Hyperion Solutions


Hyperion Solutions Corporation was a software company located in Santa Clara, California, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2007. Many of its products were targeted at the business intelligence and business performance management markets, and were developed and sold as Oracle Hyperion products.
Hyperion Solutions was formed from the merger of Hyperion Software and Arbor Software in 1998.

History

  • 1981 - IMRS founded by Bob Thomson and Marco Arese
  • 1983 - IMRS launches financial and management consolidation software called "Micro Control"
  • 1985 - IMRS hires Jim Perakis as CEO; he remains in this position during growth from $1M to almost $300M
  • 1991 - IMRS becomes a public company and launches a Windows-based successor to 'Micro Control' called 'Hyperion'
  • 1992 - Arbor Software ships first version of Essbase Online Analytical processing OLAP software
  • 1995 - Due to the success of the "Hyperion" product IMRS changes name to "Hyperion Software Corporation" and the name of the product is changed to "Hyperion Enterprise." Arbor becomes a publicly held company
  • 1997 - Arbor acquires Appsource
  • 1998 - Hyperion Software merges with Arbor and the combined company is renamed Hyperion Solutions
  • 1999 - Jeffrey Rodek named as Hyperion Chairman and CEO of Hyperion. Hyperion acquires Sapling Corporation
  • 2001 - Godfrey Sullivan is named Hyperion President and COO
  • 2003 - Hyperion acquires Brio Technology and The Alcar Group
  • 2004 - Hyperion names Jeffrey Rodek Executive Chairman; Godfrey Sullivan President and CEO
  • 2005 - Hyperion acquires Razza Solutions and appoints Northdoor as a reseller in the UK and Ireland.
  • 2006 - Hyperion acquires UpStream
  • 2006 - Hyperion acquires Beatware
  • 2007 - Hyperion acquired Decisioneering.
Oracle Corporation announced on March 1, 2007 it had agreed to purchase Hyperion Solutions Corporation for $3.3 billion in cash.
The transaction was completed on April 18, 2007 and Hyperion now operates as a division of Oracle.
Oracle extended support for most Hyperion products to at least 2036.
Hyperion BI tools were bundled into Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition.

Market

Vendors in the business intelligence space are often categorized into:
Hyperion software products included: