Hyperion and Brio TechnologySimply Powerful Business Intelligence

HyperionRelationship Solutions

Online Analytical ProcessingOnline Analytical Processing(OLAP) technology provides ana-lysts, managers and executiveswith fast, easy, interactive accessto extensive amounts of dataand information analysis. Byilluminating trends and pin-pointing specific relationshipswithin large volumes of data,OLAP technology enables criticalbusiness intelligence for theInternet age.

OLAP Applications Include:Enterprise PerformanceManagement• Financial consolidations,

reporting and analysis• Financial budgeting and planning• Performance measurement• Activity-based management• Profitability• Benchmarking• Strategic planning

Customer RelationshipManagement• e-Business analytics• Call center analytics• Campaign management

Supply Chain ManagementAnalytics• Trade promotion planning• Sales forecasting

Human Resources Management Analytics• Workforce planning• Procurement analytics• Compensation planning

Brio.EnterpriseTM 6.0 delivers personalizedinformation access, analysis and report-ing capabilities to every user in an organ-ization. From knowledge workers whoanalyze data and create reports to execu-tives who need insight into informationto make decisions, Brio.Enterprise 6.0delivers the right information to the rightusers with the right products—rightwhen they need it. Brio.Enterprise 6.0integrates query, analysis and reportingclient tools and an enterprise server solution that combines push-and-pulltechnology in a secure, flexible and scalable environment.

Business Intelligence Suite forHyperion® Essbase® OLAP Server

Brio.Enterprise 6.0 delivers comprehensivesupport for Hyperion Essbase and addsunique benefits for users. Brio.Enterpriseleverages Hyperion Essbase’s Grid API tosupport many Hyperion Essbase serverfeatures such as TopN/BottomN, User-defined Attributes and Select Membersfunctionality. Brio.Enterprise 6.0 deliversthe broadest set of business intelligencefunctionality in a single integrated busi-ness intelligence product. The productworks identically across the Web and aclient/server environment, supportingboth connected and disconnected analysis.

Brio.Enterprise presents an intuitive interface for query and analysis against HyperionEssbase OLAP.

The combination of Hyperion Essbaseand Brio.Enterprise enables organizationsto empower the widest range of usersacross the enterprise with a truly effec-tive business intelligence solution.

Enabling Web-based AnalyticApplications

The integration of Brio and Hyperiontechnologies introduces a complete solutionfor building and delivering analytic applica-tions for the Web-enabled enterprise.Combining JavaScript as the standardscripting language with a rich and openobject model, Brio makes it easy to developWeb-based analytic applications. Brio’spowerful, flexible, yet extraordinarilyeasy-to-use analytic application develop-ment environment allows IT organizationsto quickly provide EIS and dashboard-style access to even the most complex dataand analytical calculations in HyperionEssbase. In a very short period of time

and with minimal custom programming,an organization can fully utilize HyperionEssbase to deliver flexible and intuitivedata navigation, and provide consistent,rapid response times for all users acrossthe enterprise.

Key Brio.Enterprise 6.0 Differentiators• Brio.Query™ integrates ad hoc query,

analysis, EIS and presentation-stylereport writing with dynamic metadataintegration and a portable OLAP engine.

• Brio.Enterprise Server includes a push-and-pull technology with two servercomponents. The Broadcast™ Server is a query server that schedules andautomates query processing and reportdistribution via e-mail, networks,printers and the Web. The OnDemand™Server is a Web application server thatenables querying over the Web, zeroadministration clients, report-levelsecurity and Adaptive Reports™.

Web-enabled Executive InformationSystem (EIS) application “dashboards”present high-level, thumbnail views of data that can be instantly activatedfor further analysis and reporting.

• Brio.Insight™ delivers full interactiveOLAP inside a Web browser. It is per-fect for Web-based information con-sumers who need to go beyond staticreport viewing to perform interactiveanalysis—either while connected to theWeb or as a mobile user.

• Brio.Quickview™ presents a compellingportfolio of reports within a user’sfamiliar browser window.

Key Hyperion Essbase Differentiators

Scalability and Performance

• Speed-of-thought query response.

• Web-enabled, server-centric architec-ture with SMP support.

• Advanced attribute analysis.

• Large capacity, supporting thousandsof users analyzing hundreds of giga-bytes of data.

• Parallel data loading; dynamic and parallel calculations.

• Multi-user read/write and recalculationwith data integrity.

• Six times faster than Oracle Express inthe audited OLAP Council Benchmark.

Deployability

• Standard hardware and softwareinvestment leveraged.

• Centralized business rules sharableacross the enterprise, departments and applications.

• Applications easily developed anddeployed with graphical tools.

• New dimensions added easily; analy-tical calculations and data hierarchiesmodified without programming.

Sophisticated Analytics

• Robust server-based calculations for powerful, shared planning and analysis.

• Powerful OLAP calculation capabilities,such as aggregations, matrix calcula-tions (e.g., ratios and variances), cross-dimensional calculations (e.g., product

and customer shares), OLAP-aware for-mulas (e.g., inventory amortization)and procedural calculations (e.g., allo-cations and profitability analysis).

• Sophisticated OLAP queries, such asranking, sorting and exception report-ing, supported.

• Financial intelligence features providea logical framework for analytics (e.g.,currency mapping, sophisticated finan-cial formulas and accounting logic).

Open Architecture

• Hyperion Essbase fits easily into anorganization’s existing IT infrastruc-ture. Hyperion’s open architecture letscustomers choose from more than 50third-party desktop tools to report andanalyze information. Brio.Enterprise isa Hyperion Essbase-Ready™ productthat leverages Hyperion Essbase’s open architecture.

Brio.Enterprise Adds UniqueBenefits to Hyperion Essbase

Single, consistent query interfacefor relational and Hyperion Essbase data sources.

• Brio’s product functionality iscompletely integrated. User interfacesare the same and contained in oneproduct. Brio products share a commondocument across the product line.When accessing Hyperion Essbase,users may switch to a relationaldetailed data source within the sameproduct and the same document. Users have only one interface to learn.

Augments the powerful multidimensionalcapabilities of Hyperion Essbase.

• In Brio.Query’s PivotSheet, users inter-actively add dimensions, pivot rowsand columns to move a column to row or vice versa. Users instantly seethe data restructured and gain newperspectives on their data.

• Portable data. Once you select a spe-cific data cube to work with, you can

About Brio TechnologyBrio Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: BRYO) isthe only business intelligence softwareprovider to offer a complete platformthat addresses the decision processingneeds of today’s Web-enabled e-enter-prise. The Brio ONETM platform—whichincludes Brio.Enterprise, Brio. ReportTM

and Brio.PortalTM—enables organizationsto build and deliver business intelligence,enterprise reporting and analytic appli-cations to users in intranet and extranetenvironments, all with unmatched easeof experience. Brio ONE also enablescustomers to derive higher businessvalue from all of their enterprise infor-mation sources, including enterpriseresource planning (ERP), sales forceautomation (SFA) and customer relation-ship management (CRM) applications,as well as data marts, data warehousesand others.

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About Hyperion SolutionsThe worldwide analytic applicationsoftware leader, Hyperion SolutionsCorporation (Nasdaq: HYSL) givestoday’s knowledge workers the “freedom to succeed” with software,services and partner offerings thathelp them understand and optimizetheir businesses. More than 5,500organizations worldwide useHyperion’s family of analytic applications software.

Brio Technology, Inc.3460 West Bayshore RoadPalo Alto, CA 94303650 856 8000800 879 BRIO

www.brio.com

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disconnect from the server and takeyour “sub-cube” of data anywhere foroffline analysis.

• Drill-everywhere capabilities. Users can go beyond predefined hierarchicaldrill down. BrioQuery gives users complete flexibility to choose the level they would like to drill into.

• Ad hoc custom segmentation andgrouping. Users can break up standard-ized Hyperion Essbase dimensions to utilize them on separate axes oftheir analysis.

• Apply universal limits on HyperionEssbase data. Users can apply limitparameters once to any dimension speci-fied in Hyperion Essbase and Brio willapply these limits throughout the data.The limit cascades through the data and is not restricted only to unidirectionalcascades from other items.