HYSL Hyperion Solutions (MM)

To meet their business performance and financial management requirements, banking institutions around the world are using banking solutions from Hyperion (Nasdaq Global Select: HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management (BPM) software. Over 90 percent of companies within the commercial banking segment of the Fortune 1000 and many leading EU banking institutions use Hyperion BPM solutions to improve performance throughout their organizations. Customers rely on Hyperion to drive collaborative and integrated event-based planning processes, monitor credit risk more effectively and improve branch operational performance. Market and competitive challenges remain high for banking companies due to ongoing consolidation and economic difficulties, ever-increasing levels of regulation and a demanding customer base. Banks face continued pressure to focus on core business strategy, operational efficiencies and customer relationships, with the overarching directive to tightly align technology investments with business needs. Hyperion provides banking institutions with solutions that support their performance management vision and meet the global management reporting challenges of their distinct lines of business. Hyperion�s banking solutions currently in use by many global customers address a variety of BPM needs, including balance sheet planning, corporate credit portfolio analytics and retail branch performance. Hyperion Planning Fifth Third Bank, one of the largest banks in the U.S. with nearly $106 billion in assets, is gaining a strategic competitive advantage from Hyperion�s BPM solutions. Fifth Third uses Hyperion Planning to support its bank-wide financial planning and forecasting processes while providing the balance sheet drivers behind the forecast and plan at corporate and divisional levels. Fifth Third�s strategic needs, manifested by its reengineered planning and forecasting mechanisms, included a solution that would support the bank�s growth plans � specifically driven by acquired assets and people. Previously, finance selected the key metrics at the corporate level and then created its own top level forecast. These high level forecasts failed to provide enough detail or the relevant insights necessary to drive the business and forecast with confidence down through the lines of business. In addition, it was extremely difficult to analyze and compare the sales structure, the respective banking centers, or affiliates. �Forecast review conversations were quite lengthy, with too much time spent talking about the validity of the numbers and not the strategy; it was difficult to forecast performance of functional areas and affiliate performance in an integrated fashion,� said Bret Furtwengler, vice president of financial systems at Fifth Third. �Hyperion Planning allows Fifth Third to monitor, manage and hold people accountable to business plans down to the individual banking center level, and to better understand variances to plan and forecast through the incorporated business drivers at the divisional, or line of business, level.� Fifth Third�s ultimate goal is to deliver more granular data to each of its operating divisions, providing actionable feedback to both line of business and financial users. Hyperion Planning now provides a robust platform for sustainable, measurable and corrective actions that supports the management of meaningful data across the bank and serves as the underpinning for the critical conversations that move Fifth Third�s business forward. Hyperion Corporate Credit The Hyperion corporate credit solution, a powerful credit modeling and reporting solution, is also used by many customers to quickly assess the full financial impact of various portfolio strategies. Rather than spending valuable time building and maintaining spreadsheet modeling tools, Hyperion�s corporate credit solution delivers packaged financial modeling and forecasting. This allows banking customers to invest time evaluating lending strategies, investigating contingency plans and understanding the impact of these strategies and plans on the long-term investment performance of various divisions. Hyperion�s corporate credit solution allows organizations to produce financial models with integrity and transparency to minimize risk and create efficiencies. Hyperion Branch Performance The branch performance management solution from Hyperion helps retail banks efficiently target products and services and measure the effectiveness and impact of each product on branch performance. Hyperion branch performance management enables retail banks to better understand the true costs to deliver a product and the contribution each product makes to the branch. Using this information, banks can make strategic decisions that impact both profitability and workforce capacity. By assessing and better understanding the performance of specific customer segments and related offers, retail banks can continually offer tailored products and services by customer segment, grow assets under management, develop best practices across their entire network and increase market share. For more information on Hyperion software-based solutions for banking, visit: http://www.hyperion.com/solutions/industry_solutions/ financial_services/. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) About Hyperion Hyperion Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq Global Select: HYSL) is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 12,000 customers in 90 countries rely on Hyperion both for insight into current business performance and to drive performance improvement. With Hyperion software, businesses collect, analyze and share data across the organization, linking strategies to plans and monitoring execution against goals. Hyperion integrates financial management applications with a business intelligence platform into a single management system for the global enterprise. 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Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to the company's ability to retain and attract key employees, the successful and timely development of new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, customer demand, and technological shifts. For a more detailed discussion of factors that could affect the company's performance and cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, interested parties should review the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Report on Form 10-K filed on September 1, 2006�and the Report on Form 10-Q filed on�February 8, 2007. The company does not undertake an obligation to update its forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.