About Hyperion

First things first. Before knowing about the Hyperion Essbase lets know its history. "Hyperion" is a company founded by Robert Thomson in 1981. Thomson, a native of Scotland, had worked for Citicorp in London before coming to the U.S. Thomson realized that if he could develop a software product that would make it possible for a number of users to access financial data via their personal computers rather than a mainframe, companies would pay to access this type of technology. 
Over the years, Hyperion has built a number of product and service lines, among which are Hyperion Enterprise, Hyperion Pillar, and Hyperion OLAP. Hyperion Enterprise is an application for consolidating business information and reports, bringing together numerous ledgers into a single unified whole. Development began in mid-1988, and the product debuted in July 1991. In the three years leading up to 1997, when Hyperion released its fifth edition of Hyperion Enterprise, the product accounted for some 60 percent of the company's worldwide revenues.
In 1998, Hyperion Software merged with Arbor Software Corporation, which developed and marketed Essbase OLAP server. Essbase, whose name derives from "Extended Spread Sheet dataBASE. The merge was called the "combination of the leading OLAP technology company with the leading OLAP applications company." The combined company adopted the name Hyperion Solutions Corporation.

Later in 2002 - Hyperion launched the Business Performance Management softwares.  Today in the market there are many  Business Intellegence Applications that delivers a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities. Hyperion renamed many of its products in 2005, giving Essbase an official name of Hyperion System 9 BI+ Analytic Services. Oracle Corporation acquired Hyperion Solutions Corporation in 2007, as of 2009 it markets Essbase as "Oracle Essbase."

Recent Hyperion Essbase release history is as follows:

Version 9.0 - Sep 2005 (Hypeiron System 9 BI+)

Version 9.0.1 - Dec 2005

Version 9.2 - Jun 2006

Version 9.3 - Jan 2007

Version 9.3.1 - Nov 2007

Version 11.1.1.1 - Sep 2008

Version 11.1.1.2 - Mar 2009

Version 11.1.1.3 - Aug 2009 (Essbase Crystal Ball integration, Smartview Metadata, HVE Maps)

With the release of System 9, Hyperion provided a new user interface add-in for Essbase called "SmartView for Microsoft Office". SmartView provides access to Essbase and other System 9 content for Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook as well as supplanting the previous add-in for Microsoft Excel.


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