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• Position: Hyperion System 9 BI+ introduced - Brief Article

Hyperion has introduced Hyperion System 9 BI+, which it calls "a complete business intelligence platform that addresses all types of management, financial and production reporting, and delivers highly interactive, multi-source dashboards, within a unified workspace."

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based software firm says Hyperion System 9 BI+ links a powerful and easy-to-use management reporting solution with market-leading advanced analytics for reporting against both relational and multidimensional data sources. The solution is built on a common Foundation Services layer that streamlines deployment, management and administration to increase productivity and reduce total cost of ownership.

Tobin Gilman, senior director of product marketing, said in an interview that Hyperion System 9 "represents the first industry offering that brings planning, consolidation and scorecarding with a business intelligence platform, and does so with one user experience and one back-end infrastructure."

Hyperion System 9 BI+ is the business intelligence component of Hyperion System 9, which was launched in October. Hyperion System 9, the company says, "is the most comprehensive performance management solution ever, and the first to integrate financial management applications with a BI platform into a modular system that will adapt to any business need."

Users of Hyperion System 9 BI+ will benefit from the "dramatically simplified" workspace introduced in Hyperion System 9, which Hyperion says means that end users do not have to shuffle between multiple systems and technologies to get the answers to their business questions. It provides users with one, simple interface for financial, interactive and...