From Hyperion to Oracle Hyperion, What’s cooking in the backyard?

As we know, Oracle Corporations in its need to make a mark on Business Intelligence space and its vision for Fusion Middleware package acquired Hyperion Solutions Corporations in 2007. Hyperion system 9 was the last version released by Hyperion Solutions Corporations.

Since then, it’s all been Oracle. With much fanfare and with a new name, new look was launched Oracle EPM system 11.1.1.1.

Going into the Technicalities, a lot changed, few notable were the common installer package for all products, a new look Life Cycle Management, entire Directory structure change for all products, planning applications now getting created in the workspace itself, number of end user features etc. all this along with number of new EPM products released.

Further, with aggressive marketing strategies and much hype was launched much awaited Oracle EPM system 11.1.2.

This release was a completely different package altogether and had shades of Developer and End User Experience which showcased that this is no longer Hyperion product; it’s purely an Oracle product. Though number of bugs, it had Sublime documentation of every component, complete overhaul of look and feel and directory structure of the products, WebLogic Web Server being promoted with restricted license along with Sun Solaris operating system.

With these newer versions, the end user experience has been upgraded. But yes, all this come at a cost of very high system requirements from disk space, RAM and overall stability of the system.

This was a summary of technical transition. From a Business stand point, Oracle Hyperion almost completely eliminated the dependencies on third party software’s. Along with Hyperion Solutions Corporation, followed acquisition of WebLogic in 2008, further adding to the feature was the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010. There was a pattern and a thoughtful brain behind these acquisitions.

With WebLogic, it now had the in house web server. With Sun Microsystems, it got hold of java programming language and Sun Solaris operating system. Web server, java and an operating system was core to all Oracle products. Earlier, it had to adhere to the licensing terms of these third party software’s, which were now in house.

The next we can expect is the integration of OBIEE and EPM. Let's see, how does it unfold?