Don’t just manage performance – improve it.

With 30 years experience, SAS delivers proven solutions to access relevant, reliable, consistent information throughout your enterprise – giving finance and your business units the ability to make decisions that deliver sustained improvement.
• Reduce uncertainty – know what drives profit and value.
• Align resources to strategy.
• Create transparency across the enterprise.
• Evolve, optimize and innovate to become the best you can be.
• Get proactive – forecast, predict and simulate with precision.

Our commitment to innovation is one reason 98 percent of our customers renew their software licenses with SAS every year.

As the world's largest privately held software company, we stand apart from our competitors. In a time when many have merged, changed ownership or simply vanished, SAS has remained focused on our primary mission – delivering superior software and enhancing customer relationships.

Want to improve? SAS can help. Learn how at www.sas.com/improve.

IBM Global Business Services provides clients with deep business process and industry expertise, ranging across key business issues and deep into 17 industries in virtually every country and every culture worldwide. IBM has helped clients unlock value in areas such as HR, sales, marketing, finance, accounting, business strategy, supply chain, logistics and procurement. As the role of finance continues to evolve, IBM helps CFOs and finance executives address new challenges and drive enterprise-wide profit improvement and shareholder value. IBM helps clients implement solutions that deliver business outcomes with far-reaching impact and sustainable results, transforming their thinking, their businesses and their bottom line.

Business Objects has been a pioneer in business intelligence (BI) since the dawn of the category. Today, as the world's leading BI software company, Business Objects transforms the way the world works through intelligent information. The company helps illuminate understanding and decision-making at more than 45,000 organizations around the globe. Through a combination of innovative technology, global consulting and education services, and the industry's strongest and most diverse partner network, Business Objects enables companies of all sizes to make transformative business decisions based on intelligent, accurate, and timely information.


Business Objects best-of-breed enterprise performance management (EPM) applications deliver a full range of unique performance management solutions designed to address real business challenges for the CFO and operational decision makers throughout the organization. For more information visit: www.businessobjects.com

George Group is now a part of Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Now, with the deep skills and delivery capabilities of the George Group in Lean Six Sigma, Fast Innovation, and Conquering Complexity, Accenture is uniquely able to work with clients to develop breakthrough insights that unify strategy and execution, create lasting shareholder value and enable high performance.

Infor delivers business-specific software to enterprising organizations. With experience built in, Infor's solutions enable businesses of all sizes to be more enterprising and adapt to the rapid changes of a global marketplace.

Infor Performance Management (PM) is designed for companies in all industries to better monitor, measure, and manage real-time business performance for improved competitive advantage. Infor PM provides business-specific solutions with built-in, role-specific functionality to allow companies to understand their business processes and make strategic decisions.

With more than 70,000 customers, Infor is changing what businesses expect from an enterprise software provider. Visit www.infor.com.

QlikTech, the global leader in innovative business intelligence applications, offers sophisticated and visual analysis and reporting solutions that are fast to develop, deploy, use, and easy to maintain. QlikTech’s flagship product, QlikView, uses next-generation, patented, in-memory association technology for fast analysis of more than a billion records, and supports an open information architecture for affordable deployment to organizations of any size.
QlikTech is the world's fastest growing business intelligence software company with more than 7,306 customers in 82 countries, adding 12.9 new customers each working day. In addition to thousands of small & midsized companies, customers include large corporations such as Deutsche Telekom, Reuters, 3M, and BMW. QlikTech is privately held and venture backed by Accel Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Industrifonden. Founded in Sweden, QlikTech is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and Scandinavia, and more than 500 partners around the world.

Tatum is the largest and fastest-growing Executive Services firm in the United States, helping companies in transition to accelerate business success and create more value.™ With nearly 1,000 executive partners and professionals across 37 offices nationwide, Tatum provides immediate resources to help you achieve results.

Tatum Executive helps companies facing transitions such as a CFO, CIO or Controller vacancy or a temporary need for incremental management resources by providing seasoned, capable leadership. Our services also include executive education and mentoring.

Tatum Consulting provides assistance with mission-critical projects, such as Mergers & Integrations, restructurings, SOX compliance, IT governance and controls, technology project program management, systems selections, business strategy and IT alignment assessments, technology risk management, and sourcing advisory.

Tatum is uniquely equipped to immediately mobilize and integrate the right leadership resources to assess, forecast, plan and oversee any key business initiatives. Founded in 1993, Tatum has nearly 4,000 clients worldwide.

Adaptive Planning makes it easy for midsized companies and departments to move beyond spreadsheets and automate their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. With instant online access, rapid configuration, low subscriptions, and a free entry-level version, Adaptive Planning is easy: easy to test drive, easy to get started, easy to customize, and easy to afford.

Find out how easy it is -- test drive it today! Express Edition, the entry-level budgeting software, is instantaneously available -- for free -- from www.adaptiveplanning.com/express. Enterprise Edition, the full-featured solution with budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and dashboards, can be trialed for free online at www.adaptiveplanning.com/trial.

Named “2007 Mid-Market Vendor of the Year” by BPM Partners for innovative technology and stellar customer satisfaction, Adaptive Planning is used by thousands of companies in over 80 countries worldwide.

If you are ready to move beyond Excel and dramatically improve your budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, the choice is easy—Adaptive Planning.

EVA Dimensions was formed in March, 2006, when it acquired Stern Stewart’s EVA brand and related technologies in value-based analytics, benchmark data, valuation modeling, and investment research and management.

In the investing world, EVA Dimensions is the source of PRVit (“performance-risk-value investment technology”) – an EVA-based stock rating system currently ranked #1 on 638 stocks on the Bloomberg’s prestigious Annual Return Rank – and through its money management arm is using the PRVit model to incubate a 150/50 hedge fund.

For corporate clients, Dimensions offers the new Financial Radar Screen (FRS) software system to automate and standardize the measurement and analysis of economic profit and value-based decisions. Dimensions is currently sponsoring the “First Mover” program, a structured opportunity for select executives to apply FRS to their company under the personal tutelage of Stern Stewart co-founder and EVA Dimensions’ CEO, Bennett Stewart. To attend a webcast on EVA and FRS, contact info@evadimensions.com.

Nuevora is an emerging leader in the delivery of “Outcomes Research & Analytics”. Using targeted research and advanced analytics, we will work with you to transform your disparate sources of structured & unstructured operational data into predictive insights. Our solutions enable smarter decisions and better outcomes.

Some of the most respected and well-run organizations across multiple industries have improved their operational efficiencies and accelerated their momentum in the marketplace in partnership with Nuevora.

Nuevora has been founded and is led by individuals with real-world experience in delivering operational excellence. Using expert analytics talent, MBAs from top business schools such as HBS, IIMs, Univ. of Chicago, and a global delivery model, Nuevora delivers unparalleled advantages in quality, cost and turnarounds.

Nuevora is headquartered in California and is privately held.

When superior outcomes matter to you, count us on your side.

PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a leading provider of pricing and revenue optimization software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution and price optimization. By using PROS' software products, companies gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify pricing-based profit leaks, optimize their pricing decision making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS' software products implement advanced pricing science which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. PROS’ high performance software architecture supports real-time high volume transaction processing and allows PROS to handle the processing and database requirements of the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with 100s of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS also provides a range of services that include analyzing a company's current pricing processes and implementing software products to improve pricing performance. PROS has implemented over 200 solutions across a range of industries in more than 40 countries. Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 300 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and 20 with Ph.D.s.

Quovadix enables real time intelligence into project costs and forecasts on worldwide basis.

Through a dashboard of dials, charts and gauges, it alerts senior executives in real time about project cost over-runs to eliminate end-of-quarter surprises. It also helps the CFOs to certify their project costs with confidence while remaining in SOX compliance.

Our latest success story has been the deployment at Pfizer, where over 100 users are using Quovadix technology for over six months with millions of dollars of project costs being tracked by senior Pfizer executives.

Quovadix can be implemented in stand-alone mode or integrated with ERP Systems through Quovadix connector.

With a compelling value proposition for enterprises of any size, senior Financial Executives, PMO and HR executives find that Quovadix is easy to adopt and rewards value from day one.

Take a 4 minute virtual tour at www.quovadix.net/tour.pps

White paper for Financial Executives: www.quovadix.net/pdf/Quovadix-WP-CFO.pdf

We offer a simple, proven process that translates strategy into action, delivering impact next quarter. As CFO or a finance executive, providing data to ensure your company's strategy stays on track is one of your key roles.

• Can you see into the key processes that drive your strategy?
• Is there ownership of strategy-driving metrics at the right levels within the organization?
• Are your people focused, aligned, and accountable for executing company strategy?

Probably not to the extent you would like. In fact, according to researchers, most companies realize only about 60% of the financial value of their corporate strategy, and many strategies fail.

Our lead offering, the VuCERA Balanced Scorecard Process, is a methodology for aligning performance and strategy and delivering results rapidly.

For nearly 25 years we have helped companies close the gap between strategy and results.

Strategy executed. Next quarter impact.