CHICAGO, April 26th 2004 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinnacle Group LLC, a leading international business and financial consulting services organization, today announced the release of Pinnacle Ascend. Pinnacle Ascend is a migration tool for Hyperion Enterprise customers that assists their conversion of Retrieve Excel spreadsheets to Hyperion Financial Management Retrieve spreadsheets

The typical Hyperion Enterprise client has over a thousand Enterprise linked spreadsheets. These spreadsheets will require manual conversion when implementing Hyperion Financial Management. Pinnacle Ascend eliminates the painful task awaiting users by converting spreadsheets in minutes as opposed to days

"Pinnacle Ascend saves countless hours in the conversion process, users only need verify their results and they are up and running in minutes," comments Michael Fuori, Senior Partner of the Pinnacle Group. "Pinnacle Ascend allows you to spread ownership and accountability across the enterprise with your conversion initiatives.

Pinnacle Group: Founded in 1995, Pinnacle Group is a national consulting firm focusing on business analysis and financial systems solutions. Pinnacle supports clients with selection of best-of-class software packages, data quality improvement and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, multi-currency consolidation and financial reporting, inter-company processing and analysis, financial budgeting and planning, business intelligence and performance measurement.