At the end of 2003, Hyperion acquired Brio Software which now forms part of Hyperion's comprehensive Business Management suite of products. The Brio product range has been renamed - so that Brio Intelligence becomes Hyperion Intelligence. Details of the acquisition can be found on the Hyperion web site ( www.hyperion.com/news_events/brio ).

On the strength of many and varied projects, Maddox Ford provides a full-range of Hyperion consulting and on-site training services. We are a Hyperion Consultancy Partner with expertise in the full range of Hyperion products and an Accredited Hyperion Software end-user Training Partner. Furthermore, we have experience of developing decision support/business intelligence applications stretching back many years.

The management of information is central to e-business success. Informed decision making needs rapid access to accurate and relevant business information. In the knowledge economy, those organisations that are best equipped to isolate and respond to key information assets will be the most successful.

Hyperion provides a suite of business performance and intelligence tools that offer a complete, integrated, analytic infrastructure. Incorporated under the Hyperion Performance Suite solution they comprise:

Hyperion Intelligence

An integrated suite of business intelligence tools for querying, OLAP analysis and analytical reporting across the extended e-business enterprise. Developed for users of all types (from executives to analysts and power users), it is easy to administer and, via JavaScript, allows custom business intelligence applications to be built and easily deployed.

Hyperion SQR

An enterprise data transformation and reporting tool, optimised for high-speed, high-volume reporting in intranet and extranet environments. It accesses and processes data directly from multiple enterprise systems.

Hyperion Performance Suite

Hyperion Performance Suite (formerly Brio Performance Suite 8) combines Hyperion Intelligence and Hyperion SQR into an integrated suite, allowing you to extract business intelligence from any data source and broadly distribute it to employees, customers and partners.

Maddox Ford Hyperion publications and utilities

Maddox Ford have presented papers on aspects of Hyperion Intelligence development at the last two Brio user conferences - copies of these papers and associated demonstration software are available for download. Our developers have created a range of utility software to assist in the creation of Hyperion queries and EIS pages. We use this software to speed-up the development of complex Hyperion Intelligence reports. Samples of our JavaScript utilities are available for you to review and use here. Copies of our conference presentations can be found at:
Maddox Ford at Brio 2002
Maddox Ford at Brio 2001

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