What? Oracle buying Hyperion?

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What? Oracle buying Hyperion?

Written by Nilesh Jethwa

Found a post on Mark Rittman’s blog mentioning the news about Oracle buying Hyperion

This news just made my head spin! What can I say?

One thing is for sure, Oracle is trying to duplicate the product line-up.

It seems for every category, Oracle now has duplicate products as a result of all the acquisitions.

The major impact could be on the CPM product line-up. What is the fate of Financial Consilodation Hub (FCH), Enterprise Planning and Budgeting and the likes?

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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Oracle Corp., the world’s top database software maker, is near an agreement to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp., which makes software that lets companies analyze and track their performance, for about $3 billion, The New York Times said on Wednesday in its online edition.

The transaction is expected to be announced as soon as Thursday, and terms were not immediately available, the newspaper said citing unnamed people briefed on the transaction.

Under the direction of CEO Larry Ellison, Oracle has acquired several rival companies in the last few years.

Oracle and Hyperion did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Oracle is based in Redwood City, California, and Hyperion in Santa Clara, California.

Hyperion (Charts) shares closed on Wednesday at $42.84, giving the company a market value of about $2.53 billion based on reported shares outstanding. Oracle (Charts) shares closed at $16.43. Both companies’ shares trade on the Nasdaq.“

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One Comment to “What? Oracle buying Hyperion?”

Dylan Wan Says:
March 5th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
This deal is more a complimentary then a duplication.

The major duplications are in the area of EPB, Financial Consolidation Hub, and other CPM products, existing duplcated products from both E-Business suite and PeopleSoft. I think that FCH is a strong product from E-Business suite but the market may not see it as strong as Hyperion. For EPB, I think that the answer may be obvious for many people.

The other BI analyical applications seem not a duplication to the BI Analytical Applications. I do not know direct Oracle equivalent to those Hyperion products.

The embedded BI or the BI with a more embeded nature (such as DBI) cannot be totally or easily replaced by a 3rd party solution.

Fusion BI is the thing to watch. I am not sure what will happen. Fusion BI is just a portion of the Fusion product.

Dylan
http://dylanwan.worpress.com