WesCorp Improves Detailed Business Modeling with Hyperion Software

Leading Corporate Credit Union to Analyze Costs, Improve Efficiency With Business Performance Management Software

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 19, 2003 -- WesCorp has selected Hyperion (Nasdaq: HYSL) Business Performance Management solutions to maximize its return on member relationships through improved business modeling. As the nation's largest corporate credit union, WesCorp (Western Corporate Federal Credit Union) recognized the need to better understand its costs, business processes and member customers at a more detailed operational level. By implementing Hyperion software, the organization plans to improve cost structure analysis, resource planning and member services, while also streamlining companywide processes.

"We continually strive to provide excellence and value to our member customers," said David Scott, WesCorp financial planning manager. "Hyperion software delivers the ability to model what-if scenarios and proposed process changes. This will give us greater insight into our overall performance and effectiveness, leading to cost containment and improved customer service."

WesCorp oversees assets of more than $24 billion across 32 states. With nearly 1,000 member credit unions, it required a greater understanding of business volume, cost structures and customer transactions across the organization. The company selected Hyperion to arm management with the ability to better understand current member, business unit and product performance.

Through Hyperion's predictive modeling capabilities, each business unit will be able to precisely determine the resources required to manage specific business volume levels. The firm's first step will be to model processes for 19 product offerings, 31 specific activities and 49 resources across three item processing locations. This will result in assessing costs by feature, product and location. WesCorp also plans to determine profitability for each member customer based on the exact cost required to process a particular transaction. Using what-if scenarios for the first time with Hyperion software, WesCorp will be able to predict the impact of increased transaction volumes.

"In the financial services industry, the need for reducing operating costs while maintaining high customer loyalty means Business Performance Management must become an essential part of an enterprise strategy," said Nazhin Zarghamee, chief marketing officer for Hyperion. "Hyperion provides the insight needed to achieve greater decision-making, improved best practices and richer customer analysis for WesCorp. The result will be not only better business performance, but higher member satisfaction and better operating efficiency, too."

WesCorp also expects to improve best practices and trim costs from processes with Hyperion software. Hyperion applications will provide a greater understanding of what drives costs across all business units. For example, WesCorp has three centralized locations for check processing, which requires a large number of both manual and electronic steps. With Hyperion's modeling and analysis capabilities, the company will gain a more detailed understanding of costs such as labor, real estate and imaging and storage technologies. It will also be able to analyze processes to a level of detail that the previous system could not provide. By determining gains and efficiencies in one area of the business, WesCorp can pass on the benefits to its member customers through better service.

"In today's economy, it is more important than ever to have an accurate understanding of our performance, where we can become more efficient and how we can improve member services," said Scott. "Hyperion software will give us the information we need at a tactical level, but at a strategic level it will also help us to better understand our costs and use this information to improve the way we do business."

About Hyperion

Hyperion is the global leader in Business Performance Management software that enables companies to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance. More than 6,000 customers worldwide use Hyperion's Business Performance Management family of packaged and tailored applications and its leading business intelligence platform. Hyperion has a network of more than 330 partners to provide innovative and specialized Business Performance Management solutions and services.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Hyperion generated annual revenues of $492 million in fiscal 2002. The company employs more than 2,100 people in 20 countries and is represented in 16 additional countries through distributor relationships. Hyperion is traded under the Nasdaq symbol HYSL. For more information, please visit www. hyperion.com, http://www.hyperion.com/contactus or call 800-286-8000 (U.S. only).

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