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Hyperion (Nasdaq:HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management software, today announced that Activision Publishing, Inc., a leading worldwide publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products, has selected Hyperion Planning and the Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform to unify its enterprise and financial data for planning, analysis and reporting. With game producing operations around the world, Activision needed to be able to align goals and activities across its global enterprise. Toward that end, seventy-five users in cross-functional groups at the company will use Hyperion Planning to improve its revenue and expense planning across departments on both a yearly and an ad hoc basis. The new, automated solution will leverage the centralized Web-based infrastructure to track and monitor business plans and forecasts, and increase end-user participation with frequent, real-time updates. The Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform will also be deployed across the organization and used by 100 members of the sales, business analysis and executive management teams to perform analysis by video game title, customer and distribution channel, and video game platform. Subsequent phases of the implementation are planned to add relational reporting from the company's Oracle data warehouse as well as additional subject-specific OLAP data. "We look forward to the integration between enterprise-wide planning and robust analysis that the Hyperion Business Performance Management software delivers," said Niel Armstrong, vice president of information technology at Activision. "The linking of reports via graphical interactive dashboards and the direct connection with Hyperion Business Intelligence platform using Excel will be a real advantage in standardizing and simplifying the reporting procedure." Hyperion partner Answerthink (NASDAQ:ANSR) played a key role in helping Activision select the Hyperion solution and will act as the implementation partner on the project. About Activision Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Founded in 1979, Activision posted net revenues of $1.4 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Australia, Scandinavia, Spain and the Netherlands. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's World Wide Web site, which is located at www.activision.com. About Hyperion Hyperion Solutions Corporation is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 10,000 customers -- including 91 of the Fortune 100 -- rely on Hyperion software to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance. Hyperion combines the most complete set of interoperable applications with the leading Business Intelligence platform to support and create Business Performance Management solutions. A network of more than 600 partners provides the company's innovative and specialized solutions and services. Named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For 2004, Hyperion employs approximately 2,500 people in 20 countries. Distributors represent Hyperion in an additional 25 countries. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Hyperion generated annual revenues of $622 million for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2004. Hyperion is traded under the Nasdaq symbol HYSL. For more information, please visit www.hyperion.com, www.hyperion.com/contactus or call 800-286-8000 (U.S. only).