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Hyperion to Buy Crystal Ball

More specifically, they have announced their acquisition of Decisioneering, makers of Crystal Ball software. This purchase makes perfect sense to me and enables Hyperion to more effectively address two important areas of BPM 2.0: operational analysis and predictive analytics, coupled with risk assessment. This follows on the heels of Cognos' acquisition last week of Celequest, also to enhance their 2.0 capabilities. A year or two ago the major vendors were acquiring BPM basics such as budgeting or dashboards. Now they have very clearly moved on to next-generation acquisitions and seem to be following the outline for 2.0 we have developed. If you include the Business Objects/ALG purchase of last year the last 3 key BPM vendor acquisitions were all targeted at BPM 2.0 capabilities.

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