Hyperion recently announced support for Google OneBox for Enterprise, a feature of the Google Search Appliance. The new solution goes beyond the search integration offered by other Business Intelligence (BI) vendors by providing customers with access not only to BI-related dashboards, reports, metrics and other unstructured corporate content, but also to financial applications-business content such as the business rules, calculations, annotations and forms that enable Business Performance Management (BPM). All this information is now available through a single Google-powered, integrated search window.

One of the key differentiators of the Hyperion solution is its unique ability to develop, not just report, answers to queries. A search using conventional BI tools returns an answer to a query if that answer already exists in a report; otherwise, the search produces only a list of reports with related content and the user must sift through the material to locate information. The Google-powered Hyperion solution will create an appropriate answer by searching the relevant financial and operational data and automatically querying, calculating and presenting the information in real time. The data can originate from a variety of relational and multidimensional sources, such as Essbase and Enterprise analytics, star schemas, SAP-BW and financial management applications.

"The integration with Google OneBox for Enterprise is another example of Hyperion's leadership," said Howard Dresner, chief strategy officer at Hyperion. "Making BPM information readily available through the Google search paradigm demonstrates Hyperion's commitment to the notion of Information Democracy. The solution empowers knowledge workers with comprehensive, intuitive enterprise search capabilities and richer search results which can now be derived in real-time."

The Google search option -- set to be available before the end of the year -- is accessible through Hyperion's System 9 set of tools.

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Prashanth Rai