Oracle to Buy Hyperion for $3.3 Billion 52
Oolala submitted an article that opens: "Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG.
The deal announced Thursday will give Oracle an arsenal of Hyperion products that are widely used by SAP's customers. Hyperion's tools, known as "business intelligence" software, help chief financial officers and other top corporate executives track their company's performance."
Buzzword alert (Score:1, Insightful)
Turnabout (Score:3, Insightful)
Nasty! (Score:4, Insightful)
It's interesting that the arena that these guys play in is so small, yet worth so much money.
Re:Buzzword alert (Score:3, Insightful)
Just for interest's sake, analysis means to take apart, while synthesis means to bring together, I think.
Consolidation may not work well (Score:3, Insightful)
However the Hyperion suite is very much end of the food chain, after the fact. It relies on other operational/transactional systems to produce the data. Thus its independence was an advantage. Its ETL is somewhat weak & support patchy so possibly Oracle can help there. However Oracle are a direct competitor to the other operational/transactional systems (e.. Teradata,IBM, SAP etc)