GKN Drives Improved Reporting and Consolidation Processes with Hyperion

Hyperion Software Provides Platform for Performance Management

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 10 -- GKN plc, a leading global supplier to the world's automotive and aerospace manufacturers, plans to use technology solutions from Hyperion , the global leader in Business Performance Management software, to improve its financial reporting and consolidation processes, as well as to build a platform for strategic planning, performance management and performance scorecarding.

As a large global organization with nearly 200 operating subsidiaries, GKN needed financial consolidation, reporting and analysis handled in a single scalable application that would provide financial information to managers and executives irrespective of their location. GKN has selected Hyperion Financial Management to provide both finance and senior management personnel globally with better quality information in order to make better informed business decisions. Using Hyperion's software, GKN's managers will be able to access information anytime, anywhere, and therefore spend more time analyzing rather than gathering data.

"We chose Hyperion Financial Management software because of its Web-based functionality, which offered us much more than our existing systems and will support much greater process improvement and monitoring," says Bill Curral, Group Financial Controller at GKN plc. "Hyperion's software meets our objectives for financial consolidation and the Hyperion product portfolio gives us the potential for meeting any foreseeable performance management requirements."

Approximately 50 finance and 50 senior commercial executives worldwide will be using the Hyperion solution.

GKN provides technology-based, highly engineered products requiring complex manufacturing to virtually all of the world's major producers of automotive vehicles, military and civil aircraft and aero engines. With sales of pounds Sterling 4.5 billion and profit of pounds 267 million in 2002, GKN operates in more than 30 countries and employs 35,700 people in its subsidiaries.

About Hyperion

Hyperion is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 9,000 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 2,600 people in 20 countries. Distributors represent Hyperion in an additional 25 countries. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Hyperion -- together with recently acquired Brio Software Inc. -- generated combined annual revenues of $612 million for the 12 months ending June 30, 2003. 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).

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