Hyperion seems to have some very powerful tools for Business
Performance Monitoring.  I want to chat with them about our
WebFace solutions for creating powerful new monitoring
applications.  It would really fit well

Dashboards … I agree with the speaker about the power of 
“Business Dashboards”.  He is indicating that Dashboards require
the ability to display information, and also provide controls to effect
change.  He also distinguished between Dashboards and Scorecards,
and also talked about some of the overlap:  Alerting,
Benchmarking, Metrics, Graphics, Reporting, and Metadata.  He
feels that they are both combining into a single solution.

Most of the demonstrations that he is showing are static HTML pages of
data and images.  The rep from Hyperion indicated that they tend
to always go to HTML due to the advantages of “no install”.  He
said they do some level of Java applets, however they are minimal.

I’m going to go to the lab to see their demo … they indicated it’s a little thin …