SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 20, 2007 --To improve business performance across their operations, more retailers are turning to solutions based on software from Hyperion (Nasdaq Global Select: HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management (BPM) software.

Nine of the top 10 U.S. retailers – and nine of the 10 largest global retailers – rely on Hyperion software to help manage their business. While most have historically implemented Hyperion to streamline financial operations, demand for solutions that integrate financial and non-financial performance management is pushing retailers to extend their use of Hyperion’s BPM and business intelligence (BI) capabilities.

Hyperion works closely with its retail partners to provide high value solutions for the industry. For example, companies like Helzberg Diamonds have sharpened their competitive edge. “Deploying Hyperion for financial management back in 1996 literally transformed our culture into one that is more strategic and responsive,” said Greg Backhus, director of warehousing for Helzberg Diamonds. “The success we had in the finance office led us to extend our use of Hyperion into other areas of the enterprise, including merchandise planning via the Palladium Group’s Pace for Merchandise Planning Solution. Today, managers throughout the company can see what’s selling, what our inventory levels are, how our branded diamonds are performing, and how our credit business is faring. In the increasingly competitive retail diamond and jewelry market, Hyperion is a competitive advantage.”

Expanding use of Hyperion System 9 software can help retailers overcome multiple challenges, including:

Understanding how their stores are performing on a daily basis, tracking results for sales, volume, margins and discounts.

• Reducing out-of-stocks, tracking inventory levels, and monitoring supplier performance.
• Analyzing huge volumes of data generated by POS Systems. Spreadsheets may help managers track their part of the business, but they are fragmented, disconnected and inconsistent.
• Identifying profitable products, stores and customer segments – and why they are successful – to help drive bottom-line improvements.
• Merchandise planning, which is complex but often conducted with outdated or inefficient tools and disconnected from financial planning.
• Managing workforce turnover and peak season staffing.

By combining the foundation of Hyperion System 9 software with partners’ retail industry domain expertise, leading retail organizations have been able to leverage Hyperion software to monitor, analyze and plan retail operations, and to integrate them with financial processes. As a result, retailers can generate deep insights into the business — from aggregate companywide perspectives down to individual store and product levels.

“Today’s retailers compete in an increasingly complex and changing marketplace,” said Jake Krakauer, senior director of solutions and industry marketing at Hyperion. “Monitoring performance and keeping track of variances in key areas such as category sales, item profitability, promotion response, inventory status, or vendor performance can spell the difference between a record season or layoffs and store closings. Hyperion System 9 software provides an excellent foundation on which Hyperion’s SolutionsNet partners can build integrated BPM solutions to help retailers accurately forecast sales, minimize operational costs and out-of-stocks, and increase same-store sales and corporate profits.”

Solutions based on Hyperion software are available to address the most pressing BPM needs of today’s retail enterprise. These offerings include:

• analyticINSIGHT for Retail from Archstone Consulting. Forecasting performance and providing guidance to investors is always a demanding task and has only intensified with recent regulations, and Hyperion System 9 provides improved and more rapid visibility for forecasting. An integrated set of planning, reporting, and analysis capabilities from Archstone leverage Hyperion System 9 to create a comprehensive BI solution for retail. The solution enables best practice capabilities for driver-based planning and for analysis based on leading indicators. And it arms operators in finance and merchandising with the information they need to make proactive management decisions and align top-down and bottom-up activities.
• Map Intelligence from Integeo. Map Intelligence features award-winning technology that combines the Hyperion business intelligence platform with location (maps and floor plans) visualizations and analytics, revealing previously hidden information relationships. The resulting insights greatly benefit such functions as store location and franchise planning, distribution analysis and geographically targeted marketing.
• Palladium Group’s Pace for Merchandise Planning (PaceMP). While complex and essential to profitability, merchandise planning nevertheless is often relegated to inefficient Excel spreadsheet-based processes. Solutions such as PaceMP leverage Hyperion’s BI platform to provide retailers with unmatched planning and forecasting functionality for the retail merchant community. The customizable Palladium solution allows retail businesses to employ industry best practices for critical core merchandise planning processes such as pre-season and in-season planning for Strategic Financial Merchandise Planning, the establishment of a well-disciplined Open-to-Buy process within Merchandise Planning, Key Item Planning, Channel Planning, and Assortment Planning. Also by leveraging the Hyperion System 9 platform, retailers receive unmatched capabilities for integrating reporting, analysis, dashboards and scorecards into the process which is necessary for a world-class end-to-end Merchandise Planning solution.
• Profitability management solutions. Major retailers face the daunting task of determining the profitability of thousands of products. Hyperion System 9 can help them allocate relevant costs to each product or SKU, perform what-if analyses for different product scenarios, pinpoint the least and most profitable products, and provide a consistent and reliable method for analyzing profitability.
• Retail analytic expertise from Teradata, a division of NCR. Teradata delivers business issue targeted, decision provoking retail KPI/metrics and report templates that give retailers visibility into crucial areas of their business, enabling them to optimize their decisions regarding assortments, promotions, vendors and inventory through daily detailed sales and transaction analysis. Leveraging over 25 years of retail data warehouse experience and industry proven best practices, Teradata provides a full range of standard and ad hoc reporting capabilities, along with exception based alerts that leverage leading BI software like Hyperion System 9 BI+. Hyperion System 9 software and Teradata extend the benefits of BPM throughout the retail business.
• Store operations management solutions. Hyperion System 9 helps organizations improve store-level insight into their daily operations by providing a management system that leverages existing transaction systems and integrates data from multiple sources. With Hyperion, retailers can identify critical variances and close performance gaps in sales, margin, discounts, inventory and product volume.
• Workforce intelligence solutions. Facing an avalanche of data that is difficult to consolidate and analyze, retail enterprises are seeking a better understanding of employee demographics and costs. By deploying Hyperion BPM solutions to integrate workforce and financial planning processes, retailers can: report and analyze employee demographics, diversity and skills; compare actual status against plan for recruiting, training and retention; and create a single view of essential information from multiple human resources systems.

For more information on Hyperion software-based solutions for retailers, visit: http://www.hyperion.com/solutions/industry_solutions/retail/index.cfm

About Hyperion

Hyperion Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq Global Select: HYSL) is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 12,000 customers in 90 countries rely on Hyperion both for insight into current business performance and to drive performance improvement. With Hyperion software, businesses collect, analyze and share data across the organization, linking strategies to plans and monitoring execution against goals. Hyperion integrates financial management applications with a business intelligence platform into a single management system for the global enterprise. For more information, contact us.

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