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Oracle and Hyperion
The New, Extended Oracle Business Intelligence:
A System for Enterprise Performance Management


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Important Information
   THIS PRESENTATION IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT AN OFFER TO BUY OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN
   OFFER TO SELL ANY SECURITIES. THE SOLICITATION AND THE OFFER TO BUY SHARES OF HYPERION’S COMMON STOCK WILL
   ONLY BE MADE PURSUANT TO AN OFFER TO PURCHASE AND RELATED MATERIALS THAT ORACLE INTENDS TO FILE WITH THE
   SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. ONCE FILED, HYPERION STOCKHOLDERS SHOULD READ THESE MATERIALS CAREFULLY
   PRIOR TO MAKING ANY DECISIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE OFFER BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION,
   INCLUDING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE OFFER. ONCE FILED, HYPERION STOCKHOLDERS WILL BE ABLE TO OBTAIN
   THE OFFER TO PURCHASE AND RELATED MATERIALS WITH RESPECT TO THE OFFER FREE OF CHARGE AT THE SEC’S WEBSITE AT
   WWW.SEC.GOV, FROM THE INFORMATION AGENT NAMED IN THE TENDER OFFER MATERIALS OR FROM ORACLE.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
   This document contains certain forward-looking statements about Oracle and Hyperion.  When used in this
   document, the words "anticipates", "may", "can", "believes", "expects", "projects", "intends", "likely",
   similar expressions and any other statements that are not historical facts, in each case as they relate to
   Oracle and Hyperion, the management of either such company or the transaction are intended to identify those
   assertions as forward-looking statements.  In making any such statements, the person making them believes
   that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions.  However, any such statement may be influenced by
   factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected or
   anticipated.  These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties.  There are
   various important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in any such
   forward-looking statements, many of which are beyond the control of Oracle and Hyperion, including: the
   impact of general economic conditions in regions in which either such company currently does business,
   industry conditions, including competition, fluctuations in exchange rates and currency values, capital
   expenditure requirements, legislative or regulatory requirements, changes in the tax laws, interest rates
   and access to capital markets.  The actual results or performance by Oracle or Hyperion could differ
   materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements.  Accordingly, no
   assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire
   or occur, or if any of them do so, what impact they will have on the results of operations or financial
   condition of Oracle or Hyperion.


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The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is
intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or
functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described
for Oracle's products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.


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Agenda
o   Market Strategy Overview
o   Product Strategy Overview
o   Customer & Partner Success
o   Summary


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Market Strategy


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What We Are Announcing
o   Oracle has agreed to acquire Hyperion
    o   Cash tender offer of $52.00 per share
    o   Approximately $3.3 billion in the aggregate
    o   Transaction expected to close in April 2007, subject to regulatory and
          other approvals

o   About Hyperion

    o   Leading provider of Performance Management solutions, OLAP, Financial
          Planning and Consolidation
    o   Public company with trailing twelve month revenues in excess of $830
          million (12/31/06)
    o   HQ Santa Clara; 2,900 Employees; 12,000+ Customers
    o   Accelerates Oracle's product strategy
    o   Business Intelligence & Performance Management Converging Rapidly
    o   Hyperion brings best-of-breed, heterogeneous Performance Management and
          complementary BI products to Oracle's offering
    o   Combination offers industry's only complete and integrated Performance
          Management System - combining EPM & Operational BI


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Hyperion Strategic Importance to Oracle

o   Performance Management rapidly growing software segment
o       Estimated to reach $7.0 billion in 2009; 11%+ CAGR growth
o       Top priority for executives and Boards of Directors
o       Financial planning extending to full enterprise business planning

o   Complements Oracle's existing product strengths
o       Adds leading open enterprise planning system
o       Adds high-growth, leading financial consolidation products
o       Adds powerful multi-source OLAP server
o       Extends Oracle's global distribution channels with domain expertise

o   Why now?
o       Performance Management & Business Intelligence converging rapidly
o       First integrated, end-to-end Performance Management System - combining
          EPM & Operational BI
o       Enables "closed loop" decision making - from Strategy to Planning to
          Consolidation to Operational Analytics to Actionable Insight
o       Together offer industry's most complete and best product line
o       Differentiates Oracle from other Business Intelligence vendors


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Why Hyperion?

o   Category leader in Performance Management Software
    o   Rated as a Leader in Corporate Performance Management and Business
          Intelligence Platforms
    o   Leader in OLAP, Planning, and Financial Consolidation
    o   Complimentary Products enable rapid integration of Suites
    o   Successfully implemented at over 12,000 global customers

o   Strong reputation and established relationships with CFOs
    o   Strong domain expertise in financial and performance management
    o   Helps Oracle sell complementary products into the CFO office
    o   Strengthens Oracle's expansion into SAP base

o   Experienced global organization
    o   Highly skilled and experienced product development team
    o   Global sales expertise, strong services and support capability
    o   Excellent support and adoption by global system integrators

o   Oracle and Hyperion are already partners
    o   Hyperion is a member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN)
    o   Hyperion is an Oracle customer - runs e-Business Suite and Siebel


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Select Hyperion & Oracle Joint Customers


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Organizational Model
o   Hyperion Development Organization
    o   Will be part of Oracle's Business Intelligence Development Team
    o   Will be retaining all US & multi-shore development locations
    o   Will be retained intact - focus on accelerating investments

o   Hyperion Support & Consulting Organizations
    o   Will be integrated with Oracle Support & Consulting

o   Hyperion Sales Organization
    o   Will be retained intact in each geography - US, EMEA, APAC, LAD
    o   Will also sell some Oracle Analytic Applications - eg. Financial
          Analytics - Complete EPM & Operational Analytic Applications

o   Oracle Business Intelligence Sales
    o   Will be retained intact in each geography - US, EMEA, APAC, LAD
    o   Will also sell Hyperion's Business Intelligence Tools

o   Focused on accelerating growth and capturing share
    o   Oracle will double sales organization for these products globally


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Product Strategy


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Product Strategy Drivers

From:                                             To:
----------------------------------------          ---------------------------------------
Analysts                                ======>   Pervasive use

Historical data                         ======>   Real-time, predictive data

Fragmented view                         ======>   Unified, enterprise view

Reporting results                       ======>   Insight-driven business process
                                                  optimization

Analytic tools                          ======>   Unified infrastructure and
                                                  prebuilt analytic solutions

Planning silos with limited BI          ======>   Enterprise Performance
                                                  Management System


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Product Strategy
Overview

o   Integrated Business Intelligence Tools
    o   Comprehensive, Integrated, Best-of-Breed Business Intelligence
        Infrastructure
o   Integrated Business Intelligence Database
    o   Business Intelligence Functions Integrated in Database
o   Integrated Enterprise Performance Management System
    o   Integrated, Enterprise Wide, & Industry Specific Performance Management
        and Analytic Applications


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The New, Extended Oracle BI
A System for Enterprise Performance Management

Oracle Business Intelligence

BI and Performance                      o   perational Business Intelligence Applications
Management Applications                 o   erformance Management Applications
                                        o   ntegrated with each other


BI Tools and Foundation                 o   Best-of-breed Business Intelligence Tools
                                        o   Integrated BI Foundation
                                        o   Enterprise Semantic Model
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hot-Pluggable   Works with any information technology
                environment - Oracle, non-Oracle, or mixed
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Oracle BI Tools and Foundation
Extended and Unified Business Intelligence Infrastructure

                      Common Enterprise Information Model

               Intelligent Caching Services
Oracle         Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine
BI Server      Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services


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Common Enterprise Information Model
Enables Consistency, Reuse, Ease of Understanding

    o   User roles, preferences
==> o   Simplified view            Role-based views of the information
    o   Logical SQL interface

    o   Dimensions
    o   Hierarchies
    o   Measures                   Consistent definition of business measures,
==> o   Calculations               metrics, calculations
    o   Aggregation Rules
    o   Time Series

    o   Map Physical Data
==> o   Connections                Model once, deploy anywhere
    o   Schema

                                   Across any data sources

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Oracle BI Applications
An Enterprise Performance Management System

Reporting      Scoreboarding            Analytic Apps       Planning
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Modeling       Planning       Budgeting      Financial Management     Consolidation       Scorecards
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sales &        Service &           Human          Order               Supply    Verticals
Marketing      Contact Center      Resources      Management          Chain
                                                  & Fulfillment
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                 Common Enterprise Information Model

                               Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

OLTP & ODS     Data Warehouse      Essbase        SAP, Oracle              Files          Business
Systems        Data Mart                          PeopleSoft, Siebel,      Excel          Process
                                                  Custom Apps              XML
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Enterprise Performance Management System
Oracle with Hyperion

Required for
o   etter information
o   etter insight
o   etter plans
o   etter decisions
o   etter actions
o   etter performance
o   etter results


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Product Integration


                                        Insight
                                      Performance
                                        Action

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Set Goals      Model          Plan      Monitor        Analysis       Report

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From Plan to Analysis
Financial Example

Financial
Plan

          Financial Metrics,
          KPIs, Scorecards

                              Financial
                              Consolidation

                                                  Financial Analytics
                                                  (Operational BI)

Management &
Statutory Reporting

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Set Goals and Strategy
Hyperion Business Performance Architect

KPIs
Business Rules
Supporting Detail
Mark-up and Workflow


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Define Model to Capture Strategy
Hyperion Planning & Scenario Modeling Tools

Scenarios
Simulation
Adjustment Logic
Mark-up and Workflow
Analytic Facts and Measures


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Define Plans to Align with Strategy
Hyperion Planning & Oracle BI Applications

Strategy Definition                Sales & Revenue Plan      ==    Field Reps
                                   Marketing Plan                  Telesales Reps
Objectives & KPIs             ==   Manufacturing Plan              Sales Accelerators
                                   HRMS Plan                       Sales Comp Plan
Corporate Plan Drivers                                                   |
(e.g., Financial Plan)                                                   |
                                                                    Analytic Facts
                                                                      & Measures

                                                                 Operational Business
                                                               Intelligence Applications

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Monitor KPIs via Alerts
Oracle Notification & Alerting Infrastructure

E-mail                   Priority-based Delivery
(POP/IMAP)               Routing & Delivery Rules
                         Time-based Conditions              Oracle BI Applications
Pager                    Data-driven Conditions             & BI Server

SMS/Voice                                                   Hyperion EPM
                                                            Applications

                                                            Hyperion Enterprise
                                                            Analytics

                                                            Metrics & KPIs

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Consolidate Information for Analysis
Hyperion Financial Management & Consolidation

                              Financial
                              Data Quality


Core Financial           Financial                          Other
Systems                  Consolidation System               Financial
                                                            Sources


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Analyze Information
Drill to Detail to Understand Problems - Operational BI

Oracle BI Applications             Performance Mgmt Applications           Essbase Analytics
--------------------------------   -----------------------------------     ---------------------------
                                   Logical Request Parser

                                   Intelligent Query Execution             Catalog

BI Foundation                      Cache Manager                           Metadata Mgr.

                                   Functional Compensation                 Scheduler

                                   Optimized SQL/MDX Gen.

                                   Data Access

                                         Function shipping
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Relational          OLAP           Business            Unstructured        Mainframe
Sources             Sources        Applications        Sources


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Integrate Data for Analysis                                 Analysis
Oracle & Hyperion Data Quality,
Oracle Data Integration


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Identify Root Cause of Problem
Integrated Metadata Lineage - Planning to Source Data       Analysis

                                                       Strategy &
                                                       Objectives

                                                       Goals, KPIs
                                                       & Plans

                                                       Planning
                                                       Drivers

OLTP                     App Data        Logical       Analytic
Source         ETL       Warehouse       Mapping       Facts &
                                                       Measures


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Generate Reports
Statutory, Operational, and Managerial

Business                           HTML
User
                                   Excel

                                   PDF

                                   RTF
Report Distributor
Report Generator                   XML
Layout Formatter
Job Scheduler                      Word

                                   PPT

                                   EDI

                                   EFT

                                   XBRL

OLTP &        Data Warehouse       SAP, Oracle         Essbase
ODS           Data Mart            PSFT, Siebel
                                   Custom Apps


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   Drive Action in Operational Systems
   Insight to Action via Action Framework

Action

1. Conditional Alerting

Analytic Facts & Measures
Business KPIs
Data-Driven Conditions
Time-Driven Conditions


2. In-Context Analysis

Across Planning and Operational Analytic Systems


3. Insight Driving
   Action

Transaction System
Change


BPEL
Analytic Workflow


ERP & CRM
Applications
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Compare to Strategy & Goals
"Close the Loop" with Hyperion Scorecards


Set
Goals

Report

Model

Analysis

Plan

Monitor

Insight
Performance
Action

Operational Scorecards

Strategy & Objectives

Business KPIs

Operational Scorecards

Align Operations with Plans

Planning
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Hyperion Already Integrates with Oracle
Customers Can Get Value Immediately


o    Hyperion integrates with Oracle Database

     o    Supports Oracle RAC as a data source

o    Hyperion integrates with Oracle Fusion Middleware

     o    Application Server

     o    Enterprise Portal: integrate analytics into a common portal

     o    Identity Management: provide enterprise single sign-on

     o    Business Intelligence Server as a Data Source for Essbase

o    Hyperion integrates with Oracle Applications

     o    All of Oracle's Enterprise Applications product lines

     o    Over 4,000 Hyperion customers use Oracle Applications

o    Oracle Business Intelligence integrates with Hyperion

     o    ESSBASE and Interactive Reporting are Data Sources

o    Well-defined product integration roadmap

     o    Critical enablers for product integration complete (e.g., data source)

     o    Other key design elements have been well defined

     o    Oracle & Hyperion will provide clear product roadmap to customers

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Example: Unified Executive Portal
Contextual Integration across Products

Planning Scorecards

Contextual,
Drill-across Integration

Execution (Workflow) Analysis/Analytic Application

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Example: Unified Analytics
Oracle Analytic Server & ESSBASE

Oracle Analytics Web
(Presentation Layer)

Oracle Analytic Server\

SQL             MDX


Relational Source

ESSBASE Source


ESSBASE

SQL

Oracle Analytic Server

SQL

Relational Source

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Exploit Existing Customer Investments
Continued Integration with Heterogeneous Environments

Portals

Any JSR 168 Portal

Analytic Tools
and Reporting

Oracle BI, HYSL, BOBJ, COGN, MSTR, Actuate ..

Applications

Oracle EBS, Siebel, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards ..

Desktop Tools

Excel, Outlook,
Lotus Notes ..

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System
Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation

Security

Oracle
Kerberos
iPlanet
MSFT AD
Novell
Custom
Others ..

Data Access

Oracle RDBMS
Oracle OLAP Option
Microsoft SQL Server & Analysis Services
IBM DB2
Teradata
Essbase
SAP BW
XML, Excel, Text
Others ..

ETL

Oracle Data Integrator (Sunopsis)
Oracle Warehouse Builder
Informatica
Ascential
Others ..
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Oracle Performance Management System
Benefits SAP R/3 & mySAP Customers Today

BI & Performance Management Applications

Reporting   Scorecarding        Analytic Apps   Planning

Common Enterprise Information Model
Oracle BI Foundation

SAP BW  SAP R/3   Heterogeneous

Oracle provides the ideal
Performance Management
System for SAP Customers and
Heterogeneous Environments

o   BI Applications integrate with R/3

o   Planning, Budgeting and Consolidations work with SAP

o   BI Foundation supports optimized access to SAP BW
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Future Product Directions
Some Initiative Areas

o    Enterprise Performance Management

     o    Integrated Planning, Consolidation, & Operational Analytics

     o    For all Lines of Business - Finance, HRMS, Sales, SCM, Verticals

o    Enterprise Semantic Model

     o    Comprehensive Model spanning EPM & Operational Analytics

     o    Integrated Data Quality, Profiling, Cleansing, and Data Lineage

o    Pervasive Business Insight

     o    Search-based Access with Ubiquitous Multi-channel Access

     o    Information Transparency with Enhanced Visualization & Exploration

o    Real Time Predictive Analysis & Forecasting

     o    Real Time Activity Monitoring, Predictive Analytics and Forecasting

     o    Near Real time Integration across Operational & Management Systems

o    Insight Driven Actions

     o    From Guided Analytics to Analytic Workflow to Operational Systems

     o    Integrated with Web 2.0 & Real Time Collaboration Systems

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Product Strategy
Key Differentiators

o    Enterprise Semantic Model

     o    Model Centric vs. Report Centric Analytics

o    Pervasive Business Insight

     o    Empower Business Users with Embedded Insight

o    Real Time Predictive Insight

     o    Activity Monitoring and Predictive Analytics

o    Insight Driven Actions

     o    Contextual Visualization with Guided Decisions

o    Business Process Optimization

     o    Sense & Respond with Intelligent Business Processes

o    Fastest Time to Value

     o    Pre-Packaged Analytic Applications

o    Enterprise Performance Management System

     o    First integrated, end-to-end Performance Management System - combining
          EPM & Operational BI

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Customer and
Partner Success

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Expected Customer & Partner Benefits
Continued Commitment to Heterogeneous Environments

o    Hyperion Customers

     o    Oracle will protect, extend and evolve customers' investments

     o    Increased R&D investment in Hyperion products

     o    Extends products with operational analytic applications and BI tools

     o    Access to Oracle's global support and services organizations

o    Oracle Customers

     o    Best-of-breed Enterprise Performance Management System

     o    Enhanced and complete suite of Business Intelligence tools

     o    Complements Oracle Database, Middleware, Applications

     o    Access to Hyperion domain expertise in financial management

o    Oracle & Hyperion Partners

     o    ISVs: Broader opportunities to embed technology

     o    SIs: Strategic partner for best and most complete BI and Performance
          Management applications and technology; Joint advisory to CFOs

     o    VARs: Expanded opportunities for value-added solutions

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BT
Joint Customer Example

o    Heterogeneous environment

     o    Oracle e-Business Suite

     o    Oracle's Siebel CRM

     o    Thousands of operational systems

o    Oracle BI is enterprise BI standard, in use in multiple organizations

o    Hyperion System 9 selected by finance organization for financial reporting
     and operational metrics

o    Using Oracle BI and Hyperion System 9 for better strategic, operational and
     tactical decisions

o    Would benefit from integration
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Cisco Systems
Joint Customer Example

o    Over 15,000 worldwide users of Oracle BI

     o    Every manager worldwide uses HR dashboards

     o    Top 500 executives get real-time business view

     o    Sales, Marketing, and engineering

     o    Enterprise standard

o    Approx. 2,000 users for Finance expense tracking

     o    Budget vs Actual, headcount and capital data reporting

     o    40% of users outside finance organization

o    Customer has requested Oracle BI EE interoperate with Essbase
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Oracle & Hyperion Together
Broadest Set of Business Intelligence Partners

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Summary

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The New, Extended Oracle BI
A System for Enterprise Performance Management

o    Leading and most comprehensive BI tools and technology

o    Leading and most comprehensive BI and performance management applications

o    Driving the evolution of Performance Management and BI

o    Broadest sales and distribution capability

o    Immediate benefit to Hyperion and Oracle customers and partners
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Leadership Product Strategy
Integrating Enterprise Performance Management and BI

o    Provides industry's first end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management
     System

     o    Align operational intelligence with strategy: Better insight

     o    Align operational decisions with strategy: Better decisions

     o    From Insight to Action: Drives better results more quickly

o    Built on integrated and modern foundation

     o    Most complete and integrated BI tools and BI applications

     o    With a unified and consistent view of enterprise intelligence

o    Fundamentally differentiated from other BI Vendors

     o    First integrated, end-to-end Performance Management System - combining
          EPM & Operational BI

     o    Most Complete, best-of-breed Tools & Analytic Applications

o    Fundamentally differentiated from other Applications Vendors

     o    Other Applications Vendors EPM & BI Solutions not best-of-breed

     o    Other Vendors - Not open to heterogeneous data & applications

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Next Steps

o    Public Announcement

     o    March 1, 2007

o    Communicate with all Stakeholders

     o    Press & Analyst Briefings: Week of March 5, 2007

     o    Customer Briefings: Week of March 5, 2007

o    Complete Transaction

     o    Obtain required approvals and satisfy conditions to closing

     o    Expect to close in April 2007

o    More information can be found at:

     o    www.Oracle.com/Hyperion or www.Hyperion.com

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