Had a meeting with Hyperion guys from UK. They were mostly on BI side, we were interested mostly in Planning.
Hyperion BI is totally ruined by absence of meta data layer. Renaming columns by views to get business-user perspective is considered weird nowadays. So nothing that interesting on BI.
Essbase caught our attention surely — the capability to work with huge volumes of data and speed are astonishing. Anyway — we didn’t have a chance to look on it in details.
But now I understand why sales structure of Hyperion is so strange — new products (namely BI) are not at all that good as old products (namely Essbase). And Essbase is MDX-friendly, so almost every client can be used.