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MIAMI -- In a presentation today at IBM's annual Customer Solutions Summit, Hyperion (NASDAQ:HYSL) Product Marketing Director Don MacTavish called for a new era of performance accountable organizations. In his comments, MacTavish referenced the long-standing IBM-Hyperion relationship and said today's elite companies are combining business intelligence platforms and enabling technologies with processes to support a new era of performance-driven business management. MacTavish said that Hyperion's Business Performance Management software integrates with IBM's DB2 Cube Views, software that improves metadata sharing, performance and functionality in analytical processing. He explained that users of Hyperion Business Performance Management suite and other applications, together with DB2 Cube Views and DB2 OLAP or Hyperion Essbase XTD business intelligence platforms, will benefit from lower total cost of ownership by being able to seamlessly synchronize metadata between their platform and their data warehouses. This means a reduction in maintenance and increased consistency. "By rapidly exchanging metadata between DB2 Cube Views and the BI platform, a user in the finance department using one application will be looking at the same definitions and business structures as a user in marketing using a completely different application," MacTavish said. IBM resells Hyperion's Essbase as DB2 OLAP, which also supports the Linux Redhat 7.3 operating system, AIX and Windows 2000. Hyperion and IBM are currently working together to enable the seamless integration of Hyperion Essbase XTD/DB2 OLAP and DB2 Cube Views to deliver a lower total cost of ownership to its joint users. "Customers rely on the high-performance analysis resulting from the Hyperion Essbase and IBM DB2 OLAP Server partnership," said John Kopcke, Hyperion chief technology officer. "DB2 Cube Views and the availability of Linux-compatible OLAP (online analytical processing) products means that customers have more options for gathering and sharing metadata, improving performance in analytics and ultimately making it easier to analyze information and gain the insight needed to drive performance-based business decisions." "The development of DB2 Cube Views is testament to the importance of our relationship with Hyperion in that it demonstrates an extension of the value we see in DB2 OLAP," explained Karen Parrish, vice president, Worldwide Business Intelligence Solutions, IBM Corporation. "We continue to work closely with Hyperion to bring to market OLAP tools that will provide customers with high-performance, scalable analytics solutions." IBM's Customer Solutions Summit is an educational event that serves an invitation-only customer audience of worldwide companies from both the business and technology arenas. The event, which includes sessions on relating business intelligence to Business Performance Management and other solutions, runs from June 10 - 13.