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Hyperion and Unisys partnership delivers breakthrough business intelligence performance from boardrooms to frontlines

Business Intelligence Solution Based on Unisys ES7000 Servers Demonstrates Superior Performance and Lower Total Cost of Ownership

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & BLUE BELL, Pa., July 6, 2005--Hyperion (Nasdaq:HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management software, working with Unisys, (NYSE:UIS), today announced the availability of an end-to-end Business Performance Management (BPM) solution including Business Intelligence (BI) based on Unisys ES7000 server technology. The solution, IT Optimization for BPM, offers customers scalability gains to meet the demands of large-scale financial consolidation activities, Business Intelligence and information delivery requirements. This results in optimal performance levels and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Scalability is paramount for the successful long-term deployment of a BI solution that can continue to address increasingly larger numbers of users. In addition, the ability to expand the scope of analysis and increase the quantity of data available for analysis is critical. IT Optimization for BPM delivers maximum scalability while enabling reduced implementation TCO and risk through a proven architecture that consolidates applications, services and database tiers on high-end Windows servers. These capabilities meet the diverse needs of broader populations easily, efficiently and with less risk through open Intel based ES7000 server solutions.

"The Hyperion Business Performance Management solution based on Unisys ES7000 servers provides dynamic resource allocation and infrastructure scalability which greatly simplifies mission critical, end-to-end BPM deployment and management in a high-availability environment," said Rich Clayton, vice president of product marketing for Hyperion. "This lowers the total cost of ownership while providing a leading-edge system without compromise."

Hyperion and Unisys today also unveiled the results of a joint performance test which revealed exceptional performance for the Unisys ES7000 server in supporting a real-world mixed workload of Hyperion Intelligence Server clients. In several previous performance tests with other enterprise applications, Unisys has demonstrated significant value in using a single ES7000 server compared to using multiple Windows commodity services. The single server configuration provides vastly improved performance while offering lower TCO through reduced administration. When compared with two separate variants of UNIX, the 16-CPU Unisys ES7000 turned in matching query performance time and similar user scalability featuring the magnitude of difference in the complexity and cost of the server environment. Visit http://www.hyperion.com/products/benchmarks/ for a copy of the "Hyperion and Unisys Expand the Reach of Business Intelligence" benchmark.

"This partnership combines industry-leading Business Performance Management capabilities from Hyperion and enterprise-scale expertise from Unisys," said Mike Thomas, vice president of global solution partners for Unisys. "Unisys provides customers with the unprecedented ability to realize the performance improvements and cost benefits associated with standardized data center environments. Together, Unisys and Hyperion provide our customers with fine tuned, end to end solutions to best meet their mission critical needs."

Hyperion has been named as a Unisys Partner in Excellence for Business Intelligence and Unisys has been named a Hyperion Preferred Partner.

About Hyperion

Hyperion Solutions Corporation is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 10,000 customers -- including 91 of the Fortune 100 -- rely on Hyperion software to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance. Hyperion combines the most complete set of interoperable applications with the leading Business Intelligence platform to support and create Business Performance Management solutions. A network of more than 600 partners provides the company's innovative and specialized solutions and services.

Named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For 2004, Hyperion employs approximately 2,500 people in 20 countries. Distributors represent Hyperion in an additional 25 countries. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Hyperion generated annual revenues of $622 million for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2004. Hyperion is traded under the Nasdaq symbol HYSL. For more information, please visit www.hyperion.com, www.hyperion.com/contactus or call 800 286 8000 (U.S. only).

About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our people combine expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

"Hyperion," the Hyperion "H" logo and Hyperion's product names are trademarks of Hyperion. References to other companies and their products use trademarks owned by the respective companies and are for reference purpose only.



Barbara Maigret, 408-588-8729
barbara_maigret@hyperion.com

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