Santa Clara, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - February 22, 2007 - Business Performance Management (BPM) software firm, Hyperion, has been engaged by more than 40 business schools, for its business intelligence (BI) solutions and BPM resources through a 24×7 hosted model.

Business school faculty are enhancing the learning experience of students with access to over half-a-million dollars in BI software, hours of computer-based training, and an array of presentations and other teaching materials from Hyperion. In addition, utilizing Hyperion resources through a hosted model allows faculty to focus on teaching rather than on system administration and technical support issues.

Driven by increasingly complex compliance and reporting requirements, the BI and analytics systems deployed by businesses are quickly evolving along with the skills needed to manage and utilize these systems. As BI becomes more widely embraced and broadly utilized, it becomes more important for business schools to integrate BI into their curriculum. Even with software grants from providers, installation and maintenance expenses make integrating these tools into the classroom largely cost prohibitive. Providing hosted access, however, to Hyperion System 9 BI+ Interactive Reporting gives academic institutions an affordable way to enhance their courses and better prepare the next generation of business leaders to use BI reporting, query, and dashboard tools they will encounter in the real world.

Mark Conway, Director of Hyperion’s Academic Alliance Program explained, “The goal of Hyperion’s Academic Alliance Program is to enrich business and management education curricula and students’ learning opportunities through hands-on access to the leading performance management and business intelligence solutions used in the industry today. By offering tools and learning experiences relevant to business and technology trends, business schools are arming their students with the skills that will make them more attractive to prospective employers.”

Hyperion has partnered with companies such as Citrix and the Center for Remote Enterprise Hosting (CRESH) to enable the hosted BI solution for the Hyperion Academic Alliance. Citrix provides solutions that enable organizations to centrally deploy and manage applications, provide secure access based on each user’s role and defined needs, ensure system and data security, facilitate rapid application deployment, and guarantee system performance. CRESH, a specialized ASP, provides colleges and universities around the world with 24×7 access to the latest Hyperion System 9 BI+ Interactive Reporting module. CRESH runs the server farm data center, manages the environment, administers student sign-ups, and oversees all technical issues.

A number of tools from Hyperion make it easy for faculty to keep their curriculum up to date and relevant by implementing the Hyperion environment in the classroom. Hyperion’s Academic Alliance site offers a simple way to introduce students to BPM and BI concepts and a faculty landing page organizes web content, including white papers, webcasts, demos, and analyst reports. Hyperion’s web resources are also accessible through the Teradata University Network’s faculty portal – one of the partner programs Hyperion works with to better connect Hyperion to the academic community.

Dr. Hugh Watson, Senior Director of the Teradata University Network and Professor of MIS in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia added, “Hyperion’s resources are a tremendous ‘gift’ to the academic community. It gives faculty the resources needed to educate today’s students about the latest thinking, practices, and software for BI and BPM. My students appreciate the state-of-the-art materials that I am able to bring to my BI classes.”

Hyperion Solutions Corporation is a Business Performance Management software. Hyperion customers include over 12,000 customers in 90 countries so that businesses can 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.

For more information about Hyperion, please visit: www.hyperion.com.

To learn more about the Center for Remote Enterprise Hosting (CRESH), please visit: www.cresh.net.