Rescheduled Date - Invitation - Hyperion / Reliant Energy Session, Tues 10/30 9 am - 12pm 

FYI ... for those who did not receive notification of the re-scheduled
seminar originally set for September 12th.  Please note that current
registration exceeds 125 registrants, so please be sure to register soon if
you plan on attending, so that The Four Seasons may be given an accurate
attendee total to ensure proper accommodations.  Thanks for your
assistance!

 The rescheduled date has been set for the Hyperion session featuring
Reliant Energy, who will be demonstrating how they leverage Hyperion
technology to deliver business value.  If you were registered for the
previous 9/12 session, you may contact Karen Wasmer directly
(karen_wasmer@hyperion.com or 630-245-4772) to have your registration
transferred.  Otherwise you may register at 800-286-8000 or
www.hyperion.com/seminars.

 Please feel free to forward this e-mail to others in your organization
 that you would like to attend.   We look forward to seeing you there!




How Did Hyperion Help Reliant Energy Leverage their ERP and Data Warehouse
Investments?  How did Reliant Energy Address the Consolidation, Reporting,
 Analysis, Modeling, Budgeting and Forecasting Issues that existed within
                                   SAP?

 "Delivered via a corporate Intranet portal, SPARC [Systemized Performance
                               Analysis and
    Reporting Channel] provides: forward looking, integrated financial
   statements ... a repository for variance explanation across forecast
             cycles; and a communicator of performance data."
Commentary by David Michie, Reliant Energy

 From The Data Warehousing Institute's WHAT WORKS, Volume 11 - Case
Studies.url>>

 http://www.dw-institute.com/whatworks11/cs/cs7/cs7.html



Join us Tuesday, October 30th, 2001 at The Four Seasons Hotel to understand
how Reliant Energy has addressed the major changes in its industry so that
it now has the ability to manage the short-term and long-term business
horizons in a more deregulated world.  Reliant Energy, Arthur Andersen, and
Thinkfast Consulting will present on how Reliant Energy leveraged their ERP
and Data Warehouse investments with Hyperion to create SPARC, their
reporting, analysis, budgeting, forecasting and modeling system.

Prior to Hyperion, according to David Michie, "...previous plan, actuals,
and one-year forecast updates came from separate source systems utilizing
different account definitions and formats, which made comparability and
consolidation  very difficult. This led to analysts re-formatting data,
adjusting links, and modifying formulas. In addition, update-to-update
changes could not be identified on a real-time basis."


 Learn how Reliant Energy leverages Hyperion Solutions to:
Ã¼ Reduce its Forecasting and Management Cycle from 8-10 days to 2-3 days
Ã¼ Provide a "single version of the truth" for business rules with the
Hyperion Analytic Platform, which has reduced the average decision making
horizon from     indefinite (multiple internal meetings) to minutes or
hours
Ã¼ Automate integration with their ERP Package
Ã¼ Facilitate reporting, analysis, modeling and planning from multiple data
sources - including ERP, Data Warehouse, Legacy and others
Ã¼ Eliminate manual efforts of spreadsheet shadow systems - re-formatting of
data, adjusting links, modifying formulas, etc.
Ã¼ Gain an extensible solution that can be leveraged enterprise wide with
the Hyperion Analytic Platform
Ã¼ Successfully deliver business value, utilizing partnerships with Arthur
Andersen and Thinkfast Consulting




                          Where: The Four Seasons
               1300 Lamar, Houston, TX 77010  (713) 650-1300
                      When: Tues, October 30th, 2001
                         Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

        A continental breakfast will be served starting at 8:15 AM.

(See attached file: Houston Seminar Invite 10-30-01 - Reliant Energy.doc)
                                  Agenda
         08:15 ? 09:00 Registration / Continental Breakfast
         09:00 ? 09:30 Business Value of Analytics
         09:30 ? 10:30 Reliant Energy Discussion and Demonstration of
                    Consolidation Process
         10:30 ? 10:45 Break
         10:45 ? 11:30 Reliant Energy Discussion and Demonstration of Web
                    Deployed Budgeting, Forecasting and Modeling Process
         11:30 ? 12:00 Q&A

        For additional information, please contact Robert Dayton at
                        Robert_Dayton@hyperion.com


To register for this free seminar, please call 1-800-286-8000 or sign up at
              Hyperion's website at www.hyperion.com/seminars




















