Hyperion Solutions is moving ahead aggressively with the integration of Brio`s products and business into its fold following the closure in October of its $142 million acquisition of the business intelligence tools vendor.
That`s the word from Marc Scheepbouwer, CEO of Global Technology Business Intelligence (GBI), the local distributor of Hyperion`s software. He says the acquisition strengthens Hyperion`s position as the world`s leading supplier of business performance management solutions and plugs a gap in its product portfolio for a suite of dedicated query and reporting tools.
"The combination of Brio`s business intelligence tools and Hyperion`s Business Performance Management (BPM) suite of applications offers customers a single-vendor BPM infrastructure made up of query, reporting and metrics management tools as well as packaged analytic applications," says Scheepbouwer.
"Customers will be able to use the combined software to directly query transactional data sources and merge that information with the software they use for day-to-day operational and financial planning, as well as with dashboards for metrics (KPI) monitoring."
Hyperion has already re-branded the Brio product family to match the Hyperion model, and has committed to a rapid roll-out of an integrated Hyperion and Brio platform that offers customers a common environment that addresses the full spectrum of query, reporting and analysis.
By early 2004, Hyperion will launch an integrated platform that builds on the capabilities of Hyperion Metrics Builder (formerly Brio Metrics Builder) and the Hyperion platform to offer a comprehensive metrics management solution that includes KPI tracking, pre-packaged and customer dashboards and activity monitoring in a single solution.
GBI has already started selling the former Brio product range into its South African customer base and views the Brio product range as an opportunity to capture customers at an early stage in their business intelligence (BI) and BPM cycles.
Scheepbouwer says the Brio tools have a good reputation for ease of use and offer customers a lower point of entry into the BPM arena. It is also ideally priced for the small to medium enterprise looking to leverage world-class BI technology while benefiting from GBI`s rich skills base. GBI is now able to offer customers products that support their business needs as they evolve from reporting against transactional systems, to dynamic performance monitoring using key performance indicator (KPI) dashboarding, to full BPM enterprise-wide solutions.
"Hyperion and Brio have been working closely together since 1996, and Hyperion has been mulling over this acquisition for some time. The integration strategy was carefully thought through, and the two companies had complementary cultures, product ranges and technologies to start with. Hyperion now has the opportunity to leverage off both Brio`s and their own existing blue chip customer base," says Scheepbouwer.
"For those reasons, this deal is likely to be one of the more successful transactions among the recent spate of mergers and acquisitions in the business intelligence space."
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