension of Cal Scripts and Rule File? 5) Why are Filters used? 6) What are dense and sparse dimensions? 7) What are Filters? 8) What are Attributes? 9) Different Types of Attributes? 10) What is Substitution Variable? 11) How is Data Stored in Essbase? 12) What is an hour glass modle? 13) Types of Build Methods? 14) What is Two Pass Calculation?

15) What is TB First and TB Last? 16) How do you calculate the Size of the datablock? 17) How many data blocks are there in your cube? 18) What is meant by Descendents and can you give me the best example to describe it? 19) How do you do the Data Load? 20) Where is IS Member Command used? 21) What is the difference between FIX and If Command? 22) What is intelligent Calcuation? 23) What is meant by Clean block and Dirty block? 24) Commands of Intelligent calcuation? 25) How do you calculate the subset of a cube? 26) Difference between standard dimension and attribute dimension? 27) Difference between UDA and Attribute Dimension? 28) What is meant by XREF Function? 29) Can you give the same name to different members in UDA? 30) What is Data Cahce ? 31) What is the Difference between the Data Cache and Data File Cache? 32) What is the Size of your cube? 33) What is Shared members? Can shared members can have children below it ? 34) What are the different storage properties in Essbase? 35) What is the difference between Dynamic calc and Dynamic Calc and Store? 36) How does Essbase consolidates the Data? 37) Different types of Dimension Building? 38) What is Label only? Give the the example of it? 39) Difference between calc all and Calc Dim? 40) Explain me about your project? And tell me any difficulities that you have faced and how did you resolve it? 41) What is Commit Block? 42) Tell me different steps so that your can optimze the performance your cube? 43) What is Partition? 44) What are different types of Partition? Have you ever worked on partation? 45) What is MAXL ? and where is it used? 46) What is Alias? 47) How many Alias Tables can be created? 48) How is Data Retrived from Essbase? 49) How is Data Stored in ASO? 50) Different types of Attributes in ASO? 51) Tell me about your project and what is your role in your project? 52) Did you write any MDX Member formulas in your Project? 53) What are different Types of Data Blocks? 54) Where do you check the data has been loaded properly or not? 55) What is Fact Table ? What are supporting Dimensions?

56) What is your Fact Table in Cube? 57) How do you create shared members in your cube? 58) Why do you use Fix Command? 59) Can you use the same logic which are used in calculation scripts in MDX formulas? 60) You have 5 dimensions in your cube and to load the data in the cube you have got only 4 columns what do you do? 61) Why do you use set update cal on and set update calc off? 62) What is mean by free form data load? 63) When do delete one member from the outline what will be status of the block? 64) What are different Types of blocks? 65) What is the difference between Attributes and UDA? 66) What is meant by location Alias?

What is difference between Business Objects and Hyperion Essbase? Please help me Answer
Business Object is used to create reports by creating Universe with the dimension tables and fact table already present. Hyperion Essbase is a Tool in which we will create the multi dimensional Cube in which dimensions are created in the Essbase itself. through which reports can be generated with the same Essbase or with the help of reporting tool Hyperion Analyzer.

What is Multidimensional database? How is it different from Relational database and how it works? Multidimensional databases consolidate and calculate data to provide different views. With Multidimensional databases users can pivot the data to see the information from different view point. It contains Outlines that defines all the elements of the database.InHyperion Essbase two types of Dimensions.Standard Dimensions: It represents the core components of the business plan and often related to departmental functions.These are 2 types: 1. Dense dimensions :- It represents the member which are having the occurance of data is high.2. Sparsed Dimensions.Attribute Dimensions: These are special type dimensions associated with standard dimensions. We can say these are the characteristics

of the members.Relational databases are operational type (most often transactional type).

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I want to prepare a questionnaire. The details about it are as follows: -1. Identify a large company/organization I want to prepare a questionnaire. The details about it are as follows: -1. Identify a large company/organization that is a prime candidate for DWH project. (For example Telecommunication, an insurance company, banks, may be the prime candidate for this)2. Give at least four reasons for the selecting the organization.3. Prepare a questionnaire consisting of at least 15 non-trivial questions to collect requirements/information about the organization. This information is required to build data warehouse. View Question | Asked by : muhammad Answer Question Subscribe Definition of datamarts? Latest Answer: A data mart is a group of subjects that are organized in a way that allows them to assist departments in making specific decisions. For example, the advertising department will have its owndata mart, while the finance department will have a data mart ... Read Answers (5) | Asked by : sivanov21 Answer Question Subscribe What is a Key MAP table? Latest Answer: a data warehousing best practice is to create surrogate keys--typically a meaningless simple integer--for the primary key in each dimension table. The associated fact table rows use this samesurrogate as a foreign key reference to the dimension tables. ... Read Answers (1) | Asked by : Manesh Mathen Answer Question Subscribe

1. How many build methods are there? Ans: There are three build methods;Generation build methodLevel build methodParent child build method (ancestors, sibling build methods Descendents build method) 2. Are you currently responsible for Production Essbase Cubes? Ans: Yes, I did produced Essbase cubes 3. How big is the largest cube? Ans: The largest cube that I developed till now is 13.5 gig. 4. What is a data block? Ans: The data block is a cell which is a combination of dense dimensions and it has got some data. 5. How do you order the outline? Ans: We order the outline by keeping the dense dimensions before the sparse dimensions and in these dense and sparse dimensions keeping the users requirements like the performance or the retrieval of the cube, we can arrange the sparse dimensions having more members before the sparse dimensions having less members or like the more queried dimension can be in the top than others. But usually we prefer hour-glass order of outline. 6. Name 3 Esscmd commands (excluding Login)? And define their functions? Ans: 1, BUILDDIM: This command dynamically builds one or more dimension from the data file or SQL source.2. COPYAPP: This command copies an application.3. COPYDB: This command copies the database. 7. How many partition types are present and what are they? Ans: There are three types of partitions, they are replicated partition, transparent partition and linked partition. 8. Why do you use Dynamic Calc? Ans: Dynamic calc is used so as to save the space in the data block, when member is tagged as a dynamic calc then that member is not calculated during the regular calculation like calc all but it calculates when that member is retrieved in a spreadsheet add-in or running a report script for that member. 9. What members in the outline cannot be Dynamic Calc? Ans, level 0 members and the label only tagged members cannot be Dynamic calc. With one exception of label only member with on-member formula. 10. For a member to be Two-Pass, what must exist in the outline? Ans: Member must to be tagged as accounts or expense and they should be dynamic calc.

11. What functions are you familiar with (min 8): Name them? Ans: @VAR, @VARPER, @CHILDREN, @DESCENDENTS, @IDESCENDENTS,@CURRMBR, @ANCESTORS, @UDA, @VARIANCE, @ISGEN,@NAME..@FIXCOLUMN 12. Using the AVG function, if you want to leave out zeros, what parameter can you use? Ans: Skip zero. 13. Do you like optimization or design better? Ans: I like to design the cube as much as I like to optimize it. 14. What is the difference between FIX and IF statements? In what situations they are used and what are its pros and cons? Ans: FIX: this statement restricts the path of outline during calculation/retrieval such that it doesnt have to go through whole of the outline.IF: this is conditional statement, when used if the given condition is true it takes the given value in the condition and it moves forward or if the given condition is false it takes another value to calculate/retrieval and it moves forward.**With FIX u cannot restrict the members to be checked with, fix u can say which one u need to check. 15. What are different types of memory caches? What are their optimal memory settings? Ans: Data file, pagefile 8kb, (page 1024) 16. What is the max length of filter we can write in Essbase 6.5 and lower version? Ans: 64kb 17. Which one of the following is fixed? Data file size, Data cache size, Page files size, index file size. Ans: Index file 8kb. 18. What is committed and Uncommitted Access? Ans: Committed access provides a high level of data consistency because only one transaction at a time is written to data block. Under committed access, Essbase allows transactions to hold read/write locks on all data blocks involved with the transaction until the transaction completes and commits. However, you can still allow read-only access to the last committed data values. It is time consuming if the data size is too large. Uncommitted access (enabled by default), the Essbase kernel allows transactions to hold read/write locks on a block-by-block basis; Essbase releases a block after it is updated but does not commit blocks until the transaction completes or until a specified limit (a synchronization point) has been reached. You can set this limit, as described below. It is faster, but in case of catastrophic conditions loads data again.Concurrent users accessing the same data blocks might experience unexpected results under uncommitted access, because Essbase allows read-only access to data at its last commit point.With uncommitted access, you can control when Essbase performs an explicit commit operation by

specifying synchronization point parameters: Commit Blocks (number of blocks modified before a synchronization point occurs). The default is 3,000. 19. Give some MaxL statements and their syntax? Ans: Create application: CREATE APPLICATION News amp as Sample;Create function: CREATE FUNCTION '@COVARIANCE' AS 'com.hyperion.essbase.calculator.Statistics.covariance' SPEC '@COVARIANCE (expList1, expList2)' COMMENT 'computes covariance of two sequences given as expression lists';CREATE USER: CREATE OR REPLACE user bala identified by password as Recycle Me;Display application: display application; 20. What is data block size? (How do you find the size of the block?) Ans: Data block size is determined by the amount of data in particular combination of dense dimensions. For ex: when you change the dense or sparse configuration of one or more dimensions in the database, the data block size changes. Data block size is 8n bytes, where n is the number of cells that exist for that combination of dense dimensions.Note: Optimal range is 8 to 100 kb

1. How do Essbase integration services help in transferring data quickly? Essbase Analytic Integration Server is a component of Essbase/Enterprise Analytics. It enables developers of Essbase Analytic applications to map directly to relational sources in order to streamline the development/refresh of an Essbase/Enterprise Analytics database. Once the mapping has been completed (preferably to a star or snowflake schema) and a database has been created, Analytic Integration Services can populate the cube directly from the relational source using a preferred driver. Should a designer determine that the detail data is best left resident in the relational data store, they may invoke Hybrid Analysis, a feature of Analytic Integration Services. This capability creates a hybrid analytic database, where the detail level data remains resident in the relational source, and the aggregate and other calculated data resides in an Essbase multidimensional database. This method mitigates the need to transfer source data to the multidimensional database. 2. How do OLAP data warehouses help to transfer huge amount of data? OLAP is not a technology that would typically be used to in the construction of a data warehouse. Essbase and Enterprise Analytics are ideal platforms for building subject matter data marts and are typically sourced from the warehouse. In that context, Hyperion supports parallel loading and calculation to take advantage of scalable computing hardware. Today, major corporations with thousands of users have deployed Hyperion in production with over 150 gigabytes of information in a single OLAP cube and more than 500 gigabytes in a single application made up of multiple OLAP cubes. If you are looking to transfer huge volumes of data from your source systems directly to the Data Warehouse, an ETL tool would be an appropriate technlogy. 3. How does Java programming language help in Hyperion Essbase?

Java programming is not required to construct or deploy an Essbase analytic application. However, the developer does have the option of utilizing Java in a couple of ways. First, Hyperion provides a fully published Java Application Programming Interface (API) that enables developers to design and deploy custom analytic applications. Second, the Hyperion Essbase calculator framework provides the means to define the custom functions to be used the formulas within the Hyperion Essbase calculator language. These functions must be written in the Java programming language. Any function must have at least a name and a corresponding Java class name and method name. Classes are loaded and methods are executed by the Java Virtual Machine built into Essbase. 4. How does Essbase XTD Q&R help to extend the Hyperion business intelligence platform? Essbase XTD is an old version of Essbase Analytics. There is no such product as Essbase XTD Q&R. Hyperion's System 9 BI+ platform provides Query and Reporting capabilities (Q&R) through it Interactive Reporting (IR) module. If your question is how does Essbase Analytics extend our BI platform, Essbase Analytics delivers meaningful insights that are easy to interpret and understand even by non-technical users. Essbase Analytics enables organizations to perform forward looking, or predictive analytics that go far beyond answering the typical questions that Q&R tools were designed for. The Essbase calculator is the most sophisticated OLAP calculation engine on the market, with over 350 out of the box functions including statistical, trending, and financial functions. For managing finance or any other business area in your company, Essbase Analytics can deliver all the analysis you require either through a single, stand-alone deployment that fully utilizes data from your enterprise data sources, or as the foundation for custom or packaged BPM solutions. 5. How Hyperion's BI+ software is different from its competitors products? Our pre-Hyperion System 9 offering featured the industry's most powerful analytics, richest interactive dashboards, and the only BI solution with master data management capabilities. S9 BI+ improves our current offering by bringing together the broadest range of reporting and analysis capability in the industry into a single system, with one common Workspace, comprehensive MS Office integration, and one common set of foundation services. Functionality includes: Production reporting, financial reporting, ad hoc query and reporting, interactive dashboards, advanced analytics, and powerful visualization and data mining. In the past, users needed to learn different tools, remember different passwords, and administrators had to manage users in different places and maintain multiple systems. BI includes a spectrum of technologies, including visualization, dashboarding, Q&R, production reporting and advanced analytics. Hyperion has been in the BI market since the early 1990s and Essbase was named the most influential innovation of the past 10 years by Information Age. Hyperion System 9 is the only solution today that combines a business intelligence platform with financial management apps. Together through a shared foundation service layer, Hyperion System 9 provides superior value and lower TCO. With Hyperion System 9 we introduced a tiered pricing model that allows us to compete in the small to medium sized enterprise. 6. What was Hyperion' s market in last 5 years and what is expected after 5 years? Hyperion is a leader in Business Intelligence and the top market leader in performance management, according to the Gartners Magic Quadrants reports. Hyperion created the first single, integrated BPM

and BI system with Hyperion System 9. Over 11,000 of the worlds most demanding organizations trust Hyperion to help manage their businesses. Hyperions product roadmap is based on a plan to provide customers with a management system that looks across the enterprise and helps them gain insight and make decisions that improve performance. Hyperion System 9 is the first iteration of that system and is a solution that is affordable, expandable, easy to deploy and use. The companys innovations to Hyperion System 9 will continue on the clear path Hyperion has already provided its customers today. 7. What do you think is your biggest asset -- technical manpower, infrastructure etc? Unlike some of its pure-play BI vendor competitors, Hyperion System 9 Release 9.3 combines its industry-leading performance management solution with a comprehensive business intelligence platform. Information from one application can be used in another without opening and closing separate workspaces. Additionally, some of Hyperion System 9 Release 9.3s most attractive offerings have better capabilities than similar offerings from competitors. For instance, Hyperion supports Google OneBox for Enterprise, a search appliance which helps users in organizations to access information from all the business applications like employee directories, CRM, ERP and business intelligence systems. Unlike corresponding programs from competitors, Hyperion Smart Search has the added advantage of searching performance management information, in addition to business intelligence data. Additionally, other offerings only search structured information, which can be found in ready-made reports. Hyperion Smart Search will also look for unstructured data and create an ad-hoc report. 8. Would you like to share more information? The most important trend in Business Intelligence is the convergence of BI and BPM. As a performance management-based system, Hyperion software provides a solid frame for adding in business intelligence, unlike the BI vendor competition that has to develop management applications on top of an analytical context. Hyperion likes to say that BPM is BI with a purpose, and Hyperion System 9 is not just a standalone analytical query, but a cohesive business program with the most comprehensive business intelligence capabilities for reporting and analysis. Today an increasing number of organizations are approaching BI as a business initiative by understanding cause and effect relationships between business goals and objectives, group and individual performance and the measures or metrics, which map to performance objectives. This gives BI real purpose and makes it infinitely more actionable. This also gives query and reporting tools used in conjunction more of a context for detailed analysis, rather than using them as a starting point, without any context. When BI becomes BI with a purpose, it becomes BPM.

1. Hyperion reported solid fiscal second quarter results, with a license revenue increase, of over 11% and earnings per share that nearly doubled over the same period last year. To what do you attribute this positive result when the global economy was still reeling under an extended recession?

Companies are increasingly concerned with financial integrity Hyperions success is being fueled by two prominent features of the current economy, the downturn and recent financial inconsistencies No V-shaped economy - Companies have to extract every least erg of performance out of their operations. The recession is forcing companies to manage themselves more effectively, to better understand where profits and cash are generated within the organization, so they can improve performance even during tough times. These have contributed to the emergence of bpm Hyperion has emerged as the leader of this new category In addition, new reporting requirements and the need to re-establish shareholder confidence are leading companies to report faster and in more detail, as well as to create more frequent and realistic plans, which help them spot variances more quickly. Variances between plans vs. actuals are often the first sign of a bad business practice than needs to be fixed before it hurts the company's overall performance. 2. Hyperion continues to lead the business performance management category with its suitebased applications and integrating platform. To what do you attest this continued momentum as the business performance management market leader? Hyperion has created a compelling strategy that includes business performance management applications supported by a solid business intelligence platform. We are increasingly viewed as a consolidating force in enterprise software. Our technology is non-disruptive and offers fast implementations and quick return on investment. More and more, companies are realizing that they can't plan and set goals in a vacuum, budget in a separate vacuum, report results in another vacuum. The synergies between our platform and applications are tremendous as they help companies get a more holistic view of what is happening, both in the past, as well as predicting potential outcomes. By leading in both aspects--platform and applications--Hyperion can deliver unmatched insight into the organization.

3. How does Hyperion business performance management solution help enterprise organizations increase sales, control costs and drive profitability in spite of increased competition and regressed market conditions? Hyperion helps companies on several levels. First, just by consolidating data from all the far-flung sources found in the many islands throughout any large organization, Hyperion helps companies develop comprehensive insight about performance and a single version of the truth. Simply aligning executives and staff at all levels can help an organization track better to its objectives. Second, by delivering more granular detail about finances and operations more quickly, Hyperion helps managers and staff at all levels make better, more prompt decisions that affect company results. Third, through predictive modeling, Hyperion helps companies set better strategies and tactics for success.

4. What are the solutions that Hyperion provides in helping global 10,000 companies measure performance and drive profitability? The company provides both financial and operational BPM applications for financial reporting and consolidation, as well as planning, business modeling, performance scorecarding, all on a single business intelligence platform that supports custom and tailored applications. 5. What are Hyperion's portfolio of global services and support programs that help the industry implement, customize, enhance and extend Hyperion business performance management solution for immediate return on investment? Both Hyperion and its partners provide a full range of implementation consulting, education and ongoing customer support to make Hyperion' s highly flexible and customizable products work the way users need them to-quickly and cost-effectively. Hyperion partners also provide solutions tailored to the specific needs of vertical industries and legacy systems.

6. Since inception Hyperion has come a long way and have ridden a burgeoning as well as a slackened economy. Where does it go from here? What are the strategic areas of interest that Hyperion is looking at in terms of enhancing core area of technology and increasing market share? From a business standpoint, Hyperion sees three "growth edges." Although business intelligence technology has been around for 20-plus years, the Business Performance Management market is still young. There is a huge opportunity simply in delivering better, faster reporting and planning capabilities. There is also the opportunity to expand beyond finance, where the concentration has been heaviest into all functional areas of companies--basically making BPM as ubiquitous for managing as email is for communicating. Finally, there is an opportunity, especially through our partners, to increase the number of domain-specific solutions available, i.e., solutions for specific vertical markets or functional capabilities. 7. Mergers and acquisition are the order of the day when there is no signs of the economy picking up. How does Hyperion view partnerships and alliance in its bid to expand to new territories and stay ahead of the competition? Hyperion is actively looking at partnerships or potentially acquisitions in adjacent applications that also serve the finance department. For instance these might include treasury or cash management. Hyperion is also looking to develop relationships with companies that can augment our technology or complement our distribution strategy.