Sun Microsystems and Hyperion Solutions have joined
forces to further integrate Sun's Solaris platform with Hyperion's
business intelligence (BI) applications.
Srikant Gokulnatha, director product marketing and strategy for
Hyperion, said the company has a large percentage of customers that
use Solaris.
This partnership with Sun ensures that Hyperion's products are
certified to run on Solaris, so that users deploying both platforms
will run into fewer glitches and have an easier time integrating
the products into their infrastructure, he said.
"One way customers get to a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
is by picking a solution that is already tested because the
relatively of success is much higher," Goklunatha said. This is
because users will not have to spend as much money on their systems
integration efforts.
Hyperion's products generally fall into the area of analytics
and reporting in the BI landscape with its products such as the
Hyperion Essbase family and Hyperion Business Performance
Management Suite.
Hudson Advisors has been using Hyperion's Essbase, Hyperion
Reports and Hyperion's Planning for three years. It now runs the
7.1 version of Essbase, the 7.0.1 version of Reports and the 3.51
version of Planning.
The company selected Hyperion after an analysis from Infosys
Technologies showed that Hyperion's products would be the best fit
for Hudson's needs, said Janis Hogue, chief executive officer and
senior vice-president of technology at Hudson.
Hudson runs its Hyperion products on Sun's Solaris because of
the platform's high availability, Hogue said. The
company will upgrade to Solaris 10 after its pending release in
November. Additionally, both the Solaris platform and Hyperion work
well with other components of Hudson's infrastructure.
"[Hyperion] is very friendly to our environment because we use
our Solaris and our Sun equipment for business critical systems but
[the Hyperion products] are also compatible with other systems in
our environment," she said.
These products include its storage area network (San) from
Hewlett-Packard and its Microsoft applications, Hogue said.
Hyperion also supports Microsoft Windows and Red Hat's Linux.
But with this new integration with Sun, Hyperion will also support
Sun's Java Enterprise System (JES) and its Java Desktop System
(JDS), said Michael McNerney, director, business application market
development at Sun.
Sun also has partnerships with other BI and database suppliers
other than Hyperion including Informatica, IBM, Oracle and Sybase,
McNerney said.
Rebecca Reid writes for ITWorldCanada